The Bailey Family from Gloucestershire, England to Jamestown area, Virginia to Western North Carolina to East Tennessee
John Bailey was born in 1663 in Gloucestershire, England. John emigrated to Virginia from England in 1680s. He married his wife Elizabeth Pitcher on November 11, 1679 in Bristol, England. They had three wonderful sons, Thomas, Edward (1682-1731), and John. He died in 1709 in New Kent County, Virginia at the age of 46. She died September 12, 1716 in New Kent County, Virginia.
Edward Bailey was born in 1682 in St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. He married his wife Frances in 1729 in New Kent County, Virginia. They had five great sons, James (1725-1805), Edmond (1726-1813), Drury (1727- 1754), John (?-1727), and Charles (1729-?). He died three years into his marriage in 1731 in Goochland County, Virginia at the age of 49.
Edmond Bailey was born in 1726 in New Kent County, Virginia. After leaving New Kent County, he lived for a time in Goochland, and then migrated up the James River and across the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley of what was then Augusta County, Virginia. Edmond and his brother James lived on the North Fork of the James River, on Buffalo Creek. This is just south of Lexington (now Rockbridge County), Virginia. Edmond served in the Augusta County, Virginia Militia. On July 9, 1755, Edmond fought in the French and Indian War at the Battle of the Great Meadows, serving under Captain Andrew Lowe which was under the command of General George Washington and also fighting at General Braddock’s Defeat at Fort Duquesne, He was one of six men who survived in his militia. A little info about the militia in the battle, They were the "rear guards", or last ones in and out, they had to cross a wide river while the enemy shot at them. Most were shot down and drowned in the river. He married his Indian wife Jane in 1760 in Virginia. After the war, he took his family and moved to North Carolina moving down the “Great Wagon Road” for fear of Indian Problems. First, they stopped in Orange County, North Carolina in 1756. Then they moved on to Surry County, North Carolina, where Edmond served in the Surry County Militia in 1759. Then they moved on to the Storey Branch community of Little King’s Creek, Wilkes County, North Carolina. Then again they moved on to Yancey County, North Carolina in 1790. They had six children, Ansel (1760-1850), Mary (1762-1836), Susannah (1764-?), Charles (1764-?), William (1765-?), and John (1771-1838). He died on December 4, 1813 in Burke County, North Carolina at the age of 87. He is buried in Bailey Cemetery (formerly known as Deer Park Cemetery) in Mitchell County, North Carolina.
Ansel Baileywas born in 1760 in Orange County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Bradley in Wilkes County, North Carolina on April 11, 1789. They had five children, Charles N. (1791-1849), Martha Elvira (1793-1856), Mary Ann “Polly” (1794-1880), Frances Franky (1795-?), and John “Yellow Jacket” (1798-1881). He supplied the Contiental Army with goods and materials during the American Revolution which he and his family supported while most of his neighbors were loyal to the king. He was the executor of the Wilkes County, North Carolina will of Elijah Aldridge, the first husband of his sister Mary. Ansel died in 1850 in Yancey County, North Carolina. Elizabeth died in September of 1840 in Yancey County, North Carolina.
John Wesley “Yellow Jacket” Baileywas born in 1798 in Story Branch community of Little King’s Creek, Wilkes County, North Carolina. He had a bad temper and got his nickname, "Yellow Jacket". He was best friends with Yancey Bartlett and Captain Otway Burns. He was one of the founding fathers of Yancey County, North Carolina because there is a story that he rode his horse back and forth to the North Carolina General Assembly. Finally, he gave 100 acres of his own land for the town of Burnsville and started Yancey County, North Carolina. Which was his father-in-laws land and was formly known as "Ray Flats".He married his wife Lovada “Lovey” Ray. They owned three slaves, Ginny, Fran, and Caroline. An Excert of Hiram Ray's Will, "I will and bequeath to my daughter Lovey Bailey and her bodily heirz my two negro girls Fran and Caroline together with one she has already rec'd named Ginny, likewise one fourth of all my perishable property and one third of all my cash and notez if any, due respect first being paid to all just creditorz and debtorz." They had twenty children, Elmira (1819-?), Sarah E. (1820-?), Ansel (1822-?), Elizabeth (1824-?), Patricia (1824-?), Stephen Morgan (1825-1889), Hiram (1825-?), John Wesley (1826-?), Thomas “Tom” (1827-?), Rev. Garrett (1828-?), John Aaron (1828-?), Martha Elvira (1830-?), Margret (1832-?), Temperence (1834-?), Lovia Louisa (1840-?), William Jefferson (1842-?), Martin Luther (1845-?), Addison Crusoe (1847-?), Curtis (1850-?), and Liza Jane (1850-?). She died in 1880 in Huntdale, North Carolina at the age of 74. He died in 1880 in Relief, North Carolina at the age of 82. They are buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Relief, North Carolina.
