Someone asked last week and I have been inquiring as to what might have happened to Ellis Bailey's notes. The following email is from Cleo Davis. She is a Hillsboro resident and historian. --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- Ellis Bailey is deceased but I don't remember when he died. I also don't remember if he had more than the son that was killed in Vietnam but Ann Dudley Bailey remarried an Army officer who left the service and I think became an Episcopal priest. They were living up North the last I heard. Ann was an only child; her parents are deceased. That's about all I know. Richard Greenhill probably knows what happened to any papers Ellis had. Some of the material in Ellis's book was not "fact" and well documented. He listed a bunch of men as being Confederate soldiers. I don't know where he got his info but it was incorrect. I was told he took the names off tombstones and anyone who was born early enough to be in the Civil War he showed as a soldier for the South. We do have Yankee soldiers in our cemeteries! Also, there were many who never went to war--some serving on the home front in a type of home guard. It is interesting that if a man served the Confederacy in any fashion--even as water boy--it would be in his obituary, but if he was a Union man nothing will be said. I was told there were no Union men in the Old Hillsboro Cemetery. This is definitely not true. When you walk in the Waco Street entrance there is a Union marker to the right by the wall. This is one of two union memorial markers I know of there and I know of at least three more men buried in the cemetery who were Union soldiers--but there obits don't say so. They are listed in the 1890 Veterans Census. --------- End forwarded message ---------- Karen (Brooks) Cotten ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.