The following article was taken from "the Legacy" researched by Bob Dunnavant .
"Less than a mile from the chalybeate spring at Pettusville, where resort guest relaxed at the Pettusville Hotel and drank the health - restoring waters of the spring, a serious drama took place when on a May day in 1879, Alice Loveless Bailes and her unborn child were lowered into the grave, victims of a brutal murder at the hands of her husband, John. Bob Dunnavant visited the site early in January 1985, in the search of the grave of John Bailes, who was hung by an angry mob on the Athens courthouse lawn on Aug 7, 1880 after several earlier attempts we thwarted by officials of the law. The cemetery is in the original Bailes Hollow situated about 100 yards north of the old Bailes Home-place. Only an old chimney, almost covered by weeds, marks the spot of the house. The site can be reached either by an old road leading from the spring at Pettusville, or by turning off the Ragsdale creek rd. Bob did not find John's grave... According to the story told Bob by his guide, Walter Sims, Bails stood up in the woods and watched as Alice was burried. It is interesting to note that the Name "Bailes" is missing from the stone. It is also interesting to speculate as to why, with feelings running so high against her murder, Alice was buried in the Bailes Cemetery"
"Less than a mile from the chalybeate spring at Pettusville, where resort guest relaxed at the Pettusville Hotel and drank the health - restoring waters of the spring, a serious drama took place when on a May day in 1879, Alice Loveless Bailes and her unborn child were lowered into the grave, victims of a brutal murder at the hands of her husband, John. Bob Dunnavant visited the site early in January 1985, in the search of the grave of John Bailes, who was hung by an angry mob on the Athens courthouse lawn on Aug 7, 1880 after several earlier attempts we thwarted by officials of the law. The cemetery is in the original Bailes Hollow situated about 100 yards north of the old Bailes Home-place. Only an old chimney, almost covered by weeds, marks the spot of the house. The site can be reached either by an old road leading from the spring at Pettusville, or by turning off the Ragsdale creek rd. Bob did not find John's grave... According to the story told Bob by his guide, Walter Sims, Bails stood up in the woods and watched as Alice was burried. It is interesting to note that the Name "Bailes" is missing from the stone. It is also interesting to speculate as to why, with feelings running so high against her murder, Alice was buried in the Bailes Cemetery"
The following article was taken from "the Legacy" researched by Bob Dunnavant .
"Less than a mile from the chalybeate spring at Pettusville, where resort guest relaxed at the Pettusville Hotel and drank the health - restoring waters of the spring, a serious drama took place when on a May day in 1879, Alice Loveless Bailes and her unborn child were lowered into the grave, victims of a brutal murder at the hands of her husband, John. Bob Dunnavant visited the site early in January 1985, in the search of the grave of John Bailes, who was hung by an angry mob on the Athens courthouse lawn on Aug 7, 1880 after several earlier attempts we thwarted by officials of the law. The cemetery is in the original Bailes Hollow situated about 100 yards north of the old Bailes Home-place. Only an old chimney, almost covered by weeds, marks the spot of the house. The site can be reached either by an old road leading from the spring at Pettusville, or by turning off the Ragsdale creek rd. Bob did not find John's grave... According to the story told Bob by his guide, Walter Sims, Bails stood up in the woods and watched as Alice was burried. It is interesting to note that the Name "Bailes" is missing from the stone. It is also interesting to speculate as to why, with feelings running so high against her murder, Alice was buried in the Bailes Cemetery"
"Less than a mile from the chalybeate spring at Pettusville, where resort guest relaxed at the Pettusville Hotel and drank the health - restoring waters of the spring, a serious drama took place when on a May day in 1879, Alice Loveless Bailes and her unborn child were lowered into the grave, victims of a brutal murder at the hands of her husband, John. Bob Dunnavant visited the site early in January 1985, in the search of the grave of John Bailes, who was hung by an angry mob on the Athens courthouse lawn on Aug 7, 1880 after several earlier attempts we thwarted by officials of the law. The cemetery is in the original Bailes Hollow situated about 100 yards north of the old Bailes Home-place. Only an old chimney, almost covered by weeds, marks the spot of the house. The site can be reached either by an old road leading from the spring at Pettusville, or by turning off the Ragsdale creek rd. Bob did not find John's grave... According to the story told Bob by his guide, Walter Sims, Bails stood up in the woods and watched as Alice was burried. It is interesting to note that the Name "Bailes" is missing from the stone. It is also interesting to speculate as to why, with feelings running so high against her murder, Alice was buried in the Bailes Cemetery"
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