The Bailey Family Genealogy

   The Bailey Family Genealogy John Bailey and Elizabeth PitcherBorn in 1663 in Gloucestershire, England emigrated to Virginia from England at age 21 in 1684.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 and FrancesBorn 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 and JaneBorn in 1726 in New Kent County, Virginia. After leaving New Kent County, he lived for a time in GoochlandThen 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. 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 also fighting at General Braddock’s Defeat at Fort Duquesne, He was one of six men who survived in his militia. This militia was formed the “rear guard” and were the last ones out. They waded a wide river were many were shot down and drowned.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”. After that battle, for fear of raids by the Indian allies of the French. Edmond fled from the Shenandoah Valley and settled in central North Carolina, where his children were born. 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 Bailey and Elizabeth “Susan” Bradleyborn 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 gave material supplies in support of the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War Era.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.  “Yellow Jacket” John Bailey and Lovada “Lovey” Rayborn 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 white horse back and forth to the North Carolina General Assembly. Yancey County needed a county seat, and a group of commissioners was chosen: Rickles Stanley, Thomas Baker, Joseph Shepherd, Levi Bailey, and John McElroy. The commissioners first met in January 1834, and soon chose a track of land known as “Ray Flats”; the property was owned by John “Yellow Jacket” Bailey. In honor of Otway Burns, a privateer in the War of 1812, the new county seat was named in his honor. Burns’s vote for the new county in 1833 cost him his seat in the assembly.Finally, he gave 100 acres of his own land for the town of Burnsville and started Yancey County, North Carolina and was paid $150. He married his wife Lovada “Lovey” Ray. 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 “Yellow Jacket” John Bailey Cemetery, Relief, North Carolina.  Stories After John’s death, Lovey went to live with her daughter Peggy who then decided to put her in the “poor house”. Her son Jefferson was anger about this, went and got her and she lived with him. Lovey would sit on his porch and read the Bible; she almost went blind but she recovered. She would ride in a sled from one child’s house to another.  Lovey was fond of maple sugar candy and she would lock several softball size pieces in her trunk, opening them to chip off a small piece for herself.  Lovey’s slaves were sold to solve John’s legal problems. Lovey was remembered saying that she would have been comfortable in her old age, with slaves to take care of her, but that John’s ill temper had taken them away from her.    One story goes that the sheriff  came to seize one of John’s horses for non-payment of taxes, and that John beat him up in the barn, then chased him down the road with rocks.   On another occasion, a rock, which John threw at someone, penetrated the bark of a tree and stuck.   John apparently supported the Union side during the Civil War, which the area he lived in was confederate. On one occasion, he was fleeing for his life, near Bee Branch, with someone hot on his heels. As he leaped over a small stream, he lost his footing, and soon found himself horizontal in the air and about knocked the stuffing out of himself as he hit the ground. He managed to escape.   John was of big stature and strong. Once while plowing with his mule and it did not work to suit him, he walked around to the front of the mule, gave it a roundhouse shot to the head with his fist, and knocked it to its knees.   Lovey was of little stature.  Stephen Morgan Bailey and Rebecca Deyton 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. Civil War InformationRegiment Name: 3rd North Carolina Mounted InfantrySide: Union Company: ASoldier's Rank In: PrivateSoldier's Rank Out: PrivateFilm Number: M391 roll 1Stephen 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-?), in Yancey County, North Carolina at the Zebulon “Zebb” (1856-1950), John W. (1860-?), and Lovada (1865-?). He died in April 1,1889 age of 63. They are buried in the “Yellow Jacket” John Bailey Cemetery, Relief, North Carolina.  Zebulon Vance “Zebb” “Zebbadee” Bailey and Hannah Wilson   born in 1856 in Yancey County, North Carolina.He was for the North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance.He loved buttermilk and homemade apple pie.  He married Hannah Wilson. They had five children, William (1882-1919), Morgan (Nov. 1884- 1900), Reggie ( 1888- 1900),John Calvin ( Nov. 15, 1890-Aug. 2, 1967), and Samuel (Sept. 1894- ?). She died in 1947 in Erwin, Tennessee at the age of 84. After her death, Zebulon would take his pension checks and would go through the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee seeing his girlfriends. On one of his trips, he was returning and got caught in a storm and got wet and cold and 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 N. “Will” Bailey and Jettie Hedrick born in 1882 in Ramseytown, 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), John Orville (1917-1992), Britt (?