Sarah Ella Bailey

Female2 November 1863–10 November 1938

Brief Life History of Sarah Ella

When Sarah Ella Bailey was born on 2 November 1863, in Lebanon, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, her father, John Bailey, was 25 and her mother, Mahala Ann Barton, was 24. She married Andrew Washington Spear on 1 April 1885, in Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 10 November 1938, in Norwalk, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Royal Augustus Spear
1863–1955
Sarah Ella Bailey
1863–1938
Marriage: 11 August 1891
Lola Josephine Spear
1893–1991
Guy Anthony Spear
1895–1968
Helen Meroa Spear
1898–1994
Mabel Mahale Spear
1901–1993

Sources (17)

  • S Ella Bailey in household of John Bailey, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Ella Spear, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
  • Ella Bailey in household of John Bailey, "United States Census, 1870"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 August 1891Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States
  • Children (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1865

    Age 2

    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

    1867 · Gas Street Lamps Installed

    Age 4

    The Los Angeles Gas Company installed 43 gas street lamps on Main Street. A lamplighter rode on horseback at dusk to light the streetlights. By 1873, 136 gas lamps had been installed in Los Angeles. 

    1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

    Age 20

    The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

    Name Meaning

    English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).

    English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

    English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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