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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- 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"
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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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