Research Notes Dan Bailey, Chambers County, Alabama
Location: Chambers, Alabama, United States
Surname/tag: Bailey
Notes on Burton, Whittaker, and Bailey Families
(Personal note, Stonewall Whittaker and Carrie Bailey are Great Great Grandparents to the son of this researcher, through his paternal side.)
Jeff Burton had at least two children, Henrietta and Harriet. This is established through the the children's death records. Henrietta's death record shows her mothers name as "Eliga", but I suspect this could have been a transcription error for Eliza.
Henrietta Burton married Robert Whittaker. Robert was one of a set of at least three brothers, the other two being Amous and Stonewall. In 1900 the 13 year old Stonewall is living in the household of his older brother Amous.
Harriet Burton, sister of Henrietta, married Dan Bailey, and among the Bailey children was Carrie Bailey. Carrie Bailey, was therefore niece to Henrietta (Burton) Whittaker and husand Robert Whittaker.
It is easy to imagine that Stonewall Whittaker met Carrie Bailey though his older brothers. As it turned out, Stonewall married his older brother Robert's niece Carrie.
Saved 09 Aug 2014 by Karen Allman
Chetts S Bailey in entry for Dan W Bailey, 1930
- March 2013
When recently interviewing Doris (Heard) Harris, granddaughter of Carrie (Bailey) Whitaker, and great granddaughter of Dan Bailey, she spoke of the uncle she knew of as "Shef" (shown as Chetts on this census document). She asked me to be on the lookout for a Carrie Lee Bailey, whom she remembered as a possible daughter of Shef. She also spoke of an "uncle" Robert. After this record was located, she stated she remembered Ernest as well.
Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery
Note the abstracting author Cliff Murray descends from Dan Bailey through his son Ernest.
Note, the links in the copyright statement are causing errors, but as these statements still appear at the source they are being left as is.
Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery Author: Abrstracted by: Clifford Murray Note: Chambers County AlArchives Cemeteries.....Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Clifford Murray November 27, 2006, 11:00 pm
Abstracted By: Clifford Murray
4829 Veterans Memorial Pkwy Lanett, AL 36863
T21n R28e Sect 4
Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment
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- Williams Lizzie Feb 20, 1880 Oct 26, 1951
- Williams General Oct. 1, 1907 May 7, 1973
- Williams Daniel L Sep. 13 1940 Sep 14, 1973
- Williams Percy Nov 2, 1919 Dec 30, 1981 I n loving memory
- McCants Phoebie Jun 1, 1890 Jun 6, 1969
- McCants Nathan Jun 13, 1919 Jun 22, 1978 Cp l US Army World War II
- Winston Will Jan 18, 1896 Dec 31 1985
- Winston Hattie M Jul 17 1901 Aug 12 1982
- Burton Jimmie Homer Dec 27 1924 Mar 4 1981
- Burton William H Aug 16 1903 Apr 4 1964
- Burton Lissie Aug 28 1898 Mar 28 1954 Mother
- Burton James Howard Aug 15 1930 May 2 1988
- Burton James Howard Aug 15 1930 May 2 1988 PFC US Army Korea
- Burton Lura Mar 1 1913 Jan 14 1988 In Loving Memory Mother
- Bailey S B Mar 31 1886 Apr 11 1973
- Bailey Melvin Mar Nov 31 1959
- Bailey Isia H 1872 Oct 28 1936
- Bailey Randell Mar 15 1910 Feb 1960
- Bailey Harriett 1856 Jul 20 1928 Wife of Dan Bailey
- Bailey Dan Mar 16 1860 Jun 24 1937
- Burley Nora J 1895 1968
- Whittaker Carrie Apr 21 1893 Aug 13 1968
- Whittaker Stonewall Jul 4 1886 Aug 26 1926
- Williams Clara B Mar 4 1912 Oct 10 1983 Jim
- Williams Florida Mar 15 1895 Jan 7 1961
- Williams Minnie Kate Oct 11 1932 Sep 20 1979 Peggy
- Williams Earnest Dec 27 1915 Feb 14 1987 (Coke) In Loving Memory
- Williams Cora May 20 1877 Nov 13 1967 In Loving Memory Grandmother
- Williams Exer May 3 1897 Dec 24 1965
- Williams Thomas 1894 1967
- Williams Napoleon Mar 18 1879 Sep 2 1969
Additional Comments: This is not a comprehensive listing of all of the graves in the cemetery . Some graves are unmarked. Some markers are illegible, and some could not be read because of excessive plant growth. This survey was taken in 1991, and there have probably been new burials since.
