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.