BAILEY/DILLON WESTVIRGINA

[DARRELL WARD]

i HAVE FAMILY STORIES OF MARTHA JANE BAILEY WHO MARRIED JOHN DILLON IN LOGAN COUNTY WVA.
OUR FAMILY HAS BEEN TOLD THAT MARTHA JANE BAILEY WAS CHEROKEE AND SHAWNEE MIX. SHE MARRIED JOHN DILLON ON SEPT21 1880. WE WERE TOLD THAT JOHN DILLON WAS BLACKDUTCH. JOHN AND MARTHA HAD TWO DAUGHTERS AND SOME SONS. ONE OF THEIR DAUGHTER WAS MY GGRANDMOTHER SARAH E DILLON. HER SISTER WAS CELIA ANN DILLON. CELIA PRACTICE INDIAN WAYS SHE HAD A SWEATLODGE IN THE WOODS BEHIND HER HOUSE WHERE SHE WOULD GO PRAY. SHE ALSO MADE NATIVE JEWLERY LEATHER AND BEADS. AND WOULD BLOW SMOKE IN YOUR EAR IF YOU HAD A EARACHE AND SPEAK IN A DIFFERENT KIND OF LANUAGE AND THE EARACHE WOULD GO AWAY. MARATH JANE BAIELY MADE LEATHER SHOES MOCCASIONS BY CHEWING ON THE LEATHER SHE SAID THE ENZYMINES IN YOUR MOUTH WOULD MAKE THE LEATHER SOFT FOR SEWING. MY GGMOTHER CLAIM TO BE 1/2INDIAN AND WENT BY NICKNAME OF DUTCH. ANYONE HAVE SIMILAR STORIES IN THEIR FAMILY

[Linda]

That's a good one. There are a good many WV NDN folks on http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/egads/mingo/

Sign onto their e-list. You'll likely connect up with some other folks in your area. Plus they have the best online native language course there is. (Appalachian Iroquois).

I've heard of many different NDNs using the Black Dutch name to dodge Removal, etc. I talked to one man, I believe he was Ojibwe. His family's in Michigan now, I believe. I believe he said they were in northern WV at the time of Removal. To avoid it, they joined a mostly German church, got baptized and then told everybody they were Black Dutch!

On my second cousin's side his father said they were Black Dutch. That side of family originated in New York via Maine, but they look so much like other white/Saponi people I know it was frustrating it didn't match up. His ancestor was even named Olive Richardson, born one county over from where Tutelo people were living with the Cayuga, but it was pretty clear her parents came from Maine.

[Brenda Collins Dillon]

Darrell,
I have the surname BAILEY in my line. It goes back to Richard Bailey from about the same area. I bet we connect somehow.My lines followes
James BAILEY Sr. b 1766/7 Chesterfield/Bedford Va d aft 1850 Baileysville, WV m 1 Sep 1789 Montg. Margaret STINSON RussCoVA d/o Robert STINSON had 6 dtrs, 1 md Absalom GODFREY (My lines connects w/ Godfrey)


Richard BAILEY was born in Lancaster, England around the year 1735.

He was the son of James BAILEY d c1764 & Lucy (Simms). This was the information listed in the Johnson's History of the New River settlements. It has been written that Richard served in the Revolutionary Army. Mary Ellen Howe

disclaims this, however the DAR did erect a Monument in his honor, in Bluefield, WV. came to America prior 1760. The sources agree that Richard

married Elizabeth Anne "Annie" BELCHER b c1742 England, and moved to Beaver Pond Creek which enters Bluestone River in Bluefield, Virginia. Eliz. Anne was d/o Richard & Mary Obedience (Clay) BELCHER, s/o John BELCHER

However in Richard BAILEY and his descendants by Mary Ellen Howe we find Richard settled in Bedford County, Virginia, which later became a part of Franklin County. Having moved there from Chesterfield County where his father James and Lucy Simms BAILEY lived. According to Mary Howe, James and Lucy had three sons and two daughters. Benjamin, James BAILEY Jr., Richard, Elizabeth BAILEY Melton, and Mary BAILEY Daniel. They once owned much of the property in this area. Including the land where Bluefield College now stands and Leatherwood farm.

Richard and Annie Belcher BAILEY had a large family of sons and daughters, namely:

John;James;Richard Jr;Chloe;Micajah;Reuben;
Archibald;Sarah;Eli;Henry

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Life is a Rainbow made up of Many Different Colors.....

[DARRELL WARD]

BRENDA
yES THIS IS MY LINE BUT NOT THRU MARTHA JANE BAILEY.
iT IS MY LINE THRU JOHN DILLON HIS FATHER WAS MICAJAH DILLON WHOSE FATHER WAS CHRISTOPHER DILLON WHO MARRIED RHODA BAILEY DAU OF MICAJAH BAILEY AND MEOMA SHUFFLEBARGER. MARHTA JANE BAILEYS' FATHER WAS JOHN BAILEY WHOSE FATHER WAS JAMES BAILEY AND HIS MOTHER WAS SARAH>?

INTERESTING ABOUT THEM IS THAT MARTHA JANE WAS LISTED AS SARAH IN 1870 LOGAN COUNTY CENSUS MARTHA IN 1880. JAMES BAILEY WHO MARRIED SARAH.(MARTHA JANE GRANDPARENTS).
SARAH SAID IN 1870 CENSUS THAT HER MOTHER AND FATHER WERE FORGIEN BORN. IN 1880 CENSUS SHE SAID THEY WERE BORN IN WVA. SHE STATED THAT SHE WAS BORN IN VA 1860,CENSUS UNABLE TO READ 1870,CENSUS, BUT IN 1880 CENSUS SHE SAID SHE BORN IN INDIANA.

THEY FOR SOME REASON DID NOT WANT THE CENSUS MAN TO KNOW WHERE THEY COME FROM OR WHO THEY WERE. I BELEIVE THAT JOHN BAILEY (FATHER OF MARTHA JANE,) I BELIEVE HIS MOTHER SARAH MIGHT HAVE BEEN INDIAN OR SOMETHING THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT THE CNESUS MAN TO KNOW..
DARRELL

[sunalei]

You know, this is strange but my great grand mother, I have been told was Martha White from Virginia. I have been told that she was Iroquoian. She married Thomas Bailey. I am just begining my search and haven't been able to go and find records yet. I have plans in April to do just that. Anyway, this thread caught me because of the name BAILEY and the name MARTHA. I also was drawn to the story of your Martha. It seemed some what familiar to my own stories that I have been told.