William Shreve and Caroline Ann Bailey
Information comes from the family files at the Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society in Alexandria, various newspaper and magazine articles.
William Shreve Bailey was born in Feb 10, 1806 in Centerville, Greene Co, Ohio, the son of John Bailey and Rebeka Shreve. He married Caroline Ann Withnal Dec 13, 1827 in Washington, Montgomery Co, Ohio. Caroline Ann Withnal was born 5 Jan 1813 in New York and was the daughter of William & Nancy Withnal. She died 8 Mar 1867 in Newport of dropsy and was buried Mar 12 in the Newport Cemetery (now Evergreen) in Southgate. William Bailey died 20 Feb 1886 in Nashville, Tennessee, and was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
William Bailey was an abolitionist who moved to
Newport in 1839 and wrote anti-slavery newspaper articles for The
Newport News. A more detailed account of the
families newspaper time can be found at
William Shreve
Bailey, Kentucky Abolitionist.
William Bailey was the only Kentucky
representative to attend the planning convention for the Republican National
Convention of 1856. Consequently, he was elected to be one of the honorary
vice-presidents of the convention and place on the Address and Resolutions
Committee. Like Republicans of a later century those of 1856 welcomed anyone, no
matter how undistinguished in his native state, who would come up from the South
to give that section representation at their nations gatherings.
Official
Proceedings of the Republican Convention (1856)
On February 16, 1860, in a letter Bailey wrote to Simeon S Joceyln of Newport, he asked that correspondence addressed to him be sent to Covington as the postmaster at Newport was one of the mob that attacked him. The Covington Postmaster he declared was a "gentleman". American Missionary Association Papers, The Louisville Journal, October 31, 1859
In 1861 Bailey needed more money than he could get locally, so he made a trip to England to raise money to keep his newspaper in business. After the Civil War, he settled in Covington to continue publishing.
After the death of his wife, Caroline in 1867, William
moved to Nashville. He shows up on the 1870 census where he was still engaged in the printing business. No other
family came with him.
Children of William Shreve Bailey and Caroline Ann Withnal
1. Rebecca Celeste Bailey b-1833 in Dayton,
Montgomery Co Ohio; m-Jacob Wesley Wolfe 30 Mar 1863 in Newport; they moved to
Illinois.
2. Nancy Bailey b-15 June 1834 in Dayton Oh; d-12 Dec 1904 in Portland Ore; estate settled 4 Feb 1905 in
Portland Ore; br-Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery; m-William H Bronston of Richmond Ky. 4 Jan 1858 in Newport
3. William Warder Bailey b-1835 in Dayton Oh; m-Mary "Mollie" Jane Patton 6 Jan
1859 in Alexandria
4. Sarah Eleanor Bailey b-1840 in Dayton Oh; m-Samuel Wilson 24 Dec 1860 in
Newport
5. Volner Bailey b-1841 in Dayton, Oh; d-19 July 1862 in Newport of typhoid
fever; buried 23 July at the Newport Cemetery in Southgate
6. Anna E Bailey b-April 1843 in Dayton, Oh; m-Owen Evans Paul 31 Jan 1865 in
Newport; d-Nodaway, Missouri
7. Margaret Bailey b-1845 in Dayton, Oh; d-20 Jan 1863 in Newport of typhoid
fever; br-21 Jan at Newport Cemetery in Southgate
8. L V (f) Bailey b-1847 in Newport; died before 1860
9. James A Bailey b-26 June 1850 in Newport; d-26 Nov 1854 in Newport; buried
at Newport Cemetery in Newport
10. Charles Bailey b-1853 in Newport
11. Theodore Bailey b-1857 in Newport; d-Illinois
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Cincinnati Daily Press, Friday, 20 April 1860, page 4
William S Bailey was arrested yesterday on a charge of having committed an assault upon his son, Warder Bailey. He will be tried before the Mayor today.
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Children of Nancy Bailey and William H Bronston
1. Charles Sumner Bronston b-1858 in Newport
Ky. d-21 Mar 1929 in Dallas City, Illinois; br-Dallas City Cemetery; m-Matilda J
Tunnel 3 Oct 1876 in Garnet Kansas
2. Caroline Anna Bronston b-29 Sep 1867 in Kansas; d-1 May 1899 in Oregon
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Children of Anna E Bailey and Owen Evans Paul
1. Anna L Paul born 1868 in Newport
2. Owen Evans Paul born 28 Apr 1870 in Franklin, Warren, Oh
3. Arthur Bailey Paul born 3 Sep 1871 in Franklin, Warren, Oh
4. John William Paul born 7 Oct 1875 in Franklin, Warren, Oh
5. Charles Henry Paul born 19 Jan 1881 in Savannah, Andrew, Missouri
6. Theodore Paul born 22 Jan 1883 in Savannah, Missouri; d-Mound City Missouri
7, Willis Eugene Paul born 28 Mar 1887 in Savannah, Missouri;
d-Nov 1971 Mound City Missouri