Ora BAILEY (1880- )

1 Ora B. BAILEY^1,2,3 (1880- ) [9882]. Born 1880, East Charleston, PA.¹ Marr Fred Gallagher MALTBY 26 Jan 1902, Naples, Ontario, NY.^1,4

2 Butler B. BAILEY^1,5 (1846-1892) [6097]. Born 22 Feb 1846.⁵ Marr Emma THOMAS 27 Apr 1873, East Charleston, PA.⁶ Died 18 Feb 1892.⁵ Buried Lewis Farm Cemetery, Covington Twp., Tioga Co., PA.⁵

American Civil War Soldiers Record

Name: Butler Bailey
Enlistment Date: 29 September 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Pennsylvania
Unit Numbers: 2016 2016
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 29 September 1862. Enlisted in Company D, 16th Cavalry Regiment Pennsylvania on 29 September 1862. Promoted to Full Corporal on 01 January 1865 effective 01 January 1865. Discharged Company D, 16th Cavalry Regiment Pennsylvania on 17 June 1865.

4 Sylvester BAILEY^7,8 (aft1794-1851) [3508]. Born btw 1794 and 1801, CT.^7,9,10,11 Marr Mary Polly WELCH bef 1820.⁹ Marr Mercy NEWBERRY c. 1851.¹² Died 19 Nov 1851, Sullivan Twp., Tioga, PA.^7,9,10

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.

8 Constant BAILEY⁷ (1777-1843) [727]. Born 27 Jan 1777, Haddam, Middlesex, MA.⁷ Marr Abigail ? bef 1801.⁷ Died 30 Jan 1843, Sullivan Twp., Tioga, PA.^7,10 Buried Feb 1843, Bailey Family Cemetery, Rutland Twp, Tioga, PA.⁷

From the Tioga Eagle.

January 29, 1945 - "REGISTER'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested, that Moses Crawford, Administrator of Constant Bailey, deceased, has settled and filed in the Register's Office, in and for Tioga county, his account taken upon the estate of the said deceased - that the said account will be resented to the Orphan's Court for confirmation and allowance, on Monday, February 17, 1845 at the Court House in Wellsboro. LUMAN WILSON, Register. Register's Office. Wellsboro, Jan. 13, 1845.".

9 Abigail ?⁷ (1776-1851) [3505]. Born 26 Apr 1776.⁷ Died 14 Nov 1851, Sullivan Twp., Tioga, PA.^7,10 Buried Nov 1851, Bailey Family Cemetery, Rutland Twp, Tioga, PA.⁷

5 Mercy NEWBERRY¹² ( - ) [6198].

3 Emma THOMAS^1,13 ( - ) [9881].

From the Wellsboro Agitator.

April 27, 1892 - "Mrs. Butler Bailey and her two daughters have gone to reside with her parents at Smithboro, N.Y.

Sources

1	"World Family Tree Informaton from Shirley Simpson".

2	"1910 NY, Ontario, Naples census".

3	"1920 NY, Steuben, Corning census".

4	"Naples Marriage Register by Rev. R.W. Pierce".

5	"Lewis Farm Cemetery Records (Also called Elk Run Cemetery)".

6	"Marriage date of B.B. Bailey and Emma Thomas in an Abstract of the Wellsboro Agitator, May 6, 1873".

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

8	"1850 Tioga Co., Rutland census".

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

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

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

12	"Information provided by Jonathan Milligan".

13	"Civil War pension record of Butler Bailey".