Stephen Morgan “Morg” Bailey was born on June 15, 1825 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He was a twin to Hiram Bailey. He married Rebecca Deyton. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side. He fell off a cliff during a night raid and injured himself seriously. Stephen Morgan was also reported as the first settler in Lost Cove, North Carolina where it is a family legend that he bought the cove from the Indians with a ten dollar bill and a rifle when his regiment went through the cove. They had seven children, Mary (1848-?), Joseph (1850-?), Sarah (1853-?), Wilson C. (1854-?), Zebulon “Zebb” (1856-1950), John W. (1860-?), and Lovada (1865-?). He died in May of 1889 in Yancey County, North Carolina at the age of 63. They are buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Relief, North Carolina.
Zebulon “Zebb” Bailey was born in 1856 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Wilson. They had six children, William (1882-1919), John Calvin (1890-?), Morgan, Jane, Peggy, and Sam. She died in 1947 in Erwin, Tennessee at the age of 84. After her death, Zebulon was known to run through the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee seeing his girlfriends where he contracted phenomena and died on December 1, 1950 in Erwin, Tennessee at the age of 94. They are buried in the Martin’s Creek Cemetery, Erwin, Tennessee.
William Baileywas born in 1882 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He married Jettie Hedrick on April 9, 1901 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He ran a general store in Poplar, North Carolina and logged for people. He helped build the Bailey Independent Baptist Church in Poplar, North Carolina. They had eight children, Velmer (1902-1997), Chester (1903-2002), Elva (1906-1994), Harley (1909-1986), Walter (1912-1918), JohnOrville (1917-1992), Britt (?-1940), and Augusta.
Velmer Bailey was born on March 19, 1902 in White Oak Flats, North Carolina. He married Servilla Harris in October 17, 1931. They lived in Lost Cove, North Carolina where Velmer was a deacon at the Mountain View Free Will Baptist Church (Lost Cove Church). He also preached at this church. He logged for many people. He was a carpenter by trade and a farmer on the side. His apple orchard was known through out Lost Cove. He also worked in the mines of Virginia. When the railroad closed its track, they moved to the Lamar community, Washington County, Tennessee on December 26, 1957. They were the last family to leave Lost Cove, where he left the inscription School closed forever at Lost Cove, December 17, 1957. Sinclair Conley, 75 years old. Last revival conducted by Clyde Fender, November 1956. Last Sunday school, November 26, 1957. Very sad. on the wall behind the pulpit of the church/school. They had seven children, Okie (1932-2005), William (1934-1934), Earl (1935-1935), Eugene (1938-1997), Isaiah (1940-), Hosea (1944-), and Priscilla (1945-). Servilla died on August 25, 1995 in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Velmer died March 24, 1997, just five days after his ninety-fifth birthday. They are buried in the Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Edward Bailey was born in 1682 in St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. He married his wife Frances in 1729 in New Kent County, Virginia. They had five great sons, James (1725-1805), Edmond (1726-1813), Drury (1727- 1754), John (?-1727), and Charles (1729-?). He died three years into his marriage in 1731 in Goochland County, Virginia at the age of 49.
Edmond Bailey was born in 1726 in New Kent County, Virginia. After leaving New Kent County, he lived for a time in Goochland, and then migrated up the James River and across the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley of what was then Augusta County, Virginia. Edmond and his brother James lived on the North Fork of the James River, on Buffalo Creek. This is just south of Lexington (now Rockbridge County), Virginia. Edmond served in the Augusta County, Virginia Militia. On July 9, 1755, Edmond fought in the French and Indian War at the Battle of the Great Meadows, serving under Captain Andrew Lowe which was under the command of General George Washington and also fighting at General Braddock’s Defeat at Fort Duquesne, He was one of six men who survived in his militia. A little info about the militia in the battle, They were the "rear guards", or last ones in and out, they had to cross a wide river while the enemy shot at them. Most were shot down and drowned in the river. He married his Indian wife Jane in 1760 in Virginia. After the war, he took his family and moved to North Carolina moving down the “Great Wagon Road” for fear of Indian Problems. First, they stopped in Orange County, North Carolina in 1756. Then they moved on to Surry County, North Carolina, where Edmond served in the Surry County Militia in 1759. Then they moved on to the Storey Branch community of Little King’s Creek, Wilkes County, North Carolina. Then again they moved on to Yancey County, North Carolina in 1790. They had six children, Ansel (1760-1850), Mary (1762-1836), Susannah (1764-?), Charles (1764-?), William (1765-?), and John (1771-1838). He died on December 4, 1813 in Burke County, North Carolina at the age of 87. He is buried in Bailey Cemetery (formerly known as Deer Park Cemetery) in Mitchell County, North Carolina.
