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PVT Elijah C. Bailey

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PVT Elijah C. Bailey Veteran

Birth
Death
16 Jan 1863 (aged 24)
Burial
Jefferson County, Indiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.7190819, Longitude: -85.2338867
Memorial ID
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Private, Company F, 6th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Died
of wounds received at the Battle of
Stone River Tenn.
Jan. 16, 1863,
Aged
24 Y'rs 4 M's. 21 D's.

Brother
On earth no more we see thy face
Your body in the grave is placed
But while it their in silence lies
Your spirit we hope lives above the skies

Sisters
Cease to mourn wipe every eye.
The righteous soul will never die:
Death only takes the good to rise
And live with Jesus in the skies.

In the 1850 Census for the family of Asher and Louisa Bailey of Milton Twp., Jefferson County, Indiana, is their eldest son, Elijah, age 11. He appears again in the 1860 Census (indexed as Eligah Bailly) at the age of 21 = b. 1839. Elijah's age at death on the tombstone calculates to a birth date of 26 Aug 1838. Asher and Louisa are buried at Morris Chapel Cemetery, Brooksburg, Jefferson Co., Indiana.
Private, Company F, 6th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Died
of wounds received at the Battle of
Stone River Tenn.
Jan. 16, 1863,
Aged
24 Y'rs 4 M's. 21 D's.

Brother
On earth no more we see thy face
Your body in the grave is placed
But while it their in silence lies
Your spirit we hope lives above the skies

Sisters
Cease to mourn wipe every eye.
The righteous soul will never die:
Death only takes the good to rise
And live with Jesus in the skies.

In the 1850 Census for the family of Asher and Louisa Bailey of Milton Twp., Jefferson County, Indiana, is their eldest son, Elijah, age 11. He appears again in the 1860 Census (indexed as Eligah Bailly) at the age of 21 = b. 1839. Elijah's age at death on the tombstone calculates to a birth date of 26 Aug 1838. Asher and Louisa are buried at Morris Chapel Cemetery, Brooksburg, Jefferson Co., Indiana.


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