When Stephen Fredrick Hall Bailey was born on 5 July 1852, in Shelby, Alabama, United States, his father, John Ausburn Bailey, was 25 and his mother, Mary Annis Townley, was 27. He married Amanda Pauline Acton on 15 February 1874, in Shelby, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 25, Jefferson, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Motes, Winston, Alabama, United States in 1920. He died on 18 April 1929, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Croft Acton Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Jefferson, Alabama, United States [Spreads across Jefferson and Shelby counties]
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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