Hugh SPARLING (1896- )

1 Hugh SPARLING^1,2,3 (1896- ) [7932]. Born 18 Oct 1896, PA.^1,2,3

2 Stephen A. SPARLING^1,2,4 (1859-1944) [7819]. Born Dec 1859.¹ Marr Ellena L. BAILEY c. 1887.¹ Died 15 Sep 1944, Mansfield, PA.⁵ Buried 18 Sep 1944, Cherryflats Cemetery.⁵

From the Wellsboro Agitator.

September, 20, 1944 - "Stephen A. Sparling, aged 84 years, of Mansfield, died Friday, Sept 15, at his home. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Lena Bailey Sparling; three sons, Ward, Leonard, Hugh, all of Mansfield, R.D.; and two daughters, Mrs. Lidah Hubbard, and Mrs Cass Lamphier, of Mansfield; 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services were held Monday at the home; burial in the Cherryflats cemetery.".

3 Ellena L. BAILEY^2,6,7 (1862-1956) [6400]. Born 1862.^1,6,8 Died 1956.⁸

6 William A. BAILEY⁹ (1825-1909) [6197]. Born 11 Nov 1825, Rutland Twp., PA.^4,9 Marr Sarah L. BAILEY bef 1853.¹⁰ Marr Lydia J. HOTCHKISS 12 May 1860, Mainsburg, PA.¹¹ Died 7 May 1909, Elk Run, PA.⁴ Cause: Pneumonia. Buried 9 May 1909, Cherryflats Cemetery.⁴

From the Wellsboro Agitator.

November 13, 1907 - " Enjoyable Birthday Party

Mr. and Mrs. Elmiron Bailey and daughter, Helen, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grosjean, attended a pleasant surprise party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Bailey in Covington, on Monday, given in honor of Mr. Bailey's 82nd birthday. Among the thirty-five relatives and friends who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ford and family, Miss Mary Bailey and Lloyd and Clyde Simerson, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson, Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson, Stephan Sparling and family.
A bountiful dinner was served. Mr. Bailey is one of the oldest and most highly esteemed citizens of Covington. He enjoyed the day as well as did his 21 grandchildren and the happy day will be long remembered by his many friends and relatives. Mr. Bailey was presented with a gold watch."

May 12, 1909 - "DOUBLE FUNERAL SUNDAY.
Father and daughter Died of Pneumonia - Burial Sunday.
Mr. William A. Bailey, aged 83, died at this home on Elk Run, about two miles below Cherryflats, at 10 o'clock last Friday morning, of pneumonia, after a week's illness. He caught cold during the recent severe storm and a few days afterward pneumonia developed.
Mr. Bailey was a son of Sylvester Bailey, deceased, one of the pioneers of Rutland township and he was born in Rutland on November 11, 1825.
He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Bailey, a daughter of the late Clark W. Bailey She died about 52 years ago. To them was born one daughter, Mary, who died of pneumonia at her father's home at 12:30 o'clock on Saturday morning last, May 8, after a very short illness, aged 58 years. She was born in Charleston on December 8, 1850. She was a member of the Cherryflats Methodist church and was a woman of many beautiful traits of character.
Mr. Bailey's second wife who was Miss Lydia Hotchkiss, is dangerously ill with pneumonia. Of their four children, three are surviving - E.H. Bailey, of Delmar; Mrs. Stephen Sparling, of Richmond, and Mrs. D.H. Ford, of Covington. Their other daughter, Laura, wife of Mr. Lafayette Simmerson of Covington, died about two years ago.
Two sisters and one brother also survive Mr. Bailey - Mrs. Lucy Aylesworth, wife of William Aylesworth, of Blossburg, Mrs Abigail Burnside, of Covington, and Mrs. Constant Bailey, of Wellsboro.
Mr. Bailey was a member of the Cherryflats M E church and of Aurora Grange, No. 874, of Cherryflats. He was one of the substantial and respected citizens of the vicinity in which he resided for so many years and his death is mourned by a host of friends. He was a veteran of the Civil war.
The funeral was held on Sunday at 2 p.m., and services were largely attended. Rev, J.E. Tallant officiating; burial on the Cherryflats cemetery.".

