It was torn down a few years ago after the Miller County Nursing Home was built on the same grounds. It was located on the south side of Highway 17 about 3 miles south of Tuscumbia. A large, brick structure was built when the Miller County voters passed a tax levy in 1930. The Court decided at that time to buy a farm and have a "County Home" built. It is my understanding that the Miller County Court hired people to take care of the aged and the indigent in their own homes until about 1930-31. In 1926, I am not sure where the "poor farm" was located but I am sure it was in Equality Township, near Tuscumbia. He was listed as a servant in their home, which was in the eastern part of Saline Township in what was recorded as the Greenridge area.Īfter reading the notice of William's death, it appears he may have had no family left and was being taken care of on the "county's poor farm" which was operated by Mrs. 1869), was living in Saline township in the home of Harvey and Hattie Sutton. In 1900, William Bailey, age 30 years (born Dec. I suspect that Matilda may have died before 1900 and perhaps the two young girls did not survive either. I could find no other record for Matilda or her two daughters after 1880. They were living in Richwoods Township, north of Iberia near what is known as the Hickory Point/Livingston Cemetery vicinity. I do not know what happened to Julian Bailey because by 1880, Matilda (Smith) Bailey and her three children were living with her mother, Nancy (Stinnett) Smith. There were two other children born to Julian and Matilda: SOPHRONIA BAILEY born c/1871 and JULIA M. Their marriage was performed by Thomas O. His parents married on Jin Miller County. William Bailey, born in December 1869, was a son of Julian Bailey and Matilda Smith. I think I may have found out who William Bailey was by researching in old Miller county records. I think this may be the same man whose notice of death appeared in the Februissues of the Miller County Autogram. His reply was, "What keeps out the cold in the winter, should keep out the heat in the summer"! Folks would ask him why he was wearing all those heavy clothes on a hot day. She said the one thing she could remember about him was that he could be seen walking down a road in the summertime wearing a coat, gloves and cap. He realized that death was certain and unlike most of us, he prepared for death two years before it overtook him." I remember my aunt once telling me about a man called William/Willie Bailey who wandered around the countryside acting rather strangely at times but was harmless. William was eccentric, but was a harmless and hard-working man. Zion cemetery and a grave was partially dug when someone brought the information that his grave was dug at the Livingston Cemetery. Arrangements were being made to bury him at the Mt. He died at the county poor farm conducted by Mrs. He dug the grave himself in anticipation of his demise. Bailey, who was buried at Livingston Cemetery last week, had his grave prepared two years before his death.
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