Genealogy for
Jessie Florence Parish
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Jessie Florence Parish
4/15/1871 - 1900
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Jessie Florence Parish was born on April 15, 1871 in Calhoun County, Florida and died about 1900 in Blountstown, Florida. Actual date of death is unknown. She lived to be about 28 years old.
She died during child birth and is buried with her infant at Nettle Ridge Cemetery in Blountstown, FL. She died prior to June of 1900.
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) | 2 yrs after death | Nettle Ridge Cemetery - FLORENCE PARISH BAILEY - no dates - sec.1 lot.165
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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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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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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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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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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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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
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1875 |
Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law. |
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1876 |
The National League of Baseball is founded |
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| John Bailey
Born on an unknown day in July 1865 and died on December 8, 1932.
They were married 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., Florida on September 23, 1887 and died in Calhoun Co., Blountstown, Florida on August 6, 1968. She was 80 years old.
She married Samuel Green, 2nd marriage to Floyd W. Hires in 1936.
Children:
Harry F. Green (12- -1909)
Married Edna Paraham, 2nd Mary Dell Willis,3rd Myrtle Segress
Silas ...
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70 years old
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Busby Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, Florida on January 6, 1889 and died in Calhoun County, Florida on September 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, Florida on December 23, 1890 and died in Blountstown, Florida on April 24, 1962. He was 71 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, Florida on December 27, 1892 and died in Blountstown, Florida on February 9, 1968. He was 75 years old.
He married Martha Henrietta "Etta" Chason.
Silas and Etta had three children:
John Herman (1916 -1994)
Louise (1918)
Chester (1920)
Silas' 2nd wife was Vonnie Lee Dawsey(1922). ...
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19 years old
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Jessie 'Dumpsy' Florence Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, Florida on November 23, 1894 and died in Blountstown, Florida on January 8, 1987. She was 92 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, Florida on August 7, 1896 and died in an unknown location on October 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, Florida on March 11, 1898 and died somewhere in Florida on June 9, 1958. She was 60 years old.
Children:
Oliva Holt Massey (1916 - 2009)
James Oren Holt (12/5/1918 - 3/11/2000) married Thelma Joyce Walker Mcdaniel (1936 - 1966)
Burl Finnley Holt (10/29/1920 - 1983)
Carlton Holt(...
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12 years old
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Martha ' Mattie ' C. Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, Florida on February 22, 1900 and died in Blountstown, Florida on September 15, 1982. She was 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 he...
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Margaret Bailey
Born somewhere in Florida about 1902 and died somewhere in Florida about 1902. This child was stillborn.
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