William Parker Bailey

Brief Life History of William Parker

When William Parker Bailey was born on 3 December 1828, in Indiana, United States, his father, Wallace Marion Bailey, was 26 and his mother, Mary Patrick, was 21. He married Mary Elizabeth Whaley on 8 May 1855, in Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Southport, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 27 June 1888, in Greenwood, Pleasant Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, Pleasant Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Parker Bailey
1828–1888
Mary Elizabeth Whaley
1836–1888
Marriage: 8 May 1855
Joseph P. Bailey
1856–1886
Alice C. Bailey
about 1862–
William Simpson Bailey
about 1864–1929
Preston Barbour Bailey
1860–1941
John E. Bailey
1870–1917
Frank G Bailey
1872–1957
James Farrow Bailey
1876–1948

Sources (16)

  • William P Bailey, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: William Parker Bailey - Published information: birth-name: William P Bailey
  • William P Bailey, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1832

Historical Boundaries: 1832: Marion, Indiana, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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