Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Bailey was born on 26 January 1901, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John William Bailey, was 18 and his mother, Emma Virgin Blanford, was 21. He married Effie Montgomery on 23 August 1919, in Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in July 1973, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72.
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- William H Bailey, "United States Census, 1920"
- William H Bailey, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- William Bailey, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1904 · The Black Patch War
From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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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