Ansel Baileywas born in 1760 in Orange County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Bradley in Wilkes County, North Carolina on April 11, 1789. They had five children, Charles N. (1791-1849), Martha Elvira (1793-1856), Mary Ann “Polly” (1794-1880), Frances Franky (1795-?), and John “Yellow Jacket” (1798-1881). He supplied the Contiental Army with goods and materials during the American Revolution which he and his family supported while most of his neighbors were loyal to the king. He was the executor of the Wilkes County, North Carolina will of Elijah Aldridge, the first husband of his sister Mary. Ansel died in 1850 in Yancey County, North Carolina. Elizabeth died in September of 1840 in Yancey County, North Carolina.
John Wesley “Yellow Jacket” Baileywas born in 1798 in Story Branch community of Little King’s Creek, Wilkes County, North Carolina. He had a bad temper and got his nickname, "Yellow Jacket". He was best friends with Yancey Bartlett and Captain Otway Burns. He was one of the founding fathers of Yancey County, North Carolina because there is a story that he rode his horse back and forth to the North Carolina General Assembly. Finally, he gave 100 acres of his own land for the town of Burnsville and started Yancey County, North Carolina. Which was his father-in-laws land and was formly known as "Ray Flats".He married his wife Lovada “Lovey” Ray. They owned three slaves, Ginny, Fran, and Caroline. An Excert of Hiram Ray's Will, "I will and bequeath to my daughter Lovey Bailey and her bodily heirz my two negro girls Fran and Caroline together with one she has already rec'd named Ginny, likewise one fourth of all my perishable property and one third of all my cash and notez if any, due respect first being paid to all just creditorz and debtorz." They had twenty children, Elmira (1819-?), Sarah E. (1820-?), Ansel (1822-?), Elizabeth (1824-?), Patricia (1824-?), Stephen Morgan (1825-1889), Hiram (1825-?), John Wesley (1826-?), Thomas “Tom” (1827-?), Rev. Garrett (1828-?), John Aaron (1828-?), Martha Elvira (1830-?), Margret (1832-?), Temperence (1834-?), Lovia Louisa (1840-?), William Jefferson (1842-?), Martin Luther (1845-?), Addison Crusoe (1847-?), Curtis (1850-?), and Liza Jane (1850-?). She died in 1880 in Huntdale, North Carolina at the age of 74. He died in 1880 in Relief, North Carolina at the age of 82. They are buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Relief, North Carolina.
Stephen Morgan “Morg” Bailey was born on June 15, 1825 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He was a twin to Hiram Bailey. He married Rebecca Deyton. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side. He fell off a cliff during a night raid and injured himself seriously. Stephen Morgan was also reported as the first settler in Lost Cove, North Carolina where it is a family legend that he bought the cove from the Indians with a ten dollar bill and a rifle when his regiment went through the cove. They had seven children, Mary (1848-?), Joseph (1850-?), Sarah (1853-?), Wilson C. (1854-?), Zebulon “Zebb” (1856-1950), John W. (1860-?), and Lovada (1865-?). He died in May of 1889 in Yancey County, North Carolina at the age of 63. They are buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Relief, North Carolina.
Zebulon “Zebb” Bailey was born in 1856 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Wilson. They had six children, William (1882-1919), John Calvin (1890-?), Morgan, Jane, Peggy, and Sam. She died in 1947 in Erwin, Tennessee at the age of 84. After her death, Zebulon was known to run through the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee seeing his girlfriends where he contracted phenomena and died on December 1, 1950 in Erwin, Tennessee at the age of 94. They are buried in the Martin’s Creek Cemetery, Erwin, Tennessee.
William Baileywas born in 1882 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He married Jettie Hedrick on April 9, 1901 in Yancey County, North Carolina. He ran a general store in Poplar, North Carolina and logged for people. He helped build the Bailey Independent Baptist Church in Poplar, North Carolina. They had eight children, Velmer (1902-1997), Chester (1903-2002), Elva (1906-1994), Harley (1909-1986), Walter (1912-1918), JohnOrville (1917-1992), Britt (?-1940), and Augusta.
Velmer Bailey was born on March 19, 1902 in White Oak Flats, North Carolina. He married Servilla Harris in October 17, 1931. They lived in Lost Cove, North Carolina where Velmer was a deacon at the Mountain View Free Will Baptist Church (Lost Cove Church). He also preached at this church. He logged for many people. He was a carpenter by trade and a farmer on the side. His apple orchard was known through out Lost Cove. He also worked in the mines of Virginia. When the railroad closed its track, they moved to the Lamar community, Washington County, Tennessee on December 26, 1957. They were the last family to leave Lost Cove, where he left the inscription School closed forever at Lost Cove, December 17, 1957. Sinclair Conley, 75 years old. Last revival conducted by Clyde Fender, November 1956. Last Sunday school, November 26, 1957. Very sad. on the wall behind the pulpit of the church/school. They had seven children, Okie (1932-2005), William (1934-1934), Earl (1935-1935), Eugene (1938-1997), Isaiah (1940-), Hosea (1944-), and Priscilla (1945-). Servilla died on August 25, 1995 in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Velmer died March 24, 1997, just five days after his ninety-fifth birthday. They are buried in the Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Tennessee.
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