Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Bailey was born in the Shoal Creek area of Lawrence Co., Tennessee in 1851 to parents, Booker Bailey and his wife, Mary Jane "Janie" Nelson. He was their second child in a family of eight.
Great-Uncle Ben was a descendant of Lawrence County's pioneer families. His maternal grandparents, John (TN) Nelson and Talitha Jane Montgomery, emigrated into Tennessee from the Carolinas many years previous to the Civil War. In fact, the Nelsons, Mongomerys and Moore's arrived about the same time as Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap. His maternal great-grandparents, John Montgomery and Sarah Jane "Sallie" Moore, were also among the early settlers of Lawrence Co., Tennessee.
Ben Bailey was a life-long bachelor and the family stories tell of a man whose sweetheart jilted him in his younger years and married someone else. Ben vowed never to marry or cut his beard. Indeed, his beard had grown so long by the time he died, the beard would fall into his lap when he sat down. He raised blooded horses that were so fine folks came from everywhere to buy them or to breed their mares when one of his stallions stood at stud. He must have been a very kind man, since 'Uncle Ben' is referred to often and in fond remembrance by other relatives.
His obituary reads, in part: "...He was upright and honorable in all of his dealings with his fellow man, was a lifelong democrat, was proud of the franchise. He was an industrious and successful farmer until overtaken by the infirmities of old age. He was so kind and thoughtful of those around him. He lived a life worthy of imitation..."
Benjamin died at the family homestead on Shoal Creek where he had lived for the whole of his life.
@Maryanne A. McCracken Highley, 2009
Revised by M. A. H - 2011
(Please do not use this copy-righted material without an author permission or agreement.)
Great-Uncle Ben was a descendant of Lawrence County's pioneer families. His maternal grandparents, John (TN) Nelson and Talitha Jane Montgomery, emigrated into Tennessee from the Carolinas many years previous to the Civil War. In fact, the Nelsons, Mongomerys and Moore's arrived about the same time as Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap. His maternal great-grandparents, John Montgomery and Sarah Jane "Sallie" Moore, were also among the early settlers of Lawrence Co., Tennessee.
Ben Bailey was a life-long bachelor and the family stories tell of a man whose sweetheart jilted him in his younger years and married someone else. Ben vowed never to marry or cut his beard. Indeed, his beard had grown so long by the time he died, the beard would fall into his lap when he sat down. He raised blooded horses that were so fine folks came from everywhere to buy them or to breed their mares when one of his stallions stood at stud. He must have been a very kind man, since 'Uncle Ben' is referred to often and in fond remembrance by other relatives.
His obituary reads, in part: "...He was upright and honorable in all of his dealings with his fellow man, was a lifelong democrat, was proud of the franchise. He was an industrious and successful farmer until overtaken by the infirmities of old age. He was so kind and thoughtful of those around him. He lived a life worthy of imitation..."
Benjamin died at the family homestead on Shoal Creek where he had lived for the whole of his life.
@Maryanne A. McCracken Highley, 2009
Revised by M. A. H - 2011
(Please do not use this copy-righted material without an author permission or agreement.)
Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Bailey was born in the Shoal Creek area of Lawrence Co., Tennessee in 1851 to parents, Booker Bailey and his wife, Mary Jane "Janie" Nelson. He was their second child in a family of eight.
Great-Uncle Ben was a descendant of Lawrence County's pioneer families. His maternal grandparents, John (TN) Nelson and Talitha Jane Montgomery, emigrated into Tennessee from the Carolinas many years previous to the Civil War. In fact, the Nelsons, Mongomerys and Moore's arrived about the same time as Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap. His maternal great-grandparents, John Montgomery and Sarah Jane "Sallie" Moore, were also among the early settlers of Lawrence Co., Tennessee.
Ben Bailey was a life-long bachelor and the family stories tell of a man whose sweetheart jilted him in his younger years and married someone else. Ben vowed never to marry or cut his beard. Indeed, his beard had grown so long by the time he died, the beard would fall into his lap when he sat down. He raised blooded horses that were so fine folks came from everywhere to buy them or to breed their mares when one of his stallions stood at stud. He must have been a very kind man, since 'Uncle Ben' is referred to often and in fond remembrance by other relatives.
His obituary reads, in part: "...He was upright and honorable in all of his dealings with his fellow man, was a lifelong democrat, was proud of the franchise. He was an industrious and successful farmer until overtaken by the infirmities of old age. He was so kind and thoughtful of those around him. He lived a life worthy of imitation..."
Benjamin died at the family homestead on Shoal Creek where he had lived for the whole of his life.
@Maryanne A. McCracken Highley, 2009
Revised by M. A. H - 2011
(Please do not use this copy-righted material without an author permission or agreement.)
Great-Uncle Ben was a descendant of Lawrence County's pioneer families. His maternal grandparents, John (TN) Nelson and Talitha Jane Montgomery, emigrated into Tennessee from the Carolinas many years previous to the Civil War. In fact, the Nelsons, Mongomerys and Moore's arrived about the same time as Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap. His maternal great-grandparents, John Montgomery and Sarah Jane "Sallie" Moore, were also among the early settlers of Lawrence Co., Tennessee.
Ben Bailey was a life-long bachelor and the family stories tell of a man whose sweetheart jilted him in his younger years and married someone else. Ben vowed never to marry or cut his beard. Indeed, his beard had grown so long by the time he died, the beard would fall into his lap when he sat down. He raised blooded horses that were so fine folks came from everywhere to buy them or to breed their mares when one of his stallions stood at stud. He must have been a very kind man, since 'Uncle Ben' is referred to often and in fond remembrance by other relatives.
His obituary reads, in part: "...He was upright and honorable in all of his dealings with his fellow man, was a lifelong democrat, was proud of the franchise. He was an industrious and successful farmer until overtaken by the infirmities of old age. He was so kind and thoughtful of those around him. He lived a life worthy of imitation..."
Benjamin died at the family homestead on Shoal Creek where he had lived for the whole of his life.
@Maryanne A. McCracken Highley, 2009
Revised by M. A. H - 2011
(Please do not use this copy-righted material without an author permission or agreement.)
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