Hi Gary, I believe you sent me this info previously but thanks again. I am trying to get some of the info on file from ancestry.com where Sgt. Robert Bailey of the Lancers, was in charge of the local task force to quell the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada - do you know if this is my Bailey? I will be offline till Friday for a short vacation. Many thanks. PAtricia -----Original Message----- From: can-ont-simcoe-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:can-ont-simcoe-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of highfield-jane@comnet.ca Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:11 AM To: can-ont-simcoe@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Eliza Emily Bailey Vick Hi Patricia, Here are the death notices from the Orillia Packet for Robert and Ann. Gary ============ Orillia Packet, May 22, 1885, page 3 At Orillia, on Sunday, May 17th, Robert Bailey, aged 79 years. In Robert Bailey we have just lost one of "the town's grey fathers." Though his years were far beyond the usual number, so excellent was his constitutional endowment that he until very lately suffered little from disease. Mr. Bailey, a native of the County Down, in Ireland, came to Orillia in 1830 or '31, when Orillia was a very insignificant Indian trading hamlet and mission, in the midst of a wild forest, and helped to transform it into a noted town of churches, schools, and factories. Our first competent wheelwright and carpenter, he was a man of great ingenuity and intelligence. His neighbourly disposition and good common sense made him widely known and esteemed. Disliking idleness, he used his mechanical tools and appliances almost until his last illness demanded more care and rest. He leaves three generation of descendants. James L. Bailey, now of Cleveland, Ohio, was the only one of his sons present at his obsequies. His widow is a helpless invalid at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr George Vick. Orillia Packet, May 11, 1888, page 3 At the residence of her son-in-law, George Vick, Orillia, on Friday, 4th of May, 1888, Ann, relict of the late Robert Bailey, aged 80 years and 3 days. Another of our old land-marks disappeared with the decease of Mrs. Bailey, and now but four members of the Presbyterian church remain of those who signed the call which inaugurated the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Gray. Mrs Bailey was born at Keat's Bridge, in the County of Down, and accompanied her husband, the late Robert Bailey, to the wild woods of Orillia in 1832, where they made a home and brought up many sons and daughters whose children are now scattered throughout the Dominion. She saw a very small hamlet on the extreme boundary of civilization attain to the dignity of an important town. Neighbourly, obliging, with all the North of Ireland homely wit and shrewdness, she was much liked and widely known. For more than five years before her death she was paralyzed in body and mind and tenderly cared for by her eldest daughter, Mrs. George Vick. Her funeral was large, as befitted the obsequies of one noted for her attendance at the births and deaths of so many citizens. Dr. Gray conducted the services at the house, and Rural Dean Stewart read the Church of England funeral service at Mr. Vick's family plot in the cemetery. ============= Quoting "Patricia A. M. Johnson" <patrace@telus.net>: > Hi Lynne, > > Thank you - You Listers have been most helpful and I am overwhelmed with > info and much searching to do on your suggestions. Gary has been very > helpful and tell me there is another daughter which surprises me. do you > have more info? > > Patricia > > -----Original Message----- > From: can-ont-simcoe-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:can-ont-simcoe-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Lynne Kemp > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 6:39 AM > To: Simcoe Mailing List > Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Eliza Emily Bailey Vick > > Hi Patricia, > > At the web-site Gary has given you, there is another Bailey grave. Eliza > Emily Bailey Vick was the daughter of Robert and Ann. She died in 1920 and > her parents' birthplaces are written on the death registration. Her > birthdate is also given. > > Regards, > > Lynne. > >> Hello Patricia, >> The website for the cemetery is http://www.stastjcemetery.com/ >> >> However a picture of the Robert Bailey gravestone can be found under >> "Block H" on the StA/StJ part of the Gravemarker Gallery site. >> > http://www.gravemarkers.ca/ontario/centont/simcoe/orillia/standrew/blockh/pa > ge0001.htm >> >> I'll contact you off list about your other questions. >> Gary > > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > ***************** Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-ONT-SIMCOE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message