Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Bailey was born in December 1820, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, her father, William Braxton Bailey, was 23 and her mother, Nancy Gordon, was 20. She married Thomas Jefferson Pease on 16 November 1846, in Montgomery, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Beat 5, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Civil District 14, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died after 1900, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, and was buried in Vestal United Methodist Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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- Mary J Pease in household of Thos J Pease, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary J., "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Mary Jane Bailey, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1824 · "Mary Randolph Publishes ""The Virginia Housewife"""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
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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