Re: Looking for parents of Andrew Burton Bailey
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In reply to:
Looking for parents of Andrew Burton Bailey
5/03/11
Hi,
I've also spent a great deal of time looking for the parents of Andrew Burton Bailey.He is my 2nd great grandfather. His grandson, Clarence Bailey, was my grandpa.
I recently had two breakthroughs in this search.First, I found Burton Bailey listed in the Jackson Alexander family tree on ancestry.com.There, I found a newspaper clipping that described his mother's horrible death when he was very young, and a picture that includes his sisters, Alice Bailey and Sarah Bailey, at an Alexander family reunion. There maiden name in these pictures was listed as Bailey.And I found a picture of Sarah and Alice Bailey with their Alexander step-brothers (again their names were listed as "Bailey") After this I found an Alexander family post on Joyce Tice's website describing how Jackson Alexander married two sets of sisters.I don't remember the names of the first set, but the second set were Margaret Delight Wiggins and Abigail Wiggins.According to the post on Joyce's site, three of the four wives died before Jackson was 30.
Abigail outlived him. She died in 1912, and Burton Bailey is listed in the newspaper clipping obit as her son.However, I believe (99.7% sure) he was actually the son of her deceased sister Margaret who, according to the newspaper clipping about her death (Mrs. Alexander) left three very small children.In the Alexander ancestry.com listing, Margaret is married to a "Mr. Bailey" before she married Jackson Alexander.
Here is my transcription of the newspaper clipping describing Margaret Wiggins Bailey Alexander's death(scanned by alexander_glenn on ancestry.com):
>>>Distressing Casualty
On Wednesday last, the wife of Mr. Jackson Alexander, of Burlington township, was so badly burned by her dress taking fire that she lingered in great agony until next morning, when death released her from her sufferings.The accident occurred by her dress coming in contact with the stove, as she was passing it and igniting.She was alone, with three small children, and the youngest, frightened at her efforts to subdue the flames, clung to her. -- With a mother's devotion she placed the child outside the door, before looking to her own safety.In the meantime she was horribly burned.When assistance arrived she was found outside the door wrapped up in a blanket.
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My second breakthrough was I was able to request the marriage license application for when Andrew Burton Bailey remarried at the age of 69 in 1922.Bradford County sent me a copy of this and it lists his mother as Abigail Wiggins and his father as Andrew Bailey Sr.
There is a LOT of information on ancestry sites about the Wiggins family!:-)
However knowing that Andrew's father's name was Andrew does not appear to get me any closer to finding him.There are a couple of possibilities in the 1850 census in Bradford county, and one of them (the son of a Joshua Bailey) doesn't seem to have any more records after that 1850 census, but that doesn't really mean anything.The mysterious Andrew Bailey Sr. might have dropped in from Timbucktoo for all I know.I'm just happy to finally know his name.I've been looking for him off and on for over ten years.
I would be delighted to send you images and or scans of any of these proofs, pics, or other information.And please, if you have found any more information about Andrew Bailey Sr. please let me know.