J Ross Bailey

Brief Life History of J Ross

When J Ross Bailey was born in November 1883, in Smith, Texas, United States, his father, John Bennett Bailey, was 28 and his mother, Emily "Emma" Jane Copeland, was 25. He married Lena Jeffries in 1906, in Travis, Texas, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Mitchell, Texas, United States in 1900 and Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died on 9 June 1917, at the age of 33, and was buried in Lindale, Smith, Texas, United States.

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J Ross Bailey
1883–1917
Lena Jeffries
1887–
Marriage: 1906

Sources (8)

  • Ross J Bailey, "United States Census, 1910"
  • J. Ross Bailey, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
  • J. Ross Bailey, "BillionGraves Index"

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1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1889

The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

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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