12 Sylvester BAILEY^12,13 (aft1794-1851) [3508]. Born btw 1794 and 1801, CT.^12,14,15,16 Marr Mary Polly WELCH bef 1820.¹⁴ Marr Mercy NEWBERRY c. 1851.⁹ Died 19 Nov 1851, Sullivan Twp., Tioga, PA.^12,14,15

From the Wellsboro Gazette:

" FLASHBACKS; Wednesday, Feb. 26,1992 By: Phyllis Swinsick
A MAN CALLED VET
In the early history of our country the American government purchased land from the Iroquois Indians, including the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, for about $25,000, most of it in trade goods, and soon settlers made their way into the region of Tioga, many arriving from New England. They were a hardy
lot of skilled and adventuresome woodsmen looking for a new frontier. It was a wild and woolly land of dense forests, rugged terrain and many wiid animals, dangerous to the new residents and their live-stock but necessary as a means of survival for their hides, meat, horns, sinew and tallow. It was
land that the legendary hunter Philip Tome of Pine Creek fame called a "howling wilderness."

One of the most memorable of the incoming pioneers. Noted for his endurance and remarkable hunting skill, was a man named Sylvester Bailey, born in Connecticut in 1797, who came riding into the Tioga valley with his parents when he was eight years old. Despite his youth, he rode all the way on a pony, his rifle in hand, and honed his hunting proficiency during the long and hazardous journey over the Catskills, the Delaware and Armenia mountains to the mouth of Mill Creek where the family settled.

Known by the nickname of Vet, he was a sturdy lad, fearless and self reliant By the time he was 12, he had killed 100 dear, his first panther and had cornered a bear in the family pig pen, winning that combat while his mother held a light. He roamed the mountains barefooted in his search for game,
warming his feet occasionally by pulling off his cap and stepping into it. Bailey eventually married Mary Welch, by whom he had seven children and established a home in Rutland. In 1831 he built a grist mill in Chandlerburg in Bailey Hollow, later sold to Moses Crawford. But in addition to his business
he continued his hunting expeditions.

One time he set traps near the Present town of Mansfield- The next day he discovered a trap missing and followed the trail to a mammoth white pine hollow log He cut a club six-feet long, entered the log poking at the animal holed up there, a she-wolf. The wolf. cornered and enraged, bit off the club leaving the hunter with a stick only two feet long. according to legend. Bailey backed out, revised his
strategy, stopped up the opening with logs and stones and chopped a hole where the wolf crouched. He captured her ladyship alive along with seven little wolves, muzzled and tied up the mother, fastened the pups together, gathered up the whole kit and caboodle and started for home, a distance of eight miles. The mother wolf, frantically struggling, succeeded in seizing Bailey by the scalp, tearing his hair and skin loose from the top of his head. Despite his condition and blinded by blood, he retied the wolf and finally reached home where his wife replaced his scalp with 90 stitches to complete
the patch work. He put a handkerchief on his head and the next day continued his usual duties. The mother wolf and two of her pups became completely tame and followed him wherever he went.

Bailey was an expert tracker and wrestled bears, trapped wolves, shot elk and panthers and small game by the hundreds as he roamed the woods He was also a deadeye sharpshooter, and one time he and a long-time friend, Apollis Pitts, and others were returning from a rip-roaring logging bee when
the subject of marksmanship came up In a spasm of derring-do, Bailey placed an apple on his friend's head and shattered the object from a distance of six rods. A friend indeed! In 1836, Bailey erected a sawmill on Elk Run and, along with his frequent hunting trips, operated it until his death in 1852

Wayne Bailey, of Covington, is the great-great grandson of Sylvester Bailey and the above story is only a part of a testimonial account by the hunter's family, neighbors and the news, given to Wayne in the 1960s by a Bailey relative, Mildred Bryant of Mansfield. He also has a powder horn, carved
with the picture of a deer and the initials S. B. and dated 1818.

There are forty Bailey households listed in the 1992 Tioga County telephone directory and it seems certain, given the number of his progeny and the proliferation of succeeding generations, that many of them are descended from this intrepid pioneer Perhaps they are unaware that such an indomitable and legendary hunter is a branch on the Bailey family tree - this man called Vet."

History of Tioga County, Pa., 1897:

In 1822 or 1823 William Rose erected a distillery at Roseville, which he operated eight or ten years. In 1825 Sylvanus Benson, Hosea Howland and Barrett Clark, each had one-third interest in a saw-mill on Mill Creek, in the eastern part of the township. About 1836 Sylvester Bailey, erected a saw-mill on Elk Run near the Sullivan township line. This he operated until his death about 1852.

