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.