View Genealogy for Martha ' Mattie ' C. Bailey (2/22/1900-9/15/1982)

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Martha ' Mattie ' C. Bailey

	Parents
	John Henry Bailey 7/1865 - 12/8/1932	Jessie Florence Parish 4/15/1871 - 1900

About Martha ' Mattie ' C. Bailey

Martha ' Mattie ' C. Bailey
2/22/1900 - 9/15/1982
(Shown at age 12)

Martha ' Mattie ' C. Bailey was born on February 22, 1900 in Calhoun County, Florida and died on September 15, 1982 in Blountstown, Florida. She lived to be 82 years old.

At a young child she lost her right eye in an icepick accident. She married a man named Burge who was absent later in her life. In her old age she lived a few houses down and across the road from her sister Dumpsey's house on Pear Street in Blountstown. When family would congregate at Dumpsey's house, Aunt Mattie would walked down the street to visit for a while.

Census

6/27/1900

Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)

about 4 months 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.

Census

4/21/1910

Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)

10 yrs old

family#107 - J. H. Bailey (age44), Martha C. Bailey (35), Silas R. Bailey (16), George Bailey (13), Laura Bailey (11), Mattie Bailey (9)& (stepdaughter) Carrie Goff (10) Martha states they have been married six years. She had two children, one is living. She was born in FL, her parents were born in the U.S., John H. was born in FL, his father in SC & mother GA. John H. is the superintendent at a sawmill. All children in FL. All can read & write except Mattie & Carrie.

Census

1/1/1920

Blountstown FL (Calhoun Co. County)

19 yrs old

Listed as family #391: John H. Bailey (age 54), Martha C. (wife, age 45), Mattie (daughter, age 20). All were born in Florida. Both of John's parents were also born in FL. However, Martha's father was born in GA and her mother in NC. John H. is a sawmill operator. All indicate they can read and write. For Mattie's marital status, the census recorder wrote "UM".

Census

1/1/1935

Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)

34 yrs old

Mattie Burge - (age 36), She was born in FL. She is a widow. She works: (hard to read, maybe laundry)

Census

4/1/1940

Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)

40 yrs old

#212-Mattie C. Bailey (age 40), she was born in FL, she has a 4th gr. education. Her occupation is chair woman at the WPA sewing room. She is devoiced. Street address: Pear St. She owns her home, value at $500.

Census

1/1/1945

Precinct 1 FL (Calhoun County)

44 yrs old

Mattie Bailey (age 45), she was born in FL, she has a 4th gr. education and works in a school lunch room.

Newspaper

11/8/1951

Panama City FL (Bay County)

51 yrs old

Click here to see a copy of the newspaper article.

Mrs. Mattie Bailey is convalescing at her home here after an eye operation performed at Moody Hospital in Dothan, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Flood and children, of Jacksonville, spent the weekend here with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davis and family. Delando Howard and Johnnie Holley have enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. They left Monday for San Antonio, Texas.

Graveyard/Tombstone

9/15/1982

Nettle Ridge Cem. FL (Calhoun County)

82 yrs old

Mattie Bailey -2/22/1900 to 9/15/1982

Newspaper

9/19/1982

FL (Calhoun County)

82 yrs old

MATTIE BAILEY BURGE, Blountstown -- Mattie Bailey Burge, 82, of Blountstown, died Friday at Calhoun General Hospital in Blountstown. Services are scheduled for 3PM today at Blountstown Pentecostal Holiness Church. Burial follows in Nettle Ridge Cemetery in Blountstown.
A lifelong resident of Calhoun County, she was a homemaker and a member of Blountstown Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Survivors include one sister, Dumpsy Davis of Blountstown; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Adams Funeral Home of Blountstown is in charge of arrangements.

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Age	Date	Event
6	1906	An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
17	1917	Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
28	1928	The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
57	1957	The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
62	1962	The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
79	1979	The sovereign status of the Seminole Indian Tribe allows it to establish the first gambling establishment in FL. It is a bingo hall located on their Hollywood, FL reservation.

Age	Date	Event
1	1901	First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
2	1902	The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
3	1903	Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
4	1904	The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
6	1906	The triode vacuum tube is invented
6	1906	Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
6	1906	Electrons are discovered by Thomson
12	1912	The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
13	1913	Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
14	1914	The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
23	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
23	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
24	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
26	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
27	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
28	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
36	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
38	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
46	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
47	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
51	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
52	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
57	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
60	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
62	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
65	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
71	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
74	1974	Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
75	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
79	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
81	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.

Age	Date	Event
8	1908	NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
12	1912	White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
13	1913	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
17	1917	NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
19	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
38	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
39	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
41	1941	NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
50	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
55	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
60	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
63	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
69	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
70	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
77	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.

Age	Date	Event
9	1909	The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
10	1910	Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
27	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
29	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
30	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
32	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
33	1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
34	1934	Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
34	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
35	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
39	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
43	1943	Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
44	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
45	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
54	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
62	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
66	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
67	1967	Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
71	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
72	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
73	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
77	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
81	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)

Age	Date	Event
9	1909	The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
14	1914	World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
17	1917	Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
19	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
20	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
38	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
39	1939	Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
45	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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