Daniel Phipps, Elizabeth Pringle, and Elizabeth Tenney

of Upshur County, West Virginia

      It can be really confusing when an ancestor gets married to people that have same first name. This is what happened with Daniel Phipps. I looked this family up for a friend and I was initially very confused because the data I was finding on them didn't seem to be very accurate. I was starting to think that maybe there were two entirely different families involved. I finally figured it out though. 

      Daniel Phipps was born March 25, 1807 in Charlemont, Franklin County, Massachusetts. He was the son of George Phipps and Catharine Fry. At the age of ten he left his parent's house and traveled to Virginia with Jacob Hunt. Jacob Hunt had agreed to raise and educate him and gave him 80 acres of land when he came of age. All of this is found on Jacob Hunts Revolutionary War pension application.

He was married for the first time to Elizabeth Pringle on August _ 1830 in Upshur County, West Virginia. 

Elizabeth Pringle was the daughter of John Pringle and Mary Cutright.

      

1840 Lewis County, West Virginia census

Daniel Phipps 30-39

Elizabeth Pringle 30-39

Mary Phipps 5-9

George Phipps 0-5

1850 Lewis County, West Virginia census

Daniel Phipps age 42

Elizabeth Pringle age 38

Mary Phipps age 18

George Phipps age 12

Catharine Phipps age 8

James Phipps age 1

Elizabeth Pringle Phipps died between June 1, 1850 and April 21, 1853 in either Lewis or Upshur County.

Daniel Phipps married second Mrs Elizabeth Tenney Howes on April 21, 1853 in Upshur County, West Virginia.

Elizabeth Tenney was born in 1819 to Josiah Tenney and Lydia Currence.  She married Silas G. Howes on August 18, 1838 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

1850 Lewis County, West Virginia

Silas Howes age 40

Elizabeth Tenney age 30

Lydia Jane Howes age 9

Serena Ann Howes age 4

Louisa Howes age 1 

Silas G. Howes died between June 1, 1850 and April 21, 1853.

1860 Upshur County, West Virginia Census

Daniel Phipps age 52
Elizabeth Tenney age 41
Serena A. Howes age 14
James Phipps age 11
Martha E. Phipps age 6
Ama Phipps age 3

They appear to be missing from the 1870 census but according to the Upshur County marriage register another daughter named Arminda was born in 1862.

Elizabeth Tenney and her second husband Daniel Phipps are mentioned in her mother's (Lydia Currence Tenney) will in 1864.

In 1866, Catharine Phipps Burrough (daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Pringle Phipps), applied for the pension of her deceased husband. One of the witness statements was from her step-sister Lydia Jane Howes Hunt (daughter of Elizabeth Tenney and Silas Howes). 

Group sheets follow:

Bailey's

From the 1783 and 1785 Amherst and Albemarle census 
(the underlined individuals would have been included in the census)

 Amherst

 *Moses Bailey (1 white soul) --- He was born May 9, 1755 Henrico County and died November 28, 1834 Madison County Alabama. Moses lived by himself in 1783. He moved to Elbert County, Georgia around 1786. He appears to be the brother of Hezekiah Bailey who also moved to Georgia a few months before him. He moved from Georgia to Madison County Alabama where he died. He married late in life to a Judith and had at least three sons all born after 1811. The only son he mentions in his will is William Jackson Bailey. The genealogies I found online for this family all seem mostly incorrect and unreliable, they all have children attributed to him that are born before the 1783 and 1785 census.

*Hezekiah Bailey (8 white souls) --- He was born October 12, 1751 in Henrico County and died January 6, 1812 in Elbert County, Georgia. He went by 'Ezekiah', which was likely a locality thing since I have found several people in Amherst that also used that form. He married Rebecca Neal (Nail) c1772. She was likely a daughter of either Julian or Nicholas Neal. They named a son Julian and another son had the middle initial N. although I haven't been able to find a record that states what his middle name actually was.
His children were: James born 1/23/1774, Samuel N. born 1/10/1775 , Sarah born 12/15/1777, Julian 12/2/1779, Ann Mary born 1/7/1782, Elizabeth born 2/17/1784, Rebecca born 3/13/1786, Milly born 3/17/1788, Nancy born 3/17/1788, Martha born 8/17/1791, Delania born 8/12/1792, Clarissa born 9/17/1794, Isham born 1/18/1796. The family moved to Elbert County Georgia in 1785. After Hezekiah died most of the children are in Morgan County Georgia and many of them moved to Alabama.

