Francinah Williams Bailey (1847-1917)

Francinah Williams Bailey

Birth

15 Apr 1847

Shelby County, Illinois, USA

Death

24 Feb 1917 (aged 69)

Stewardson, Shelby County, Illinois, USA

Burial

Stewardson Cemetery

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In the death of our Dear Mother, Mrs. Samuel Bailey, at the family home, last Saturday morning, we children have lost a dear mother, and our father, a dedicated and loving wife; the community, a woman who was a loyal defender of all that was right and good. And yet we have not lost her, for though changed much, she can have forgotten nothing. Being only out of sight, we remember, not lost, nor asleep, nor annihilated, she goes on, with us, loving.
To love must mean to think of, to care for, to hope for, to pray for, not less now than before.
Fanny, daughter of John B. Williams and wife, was born near Old Mode on April the fifteenth 1847, her earthly pilgrimage being sixty nine years, ten months and nine days.
On December the twenty third, 1866, she was united in marriage to Samuel Bailey. To them were born eleven children, of whom three, Mary, Martha and Willis died while young. We eight children, John W., Mrs. Clara Haverstock, Albert W., Harvey H., Mrs. Ida Koontz, Isaac S., Walter S., and Mrs. Edith Gatchel, with Father and her brother George W. Williams, of Cold Spring, Mo., and her sister, Mrs. Deborah Burris of McCune, Kans., and other relatives and friends survive to mourn our loss.
Mother spent all her life in Shelby county, forty years of her married life was spent on the Home Farm west of town and the last ten years they have lived in Stewardson where on December the twenty- third 1916, with all the children and a host of friends they celebrated their Golden Wedding.
While the shadows of Father's life are falling toward the east, our youngest sister, Edith, (Mrs. Carl Gatchell and her husband) will be in the Dear Old Home and we hope to make his as happy and cheerful during the autumn, as the springtime of life.
(From my parents scrapbook)
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Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947 for Francinah Bailey

name: Francinah Bailey
titles and terms (original):
death date: 24 Feb 1917
death place: Prairie, Stewardson, Shelby, Illinois
gender: Female
marital status:
race or color:
age: 69
estimated birth year: 1848
birth date: 15 Apr 1847
birthplace: Illinois
father: J.B. Williams
father's titles and terms (original):
father's birth place: Virginia
mother: Francinah Blue
mother's titles and terms (original):
mother's birth place: Virginia
occupation: Housewife
residence:
street address:
spouse:
spouse's titles and terms (original):
spouse's birthplace:
burial date: 25 Feb 1917
burial place: Stewardson, Shelby, Illinois
cemetery: Stewardson Cemetery

"United States Census, 1860," Franciana Williams, , Shelby, Illinois

name: Franciana Williams
residence: , Shelby, Illinois
ward: South Division (H Tp.)
age: 13 years
estimated birth year: 1847
birthplace: Ills
gender: Female