James M. Bailey

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c1832

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"James M. Bailey" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00014698, (accessed December 29, 2024).

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Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Son of W. B. Bailey and Eliza J. Bailey. Married to Mary A. Frost Bailey in Graves County, Kentucky, on September 28, 1859. Father of Emily Bailey, John Bailey, and James Bailey. Farmer in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Served in the Paducah Battalion, 1st Regiment Capital Guards (U.S.A.), as a private from June 21, 1864, to Feb 12, 1865. Accused of murdering pro-Confederates William "Bill" Sherfield and Buck Smith with his brother Lewis H. Bailey in Graves County in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 438B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 261.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Dublin Precinct, p. 40A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994035, Graves County Marriages, p. 109-110.
"Later from Richmond--Jeff. Davis Very Ill with No Hopes of His Recovery," Chicago Tribune, (IL), September 4, 1861, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/466163355.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 765.

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