*Lucy Bailey (4 white souls) --- Lucy Phillips Bailey was the daughter of Leonard Phillips. She was born in 1755 in Amherst County and died in 1812 in Nelson County. After the death of her father in 1797 she moved to the dower land of Elizabeth Phillips Roberts. She may have married an Edward Bailey. There is a record of a Rev. Edward Bailey who traveled with Francis Asbury and died October 10, 1780 in Fluvanna County at a friends house. In his journal, Francis Asbury states that a daughter of Edward Bailey came from Amherst to hear him preach. Lucy's children were: Leonard aka 'Linny' who was deformed and died between 1798 and 1810, William who was born about 1779 and died in 1853 Nelson County (married Lydia Smith), and Winifred aka Winney (married William Smith).

*William Bailey (3 white souls) --- William Bailey was born December 24, 1756 in Albemarle County and died on January 4, 1837 in Smith County TN. He moved to Stovall Creek and Porrage Creek around 1771 with his father John, who was a son of Robertson. John Bailey patented 340a on Stovall and Porrage August 3, 1771. He also had another 39a on Porrage surveyed on April 25, 1773. On December 31, 1781 John Bailey and his wife Elizabeth sold 143a of the said 340a patent to Edward Harper. William Bailey was either deeded or inherited the remaining 197a. He married Sarah, who may have been a Harper in 1783. On June 13, 1789 William Bailey and Sarah, his wife sold his 197a share of the said patent to Joseph Nichols. He may have lived on the 39a survey that belonged to his father John, since Stovall and Porrage was in the southernmost portion of Amherst, near the border of Campbell County Va. He and his family remained in Amherst until 1817 when they moved to Smith County, TN. His children were: Susanna (Shepherd) born 1783, Cinda Rilla aka Lucinda (Stovall and Horsley) born 1785, Jonathan born 1787, Sarah (Butler and Wilkerson) born 1790, Saluda (Walker) born 1794, and Wyatt W. born 1798.

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Isham Bailey

son of Pleasant Bailey

Isham Bailey, son of Pleasant, is first recorded in the Kanawha County tax rolls in 1830. This is the first time that all four Isham's are in the tax record. The assessor made a note in the margin that he was the son of Pleasant. He was also the first of Pleasant Bailey's son's to be taxed on his own. Based on these records, his birth is estimated to be late 1806 or early 1807.

Isham Bailey married Lucinda Smith, daughter of Fielding Smith and Martha Lanham, on November 3, 1831 in Kanawha County. Her sister Elizabeth Smith married Isham Bailey's brother William Pleasant Bailey two years later.

Lucinda Smith Bailey died between November 1835 and December 1836.

Isham Bailey didn't wait too long to get married for the second time to Susan L. Mayes December 14, 1836.

Isham Bailey and Lucinda Smith had at least two daughters at the time of his marriage to Susan Mayes. 

The oldest was Drucilla Elizabeth Bailey. After her mother's death she lived with her father's parents Pleasant and Judah (Lankford) Bailey until Pleasant's death in 1845 and then went to live with her uncle William Pleasant Bailey until her marriage.

The youngest Lucinda Frances Bailey who was only one when her father remarried lived with her father and step-mother until he died in 1840. She then went to live with her grandparents Fielding and Martha (Lanham) Smith until her marriage.

Isham Bailey was enumerated in the Kanawha County census on June 1 1840

1. Male 30-39 (Isham Bailey) s/o Pleasant

2. Female 15-19 (wife: Susan Mayes)

3. Male 0-5 (son: Isham T. Bailey)

4. Female 0-5 (daughter: Lucinda Frances. Bailey)

5. Female 0-5 (daughter: Mary E. Bailey)

Isham Bailey died sometime between June 1, 1840 and early 1841. He was listed on the personal property tax rolls of Kanawha County from 1830 to 1840. He does not appear in any further records.

