Bailey P. Mundy
by deb - February 16th, 2010.Filed under: Genealogy.
After a little more research and some talking with a relative and fellow researcher, I found the answer to the question of the missing marriage record of my great-great grandfather Ira Stokes West to my great-great grandmother Maggie E.O. Mundy. Their marriage took place in Macon Co. TN at the home of Bailey Mundy, Maggie’s father. This was recorded in the Ira S. West Bible with copies of this information and more on the West family published in Volume XVII, Number 3, p. 134-5 of the Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History.
I made a copy of this information and included it in my latest application to the Civil War Families of Tennessee for Private Bailey Peyton Mundy of Smith and Macon Counties.
I was not able to find the marriage of Bailey P. Mundy to Susan M. Morris that my great-great Uncle Hoke recorded in his family history What is in a Name. An initial search of Smith Co. marriages did not show the marriage, but the 1880 census record of B. P. Mundy’s household in Macon Co. TN listed B.P.’s wife Susan M. and his father-in-law James Morris. Both the 1870 Smith Co. TN census and the 1860 Smith Co. TN census records list Bailey P. But, it will take a little more research to learn where Susan Morris and her family were in the 1860 census.
Finally, one of the fun things about genealogy research is that in solving one mystery you always seem to uncover another. I started this project thinking I had two Civil War ancestors, one on my dad’s side of the family and one on my mom’s side. Now, I am finding out that I may have had two more Civil War ancestors on my dad’s side, and both of these men would have been great-great-great-great grandfathers! In addition, one of these southern ancestors may have served in the Union Army.
The hunt for Civil War ancestors continues…
February 16th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Hi Debbie, I think you have mentioned a relative of mine, Robert Stokes; also the Morris family. My mothers family is the Robert Caffey family from outside of Lebanon, MO. I think we are related to the Morris family also. Wouldn’t this be fun! I haven’t worked on that family for a long time. Most of the research is done. Bob Morris of southern California did the research. There are a lot of mistakes in the research. I submitted it to Ancester.com and it came back that there were many mistakes.
Next, I wanted to tell you about how I found all the information on my gr gr gr grandfather who fought and was killed in the civil War. I even know how to find most of the records.
As you know, the Confederate army destroyed most of their records to keep the Union for capturing them. I went thru the Missouri State Archives of the Union Provost Marshall. The records of the Union Provost Marshall has been interupted and typed up in files dated and shown where the fighting happened. I finally found my Hutton Gr gr Gr, Joseph G. Hutton was arrested by the Union and was being marched with 26 other men on the way to St.Louis Union Prison. He was arrested for stealing 3 bottles of whiskey. The report said he was shot dead while trying to escape. This info is written in the records of the Union. Still have not found his burial spot. Let me hear from you about Stokes.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I’m fairly new, as well, and have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.
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February 21st, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Welcome to the Geneabloggers family! Although quite a bit of my family lived in Kentucky I feel like they were “neighbors”!