When Thomas William Bailey was born on 8 February 1882, in Kingswood, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Albert Ralph Bailey, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Crates, was 22. He married Mary Elizabeth Taylor on 16 June 1905, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Calls Fort, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 26 June 1938, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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.
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