His widow Susan L. Mayes married John Wallace before 1847.

His children by his first wife Lucinda Smith

*** Druscilla Elizabeth Bailey was born on October 12, 1832. She married Thomas Walden on September 3, 1857 at the house of her uncle William Pleasant Bailey. Their children were: William Bailey Walden, Addison Everett Walden, Gideon Harris Walden, Lorena Virginia Walden, Martha Ann Walden and Cordelia Frances Walden. Druscilla Elizabeth Bailey died March 26, 1912 near Tornado, WV.

*** Lucinda Frances Bailey was born November 1835. She married Phillip Pleasant Kelly on December 28, 1859. They had the following children: Lucinda Emeline Kelly, Isham Barber Kelly, Emory L. Kelly, William Everett Kelly, Ellen Martha Elizabeth Kelly, and James David Kelly.

Lucinda Frances Bailey Kelly was in the 1910 census. According to her granddaughter Virginia Frances Kelly Williams, Lucinda Frances Bailey Kelly was deceased by the time her son James David Kelly married Effie Carrie Bailey in 1913.

His children by his second wife Susan L. Mayes

*** Isham Thomas Bailey was born March 19, 1840 (This is the first time we find an Isham with a middle name in the area). He married for the first time on February 22, 1865 to Lucinda H. Bobbitt. They had two children: Remley Harden Bailey and Ida W. Bailey. He married second Mary Ann Goff on October 20, 1870. They had the following children: Henry Irving Bailey, Solomon Langford Bailey, Clayton Hendricks Bailey, Isham Clayburn Bailey, Ava Susan Bailey, Staton Braxton Bailey, Colder Bailey, Demma Myrtle Bailey, Ellie May Bailey and Morgan Edgell Bailey.

*** Mary E. Bailey was born about 1838. I haven't been able to find anything on her after the 1850 census.

  

Isham Bailey

son of Isham Bailey Sr 

the Revolutionary War Soldier

Isham Bailey first makes his appearance in the 1804 Albemarle County tax rolls as a male over the age of 16 in the household of his father. He is written by name in the margin by the assessor. Previously, Isham's son Daniel had been the male over 16. 

Isham Bailey moved to Kanawha County with his family between 1811 and 1812.

Isham Bailey is listed on his own in the Kanawha County tax records for the first time in 1813. This coupled with the tax record mentioned above places his birth between the years 1787 and 1791. 

In 1816 he is listed in the Kanawha County tax rolls on his own. In the margin the assessor notes that he is the son of Isham. Also on the same page is Isham Bailey Sr and Isham Bailey Jr. In this case the Jr denotes that he was simply older than Isham Bailey's son Isham.

In 1817 The Rust family moved to Kanawha County to settle and manage the tracts of land purchased by Benjamin Rust of Fauquier County Va, known as the Fry Military Survey. They had purchased tract #1 and tract #8 of the military land from John Savage in 1799.  This is important to our story because the Rust's settled on part of #1, which was on Armour Creek in Nitro and the Bailey's ended up with large portions of #8 which is on the Pocatalico River between Cross Lanes and Lanham, WV.

Around this time, though the marriage record no longer exists, Isham Bailey married Lucinda Rust.

In the year 1817 Isham Bailey Sr transferred his deed of 400a on Carey's Creek in Fluvanna to his son Isham. This may have been a wedding present. This deed is one of only two deeds that refer to Isham Bailey Sr and Isham Bailey Jr is written in the margin.

In 1820, he and his wife and son are listed in the Kanawha County census

1.  Male 26-44 (Isham Bailey) s/o Isham

2.  Female 26-44 (wife: Lucinda Rust)

3.  Male 0-10 (son: Bushrod Bailey)

In 1822 an Isham Bailey Sr. received 1/3 interest in tract #1 and tract #8 which was part of the military tract originally owned by Benjamin Rust.

(See map at the bottom of the page) 

In 1825 Isham Bailey purchased from his brother-in-law Thomas Hensley (husband of Harriet Rust) 120 1/2 acres on the Pocatalico River. 

