Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

MRS. ELIZABETH HOBBS BAILEY

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
            The name which heads this review is one well known throughout the 
Tudor section, where she has resided all of her life.  Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey was 
born one mile west of Tudor, Sutter County, a daughter of Joseph W. and Eliza 
Jane (Hawkins Rose) Hobbs.  Eliza Jane Hawkins was born in Ohio in 1839, and at 
the age of three years accompanied her parents to Illinois.  There she remained 
until she was seven, when the family removed to Iowa, where they spent the 
following nine years.  In 1855 the family crossed the plains with an ox team and 
prairie schooner, taking six months to make the journey.  They first settled in 
Yolo County, where they remained for one year, and then came to Sutter County, 
where they spent their remaining years.  In 1857 Miss Hawkins was married to 
George Rose, a native of England, and three children were born to them:  
Margaret, George, Jr., and Benjamin F.  In 1862 Mr. Rose passed away and in 1864 
Mrs. Rose was married to Joseph W. Hobbs, a native of Kentucky.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Hobbs were the parents of four children:  Mary E., Alice Bell, and James William 
all deceased; and Elizabeth, the subject of this sketch.  The father of our 
subject passed away in 1875, the mother surviving until her eighty-first year.  
Elizabeth Hobbs attended the old Central district school in Sutter County.
            On September 6, 1896, Miss Hobbs was married at her home to Walter 
E. Bailey, born on the old Bailey ranch one mile north of O�Banion Corners, a 
son of George W. and Mary E. (O�Banion) Bailey.  George W. Bailey was born in 
Lincoln County, Ky., a son of Benjamin Franklin and Narcissus (Hazlewood) 
Bailey, both natives of Kentucky.  George W. Bailey was brought up on a farm in 
Missouri, which he assisted in clearing and improving.  In October, 1861, he 
enlisted in a company composed of scouts and guides, being one of five volunteer 
scouts from Pettis County.  He served as a pilot to the army under General 
Fremont for three months.  After the expiration of his enlistment he returned to 
his home, where he remained until 1864, when he came via Panama to California, 
locating in Sutter County.  In 1873 he purchased 160 acres of land, which is now 
the home place of our subject; and in 1887 he acquired 320 acres more.  The 
ranch was devoted to general farming, including the raising of cattle, horses, 
mules and hogs.  On October 10, 1865, he was married to Miss Mary E. O�Banion, 
also born in Kentucky, but reared and educated in Missouri.  Four children were 
born to them:  Luella, Marcellus C., Walter E. (the husband of our subject), and 
Arthur.  After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey took up their residence on 
the old Bailey homestead, their portion of the Bailey estate being 160 acres of 
land.  Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were the parents of three children, namely:  Walter 
L., Willard E., and Gertrude.  Willard E. married Jessie E. Cope and they have 
one son, Willard Eugene, Jr.  Mr. Bailey passed away February 25, 1905.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 951-952