Henry was a son of Richard Bailey (1735-1818) and Elizabeth Anne Belcher (1749-1820). He was born in 1782 or 1783. Following is the earliest account of Henry Bailey, who discovered the band of men and Indians that probably killed John Davidson, related in David Johnston's "A History of Middle New River Settlements":
"Richard Bailey had given his youngest won, Henry, a small calf, which had been turned out to graze with the other cattle. The calf, failing to come up to the [Davidson-Bailey] Fort with the others on the evening of the eighth of March, 1793, Mr. Bailey told his son that it might have gotten mired in the swamp by the creek and that he must get up early the next morning and look for it. The boy rose early, called his dogs, and set off down Beaver Pond Creek in the direction of where Graham [Bluefield], Virginia is now located. Not finding the calf, he left the buffalo trail on his return and was passing through swampy land when the dogs bristled.
The boy rushed forward to see a body of men and horses. He fled to the fort and reported what he had seen."
A marriage bond was made in Virginia on August 14, 1801, between Henry Bailey and Elizabeth, "daughter of John Peters." By 1820, they farmed 75 acres on the Bluestone River and 150 acres on the East River. In the Tazewell Co., VA Order Book, June Court 1822, Henry was elected overseer of the poor and took four oaths prescribed by law. Henry's home, just east of South Bluefield (now Mercer Co., WV), is noted on an 1832 map which can be viewed in the Virginia State Library. Henry and his family are living between "Widow Bayley" and John P. Bayley."
Henry's will was written on April 18, 1834 and is recorded in Tazewell Co., VA Will Book 2, page 33.
Mary Ellen Howe in one of her volumes of "Richard Bailey," comments as follows:
"The line of Henry Bailey has intermarried first, second and third cousins so many times that it was necessary to put it into graph form to understand it.... There were eleven marriages between first cousins, three between first cousins once removed, four between second cousins and one between fourth cousins once removed... It is interesting to note that despite the intermarriages, most of the children were healthy and lived long and productive lives. Many of the daughters became school teachers. The only notable physical condition was that some of the descendants seemed to become hard of hearing by their sixtys."
Children of Henry Bailey and Elizabeth Peters Bailey:
John P. Bailey, md. Mary (Polly) Witten
Mary (Polly) Bailey, md. James Bailey and John Clark Bailey
Phillip P.B. Bailey, md. Frances T. Hartwell
Elijah P. Bailey, md. Elizabeth Bailey, Sarah F. Straley, and Arminta F. Straley
Col. James Madison Bailey, md. Julia A. Straley
Nancy D.G. Bailey, md. Charles Whitlock Calfee
Elizabeth Bailey, md. William Ferguson and Rev. Carroll Clark
Frances Bailey, md. Roland J. Tracy
Maj. William Russell Bailey, md. Lucinda Fleshman
Jane Peery Bailey, md. Wilson Davis Calfee
Matilda D. Bailey, md. Samuel Thompson Calfee
"Richard Bailey had given his youngest won, Henry, a small calf, which had been turned out to graze with the other cattle. The calf, failing to come up to the [Davidson-Bailey] Fort with the others on the evening of the eighth of March, 1793, Mr. Bailey told his son that it might have gotten mired in the swamp by the creek and that he must get up early the next morning and look for it. The boy rose early, called his dogs, and set off down Beaver Pond Creek in the direction of where Graham [Bluefield], Virginia is now located. Not finding the calf, he left the buffalo trail on his return and was passing through swampy land when the dogs bristled.
The boy rushed forward to see a body of men and horses. He fled to the fort and reported what he had seen."
A marriage bond was made in Virginia on August 14, 1801, between Henry Bailey and Elizabeth, "daughter of John Peters." By 1820, they farmed 75 acres on the Bluestone River and 150 acres on the East River. In the Tazewell Co., VA Order Book, June Court 1822, Henry was elected overseer of the poor and took four oaths prescribed by law. Henry's home, just east of South Bluefield (now Mercer Co., WV), is noted on an 1832 map which can be viewed in the Virginia State Library. Henry and his family are living between "Widow Bayley" and John P. Bayley."
Henry's will was written on April 18, 1834 and is recorded in Tazewell Co., VA Will Book 2, page 33.
Mary Ellen Howe in one of her volumes of "Richard Bailey," comments as follows:
"The line of Henry Bailey has intermarried first, second and third cousins so many times that it was necessary to put it into graph form to understand it.... There were eleven marriages between first cousins, three between first cousins once removed, four between second cousins and one between fourth cousins once removed... It is interesting to note that despite the intermarriages, most of the children were healthy and lived long and productive lives. Many of the daughters became school teachers. The only notable physical condition was that some of the descendants seemed to become hard of hearing by their sixtys."
