Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hopkins Co.

WILLIAM H. BAILEY was born in Hopkins County, Ky., October 12, 
1861, and is the only son of Valentine and Dosia F. (Bailey)
Bailey, natives of Hopkins County, and of English descent.  When 
only two or three years old, in 1830, Valentine Bailey was brought 
by his parents from North Carolina to Hopkins County, Ky., which 
was then but a sparsely settled region.  Here his father, James D. 
Bailey, bought wild land near the site of the present village of 
White Plains, erected a cabin and improved a farm, upon which he 
resided until his death.  Valentine was employed on his father's 
farm until after his marriage.  Before that time, however, he 
taught several schools.  After his marriage he was engaged in 
agricultural pursuits for some ten years.  He took up the 
carpenter's trade, and still later the blacksmith's trade, both of 
which he followed in connection with farming until within the last 
two years, when be removed to White Plains, where he has since 
been employed at blacksmithing.  He has been three times married; 
first to the mother of our subject.; second to Mrs. Nancy A. 
Stanly, and last to Miss Willie H. Perrigeon.  He has had left him 
three children, one by his first marriage and two by the second.  
Our subject, William H. Bailey, received an excellent common 
school and academic education, and was employed on his father's 
farm until be was sixteen years old; he then taught and attended 
school several years.  In 1883 he bought a farm near the old 
homestead, and is a successful farmer.  He was married September 
28, 1880, to Miss Sarah F. Lyon, a native of Hopkins County.  One 
son has blessed their union - William V.  Mr. Bailey is an earnest 
advocate of the temperance cause, and in politics is a Democrat.

Bailey Stanly Perrigeon Lyon
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NC

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