Minter Bailey Jr.
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Minter Bailey Jr. (1798 - 1866)

Minter Bailey Jr.
Born in , Fauquier County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 22 Dec 1829 (to Jul 1866) in , Lewis County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Died at age 68 in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, United Statesmap
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Biography

Minter was born on 16 Mar 1799 in Fauquier County, Virginia.[1] the sixth of ten known children and the fourth of five sons of son of Minter and Ann Norris Bailey.

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Marriage record for Minter Bailey and Sarah Bastable
On 22 December 1829, when he was thirty, Minter married Sarah Bastable (11 May 1804 - 28 Jan 1888)[2] in Lewis County, Virginia.[3]
She bore him eight known children, six sons and two daughters:
  1. Alexander Hamilton Bailey (1830-1830)[4]
  2. Douglas Moxley Bailey (1834-1903)
  3. Irving Bailey (1836-1870)[5]
  4. Lucy Stean Bailey (1838-1917)[6]
  5. Permelia Bailey (1840-1916)[7]
  6. Arthur Bailey M.D. ( - )[8]
  7. Clay Bailey ( - )[9]
  8. Alven Bailey (1850-1850)[10]
When he was about thirty he began operating a hotel. The first Bailey House was started in 1829 when Minter Bailey, Jr., and his wife took up residence in Weston and assumed charge of a hotel run by a Thomas Bland.[11]
Bailey House
This building fronted Main Street for 40 feet and had a wing that ran back along Second Street for forty feet. It was 2 stories high and of log and frame construction. Mr Bailey and his wife were very popular hosts, and their liberality was proverbial: No minister was ever charged for any service and no poor and needy person was ever turned away. He was a born and urbane host.[12] At one point he hired young Thomas (later “Stonewall” Jackson to work in the hotel.[13][14]

1840 census

Minter J Bailey appears in the 1840 United States Federal Census as a person engaged in agriculture, living in a household of four persons, himself, his wife, and two daughters under five.
Name: Minter J Bailey; Home in 1840, Lewis County, Virginia.
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2; 20-29: 1.
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1.
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 4.[15]

1850 census

Minter Bailey appears in the 1850 United States Federal Census as a 50-year-old landlord with $8000 in real property, living with his wife, Sarah, and four children, two sons and two daughters, and 5 female roomers, ages 18-72, and 18 male roomers, ages 20-60.

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1850 census for Minter Bailey, Jr
Name: Minter Bailey; Age: 50; Birth Year: c1800; Birthplace: Virginia; Home in 1850: District 30, Lewis County, Virginia; Gender: Male; Family Number: 1397.
Household Members: Name Age
Minter Bailey 50
Sarah Bailey 45
Douglass Bailey 16
Irving Bailey 14
Lucy S Bailey 12
Matilda Bailey 10.[16]
By 1850 he was also the owner of six slaves, four males and two females.[17]
In 1856 he was a founder and president of board of trustees of the Western Virginia Hospital for the Insane (Sometimes known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum), in Weston.[18]
Minter Bailey, Jr. was one of the founders of Weston State Hospital
In 1860 he reported $37.492 in real and $16,300 in personal property.[19]

Camden, associate of Minter Bailey's

This may be the Camden who was a close friend and business associate of MB's (they--or another Camden and MB-- engaged in some land deal that was deemed somewhat scandalous by some people):[20]
'"JUDGE GIDEON D. CAMDON--DECEASED."'
The judges of the various courts established in Harrison County, West Virginia, have always been noted for their character and ability, and one of the most popular of the many worthy men elevated to the bench in this county, was Judge Gideon D. Camdon. Mr. Camdon comes of English stock and is a descendant of one of the first families of Virginia. He was born in August, 1804, and died, after a long and useful life, April 22, 1891. He was the son of Henry and Mary (Sprigg) Camdon, natives of Virginia. The father was a Methodist Episcopal minister of Virginia, and his circuit extended over a wide stretch of country. Judge Camdon's early life was passed in Lewis County, West Virginia, where he married and reared the following children: Eliza; Martha M., now Mrs. Summers; Gideon D.; John A., and Dora, now Mrs. Ramsburg. The two now living are Mrs. Ramsburg and Mrs. Summers. The Judge came to Clarksburg in 1834, studied law and at an early date became associated with Judge Allen. He became one of the most prominent men of the county and held many of the most important offices of the same. In 1850, he was elected to the State Legislature of Virginia, afterward Judge of the Circuit Court, and came within one vote of being elected United States Senator. At one time he was a Whig in politics, but subsequently became identified with the Democratic party, with which he remained until his death. He became a large land owner and a wealthy citizen.

