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Submitted: 7/8/15 • Approved: 7/9/15 • Last Updated: 3/31/18 • R773289-G773289-S3
Bailey
Feb. 22, 1838
Sep. 29, 1927
Parents: Jefferson Homsley and Lucy Jane Bishop
Sarah
Jul. 31, 1847
Sep. 25, 1911
Bailey was born in Warren County, Missouri, February 22, 1838, left home when he was 14, and traveled widely with many colorful adventures. Remarkably surviving the Oregon Trail, Bailey explored many of the western states, mined for gold in California, freighted in Montana, and fought at the age of sixteen in the Indian Wars with the Oregon Mounted Volunteers. He then traveled by boat via Cape Horn before returning to Warren County, Missouri. He married Sarah Winfred Giles on October 03, 1867. genealogytraces.blogspot.com/2014/04/bailey-anderton-homsley.html
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