Bailey, Charles D. Found Dead in His Pasture Lot Sunday Noon and Badly Used by Vicious Bull
Hon. C.D. Bailey was found dead and rigid in his pasture lot Sunday noon, Nov. 4, 1906.The startling intelligence was quickly passed from house to house over town, and many friends went up to his farm, about two miles and a half above the city, only to find his family terribly shocked and excited over the truly awful occurrence. Mr. Bailey left home between seven and eight o'clock Sunday morning, as was his custom to frequently do, going over to his pasture beyond the first rows of hills back of his residence.
The family had dinner about 11 o'clock or possibly a little later, and Mr. Bailey had not yet arrived. They thinking he would do so every minute sat down and finished their dinner. He still not coming, Dick Long and Charles Tyler, employed on the place, were sent to look him up, and found him as stated, and more they found that he had been crushed and rolled on the ground for perhaps a hundred yards, by a vicious Poll Bull kept in the pasture. The conclusion was that the bull had attacked and overcome him, and after killing him had continued to butt and crush him.
Dr. Bean, the family physician was called and also Coroner Parker who reviewed the remains. Dr. Bean made the post mortem and found his back, and the ribs on his right side broken, his collar bone and shoulder crushed, the back of his hands bare of skin and his face badly lacerated. They also found that he had been dead for sometime, being cold and rigid. His watch had stopped at 9:15, which is supposed to have been the time he was attacked.
About two and a half years ago Mr. Bailey had a light attack of paralysis. He has been complaining of late and Dr. Bean has been treating him. The Doctor thinks that one of these attacks may have come on, or that it was coming on and being sick, dead or bad off, he was incapable of making any resistance and that the animal wounded and bruised him while he was unconscious. His hat and cane were lying practically undisturbed where he had apparently placed them, and it may be that he was practically dead when the bull attacked him. Mr. Bailey knew it was vicious. Others saw the bull come up to within 40 or 50 feet of where Mr. Bailey would be sitting and paw and bellow for a fight, one of the boys had shot out one of the animal's eyes in defending himself from it, and it is strange that Mr. Bailey would put himself in his way, but one of Mr. Bailey's characteristics was his fearlessness, and he must have been at a great disadvantage or there would have been signs of a struggle. His cane was not marked to show that it had been used at all, nor were there any marks on the animal. It is a terribly sad affair be as it may.
Mr. Bailey was the eldest son of Emory and Sophronia Bailey and was born in this city 79 years ago and was reared and educated here. He is survived in his parents family by his brother J. Dudley Bailey, of Apache, Oklahoma, sisters, Mrs. Summers and Misses Frank and May Bailey.
He was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Cherrington, dau. of Hon. Pennel Cherrington and his wife Janet Johnston. They became the parents of ten children, only four surviving, two sons James J., and Chas. P. Bailey, the latter of Lexington, Ky., and daughters Mrs. W.A. Sharon and Miss May Bailey.
In early life he was a steamboat clerk on the Kanawha river. He afterwards formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, the late Wm. Cherrington, and they carried on before and during the war an extensive livery business. They became government contractors during the war and became very rich furnishing horses for the war as well as hay and other feed. After the war he and Mr. Cherrington retired from the livery business and built themselves beautiful homes up the river road. Mr. Bailey met with reverses and losses through endorsing for friends, and by the depreciation of high-priced property bought during the war shrinking to prices that were lower than ever known. Notwithstanding all this he weathered the storm and came out on the top and on the right side. While he was prominent in city affairs, member of Council, member and President of the Board of Education, one of the charter members and Vice President of the Ohio Valley Bank for years, member of Board of Directors and President of half or more of the past Gallia County fairs, dealer in the finest cattle and at one time fine bred horses, member of the Board of County Commissioners, member of the State Board of Agriculture and at one time President of the Board, always an active minded pushing man of great importance and good to his town.
Personally he was pleasant and agreeable, a true friend honest and upright, a Mason, and a man of worth and force and even though he had reached a great age, he will still be missed. Such men as he never outlive their usefulness. His family will have the warmest sympathy from all who knew him or knows them.
The funeral services will be Tuesday [6th of November] at 10 a.m. at his late residence, conducted by the Rev. H.B. Lewis of Grace M.E. Church. The burial will be by Hayward & Son at Bethel on Chickamauga.