Children of Henry Bailey and Elizabeth Peters Bailey:
John P. Bailey, md. Mary (Polly) Witten
Mary (Polly) Bailey, md. James Bailey and John Clark Bailey
Phillip P.B. Bailey, md. Frances T. Hartwell
Elijah P. Bailey, md. Elizabeth Bailey, Sarah F. Straley, and Arminta F. Straley
Col. James Madison Bailey, md. Julia A. Straley
Nancy D.G. Bailey, md. Charles Whitlock Calfee
Elizabeth Bailey, md. William Ferguson and Rev. Carroll Clark
Frances Bailey, md. Roland J. Tracy
Maj. William Russell Bailey, md. Lucinda Fleshman
Jane Peery Bailey, md. Wilson Davis Calfee
Matilda D. Bailey, md. Samuel Thompson Calfee
Henry was a son of Richard Bailey (1735-1818) and Elizabeth Anne Belcher (1749-1820). He was born in 1782 or 1783. Following is the earliest account of Henry Bailey, who discovered the band of men and Indians that probably killed John Davidson, related in David Johnston's "A History of Middle New River Settlements":
"Richard Bailey had given his youngest won, Henry, a small calf, which had been turned out to graze with the other cattle. The calf, failing to come up to the [Davidson-Bailey] Fort with the others on the evening of the eighth of March, 1793, Mr. Bailey told his son that it might have gotten mired in the swamp by the creek and that he must get up early the next morning and look for it. The boy rose early, called his dogs, and set off down Beaver Pond Creek in the direction of where Graham [Bluefield], Virginia is now located. Not finding the calf, he left the buffalo trail on his return and was passing through swampy land when the dogs bristled.
The boy rushed forward to see a body of men and horses. He fled to the fort and reported what he had seen."
A marriage bond was made in Virginia on August 14, 1801, between Henry Bailey and Elizabeth, "daughter of John Peters." By 1820, they farmed 75 acres on the Bluestone River and 150 acres on the East River. In the Tazewell Co., VA Order Book, June Court 1822, Henry was elected overseer of the poor and took four oaths prescribed by law. Henry's home, just east of South Bluefield (now Mercer Co., WV), is noted on an 1832 map which can be viewed in the Virginia State Library. Henry and his family are living between "Widow Bayley" and John P. Bayley."
Henry's will was written on April 18, 1834 and is recorded in Tazewell Co., VA Will Book 2, page 33.
Mary Ellen Howe in one of her volumes of "Richard Bailey," comments as follows:
"The line of Henry Bailey has intermarried first, second and third cousins so many times that it was necessary to put it into graph form to understand it.... There were eleven marriages between first cousins, three between first cousins once removed, four between second cousins and one between fourth cousins once removed... It is interesting to note that despite the intermarriages, most of the children were healthy and lived long and productive lives. Many of the daughters became school teachers. The only notable physical condition was that some of the descendants seemed to become hard of hearing by their sixtys."
Children of Henry Bailey and Elizabeth Peters Bailey:
John P. Bailey, md. Mary (Polly) Witten
Mary (Polly) Bailey, md. James Bailey and John Clark Bailey
Phillip P.B. Bailey, md. Frances T. Hartwell
Elijah P. Bailey, md. Elizabeth Bailey, Sarah F. Straley, and Arminta F. Straley
Col. James Madison Bailey, md. Julia A. Straley
Nancy D.G. Bailey, md. Charles Whitlock Calfee
Elizabeth Bailey, md. William Ferguson and Rev. Carroll Clark
Frances Bailey, md. Roland J. Tracy
Maj. William Russell Bailey, md. Lucinda Fleshman
Jane Peery Bailey, md. Wilson Davis Calfee
Matilda D. Bailey, md. Samuel Thompson Calfee
"Richard Bailey had given his youngest won, Henry, a small calf, which had been turned out to graze with the other cattle. The calf, failing to come up to the [Davidson-Bailey] Fort with the others on the evening of the eighth of March, 1793, Mr. Bailey told his son that it might have gotten mired in the swamp by the creek and that he must get up early the next morning and look for it. The boy rose early, called his dogs, and set off down Beaver Pond Creek in the direction of where Graham [Bluefield], Virginia is now located. Not finding the calf, he left the buffalo trail on his return and was passing through swampy land when the dogs bristled.
The boy rushed forward to see a body of men and horses. He fled to the fort and reported what he had seen."
A marriage bond was made in Virginia on August 14, 1801, between Henry Bailey and Elizabeth, "daughter of John Peters." By 1820, they farmed 75 acres on the Bluestone River and 150 acres on the East River. In the Tazewell Co., VA Order Book, June Court 1822, Henry was elected overseer of the poor and took four oaths prescribed by law. Henry's home, just east of South Bluefield (now Mercer Co., WV), is noted on an 1832 map which can be viewed in the Virginia State Library. Henry and his family are living between "Widow Bayley" and John P. Bayley."
Henry's will was written on April 18, 1834 and is recorded in Tazewell Co., VA Will Book 2, page 33.
Mary Ellen Howe in one of her volumes of "Richard Bailey," comments as follows:
"The line of Henry Bailey has intermarried first, second and third cousins so many times that it was necessary to put it into graph form to understand it.... There were eleven marriages between first cousins, three between first cousins once removed, four between second cousins and one between fourth cousins once removed... It is interesting to note that despite the intermarriages, most of the children were healthy and lived long and productive lives. Many of the daughters became school teachers. The only notable physical condition was that some of the descendants seemed to become hard of hearing by their sixtys."
Children of Henry Bailey and Elizabeth Peters Bailey:
John P. Bailey, md. Mary (Polly) Witten
Mary (Polly) Bailey, md. James Bailey and John Clark Bailey
Phillip P.B. Bailey, md. Frances T. Hartwell
Elijah P. Bailey, md. Elizabeth Bailey, Sarah F. Straley, and Arminta F. Straley
Col. James Madison Bailey, md. Julia A. Straley
Nancy D.G. Bailey, md. Charles Whitlock Calfee
Elizabeth Bailey, md. William Ferguson and Rev. Carroll Clark
Frances Bailey, md. Roland J. Tracy
Maj. William Russell Bailey, md. Lucinda Fleshman
Jane Peery Bailey, md. Wilson Davis Calfee
Matilda D. Bailey, md. Samuel Thompson Calfee
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