In 1827 Isham Bailey Jr and his wife Frances sold the above 120 1/2 acres to John McCormick. This deed is the only other time that Isham Bailey Jr is in the wording.

In 1830 he and his second wife and his children are listed in the Kanawha census

 1. Male 30-39 (Isham Bailey) s/o Isham

2. Female 20-29 (wife: Frances Smith)

3. Male 10-14 (son: Bushrod Bailey)

4. Male 10-14 (son: Alfred Bailey)

5. Female 5-9

6. Male 0-5 (son: Fountain Bailey)

Based on the birth of her youngest child, Frances Smith probably died around 1832. In 1840 Isham Bailey Jr and his children are in the Kanawha County census.

1. Male 40-49 (Isham Bailey) s/o Isham Bailey Sr

2. Male 15-19 (son: Bushrod Bailey)

3. Male 15-19 (son: Alfred Bailey)

4. Male 10-14 (son: Fountain Smith Bailey)

5. Male 5-9 (son: Savaree Bailey)

6. Female 5-9 (daughter: Terisha Elizabeth Bailey

In 1850 Kanawha census

1. Isham Bailey age 54

2. Alfred Bailey age 29

3. Fountain Bailey age 22

4. Saveree Bailey age 18

5. Terisha E. Bailey age 19

Isham Bailey Jr died in 1851. If he left a will it no longer exists. There is an inventory for him dated September 1851. His estate was divided into five parts to his five children.

Three of his children: Terisha Elizabeth Bailey, Fountain Smith Bailey, Saveree Bailey sold their interests to the other two children: Bushrod Bailey and Alfred Bailey and moved to Benton County Missouri.

*** Terisha Elizabeth Bailey was born about 1831, she married her cousin Isham Jopling (son of Thomas Jopling and Patience Bailey) on January 31, 1858 in Benton Mo. They had three children: Laura E. Jopling, Silas Marion Jopling, and Staton Jopling. Terisha Elizabeth Bailey died in 1869.

*** Fountain Smith Bailey was born August 16, 1829, he married 1st Susanna Wright in Putnam County Va on December 15, 1852. They had a son named John C. Bailey. He married 2nd Nancy Jane Mottesheard on August 30, 1857 in Benton County, Missouri. They had George E. Bailey, Saveree T. Bailey, Araminta Melissa Bailey, and Marcella E. Bailey. He died on February 12, 1883 in Holt County, Missouri.

*** Savaree Bailey was born about 1832 and he moved to Benton County, Missouri and I can find no other information on him.

*** Bushrod Bailey was born October 27, 1820 (taken from tombstone even though most census info places his birth a little sooner). He married Elizabeth McClanahan on January 3, 1850 in Kanawha County. They had a large family of children: Lucinda Elizabeth Bailey, John Bradford Bailey, William Silas Bailey, Charles Fleet Bailey, Sarah Ellen Bailey, Samuel Alfred Bailey, James Henry Bailey, Wesley Bushrod Bailey, Margaret J. Bailey, Fannie A. Bailey, Martha V. Bailey. He died February 15, 1890 in Kanawha County and is buried in Goff - McClanahan Cemetery at Martin's Branch.

*** Alfred Bailey was born in 1821. He married Ann Elizabeth Agee on June 14, 1853 in Kanawha County. They had many children:  Lucinda Catherine Bailey, William B. Bailey, Sydney A. Bailey, Alfred Jackson Bailey, Frederick Lee Bailey, Everett S. Bailey, Hezekiah Isham Bailey, and Laura Virginia Bailey. He died on May 23, 1882 and is also buried in Goff - McClanahan Cemetery at Martin's Branch.

From early census records it appears Isham Bailey and Lucinda Frances Rust had another girl born between 1821 and 1825. She is not in the 1840 census. I have not been able to find a record for this daughter.

All of these records alone do not prove that this Isham was the son of Isham Bailey Sr. The final bit of proof exists in the death record of the "other" Isham Bailey. His death record lists parents H & N Bailey for him. That particular Isham must have been the son of Henry Bailey and Ann 'Nancy' who also came to Kanawha with the extended family.

