Alfred J. BAILES

  General Notes:

1846-1847 BIRTH of Alfred J. Bailes

Alfred was a son of Alfred and Edith Bailes

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Henry Clay Township ("Alfred," age 4, is with his parents, "Alfred" and "Edith") ("Bales" in census)

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, South Union Township, P. O. Uniontown ("Alfred," age 14, with parents) ("Bails" in census)

MARRIAGE of Alfred Bailes and Sophia ...

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, New Haven Borough, P. O. Connellsville ("Alfred J.," age 23, "? on R. R. 1") (wife "Sophia B.," age 22)

DEATH of Alfred J. Bailes before 1880

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1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Dunbar Township (widow "Sophia," age 34, is "daughter-in-law" in the household of her deceased husband's father whose name was also "Alfred," age 75, "Laborer") (also in the household is Sophia's own daughter, "Ella," age 11) ("Bales" in census)

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, North Union Township ("Sophia," age 55, widow, born "October, 1844 in Pennsylvania," is "mother-in-law" in the household of Thomas D. Bailes) (Sophia is documented as the mother of 2 children, 2 children living in the year 1900)




BOOK: THE OLD PIKE: A History of the National Road, With Incidents, Accidents and Anecdotes Thereon by Thomas Brownfield Searight, published by the author at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1894, page 129, references Alfred Bailes, born 1804 -- father of the Alfred Bailes on this page -- as follows:

Alfred Bailes of Dunbar, Pennsylvania is probably the oldest man living who drove a team on the National Road. He was first a wagoner and subsequently for many years a stage driver. He was born in Loudon County, Virginia and came upon the road about the year 1830 at the solicitation of John Bradfield, who was also a native of Virginia, and agent of the first line of wagons on the road. Alfred Bailes was born in 1804 and although closely approaching his ninetieth year, his eye is undimmed and his natural vigor unabated. Samuel Luman of Cumberland is two years younger than Bailes but two years his senior as a stage driver. Bailes was one of the most commanding figures on the road, upwards of six feet in height, with broad chest and shoulders and long arms. Noted for great strength, he was never quarrelsome. As a driver he performed his functions faithfully and carefully. He is a most interesting relic of the road, and his memory is well stored with interesting reminscences of its faded glory.

Alfred married Sophia B. BAILES before 1869. (Sophia B. BAILES was born in October 1844 in Pennsylvania and died before 1910 in (Probably) Fayette County, Pennsylvania.)