John Henry Bagley was born on December 16, 1886 at the newly-formed Mississippi River railroad town of Bagley, Grant County, in southwestern Wisconsin. He was the fourth of seven children known to be born to Dorlen Bagley and Agusta (or Augusta) Newman. He lived and assisted with the family farm around Wyalusing, Wisconsin for the first twenty years of his life. Sometime between 1905 and 1910 John moved with his parents and brothers to Willowbank Township, La Moure County, southeast of Edgeley, North Dakota, where the family continued to make a living farming. On June 30, 1913 John Bagley married the local girl Bessie Lillian Kime, ten years his junior, at Ellendale, Dickey County, North Dakota. Between the time of their 1913 marriage and 1938 when the Dust Bowl drove them out of the area, John and Bessie Bagley farmed in Willowbank Township. After many years of marriage, Bessie gave birth on May 16, 1931 to a stillborn son John Henry Bagley, Jr. John and Bessie were never able to have children of their own, but they raised an abandoned foster son, Donald Hardman, from about 1928 to 1935, and they served as second parents to the children of Bessie's sister Mabel Farnsworth, who lived on a farm nearby. During the time of his sojourn in North Dakota, John Bagley often had some of his brothers and his father living in the area.
The drought years of the 1930's eventually drove John Bagley and his brothers out of North Dakota, and in 1938 he and Bessie settled with his kin on farms near Regal, Kandiyohi County in west-central Minnesota. From 1941 to the time of his death in 1947, John's father-in-law Arthur Kime lived with John and Bessie. From the 1940 census records John and Bessie are shown living on a rented farm with his nephew Lawrence Bagley, and is recorded to have completed six years of schooling while in Wisconsin. John passed away on June 19, 1950 in nearby Paynesville, Stearns County, Minnesota, and is buried next to his wife Bessie in the Roseville Cemetery, west of Hawick in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
John was a hard-working and personable man. "Uncle John" was remembered fondly by Donald Hardman and his Farnsworth nieces and nephews he helped to raise.
The drought years of the 1930's eventually drove John Bagley and his brothers out of North Dakota, and in 1938 he and Bessie settled with his kin on farms near Regal, Kandiyohi County in west-central Minnesota. From 1941 to the time of his death in 1947, John's father-in-law Arthur Kime lived with John and Bessie. From the 1940 census records John and Bessie are shown living on a rented farm with his nephew Lawrence Bagley, and is recorded to have completed six years of schooling while in Wisconsin. John passed away on June 19, 1950 in nearby Paynesville, Stearns County, Minnesota, and is buried next to his wife Bessie in the Roseville Cemetery, west of Hawick in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
John was a hard-working and personable man. "Uncle John" was remembered fondly by Donald Hardman and his Farnsworth nieces and nephews he helped to raise.
John Henry Bagley was born on December 16, 1886 at the newly-formed Mississippi River railroad town of Bagley, Grant County, in southwestern Wisconsin. He was the fourth of seven children known to be born to Dorlen Bagley and Agusta (or Augusta) Newman. He lived and assisted with the family farm around Wyalusing, Wisconsin for the first twenty years of his life. Sometime between 1905 and 1910 John moved with his parents and brothers to Willowbank Township, La Moure County, southeast of Edgeley, North Dakota, where the family continued to make a living farming. On June 30, 1913 John Bagley married the local girl Bessie Lillian Kime, ten years his junior, at Ellendale, Dickey County, North Dakota. Between the time of their 1913 marriage and 1938 when the Dust Bowl drove them out of the area, John and Bessie Bagley farmed in Willowbank Township. After many years of marriage, Bessie gave birth on May 16, 1931 to a stillborn son John Henry Bagley, Jr. John and Bessie were never able to have children of their own, but they raised an abandoned foster son, Donald Hardman, from about 1928 to 1935, and they served as second parents to the children of Bessie's sister Mabel Farnsworth, who lived on a farm nearby. During the time of his sojourn in North Dakota, John Bagley often had some of his brothers and his father living in the area.
The drought years of the 1930's eventually drove John Bagley and his brothers out of North Dakota, and in 1938 he and Bessie settled with his kin on farms near Regal, Kandiyohi County in west-central Minnesota. From 1941 to the time of his death in 1947, John's father-in-law Arthur Kime lived with John and Bessie. From the 1940 census records John and Bessie are shown living on a rented farm with his nephew Lawrence Bagley, and is recorded to have completed six years of schooling while in Wisconsin. John passed away on June 19, 1950 in nearby Paynesville, Stearns County, Minnesota, and is buried next to his wife Bessie in the Roseville Cemetery, west of Hawick in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
John was a hard-working and personable man. "Uncle John" was remembered fondly by Donald Hardman and his Farnsworth nieces and nephews he helped to raise.
The drought years of the 1930's eventually drove John Bagley and his brothers out of North Dakota, and in 1938 he and Bessie settled with his kin on farms near Regal, Kandiyohi County in west-central Minnesota. From 1941 to the time of his death in 1947, John's father-in-law Arthur Kime lived with John and Bessie. From the 1940 census records John and Bessie are shown living on a rented farm with his nephew Lawrence Bagley, and is recorded to have completed six years of schooling while in Wisconsin. John passed away on June 19, 1950 in nearby Paynesville, Stearns County, Minnesota, and is buried next to his wife Bessie in the Roseville Cemetery, west of Hawick in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
John was a hard-working and personable man. "Uncle John" was remembered fondly by Donald Hardman and his Farnsworth nieces and nephews he helped to raise.
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JOHN H. BAGLEY
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JUNE 19, 1950
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