Possible Reconstruction of Phineas Bailey’s Family Tree1
[Richard] Bailey __ m. __ Native or African maiden
1747-1799
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Willis [William] Bailey2,3 ,4, 5 ____ m. ____ Delia Webster (21 children)6, 7, 8
________1800-1867___________________|_____________1826-1910________
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Phineas Adolphus Sip William Edmund Abe Seth Major
et al.
Figure 3. Possible Reconstruction of Phineas Bailey’s Family Tree.
The presence of William Bailey in Baldwin County from the 1830 Census forward signifies that there was at least one other son of Richard Bailey, banned trader, residing in Mississippi Territory. This William Bailey and his children were probably well known to Origin S. Holmes and his associates, also residents of Baldwin County. As the eldest son, Phineas Bailey would have inherited William Bailey’s estate. Was that the hidden treasure?
1Elizabeth Shown Mills, Editor, Reassembling Female Lives, A Special Issue of the Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 88, Number 3, September 2000.
21830 US Census; Census Place:, Baldwin, Alabama; Page: 24; NARA Series: M19; Roll Number: 2; Family History Film: 0002329.
3Year: 1840; Census Place: Baldwin, Alabama; Roll: 1; Page: 86; Image: 178; Family History Library Film: 0002332
4“Alabama, State Census, 1855,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V6PB-5Q8 : accessed 03 Mar 2014), Willis Bailey, 1855.
5Bailey and Webster are Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee surnames, according to the Dawes Rolls, Final Rolls, at accessgenealogy.com. Accessed: November 2013.
6“United States Census, 1880,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4N1-X4G : accessed 03 Mar 2014), Delia Grant in household of Saml. Grant, Court House, Baldwin, Alabama, United States; citing sheet 194D, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T9-0001
7“United States Census, 1900,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9DN-PWY : accessed 03 Mar 2014), Delia Grant in household of Joseph Grant, Mobile city Ward 7, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing sheet , family 786, NARA microfilm publication T623, FHL microfilm 1240032.
8“Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTWT-LTT : accessed 03 Mar 2014), Sam Grant and Delia Webster, 1869.