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 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 27 February 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 19 April 1907 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005257). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)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.