Brief Life History of Obadiah Geer
When Obadiah Geer Bailey was born on 14 September 1810, in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Capt. Amos Bailey, was 33 and his mother, Prudence Geer, was 41. He married Annis Palmer on 22 November 1832, in Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 16 February 1896, in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Obadiah Bailey in household of Amos Bailey, "United States Census, 1850"
- Obadiah Bailey, "Find A Grave Index"
- Obadiah Bailey, "United States Census, 1870"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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