T. S. Bailey    

T. S. BAILEY, farmer, post-office Sandy Lake, was born on the farm where he now resides June 29, 1846. His parents, E. W. and Susan (Barber) Bailey, were natives, the father of Connecticut and the mother of Lawrence County, Penn. The father came to this county about the year 1825 with his parents, Theodore and Lorain (Watson) Bailey, and the family settled on the farm spoken of above, where Theodore died in 1844, and his widow in 1854. They had nine children: Myron, Homer, Theodore, Moses, Desire, Lorain, Free-love, Lois and Harriet. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. The father of our subject was educated in the common schools, was brought up at farm labor, and died in 1866. His widow is living, and blessed him with three children: T. S., Mary (married to Charles Powers) and Angeline (who died at the age of fourteen years). The father took an active interest in the Republican party. T. S. Bailey received a common-school education, and was married in 1872 to Maggie, daughter of ex-Sheriff W. S. Eberman, by whom he has two children: Fred and Donald. His wife died in 1880, and he was again married, to Melissa Patterson, daughter of William Patterson, of Allegheny City, by whom he has one child, James. Mr. Bailey settled at his marriage on the old homestead, and is the owner of 130 acres of the same. He is a stanch Republican, and he and wife belong to the Presbyterian Church.

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