(Gallipolis Daily Tribune, November 5, 1906
Transcribed by Henny Evans)
Hon. C.D. Bailey was found dead and rigid in his pasture lot Sunday noon, Nov. 4, 1906.The startling intelligence was quickly passed from house to house over town, and many friends went up to his farm, about two miles and a half above the city, only to find his family terribly shocked and excited over the truly awful occurrence. Mr. Bailey left home between seven and eight o'clock Sunday morning, as was his custom to frequently do, going over to his pasture beyond the first rows of hills back of his residence.
The family had dinner about 11 o'clock or possibly a little later, and Mr. Bailey had not yet arrived. They thinking he would do so every minute sat down and finished their dinner. He still not coming, Dick Long and Charles Tyler, employed on the place, were sent to look him up, and found him as stated, and more they found that he had been crushed and rolled on the ground for perhaps a hundred yards, by a vicious Poll Bull kept in the pasture. The conclusion was that the bull had attacked and overcome him, and after killing him had continued to butt and crush him.
Dr. Bean, the family physician was called and also Coroner Parker who reviewed the remains. Dr. Bean made the post mortem and found his back, and the ribs on his right side broken, his collar bone and shoulder crushed, the back of his hands bare of skin and his face badly lacerated. They also found that he had been dead for sometime, being cold and rigid. His watch had stopped at 9:15, which is supposed to have been the time he was attacked.
About two and a half years ago Mr. Bailey had a light attack of paralysis. He has been complaining of late and Dr. Bean has been treating him. The Doctor thinks that one of these attacks may have come on, or that it was coming on and being sick, dead or bad off, he was incapable of making any resistance and that the animal wounded and bruised him while he was unconscious. His hat and cane were lying practically undisturbed where he had apparently placed them, and it may be that he was practically dead when the bull attacked him. Mr. Bailey knew it was vicious. Others saw the bull come up to within 40 or 50 feet of where Mr. Bailey would be sitting and paw and bellow for a fight, one of the boys had shot out one of the animal's eyes in defending himself from it, and it is strange that Mr. Bailey would put himself in his way, but one of Mr. Bailey's characteristics was his fearlessness, and he must have been at a great disadvantage or there would have been signs of a struggle. His cane was not marked to show that it had been used at all, nor were there any marks on the animal. It is a terribly sad affair be as it may.
Mr. Bailey was the eldest son of Emory and Sophronia Bailey and was born in this city 79 years ago and was reared and educated here. He is survived in his parents family by his brother J. Dudley Bailey, of Apache, Oklahoma, sisters, Mrs. Summers and Misses Frank and May Bailey.
He was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Cherrington, dau. of Hon. Pennel Cherrington and his wife Janet Johnston. They became the parents of ten children, only four surviving, two sons James J., and Chas. P. Bailey, the latter of Lexington, Ky., and daughters Mrs. W.A. Sharon and Miss May Bailey.
In early life he was a steamboat clerk on the Kanawha river. He afterwards formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, the late Wm. Cherrington, and they carried on before and during the war an extensive livery business. They became government contractors during the war and became very rich furnishing horses for the war as well as hay and other feed. After the war he and Mr. Cherrington retired from the livery business and built themselves beautiful homes up the river road. Mr. Bailey met with reverses and losses through endorsing for friends, and by the depreciation of high-priced property bought during the war shrinking to prices that were lower than ever known. Notwithstanding all this he weathered the storm and came out on the top and on the right side. While he was prominent in city affairs, member of Council, member and President of the Board of Education, one of the charter members and Vice President of the Ohio Valley Bank for years, member of Board of Directors and President of half or more of the past Gallia County fairs, dealer in the finest cattle and at one time fine bred horses, member of the Board of County Commissioners, member of the State Board of Agriculture and at one time President of the Board, always an active minded pushing man of great importance and good to his town.
Personally he was pleasant and agreeable, a true friend honest and upright, a Mason, and a man of worth and force and even though he had reached a great age, he will still be missed. Such men as he never outlive their usefulness. His family will have the warmest sympathy from all who knew him or knows them.
The funeral services will be Tuesday [6th of November] at 10 a.m. at his late residence, conducted by the Rev. H.B. Lewis of Grace M.E. Church. The burial will be by Hayward & Son at Bethel on Chickamauga.