File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/cemeteries/greenwoo107ncm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfile s/
File size: 3.5 Kb
Additional notes from this family researcher: While researching the Harris-Heard side of the family, I have been following the line of Ruth Whitaker, wife of Joe C. Heard. On Saturday, February 23, 2013 I interviewed Doris (Heard) Harris and Mattie (Heard) Brown. As described in the abstraction above, many of the tombstones were difficult to read. After this interview I have concluded that some were misread or transposed with respect to the Bailey and Whitaker family members shown above. Without sharing the above abstraction with her, Doris was able to recall that her Grandmother Carrie Whittaker was a Bailey, and that the Bailey's had a family plot at the Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery in Lanett, Alabama (the community she grew up in). In conversation with Doris and Mattie, they recall Carrie (Bailey) and Stonewall Whitakker's children as being: Ruth, Mary, Charlie, Gertrude, Roy, and Anna Maude or Annie Maude.
When provided the names of Dan Bailey and Harriet (?) Bailey as Ruth's parents, they confirmed this. They recall a Shef Bailey (with wife Minnie), and a Tom Bailey (with wife Lillie) as their uncles. (They also recalled a cousin Ophellia that was slightly older than their brother Joe born in 1927.) I reviewed the names shown above with Doris and Mattie. Doris stated she believed that Shef at times was referred to as S.B. within the family, and suspects the above is his grave. They did not recall the name of Milton Bailey, but wondered if this could be another transcription issue, and perhaps this could be Minnie his wife.
We have concluded that the above transcription for the date of death for Stonewall Whittaker is transposed/misread and should read 1965 rather than 1926. The reasons supporting this conclusion include, we have his 1930 Census where he is still living in Chambers County Alabama with his family. We have his Social Security Death Index record which matches with the date of birth shown above, July 4 though it shows 1889 rather than 1886.
Both Doris and Mattie recall their mother passing away before their father. Their mother Ruth as well as Mattie and youngest sister Wilhemina left Lannett in 1956 and came to Chicago to live with Doris. Doris recalled that she did not go back to Lanette for the burial (in the family plot) as this occurred just after she had her daughter Tracey. The records compiled in the "Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index" (FHL film number 1908975) support this memory. It shows Carrie (Bailey) Whittaker born about 1894 died August 13, 1962.
Their father had come north to be with family after the passing of his wife. His death in Chicago is reflected in the Cook County, Illinois Death Index, with original data from Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records, Cook County Clerk's Office in Chicago. It shows Stonewall Whitaker died October 26, 1965 in Cook County, IL (file number 674601). This correlates with his daughters' memory and the date of death on the Social Security Death index as October, 1965.
Date this note added to database: 24 FEB 2013
- 2014 upate: See findagrave, as pictures of many of these headstones were added by this researcher after a visit to the cemetery last summer.
1930 Chambers County intersection of Williams, Burton, Gunn and Whittaker
Finding Major Bailey
December 4, 2015 by Karen Allman
In July of 2015, at the Heard Family Reunion in Chicago, I was asked to fill a few minutes with stories from my family research. Here’s one as I told it to the family:
Major Bailey
We know from the 1870 census Major Bailey was born in 1810. This was 50 years before the election of Abraham Lincoln, and 50 years before the Civil War, and over 200 years before today.
We know we are related to him because we share DNA with another descendant of Major Bailey, Reginald Wright,and I have Reggie to thank for helping find the documents that allow me to tell this story.
The first record we have is an 1857 slave transaction showing Major came in to the “possession” of A.L. Bailey of Chambers County, Alabama. We have the 1860 Agricultural Census showing Alan Bailey is raising crops in Chambers County, Alabama near the Oak Brewery Post Office.
A few years later Emancipation came. We have the 1867 record of YOUR Major Bailey as a registered voter in Chambers County, Alabama. We have the 1870 Census record of Major and his family, living in Chambers County, Alabama, living near the Oak Brewery Post Office. We have no doubt this is your family. We also have the 1880 Agricultural Census of Chambers County, Alabama showing your Major raising crops, a portion of which he is paying in rent, and near by is his son Major Jr also raising crops right there in Chambers County, Alabama.
Thank you for letting me tell this story, and when you have the opportunity, please tell this story, and your own, to your next generation.
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Now what would I change, if I were to update this with what I’ve learned since then?
Finding Major Bailey, Part 2
Chambers County 1940 militia districts map
The referenced "Chambers County 1940 militia districts map" is being used as a point of reference for our early ancestors who were in Chambers County as early as 1870. [2]
Beautiful Cliff and the Records of Chambers County
December 6, 2015 by Karen Allman [3] Beautiful Cliff and the Records of Chambers County]
(follow the links to see the graphics that accompanied this text.)
Residence 1870 • Oak Bowery, Chambers, Alabama, United States Major Bailey 60 Susan Bailey 50 Major Bailey 16 Angelina Bailey 14 Randell Bailey 12 Daniel Bailey 10 Nick Bailey 8 Comfort Bailey 6 George Bailey 4
That was the primary record I had to work with for the family of Major Bailey (about 1810 – 1900) of Chambers County, Alabama, until I connected with Cousin Reggie.
