Obituary c/o FAG Contributer 47197580
A NOTED LADY DEAD.
Mrs. General Joseph Bailey Passes Away
The Widow of a Man Who Was Famous.
Yesterday there was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery, beside her husband and youngest child, a woman of more than ordinary note. Mrs. Mary Bailey, wife of General Joseph Bailey, who rendered important and valuable services, and who won the rank of brigadier general in the late war by dint of his own native ability--Mrs. Bailey herself was a woman of strong natural endowments, with many accomplishments. She was born in 1825, but moved westward with the course of immigration and was married to Joseph Bailey in Wisconsin. She had lived on the Drywood, just across the Missouri line, a few miles south of this city, since 1866, and was well known to many in this county and city. She was in the city but a short time since, and was still a handsome and bright woman, though 65 years old. The cause of her death was pneumonia.
As the greater part of the interest that attached to the history of Mrs. Bailey, outside of that attaching to every person of her many virtues, is that which centers round her husband, a short reminiscent sketch of his career may not be out of place in connection with the death of Mrs. Bailey.
Joseph Bailey was a native of Ohio, but removed to Wisconsin in his boyhood. Here he became a lumberman, following his laborious calling on the Wisconsin in logging and rafting. At the outbreak of the war he raised a company of volunteers at Kilburn, Wisconsin, of which he was chosen chaplain. This company became company K, of the Fourth Wisconsin regiment. He served on the lower Mississippi, where his engineering ability was signally displayed in the blowing up of the citadel at Port Hudson. He was appointed chief engineer to the nineteenth army corps, and was, in his capacity as chief engineer, the main instrument in the salvation of Admiral Porter's fleet in Red river by constructing a dam and backing the water up the stream to float the fleet and enable it to get back to the Mississippi. By this work he gained the rank of brigadier general and the thanks of the war department and the president. He also participated in the capture of Mobile.
In 1866 General Bailey came to Missouri, locating on the farm where his widow had since resided until her death. The same year he became sheriff of Vernon county, and shortly afterward was given a warrant for the arrest of the Pixley brothers, Perry and Louis, near Moore's mill on the Marmaton, for a trivial offense. The brothers agreed to go to Nevada with him, and all started on horseback. But they led him off on a byroad in the woods, murdered and robbed him, and dragged his body into the bed of a small stream. His murderers disappeared and were never heard of. The body was brought here for burial and a fine monument was erected over it.
Of their five children four survive their mother. Two sons, Edward and Jabez, and two daughters, Miss Ella, and Mrs. Lee Goss, all living in the same neighborhood.
Fort Scott Newspaper, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas. March 23, 1891.
A NOTED LADY DEAD.
Mrs. General Joseph Bailey Passes Away
The Widow of a Man Who Was Famous.
Yesterday there was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery, beside her husband and youngest child, a woman of more than ordinary note. Mrs. Mary Bailey, wife of General Joseph Bailey, who rendered important and valuable services, and who won the rank of brigadier general in the late war by dint of his own native ability--Mrs. Bailey herself was a woman of strong natural endowments, with many accomplishments. She was born in 1825, but moved westward with the course of immigration and was married to Joseph Bailey in Wisconsin. She had lived on the Drywood, just across the Missouri line, a few miles south of this city, since 1866, and was well known to many in this county and city. She was in the city but a short time since, and was still a handsome and bright woman, though 65 years old. The cause of her death was pneumonia.
As the greater part of the interest that attached to the history of Mrs. Bailey, outside of that attaching to every person of her many virtues, is that which centers round her husband, a short reminiscent sketch of his career may not be out of place in connection with the death of Mrs. Bailey.
Joseph Bailey was a native of Ohio, but removed to Wisconsin in his boyhood. Here he became a lumberman, following his laborious calling on the Wisconsin in logging and rafting. At the outbreak of the war he raised a company of volunteers at Kilburn, Wisconsin, of which he was chosen chaplain. This company became company K, of the Fourth Wisconsin regiment. He served on the lower Mississippi, where his engineering ability was signally displayed in the blowing up of the citadel at Port Hudson. He was appointed chief engineer to the nineteenth army corps, and was, in his capacity as chief engineer, the main instrument in the salvation of Admiral Porter's fleet in Red river by constructing a dam and backing the water up the stream to float the fleet and enable it to get back to the Mississippi. By this work he gained the rank of brigadier general and the thanks of the war department and the president. He also participated in the capture of Mobile.
In 1866 General Bailey came to Missouri, locating on the farm where his widow had since resided until her death. The same year he became sheriff of Vernon county, and shortly afterward was given a warrant for the arrest of the Pixley brothers, Perry and Louis, near Moore's mill on the Marmaton, for a trivial offense. The brothers agreed to go to Nevada with him, and all started on horseback. But they led him off on a byroad in the woods, murdered and robbed him, and dragged his body into the bed of a small stream. His murderers disappeared and were never heard of. The body was brought here for burial and a fine monument was erected over it.
Of their five children four survive their mother. Two sons, Edward and Jabez, and two daughters, Miss Ella, and Mrs. Lee Goss, all living in the same neighborhood.
Fort Scott Newspaper, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas. March 23, 1891.