(Gallipolis Daily Tribune, November 5, 1906
Transcribed by Henny Evans)
Bailey, Charles D. Found Dead in His Pasture Lot Sunday Noon and Badly Used by Vicious Bull
Hon. C.D. Bailey was found dead and rigid in his pasture lot Sunday noon, Nov. 4, 1906.The startling intelligence was quickly passed from house to house over town, and many friends went up to his farm, about two miles and a half above the city, only to find his family terribly shocked and excited over the truly awful occurrence. Mr. Bailey left home between seven and eight o'clock Sunday morning, as was his custom to frequently do, going over to his pasture beyond the first rows of hills back of his residence.
The family had dinner about 11 o'clock or possibly a little later, and Mr. Bailey had not yet arrived. They thinking he would do so every minute sat down and finished their dinner. He still not coming, Dick Long and Charles Tyler, employed on the place, were sent to look him up, and found him as stated, and more they found that he had been crushed and rolled on the ground for perhaps a hundred yards, by a vicious Poll Bull kept in the pasture. The conclusion was that the bull had attacked and overcome him, and after killing him had continued to butt and crush him.
Dr. Bean, the family physician was called and also Coroner Parker who reviewed the remains. Dr. Bean made the post mortem and found his back, and the ribs on his right side broken, his collar bone and shoulder crushed, the back of his hands bare of skin and his face badly lacerated. They also found that he had been dead for sometime, being cold and rigid. His watch had stopped at 9:15, which is supposed to have been the time he was attacked.
About two and a half years ago Mr. Bailey had a light attack of paralysis. He has been complaining of late and Dr. Bean has been treating him. The Doctor thinks that one of these attacks may have come on, or that it was coming on and being sick, dead or bad off, he was incapable of making any resistance and that the animal wounded and bruised him while he was unconscious. His hat and cane were lying practically undisturbed where he had apparently placed them, and it may be that he was practically dead when the bull attacked him. Mr. Bailey knew it was vicious. Others saw the bull come up to within 40 or 50 feet of where Mr. Bailey would be sitting and paw and bellow for a fight, one of the boys had shot out one of the animal's eyes in defending himself from it, and it is strange that Mr. Bailey would put himself in his way, but one of Mr. Bailey's characteristics was his fearlessness, and he must have been at a great disadvantage or there would have been signs of a struggle. His cane was not marked to show that it had been used at all, nor were there any marks on the animal. It is a terribly sad affair be as it may.
Mr. Bailey was the eldest son of Emory and Sophronia Bailey and was born in this city 79 years ago and was reared and educated here. He is survived in his parents family by his brother J. Dudley Bailey, of Apache, Oklahoma, sisters, Mrs. Summers and Misses Frank and May Bailey.
He was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Cherrington, dau. of Hon. Pennel Cherrington and his wife Janet Johnston. They became the parents of ten children, only four surviving, two sons James J., and Chas. P. Bailey, the latter of Lexington, Ky., and daughters Mrs. W.A. Sharon and Miss May Bailey.
In early life he was a steamboat clerk on the Kanawha river. He afterwards formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, the late Wm. Cherrington, and they carried on before and during the war an extensive livery business. They became government contractors during the war and became very rich furnishing horses for the war as well as hay and other feed. After the war he and Mr. Cherrington retired from the livery business and built themselves beautiful homes up the river road. Mr. Bailey met with reverses and losses through endorsing for friends, and by the depreciation of high-priced property bought during the war shrinking to prices that were lower than ever known. Notwithstanding all this he weathered the storm and came out on the top and on the right side. While he was prominent in city affairs, member of Council, member and President of the Board of Education, one of the charter members and Vice President of the Ohio Valley Bank for years, member of Board of Directors and President of half or more of the past Gallia County fairs, dealer in the finest cattle and at one time fine bred horses, member of the Board of County Commissioners, member of the State Board of Agriculture and at one time President of the Board, always an active minded pushing man of great importance and good to his town.
Personally he was pleasant and agreeable, a true friend honest and upright, a Mason, and a man of worth and force and even though he had reached a great age, he will still be missed. Such men as he never outlive their usefulness. His family will have the warmest sympathy from all who knew him or knows them.
The funeral services will be Tuesday [6th of November] at 10 a.m. at his late residence, conducted by the Rev. H.B. Lewis of Grace M.E. Church. The burial will be by Hayward & Son at Bethel on Chickamauga.