Among the records he brought to my attention was this transcribed transaction, from Chambers County, Alabama.
Major in Slave Transaction from T E Owen to A L Bailey
After working with another DNA cousin who suggested our connection could be through the Jackson line, I looked through other transcribed records in the set and wondered about this one.
Susan in Slave Transaction of Jesse M Jackson
As I wondered “out loud” in some correspondence:
If the above is “our” Susan, the record does not indicate the receiver on this transaction. George may be the only child born in to the family post emancipation. We can infer with Reggie (of Major Jr’s line) and [Wille Joe, Mattie and Doris] all of Dan Bailey’s line that they wound up either together, or close enough to one another to continue having children together. ORRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr we are matching on the Jackson side of that union. Hmmm.
I would work on other things, and return to pondering that. And pondering whether there were older children I was unaware of. These were things I would correspond with Cliff and Reggie over. It forced me to go back and revisit those records. And then I saw it:
(warning, this link no longer works, but I have saved the data) http://www.aagsclev.org/intestsl-M-Z.htm#M
Chambers County, Alabama Slaves Listed By Names Compiled by Cliff Murray
These slaves were listed in the inventories of owners who’s property was appraised and processed through the Probate Court of Chambers County, Alabama between 1834 and 1866. The Inventory Records list the slaves along with the other “property” of the deceased, and the slaves are listed by name. Those records have been compiled and listed here alphabetically. The table can be sorted by clicking on the heading that you want to sort.
SOURCE: Inventory Records, Chambers County Probate Court, 1834 – 1866 Note: In 1992 this set of eight books was kept in the Extension Building of the Chambers County Courthouse, Lafayette, Alabama.
Mid-email I had to exclaim:
“CLIFF MURRAY, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL! I just noticed you were the one who took the time to transcribe and post these records.”
In recent weeks I’ve decided to copy and resort these records. The original presentation was by slave name to best help those trying to find kin. I wanted to see what it looked like sorted by slaveholder and transaction date. Here is the grouping associated with A L Bailey.
A L Bailey Transactions
OWEN T E was the “owner” associated with this set of transactions. When sorted by name I paid no mind to the occasional b surrounded by a lot of blanks in the gender column. But once I resorted, I could see in some sets of transactions there was the use of b=boy, g=girl, m=man, and w=woman. After having this in my collection for a number of months, the light bulb stared to go on. Major would have been over 45 at the time of the transaction. Although there were cultural issues in the south when addressing someone in person, these records were from wills and such when it would seem Major was far more likely to be a reference to Major Jr, a young boy at the time, and could that be his brother Daniel (our direct ancestor) also a young boy. Though most census records tend to show Major and Daniel had a brother Nick born in 1862, could “Dick” be Nick, and his age is off in the census? Or is this possibly an undiscovered brother or other relative? Cousin Cliff and I are now in agreement on the interpretation that this is Major Jr rather than Major Sr.
What else will we find as we ponder the records of Chambers County, Alabama?
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Research Notes Luvenia Hill
Saved 27 Dec 2017 by Karen Allman
Luvenia Hill is a direct ancestor of at least one of our DNA matches.
- Name: Green Hill
- Age in 1870: 47
- Birth Year: abt 1823
- Birthplace: Georgia
- Dwelling Number: 31
- Home in 1870: Beat 13, Chambers, Alabama
- Race: Black
- Gender: Male
- Occupation: Farm Laborer
- Cannot Read: Y
- Cannot Write: Y
- Male Citizen Over 21: Y
- Household Members:
- Name Age
- Green Hill 47
- Andrew Hill 23
- John Hill 21
- Lavinia Hill 17
- Chelts Hill 18
- Rueben Hill 14
- Alice Hill 10
In the household of this family is a Chelts Hill. Very similar to Chetts also spelled Shutze the name given to a son of Dan Bailey and Harriet Burton. Shutze is a brother to Willie Joe Heard's grandmother Carrie Bailey, and cousin Cliff's grandfather Ernest Bailey.
Dan Bailey was the son of Major Bailey, and brother to Major Bailey Jr. Major Bailey Jr had children with one daughter of Louisa Fredericks (Louisa being daughter of Penny) Fredricks (Tobitha) and married and had a family with a second daughter (Judy). They are in the household just below Green Hill, and continued on the next page.
There are complex relationships with other folks that can be seen on this 1870 census. I can't do it justice with just a brief summary here. More information is available in parts 1 - 5 of this entry in my Heard Family Research Blog. https://heardfamilyresearch.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/bailey-owen-lumpkin-hicks-connections-part-1/
From cousin Reggie: Tabitha Sherrell was married to a John Hill. John and Tabitha have at least three great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren via her daughter Iola Hill McCoy living in Lanett/ West Point area.
Bailey-Owen-Lumpkin-Hicks Connections Part 6
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