-1940), and Augusta. He died on February 6, 1919 of typhoid.After his death, Jettie sold the store and moved to Lost Cove, NC  He is buried in the Bennett-Barnett Cemetery, White Oak Flats, Yancey County, North CarolinaShe died on September 9, 1948 of T.B. She is buried in the Lost Cove, North Carolina cemetery Velmer Bailey and Servilla Harris born on March 19, 1902 in White Oak Flats, North Carolina. He married Servilla Harris in October 17, 1931 in Erwin, Tennessee by Rev. Ealy Billings . 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. School teachers often boarded at his house in Lost Cove, NC 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.     *John Bailey was born in 1655 in VA. He had 3 sons. He died in 1709 in New Kent Co.,VA. *Edward Bailey was born 1682 in New Kent Co.,VA. He married a women named Frances in 1729 in New Kent Co., VA. They had 3 sons. He died in 1731 in Goochland Co., VA.  *Edmond Bailey was born in VA in 1726. He was in the French & Indian War, he was in the Virginia Militia. He was at the Battle of the General Braddock's Defeat at Fort Duquesne on July 9, 1755 and was one of six members left of the militia. He married an Indian woman named Jane. He had 6 kids. After the war, he took his family and moved to North Carolina. After a good life he died on Dec. 4, 1813 in Burke Co.,NC.He is buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Penland, NC.   *Ansel(em) Bailey was born in Wilkes Co., North Carolina in 1763,one of 6 kids. When he grew up, he married Elizabeth Bradley, daughter of Jonathan Bradley, on Apr. 11, 1789 in Wilkes Co., NC, Where they were both born and rised. They had 9 kids. He died in 1855 in Relief, NC (Yancey Co.,NC) *John Wesley " Yellow Jacket" Bailey was born in 1804 in Story Branch, Wilkes CO., NC.He married Tabitha Lovada Ray, daughter of William Hyram Ray and Elizabeth Cox,in 1820 in Burke CO.,NC. They had 16 kids. He had a bad temper and got his nickname, "Yellow Jacket". He was bset friends with Yancey Barlett and Captain Otway Burns. He was one of the founding fathers of Yancey CO.,NC because there's a story that he rode his horse back and forth to the NC General Assembly. Finally, he gave 100 acres of his own land for the town of Burnsville and started Yancey CO.,NC.He died in 1880 in Relief, NC. He is Buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Relief, NC.  *Stephen Morgan Bailey was born June 15, 1825 in Yancey CO.,NC. He was a twin,and a brother to Hiram Bailey. He was named for a well-known Baptist Clergyman, Rev. Stephen Morgan. He married Rebecca Deyton. They had 12 kids. He was in the Civil War. During the war, he seriously injuried himself in a night raid by falling off a cliff. Regiment Name: 3rd NC Mounted Infantry Side: Union Company: A Soldier's Rank in & out: Private There's a family tale that he bought Lost Cove, NC with a rifle and $10 bill. He died Apr. 1, 1889 in Relief, NC. He is buried in the Bailey Cemetery, Relief, NC. *Zebulon "Zebb" Bailey was born in 1856 in NC. He married Hannah Wilson, daughter of "Ned" Edward Wilson. They had 7 children. Before he died,(after Hannah had died) he went walk through the mountains' of NC to visit his girlfriends. He died in 1950 in Erwin, Tennessee. He is buried in Martins Creek Cemetery, Erwin, TN.  *William Bailey was born in NC. He owned and ran a general store. He lived on, ran,and owned a farm. He logged for people. He helped build the Bailey Independent Brethren Church. He married Maudilee Jettie Hedrick, daughter of Mack Hedrick and Sally Adkins, on Apr. 9, 1901 in NC. They had 9 children. He died Feb.6,1919 of typhoid fever.  *Velmer Bailey was born Mar. 19,1902 in Whiteoak Flats, NC. He lived in Lost Cove, NC for years. He worked in the coal mines in VA. He logged for other people. He was a carpenter. He farmed, owned, and lived on 3 different farms during his life. He married Servilla Harris, daughter of Buel Harris & Matilda Tilson, (They were Married for 63 years) on Oct. 17,1931. They 7 kids. They moved to the Lamar Community, Washington County, TN in late 1950's. They moved to Jonesborough, TN in the 1960's. They have 11 grandchildren,7 great grandchildren, and 2 great great grandchildren.She died Aug. 25,1995.He died Mar. 24,1997. They are buried in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough,TN. All the Kids Of Velmer & Servilla *Okie R. Bailey-Born-0ct. 21, 1932 in Lost Cove, NC Died-Aug. 19, 2005 in AuGres, MI. *William Bailey-Born & Death-July 31, 1934 in Lost Cove, NC. *Earl Bailey- Born & Death-Sept. 12,1935 in Lost Cove, NC. *Eugene Bailey- Born-Jan. 6,1938 in Lost Cove, NC. Death- May 10,1997 in Jonesborough, TN. *Isaiah "Ike" Bailey- Born- Jan. 9,1940 in Lost Cove, NC.  *Hosea Bailey- Born- Jan. 1, 1944 in Lost Cove, NC. (My Father) *Priscilla Knode-Born- Dec. 6,1945 in Lost Cove, NC.  Servilla & Velmer's Grandkids  *Kim Knode *Chad Fred Bailey *Brad Velmer Bailey  *Angie Bailey *Chris Bailey *Tim Bailey  *Victor Bailey *Darrell Bailey *Teresa Agan *Sandra (Katie) Bailey  *Ron Bailey  *Daygon James Bailey(Angie Bailey's Son)