Obituary c/o FAG Contributer 47197580
A NOTED LADY DEAD.
Mrs. General Joseph Bailey Passes Away
The Widow of a Man Who Was Famous.
Yesterday there was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery, beside her husband and youngest child, a woman of more than ordinary note. Mrs. Mary Bailey, wife of General Joseph Bailey, who rendered important and valuable services, and who won the rank of brigadier general in the late war by dint of his own native ability--Mrs. Bailey herself was a woman of strong natural endowments, with many accomplishments. She was born in 1825, but moved westward with the course of immigration and was married to Joseph Bailey in Wisconsin. She had lived on the Drywood, just across the Missouri line, a few miles south of this city, since 1866, and was well known to many in this county and city. She was in the city but a short time since, and was still a handsome and bright woman, though 65 years old. The cause of her death was pneumonia.
As the greater part of the interest that attached to the history of Mrs. Bailey, outside of that attaching to every person of her many virtues, is that which centers round her husband, a short reminiscent sketch of his career may not be out of place in connection with the death of Mrs. Bailey.
Joseph Bailey was a native of Ohio, but removed to Wisconsin in his boyhood. Here he became a lumberman, following his laborious calling on the Wisconsin in logging and rafting. At the outbreak of the war he raised a company of volunteers at Kilburn, Wisconsin, of which he was chosen chaplain. This company became company K, of the Fourth Wisconsin regiment. He served on the lower Mississippi, where his engineering ability was signally displayed in the blowing up of the citadel at Port Hudson. He was appointed chief engineer to the nineteenth army corps, and was, in his capacity as chief engineer, the main instrument in the salvation of Admiral Porter's fleet in Red river by constructing a dam and backing the water up the stream to float the fleet and enable it to get back to the Mississippi. By this work he gained the rank of brigadier general and the thanks of the war department and the president. He also participated in the capture of Mobile.
In 1866 General Bailey came to Missouri, locating on the farm where his widow had since resided until her death. The same year he became sheriff of Vernon county, and shortly afterward was given a warrant for the arrest of the Pixley brothers, Perry and Louis, near Moore's mill on the Marmaton, for a trivial offense. The brothers agreed to go to Nevada with him, and all started on horseback. But they led him off on a byroad in the woods, murdered and robbed him, and dragged his body into the bed of a small stream. His murderers disappeared and were never heard of. The body was brought here for burial and a fine monument was erected over it.
Of their five children four survive their mother. Two sons, Edward and Jabez, and two daughters, Miss Ella, and Mrs. Lee Goss, all living in the same neighborhood.
Fort Scott Newspaper, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas. March 23, 1891.
A NOTED LADY DEAD.
Mrs. General Joseph Bailey Passes Away
The Widow of a Man Who Was Famous.
Yesterday there was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery, beside her husband and youngest child, a woman of more than ordinary note. Mrs. Mary Bailey, wife of General Joseph Bailey, who rendered important and valuable services, and who won the rank of brigadier general in the late war by dint of his own native ability--Mrs. Bailey herself was a woman of strong natural endowments, with many accomplishments. She was born in 1825, but moved westward with the course of immigration and was married to Joseph Bailey in Wisconsin. She had lived on the Drywood, just across the Missouri line, a few miles south of this city, since 1866, and was well known to many in this county and city. She was in the city but a short time since, and was still a handsome and bright woman, though 65 years old. The cause of her death was pneumonia.
As the greater part of the interest that attached to the history of Mrs. Bailey, outside of that attaching to every person of her many virtues, is that which centers round her husband, a short reminiscent sketch of his career may not be out of place in connection with the death of Mrs. Bailey.
Joseph Bailey was a native of Ohio, but removed to Wisconsin in his boyhood. Here he became a lumberman, following his laborious calling on the Wisconsin in logging and rafting. At the outbreak of the war he raised a company of volunteers at Kilburn, Wisconsin, of which he was chosen chaplain. This company became company K, of the Fourth Wisconsin regiment. He served on the lower Mississippi, where his engineering ability was signally displayed in the blowing up of the citadel at Port Hudson. He was appointed chief engineer to the nineteenth army corps, and was, in his capacity as chief engineer, the main instrument in the salvation of Admiral Porter's fleet in Red river by constructing a dam and backing the water up the stream to float the fleet and enable it to get back to the Mississippi. By this work he gained the rank of brigadier general and the thanks of the war department and the president. He also participated in the capture of Mobile.
In 1866 General Bailey came to Missouri, locating on the farm where his widow had since resided until her death. The same year he became sheriff of Vernon county, and shortly afterward was given a warrant for the arrest of the Pixley brothers, Perry and Louis, near Moore's mill on the Marmaton, for a trivial offense. The brothers agreed to go to Nevada with him, and all started on horseback. But they led him off on a byroad in the woods, murdered and robbed him, and dragged his body into the bed of a small stream. His murderers disappeared and were never heard of. The body was brought here for burial and a fine monument was erected over it.
Of their five children four survive their mother. Two sons, Edward and Jabez, and two daughters, Miss Ella, and Mrs. Lee Goss, all living in the same neighborhood.
Fort Scott Newspaper, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas. March 23, 1891.
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