Genealogy for
Jessie Florence Parish
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Jessie Florence Parish
4/15/1871 - 1902
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Jessie Florence Parish was born on 4/15/1871 somewhere in FL and died about 1902 in Blountstown, FL. She was 31 years old.
She died during child birth. She is buried with her infant at Nettle Ridge Cemetery in Blountstown, FL. Date of death is not known.
She went by Florence.
While her daughter (Jessie Florence) would not talk about it much, she did say Florence was an Hitchiti Indian. The Creek Indian village named Hitchiti (or Hitichi), a Muscogee Tribe on the east bank of the Chattahoochee river, 4 miles below Auhegee Creek (Flint River?) in Georgia. The town would have been destroyed during the Creek Indian Wars (1813-1830s). See also Hitchiti Tribe.
She also taught her daughter (Jessie Florence) how to cook several traditional Indian dishes. | 
 | Census | 6/8/1880 | Pippins Mill FL (Calhoun Co. County) | 9 yrs old | | Listed as family #84/97: John Pope (age 26), Flora (wife, age 30) and Florence (step daughter, age 5). John states his occupation as Hireling and Flora is keeping house. John says he cannot write. John and his mother were born in FL and his father in GA. Flora was born in FL, her mother in AL and her father in GA. Florence was born in FL, her father in FL and mother in AL. Florence cannot read or write and has not been attending school. |
| Census | 6/27/1900 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 29 yrs old | family #233: John H. Bailey (age 34, born July 1865), Florance (age 29, born April 1871), Evg. (12, sept. 1887), Busby (11, Jan. 1889), John H. Jr.(9, Dec. 1890), Silas (7, Dec. 1892), Jessie (5, Oct. 1894), George (3, Aug. 1896), Annie (2, Mar.1898) & Martha (2mo, Mar. 1900). All were born in Florida. John's parents were born in SC. He is a merchant. They have been married 15 years. Florance says she has had eight children, all are living. The family also lives next door to Jonas Bailey and his family.
| Additional information about Calhoun County, FL around 1900: The first automobile, nick-named Chicken Killer, arrives in Blountstown in 1905. The photo on the right shows The Chicken Killer. Click the photo for a larger view. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod. | 
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| Graveyard/Tombstone | 1/1/1902 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 31 yrs old | Nettle Ridge Cemetery - FLORENCE PARISH BAILEY - no dates - sec.1 lot.165
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1876 |
The National League of Baseball is founded |
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1877 |
Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed. |
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1879 |
Edison invents the electric light bulb. |
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1882 |
The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads. |
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1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
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1883 |
Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co. |
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1884 |
Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles. |
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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
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1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
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1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
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1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
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1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
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1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
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1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
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1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
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Marriages
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| John Bailey
Born on 7/1/1865 and died on 12/8/1932.
They were married on 6/29/1886.
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The Children of Jessie Florence Parish
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72 years old
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Evie Lee Bailey
Born in Calhoun Co., FL on 9/23/1887 and died in Calhoun Co., Blountstown, FL on 8/6/1968. She was 81 years old.
She married Samuel Green, 2nd marriage to Floyd W. Hires in 1936....
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70 years old
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Busby Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, FL on 1/6/1889 and died in Calhoun County, FL on 9/27/1965. He was 76 years old.
He married Mary Layura Davis on 12/26/1909 in Bloutstown, FL....
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69 years old
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John Henry Bailey Jr.
Born in Calhoun County, FL on 12/23/1890 and died in Blountstown, FL on 4/24/1962. He was 72 years old.
He married Elizabeth Peacock.
Children: Ralph Lee Bailey (6/2/1912 -7/28/1965) & Johnny H. Bailey (1/23/1928 - 4/2/1971)...
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58 years old
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Silas Ruel Bailey
Born in Chipola, FL on 12/27/1892 and died in Blountstown, FL on 2/9/1968. He was 76 years old.
He married Etta Chason, they had three children. 2nd wife Vonnie Lee Dawsey. They had one child. ...
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26 years old
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Jessie 'Dumpsy' Florence Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, FL on 11/23/1894 and died in Blountstown, FL on 1/8/1987. She was 93 years old.
Her nickname was "Dumpsy". She told us her mother was Hitichi Creek Indian.
She said nine names were handed down to her from her mother --
a tradition from mother to daughter.
We only know a few o...
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George D. Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, FL on 8/1/1896 and died in an unknown location on 10/15/1967. He was 71 years old.
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51 years old
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Annie Laura Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, FL on 3/11/1898 and died somewhere in FL on 6/9/1958. She was 60 years old.
Children: Oliva Holt Massey (1916 - 2009), James Orin Holt (12/5/1916), Burl Holt (10/29/1922) & Carlton Holt(10/13/1928)...
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12 years old
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Martha ' Mattie ' Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, FL on 2/22/1900 and died in Blountstown, FL on 9/15/1982. She was 82 years old.
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Margaret Bailey
Born somewhere in FL about 1902 and died somewhere in FL about 1985. She was 83 years old.
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