13 Mary Polly WELCH¹² (1797-1851) [3509]. Born 1797, VT.^12,14 Died 27 Dec 1851, Sullivan Two., Tioga, PA.¹² Buried 1851, Bailey Family Cemetery, Rutland Township, Tioga County PA.¹⁴

Excerpted from: Lura DICKINSON & Nathaniel WELCH Family of Sullivan Township
Joyce M. Tice's Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project

Mary Welch was born in Vermont 1797. Polly died 1851 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at age 54. Her body was interred 1851 in Bailey Family Cemetery, Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. I visited this site Autumn 1993 with Joan NASH O'Dell. The grave sites are full of woodchuck holes, the stones are lying down, broken, partially buried. No doubt, there are other stones here that are not identifiable. This is at the top of the hill in the pasture across the road from the house, actually in Rutland Township within a few feet of the Sullivan township line. She married Sylvester Bailey BEF 1820. I find no households in the 1820 census index labelled Sylvester Bailey.
Vet was born 1801 in Connecticut. Vet was the son of Constant Bailey and Abigail Unknown (Bailey). He married Mercy Newberry 1851. Vet died 1851 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at age 50. Historical Note: . Mill History in Sullivan Township: "In 1819 John Gray erected a saw mill at Gray's Valley, on Elk Run. He operated until 1832. It had a number of owners. In 1838 Albert Dewey erected a saw-mill in the eastern part of the township, which he and George Dewey operated for a number of years. William Young, another early mill owner, built a mill about 1832 below Mainesburg on Corey Creek, near the Richmond township line. In 1844 Valorus O. Spencer erected a mill above Mainesburg. Other early mill owners and lumbermen were: Stephen Palmer, who ran a mill in the eastern part of the township; Peleg Doud, who erected one on the South fork of Corey creek, on what is now the George Ross farm, and Sylvester Bailey, who erected one in Bailey Hollow. All these mills were run by water power, the flutter wheel being the one generally used. They have passed out of existence, except the mill near the State Road, now operated by Edward Dewey.
Vet was listed as the head of a family on the 1830 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Historical Note: . "In 1831 Sylvester Bailey erected a water-power grist-mill in Bailey Hollow, near Chandlersburg. About 1840 he sold it to Moses Crawford who operated it for a number of years. It shut down about twenty years ago, O. W. Palmer being the owner at the time."
Vet was listed as the head of a family on the 1840 Census in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. In the Census of 1850, Vet was listed as a head of household in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Vet had his will probated 22 DEC 1851 in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Adm. Moses Crawford. Later others appointed, Wm. A. Clark, Benjamin. W. Bailey. The Bailey property was on the boundary of Sullivan and Rutland Townships. Rutland was formed from Sullivan in 1829.
According to records of Jeanette Bailey (Rose), Sylvester had two children by mistress, Mercy Newberry, names Butler and Lafayette. Mercy lived with Sylvester's household in 1850 census. She may have been brought to the household as a "hired girl" which was the term used at the time for household employees. Mary died in 1851 and Sylvester in 1852.

7 Lydia J. HOTCHKISS⁶ (c. 1836- ) [6398]. Born c. 1836.¹⁷

Sources

1	"1900 Tioga, Covington census".

2	"1910 Tioga, Richmond census".

3	"WWI Selective Service registration card".

4	"Obituary of William A. Bailey and Mary Bailey in the Wellsboro Agitator, May 12, 1909".

5	"Obituary of Stephen A. Sparling in the Wellsboro Agitator, September 20, 1944".

6	"1880 Tioga Co., Covington census.".

7	"Obituary of Josephine Ford in the Wellsboro Agitator, September 27, 1950".

8	"Cherry Flats Methodist Cemetery records".

9	"Information provided by Jonathan Milligan".

10	"Dartt Settlement, Pioneer Cemetery record.".

11	"Wedding announcemenrt of William A. Bailey and Lydia J. Hotchkiss in the Tioga County Agitator, May 24, 1860.".

12	"Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors".

13	"1850 Tioga Co., Rutland census".

14	"Information provided by Joyce M. Tice, Tioga County, PA researcher".

15	"From Bailey Family Cemetery - Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project".

16	"Birth date of Sylvester Bailey in the Elmira Sunday Advertiser, June 27, 1886".

17	"1910 PA, Covington census".