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Walter Cunningham Bailey (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1808-03-08 d. 1885-06-06

Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Desdemonia Nichols in Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 4, 1830. Father of Adelia Bailey, Isabella Bailey, John Steele Bailey, William T. Bailey, and Elizabeth Bailey. Merchant in Garrard County, Kentucky in 1850. Merchant in Garrard County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 266B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 640.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 21.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259285, p. 1001.

Find A Grave, "Walter C. Bailey (1808-1885)," Memorial #28226187, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28226187 (accessed April 16, 2020).

North American Family Histories, 1500-2000, Provo, UT, Lineage Book, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 95, 1912, p. 243.

Citation

Bailey, Walter Cunningham. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203515 (November 12, 2026).

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