Death and burial

On 30 July 1866, Minter died of unknown causes at the age of sixty-seven, in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia,[21] and is buried in Machpelah Cemetery in Weston.

From Findagrave.com

Minter Bailey
Birth: 16 Mar 1798 Fauquier County, Virginia, USA; Death: 30 Jul 1866 (aged 68) Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA; Burial: Machpelah Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA. Memorial #: 100016194.
Family Members: Parents: Minter Bailey (1763-1833); Spouse: Sarah Bastable Bailey (1804-1888); Siblings: William Bailey (1796-1849), John Bailey (1809-1849); Children: Alvin M. Bailey (1832-1837), Douglas Moxley Bailey (1834-1903), Granville Irving Bailey (1836-1870), Lucy Stein Bailey Tunstill (1838-1917), Permelia Matilda Bailey Ralston (1840-1916).[22]

Citations

  1. Jackson, P.A. notes; trans Jane Kimble, Jackson Ledger (1887; Copy of P.A. Jackson's Notes,; www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com (2005)), 72.
  2. Balow, Barry, "murdock past and present" (RootsWeb URL: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:39407&id=I4948873. Last updated 25 Aug 2001), ID: I4948873 Name: Sarah (Sallie) BASTABLE. Repository: RootsWeb.ancestry.com.
  3. Balow, Barry, "murdock past and present" (RootsWeb http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:39407&id=I4948873 Last updated 25 Aug 2001), http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:39407&id=I4948873. Repository: RootsWeb.ancestry.com. .... Balow, Barry, "murdock past and present" (RootsWeb http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:39407&id=I4948873 Last updated 25 Aug 2001), ID: I4948873 Name: Sarah (Sallie) BASTABLE. Repository: RootsWeb.ancestry.com. .... Anon, Our Family History (http://pasttracker.com/gentree/login.php), Douglas Moxley Bailey. Repository: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding. http://pasttracker.com/gentree/getperson.php?personID=I4950&tree=norris.
  4. McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
  5. Kimble, Janie Jackson, www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com. URL: http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg54.htm#116.
  6. Jackson, P.A. notes; trans Jane Kimble, Jackson Ledger (1887; Copy of P.A. Jackson's Notes,; www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com (2005)), 72-73. .... McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection. Morgantown, WV
  7. McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
  8. McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
  9. McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
  10. McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
  11. Hickman, Addie, "Re: [HCPD] Minter Bailey, Sr. & Jr.(Lillian & Addie)" (Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:10:59 - 0500), Minter Bailey. Repository: archiver. rootsweb.ancestry.com. URL: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/HCPD/2000-04/0954731459.
  12. Smith, History of Lewis County, p 185
  13. Cook, Hist of Old Bailey House, p 3.
  14. Souvenir of Weston has a picture of the second Bailey House; Lewis County History Souvenir Book, 1817-1967, has an article and a picture of the first Bailey House, pp 22-23; Cook, History the of Old Bailey House, p3 has a picture of Minter Bailey, Jr.
  15. 1840 Census, Lewis County, Virginia; Roll 566, Page 158, Image 53 of 94, Family History Library Film 0029689, Ancestry.com. Transcription URL: https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=vXO48&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&qh=4XMzpG4fwNdnUQVzcY%2BPwA%3D%3D&db=1840usfedcenancestry&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=minter&gsfn_x=0&gsln=bailey&gsln_x=0&msrpn__ftp=Virginia,%20USA&msrpn=49&msrpn_x=1&msrpn__ftp_x=1&MSAV=1&uidh=mpf&pcat=USFEDCEN&fh=0&h=3525458&recoff=&ml_rpos=1&queryId=989a9950eb069f3ff4b72b11ddce3549 Image URL: https://www.ancestryheritagequest.com/interactive/8057/4409705_00320?pid=3525458&backurl=https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DvXO48%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26qh%3D4XMzpG4fwNdnUQVzcY%252BPwA%253D%253D%26db%3D1840usfedcenancestry%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3Dminter%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dbailey%26gsln_x%3D0%26msrpn__ftp%3DVirginia,%2520USA%26msrpn%3D49%26msrpn_x%3D1%26msrpn__ftp_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dmpf%26pcat%3DUSFEDCEN%26fh%3D0%26h%3D3525458%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D1%26queryId%3D989a9950eb069f3ff4b72b11ddce3549&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=989a9950eb069f3ff4b72b11ddce3549&usePUB=true&_phsrc=vXO48&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Accessed 14 Apr 2020.