 

 

Hezekiah Bailey

son of Isham

Hezekiah Bailey first shows up in the tax rolls of Kanawha County in 1816 as a male over the age of 16. Since he is taxed on his own we might assume he has reached adulthood and may be between 18 and 21.

During this time period Hezekiah Bailey married Susan, in Kanawha County around 1816. She was NOT the same Susan Allen who married Hezekiah Bailey in Nelson County, Va.
There is a marriage record for a Hez Bailey to S. Allen on October 7, 1808 in Nelson County, Virginia. This Hezekiah Bailey was born c1788 and died in Adair County, Kentucky. He was most likely related. 

Our Hezekiah and Susan were not old enough to marry on that date and were clearly not married until at least 1816.

There is also another much earlier Hezekiah Bailey who lived in Amherst and Nelson counties. He was a revolutionary war soldier.

Anyway, Hezekiah and Susan were not married until at least 1816. They appear in the 1820 Kanawha County census with one child under 10 years of age. This must be Mariah Bailey, who was born about 1819. Both Hezekiah and Susan were under the age of 25.

1. Male 16-25 (Hezekiah Bailey) s/o Isham

2. Female 16-25 (wife: Susan)

3. Female 0-10 (daughter: Mariah Bailey)

In 1825 Isham Bailey Sr. transferred a slave by deed to his son Hezekiah Bailey.

In 1825 Hezekiah Bailey bought 113 1/2 acres of on the Pocatalico from his brother-in-law James Hensley.

In 1831 Hezekiah Bailey sold 113 1/2 acres on the Pocatalico to Henry E. Smith

In 1830 he is under 39 years of age.

1. Male 30-39 (Hezekiah Bailey) s/o Isham

2. Female 20-29 (Susan)

3. Male 20-29 (nephew: William Reed Bailey, probably son of Daniel Bailey)

4. Female 10-14 (daughter: Mariah Bailey) 

5. Male 5-9 (son: George Washington Bailey)

6. Female 0-5 (daughter: Adeline Bailey)

Mariah Bailey married William Turley on April 23, 1835 and moved to her own household. 

In 1840, for the first time, the census is not in alphabetical order and we get a close look at his neighbors. Hezekiah Bailey is living on Little Scary Creek. Some of his neighbors were: Robert Johnson, Lewis Ventroux, and Peyton Turley. This is important because his children married into some these families.

1. Male 40-49 (Hezekiah Bailey) s/o Isham Sr

2. Female 20-29 (wife: Susan) the date range is clearly wrong.

3. Male 10-14 (son: George Washington Bailey)

4. Male 5-9 (son: Allen K. Bailey)

5. Female 5-9 (daughter: Adeline Bailey)

Around 1843 George Washington Bailey married Sophronia Ann Johnson. She was the daughter of Nancy Dudding (who was the daughter of John Dudding and Rebecca Persinger).  Nancy Dudding had Sophronia out of wedlock and three years later on January 5, 1829 she married Robert Johnson. Sophronia's death certificate only lists Nancy Johnson as her mother so Robert may not have been her father. 

At some point between 1840 and 1843 Hezekiah moved a little further up to Hurricane Creek and his son George Washington Bailey remained on the Little Scary Creek land. I don't know if this land was owned by them or if they were tenant's because I have not been able to find a deed. 

On January 10, 1845 Adeline Bailey married Sampson Gillespie of Hurricane Creek.

In the 1850 Putnam county census George Washington Bailey is on the Little Scary Creek land and Robert Johnson is his close neighbor.

William Reed Bailey, nephew of Hezekiah Bailey is now living with the neighbor Lewis Vintroux. 

Hezekiah Bailey, age 52, is listed as Kiah in the census is living with his son Allen Bailey on Hurricane Creek.

Susan Bailey, age 55, is living not far from him with her daughter Adeline Bailey Gillispie.

On August 11, 1853 Allen K. Bailey married Ruth Ann Gillespie of Hurricane Creek.

Both Susan and Hezekiah apparently died between 1850 and 1860, since neither of them are ever listed in a census again.

On April 10, 1861 Adeline Bailey Gillespie died and her death was reported to the clerk by her brother-in-law William Turley.