(Gallipolis Daily Tribune, November 5, 1906
Transcribed by Henny Evans)
Hon. C.D. Bailey was found dead and rigid in his pasture lot Sunday noon, Nov. 4, 1906.The startling intelligence was quickly passed from house to house over town, and many friends went up to his farm, about two miles and a half above the city, only to find his family terribly shocked and excited over the truly awful occurrence. Mr. Bailey left home between seven and eight o'clock Sunday morning, as was his custom to frequently do, going over to his pasture beyond the first rows of hills back of his residence.
The family had dinner about 11 o'clock or possibly a little later, and Mr. Bailey had not yet arrived. They thinking he would do so every minute sat down and finished their dinner. He still not coming, Dick Long and Charles Tyler, employed on the place, were sent to look him up, and found him as stated, and more they found that he had been crushed and rolled on the ground for perhaps a hundred yards, by a vicious Poll Bull kept in the pasture. The conclusion was that the bull had attacked and overcome him, and after killing him had continued to butt and crush him.
Dr. Bean, the family physician was called and also Coroner Parker who reviewed the remains. Dr. Bean made the post mortem and found his back, and the ribs on his right side broken, his collar bone and shoulder crushed, the back of his hands bare of skin and his face badly lacerated. They also found that he had been dead for sometime, being cold and rigid. His watch had stopped at 9:15, which is supposed to have been the time he was attacked.
About two and a half years ago Mr. Bailey had a light attack of paralysis. He has been complaining of late and Dr. Bean has been treating him. The Doctor thinks that one of these attacks may have come on, or that it was coming on and being sick, dead or bad off, he was incapable of making any resistance and that the animal wounded and bruised him while he was unconscious. His hat and cane were lying practically undisturbed where he had apparently placed them, and it may be that he was practically dead when the bull attacked him. Mr. Bailey knew it was vicious. Others saw the bull come up to within 40 or 50 feet of where Mr. Bailey would be sitting and paw and bellow for a fight, one of the boys had shot out one of the animal's eyes in defending himself from it, and it is strange that Mr. Bailey would put himself in his way, but one of Mr. Bailey's characteristics was his fearlessness, and he must have been at a great disadvantage or there would have been signs of a struggle. His cane was not marked to show that it had been used at all, nor were there any marks on the animal. It is a terribly sad affair be as it may.
Mr. Bailey was the eldest son of Emory and Sophronia Bailey and was born in this city 79 years ago and was reared and educated here. He is survived in his parents family by his brother J. Dudley Bailey, of Apache, Oklahoma, sisters, Mrs. Summers and Misses Frank and May Bailey.
He was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Cherrington, dau. of Hon. Pennel Cherrington and his wife Janet Johnston. They became the parents of ten children, only four surviving, two sons James J., and Chas. P. Bailey, the latter of Lexington, Ky., and daughters Mrs. W.A. Sharon and Miss May Bailey.
In early life he was a steamboat clerk on the Kanawha river. He afterwards formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, the late Wm. Cherrington, and they carried on before and during the war an extensive livery business. They became government contractors during the war and became very rich furnishing horses for the war as well as hay and other feed. After the war he and Mr. Cherrington retired from the livery business and built themselves beautiful homes up the river road. Mr. Bailey met with reverses and losses through endorsing for friends, and by the depreciation of high-priced property bought during the war shrinking to prices that were lower than ever known. Notwithstanding all this he weathered the storm and came out on the top and on the right side. While he was prominent in city affairs, member of Council, member and President of the Board of Education, one of the charter members and Vice President of the Ohio Valley Bank for years, member of Board of Directors and President of half or more of the past Gallia County fairs, dealer in the finest cattle and at one time fine bred horses, member of the Board of County Commissioners, member of the State Board of Agriculture and at one time President of the Board, always an active minded pushing man of great importance and good to his town.
Personally he was pleasant and agreeable, a true friend honest and upright, a Mason, and a man of worth and force and even though he had reached a great age, he will still be missed. Such men as he never outlive their usefulness. His family will have the warmest sympathy from all who knew him or knows them.
The funeral services will be Tuesday [6th of November] at 10 a.m. at his late residence, conducted by the Rev. H.B. Lewis of Grace M.E. Church. The burial will be by Hayward & Son at Bethel on Chickamauga.
(Gallipolis Daily Tribune, November 5, 1906
Transcribed by Henny Evans)
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