Nancy Caroline Bailey

Brief Life History of Nancy Caroline

When Nancy Caroline Bailey was born on 20 December 1818, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Moses Freeman Bailey, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Davis, was 31. She married John L Chostner on 13 September 1838, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Bollinger, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 25 May 1878, at the age of 59, and was buried in Bailey Cemetery, Lorance Township, Bollinger, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

John L Chostner
1815–1878
Nancy Caroline Bailey
1818–1878
Marriage: 13 September 1838
James Monroe Chostner
1839–1895
Sarah E Chostner
1841–1874
Columbus Chostner
1843–1844
Henry Clay Chostner
1844–1845
Missouri Jane Chostner
1845–1912
Andrew Green Chostner
1848–1869
Moses Franklin Chostner
1851–1925
John Henry Chostner
1853–1919
Nancy Burnie Costner
1855–1929
Linus Phineas Chostner
1857–1857
William P Chostner
1859–1880

Sources (4)

  • Nancy C Cosner in household of John L Cosner, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Nancy Caroline Bailey - Published information: birth-name: Nancy Caroline Bailey
  • Nancy Caroline Bailey Chostner, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1830 · Trail of Tears

In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.

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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