The Bailey family.
Photographs, land patents and family trees of the Bailey family, arranged by generation, from the oldest to the youngest. Undated pictures keep their place in the family; dates and names are as recorded. 5 photographs · 1 land patent · 3 newspaper clippings · 3 family trees.
The homesteading generation
The men and women who took up land in the valley. From the accounts of James R. Bailey, Lorenzo H. Bailey, Lorin Bailey.
View photograph ↗Earl with parents James and Annie Bailey
FamilySearch memory titled “Earl with parents James and Annie Bailey”. Earl (born 1913) is grown, so the photograph is from about the 1930s.
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)
View photograph ↗Photograph from James R. Bailey
Individuals not captioned.
From: James R. Bailey ↗
View photograph ↗Lorenzo and Chloa Bailey family, 60th anniversary
Newspaper caption in the image names all twelve and dates the anniversary February 27, 1963.
From: Lorenzo H. Bailey ↗
View photograph ↗Claribel, Margaret and Lorin Bailey
Handwritten label on the print.
From: Lorin Bailey ↗Shared with other families
Pictures kept in another family’s album that include Bailey family members or relatives by marriage.
View photograph ↗Park and Erma Bailey Lusk
Park and Erma Bailey Lusk
From: Edward “Park” Lusk & Erma Bailey ↗Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to James R. Bailey, 1907
Federal land patent signed April 19, 1907 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005257). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)In the old papers
Clippings of newspaper articles that name the family, in the order they were printed. Each opens the story retold from it. All the clippings ↗
View photograph ↗Ten cents, two cows and a greased pig built the Bailey ranch at Arbon
J. R. and Annie Bailey reached Arbon with ten cents, two cows and some debts, and by 1917 a farm writer found them on 560 acres, with a greased pig still part of the family lore at their golden wedding in 1940.
From: Ten cents, two cows and a greased pig built the Bailey ranch at Arbon ↗
View photograph ↗Charles Bailey filed first on the Arbon floor, and stayed four years
Charles A. Bailey of Wellsville made the first homestead entry on the Arbon floor in 1901, proved up three years later and died in 1905, and his widow Grace took their children home to Cache Valley.
From: Charles Bailey filed first on the Arbon floor, and stayed four years ↗
View photograph ↗Arbon post office moves to the Bailey farm, and nearly closes
In 1922 the Arbon post office left its building by the Central school for J. R. Bailey’s home and came within weeks of closing, the latest turn for an office that had followed its keepers since 1898.
From: Arbon post office moves to the Bailey farm, and nearly closes ↗Family trees
The family-tree charts drawn for the family histories, oldest generation first.
View photograph ↗Family diagram from James R. Bailey
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: James R. Bailey ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Lorenzo H. Bailey
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Lorenzo H. Bailey ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Lorin Bailey
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Lorin Bailey ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.