James S Bailey (1817 - 1856)

Born 29 Jul 1817 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Tucker) Kenney — married 1849 in Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa

Died 16 Dec 1856 at age 39 in Deseret, Millard, Utah

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Biography

Private James Bailey served with the Iowa Volunteers during the Mexican-American War
Service Started: Jul 1846
Unit(s): Company A, Mormon Battalion
Service Ended: July 16, 1847

James Bailey was a Private in Company A. He completed the journey to California and was discharged at Los Angeles, July 16, 1847.^[1]

Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory on 16 July 1846, Mormon Battalion

PVT James Bailey, 29 Jul 1817, 28 years, unknown, unknown, Company A (Capt. Jefferson Hunt)

Excerpt from Biography of Mary Ann Tucker By Norma Bailey Hadlock, February 1, 1990

James was one of the Battalion members who stayed in California to work. He made bricks for a short time in San Francisco, in fact he was one of the first two men to make bricks in San Francisco. After gold was discovered James went to the gold fields, and from a list of the Battalion members who mined gold, James deposited the second highest amount of gold dust with Brigham Young. James returned to the Valley late in 1848 with the remainder of the Battalion members. He stayed in the Valley through the winter of 1848-1849. James was expected to return to the gold fields in California in 1849 with other members of the Battalion after the April Conference, but he couldn't have because the 1850 Census shows that he went back to Iowa, because he had returned to Utah in time to be in the Utah Census, and then we see he had apparently kept his commitment to return to California, because we find him in a Mormon Community on a list of tithepayers in Greenwood Valley (in or near the gold fields) listed as Baley (Bailey), James – MB.

Seventy Quorum Membership

Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

James Bailey

Gender Male

Relationship to Primary Person Self

Father Joshua Bailey

Mother Susannah

Birth Date 29 Jul 1817

Birth Place Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA

LDS Church Ordinance Data: Patriarchal Blessing Date: July 14, 1845 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Officiator: Smith, William

LDS Temple Ordinance Data : 1840 Baptism Temple: Provo, Utah, UT, USA Endowment Temple: Provo, Utah, UT, USA

Vocations: Brickmaker; San Francisco, CA, USA

Comments:

James was a private in Company "A" of the Mormon Battalion. Comments: #21. James :was one of 1st two persons to make brick in San Francisco, California.

Married Mary Ann Tucker about 1846

In 1850, James is a Brick Maker in Utah Territory^[2]

Children

1. James Watson Bailey 1850-1936 m) Nancy Ann Borreson

In 1856 James is in Provo City, Utah

He spent time in San Francisco, California doing work as a Brick Maker for the need of the Mormons which may have been after the Mormon Battalion discharged.

Death is recorded from the records of the Mormon Battalion as 16 Dec 1884

Name: James Bailey (#30 on the list)

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 29 Jul 1817

Birth Place: Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA

Death Date: 16 Dec 1884

Death Place: Deseret, Utah

Rank: Private

Company: A

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.mormonbattalion.info/mbt/person?id=30 Mexican War Service Records, 1846-1848; United States National Archives. Available from the LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, microfilm numbers 471,465, 471,517, and 471,518. Ancestral File, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
2. ↑ Ancestry Sharing Link 1850 Census.

• Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848

• 1850 United States Federal Census,Year: 1850; Census Place: Utah, Utah Territory; Roll: 919; Page: 143A, Original data:Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.(shareable view)

• Mormon Battalion Association, Roster of the Mormon Battalion (#30), http://www.mormonbattalion.com/Original_Battalion_Roster