HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by
William H. Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by 
Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.

JOHN R. Bailey, farmer, P. O. Lexington, is the second son of John and 
Lucinda (Goldsmith) Bailey, both natives of Virginia, and in Louisa 
county, of the state our subject was born, December 20, 1793.  His 
parents came to Fayette County, Ky., just at the close of the last 
century, and began farming on rented land.  This they continued for ten 
or twelve years with such success that they were then able to purchase 
property of their own.  Of a family of six sons and three daughters, 
John R. is the only one now living.  His father died in 1831.  The son 
has been a practical agriculturist since his early boyhood, and has ever 
since followed that occupation.  His first wife, who he married in 1818, 
was Sarah, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Winn) Shipley, a native of 
Fayette county, who bore him five children, and died July 7, 1827, 
lamented as a faithful helpmate and tender mother.  Left with a family 
of young children, Mr. Bailey again married, taking as his second wife 
Rosaline, daughter of James Wade, born 1826, in Virginia, but resident 
of Fayette County,  Ky., from the age of twelve years.  She bore him 
seven children, and died in 1861.  Of the twelve children in all born 
to him only five are living; Elijah and Lucinda, by the first, and 
Sarah J., Amanda and James, by the second marriage.  One son, David, 
went forth to the war and what became of him has never been known.  
Mr. Bailey is one of the self-made men of the county, in which he has 
been a resident since the age of seven, a period of more than fourscore 
years. In that time he has seen many progressive changes and exciting 
events, and contributed his share to make the desert places rejoice, 
and the wilderness blossom as a rose.  His industry has been such that, 
notwithstanding losses, he is the owner of 263 acres of excellent land; 
and his life has earned for him the deep respect properly due to a 
patriarch full of years, who awaits the call that has summoned hence 
all his earlier contemporaries.

Goldsmith Winn Shipley Wade
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Louisa-VA

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