Court Records

 

STATE OF KENTUCKY

County of Harrison

 

I, C.M. Sprake, Notary Republic in for the County aforesaid declare that personally appeared before me, Mr. Arch Bailey of the county and state above written and made the following affidavit

 

I, Arch Bailey, resident of Harrison County, Kentucky was born on the 12 day of January 1872, son of Henry Bailey and his wife Nancy Talbert who was born 1838.  She was the granddaughter of Henry Talbert, Revolutionary War Soldier and often showed me the tree in Indian Creek Baptist Churchyard under which Henry Talbert lies buried.  Her father Daniel Talbert was born September 29, 1782 and died September 17, 1861, her uncle George Talbert born September 13, 1785 and died January 3, 1852 and his wife Unity Smith Talbert 1788-1864, her uncle Henry Talbert born February 27, 1789 and died 1849, her aunt Nancy Talbert b 1793 and died 1835, wife of Daniel McShane 1781-1856 are likewise buried in this churchyard, which is not far from the county line between Harrison and Bourbon County and was near their country home.  I further state that my mother and I resided on land that had descended to her from the first said Henry Talbert that I lived there until 1936 when the old house was destroyed by fire, since which time I lived a short distance away from family land.  I might add that the above  named children where some of the nine children of Henry Talbert’s second marriage to Barbara Whaley.

 

Signed J. Arch Bailey  February 19, 1951