  16. 1850 Census, District 30, Lewis County, Virginia; Roll M432_956, Page 102B, Image 210 (204 of 231), Ancestry.com. Transcription URL: https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Wwz979&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=1850usfedcenancestry&qh=xQwv%2BXg2%2BUYvaLxG0l/bzg%3D%3D&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=minter&gsfn_x=0&gsln=bailey&gsln_x=0&msbdy=1798&msbpn__ftp=Virginia,%20USA&msbpn=49&msrpn__ftp=Virginia,%20USA&msrpn=49&msrpn_x=1&msrpn__ftp_x=1&MSAV=1&uidh=mpf&MSV=1&pcat=USFEDCEN&fh=0&h=15235099&recoff=&ml_rpos=1. Image URL: https://www.ancestryheritagequest.com/interactive/8054/4206378_00210?pid=15235099&backurl=https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DWwz979%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26db%3D1850usfedcenancestry%26qh%3DxQwv%252BXg2%252BUYvaLxG0l/bzg%253D%253D%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3Dminter%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dbailey%26gsln_x%3D0%26msbdy%3D1798%26msbpn__ftp%3DVirginia,%2520USA%26msbpn%3D49%26msrpn__ftp%3DVirginia,%2520USA%26msrpn%3D49%26msrpn_x%3D1%26msrpn__ftp_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dmpf%26MSV%3D1%26pcat%3DUSFEDCEN%26fh%3D0%26h%3D15235099%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Wwz979&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Accessed 10 Feb 2019.
  17. US Bureau of the Census, 1850 Census Slave Schedules AncHerQu, Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004, image 4 of 5.Virginia, Lewis County, Dist 30, no page #s, col 1 n 2. Repository: ancestryheritagequest, URL: http://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=CLY47&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db= 1850slaveschedules&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=absalom&gsfn_x=0&gsln=beatie&gsln_x=NP&msrpn__ftp=Washington% 20County,%20Virginia,%20USA&m.
  18. Smith, p 327.
  19. US Bureau of the Census, 1860 Census VA LEWIS Weston AncHerQu (1860 Census VA LEWIS Weston - HerQu M653 R1358 http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?surname=Bailey&givenname=minter&series=8&hitcount= 5&p=1&urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B9161488%3B56174642%3B8%3B11&searchtype=1&offset=1), p185-186, lines 15-40, 1- 14, Dw 1240, Fam 1240, Minter Bailey household. Repository: ancestryheritagequest, Call Number: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?surname=Bailey&givenname=minter&series=8&hitcount= 5&p=1&urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B9161488%3B56174642%3B8%3B11&searchtype=1&offset=1.
  20. Anon., A REMINISCENT HISTORY OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA (1895), pp 635-36.
  21. Balow, Barry, "murdock past and present" (RootsWeb URL: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:39407&id=I4948873 Last updated 25 Aug 2001), ID: I4948714 Name: Ann Nancy NORRIS. Repository: RootsWeb.ancestry.com.
  22. Sharon (47342597), “Minter Bailey,” Findagrave.com. Record added 1 Nov 2012. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100016194#. Accessed 14 March 2018.

Acknowledgments

Sources

  • Jackson, P.A. notes; trans Jane Kimble, Jackson Ledger (1887; Copy of P.A. Jackson's Notes, URL: www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com (2005).
  • Jeffrey C. Weaver, Saltville, Virginia. "New River Valley Historical Notes." Database and images. New River Notes. URL: http://www.newrivernotes.com/nrv.htm : ©, 1998-2005; Last update 17 February 2006.
  • McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection, Morgantown, WV 9/R99D). Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.




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