Bailey - Cartland

Christmas 2011 photo card from Broweleit Family.  Jan Drescher Broweleit is granddaughter of Jennette Bailey Drescher and daughter of Richard and LaMoine Drescher.

Logbook Diary starting on July 28, 1955 from Redding to East Coast. Notes indicate Alice and Marve were on trip with Earl & Mary; there is no mention of Margaret.
I added maps along the trip totaling 3165 miles from Melrose Park (3590 from Redding). Vehicle got 13 mi/gallon. Near end of logbook, it looks like phone numbers (Naomi) and game.

Here are Fan Charts showing family from Elwood Bailey and Ella Cartland and another from JW Adair and Maggie Miller.

Fan Chart MARY descendants

I found these papers written by one of the children of Dr. Herbert Hardy Cartland & Henrietta Houston.

Cartland Genealogy (ORIGINAL) 

Children of Elisha and Sarah Patridge (TRANSCRIPTION)

This 8 page letter contains many details about Bailey & Nichols ancestry. The parents of Elwood Bailey are William Haskell Bailey (1813-1903) and Mary Chadbourne Nichols (1831-1885) and was written March 15, 1964 to Mary Bailey Adair from her first cousin Edna, daughter of Elwood's brother Alfred Corwin Bailey and Minnie Riley.

The last page includes note written by Mary with special attention "to Dorothy".

I transcribed these two letters written in 1965 and 1972.

First letter is about some Bailey, Haskell, and Berry families.

Second letter is about Cartland and his Metaphysics experiences.

Dear Cousin Vernice - May 27, 1965

Dear Vernice - Mar 16, 1972

Mary Bailey Adair great, great, great, grandfather was Joseph Cartland. She brought back these documents. See notes on pages 6, 16-17, 19, 20-21.

Lee, New Hampshire Bicentennial 

This book was presented to Elwood S. Bailey by his Aunt. It is dated 1851. Here are a few pages from the beginning.

Small (3x4) notebook with notes from Mary Bailey Adair. Writings include calendar entries, steam locomotive facts, some family dates, and Old Glory poem.

I was contacted by a collector of ship postcards, and he sent me one written by Arthur Cartland Bailey's wife Bess when he was teaching in Thailand. Aunt Bess was enroute from Kobe, Japan to Shanghai, China in 1930. A previous trip was made earlier with 2 children. In 1927, the SS President McKinley traveled from Manila (June 25, 1927) to Hong Kong (June 29), Shanghai (July 2), Kobe (July 5), Yokohama (July 7), and Victoria BC and Seattle arriving July 18, 1927.

Via S.S. Pres. Grant outbound from Shanghai to Seattle - April 18

Dear

When you get this I suppose school will be nearly over for this year. Betty's school in Bangkok begins about May 10th. She has had a good vacation and will be ready to work hard again. Good luck! Aunt Bess

Edna is 1st cousin of Mary Bailey Adair. She has daugther Ginny.

Letter written by my Mom’s 1st cousin, Phyllis Drescher. Phyllis and her son Norman experienced at Koinonia Farm in Georgia that her parents (Christian and Jennette) lived. Phyllis was married to Wilson Head and they had another son Gregory and 2 daughters. This is a letter that Phyllis shared in 1998 remembering The Chattanooga Bus Ride and Rosa Parks in 1954.

1949 letter written by aunt of Mary Bailey Adair. I have transcribed most of it; see below. Edith mentions her daughter Myrtle and her niece Phyllis Blume.

Story by Thomas Kruse about Arthur Cartland and Maurine Bailey

Pages from the Bailey Book

There was a Celebration of Life for John Wesley Adair on Saturday, April 22, 2023 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Here is the program plus speeches given by family.

Letter from Phyllis Drescher Head dated 070706 to Dorothy Gonick

Year end letter from Phyllis Drescher.

Phebe Cartland made this quilt for her Mom, Lydia Tuttle Jones for her 95th Birthday; she was born October 5, 1793.

See more about this quilt on page 2 of Simple Pleasures in Bailey Book. Link here

This is the 2023 calendar from the Durham Historical Society. I found the pictures in December most interesting that showed the Quaker Meeting House and our ancestors. 

Four Christmas cards include one from unknown "Evelyn" mentioning Lucy & Ruth Graham.

 1986 letter from Betty Blume, 1997 letter from Vernice Bailey Wood, 2011 letters from Phyllis Blume

Year end letter from Vernice to all and letter from Phyllis to Margaret & Marv and card from Phyllis to Alice

Two Christmas cards from Dreschers. First is Jennette & Christian, second is Eileen, Ken, Kent and Daphne

To Dorothy June 8, 1957

December 1961 letter re Head household in Canada including Wilson, Phyllis, Norman, Greggie, Renee

1955 Christmas letter by Phyllis Head re Wilson, Norman, Greg

In 1974 Mary was living in Melrose Park with family of her daughter Margaret. Here are details on 12-13 November 1974

Mary writes about her return trip with Rich from visiting Dorothy and returning to Melrose Park. Took limousine to Hartford airport from Meriden (just north of Wallingford). Marge & Marve picked them up at O'hare. Read letter for more details.

Here is a set of letters written by Mary Bailey Adair in 1974.

Letter written by Jennette to sister Mary in 1957 about "Bruderhof" community in Paraguay. I have a transcription at end.

Earl is giving status on Mary's left arm after Volkswagen accident

Ruth and Lucy sent greetings. Lucy was 94 in 1975. Lucy was 101 in 1981.

Evelyn Bailey wrote these notes about Vernice & Howard Wood Thanksgiving visit and how family has scattered from their root locations and Christmas without Earl.

Details that Etheldean Bailey provided about family, especially her father "Uncle Arthur (or Cartland)". She was married to Dragia Karabuykova.

Text of the funeral service for Mary Adair November 29, 1975 in Redding, Iowa. Read for details about life of Mary Bailey Adair.

Mary Emma Bailey kept a few diaries.

Four miscellaneous photos 1920, 1925, 1949 and 1951 with WBMiller captioning on the backs.

--Here are scanned images from notebook sent by Martha McCourt of Astoria, Oregon to Mary Emma Bailey Adair. The notebook is dated April 1972.

The book is titled “The Descendants of William Drake Berry of Maine” and is aided by notes from S.C. Berry and Annie Kenoyer

-- Paper published by Arthur Cartland Bailey and J.W. Woodrow From the PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE, vol. vi. December 1928

-- Small book compiled by Ann Austin Twomey, 1967. The author’s aunt is Mary C. Austin who married Cyrus Frank Cartland. This booklet has descendants of these Austins and includes names of Cartland and Twomey.

-- Here are scanned images from papers compiled by Arthur Cartland Bailey and Martha Fletcher McCourt dated April 1972

-- Also included are letters to/from Arthur Cartland Bailey in preparation for the papers.

-- Cherished Memories booklet remembering Ella Lydia Marshall maintained by her daughter Mary Emma Bailey Adair

Mary Emma Bailey kept a few diaries. Here is one from 1962. I also added descendant charts from Joseph Dixon Adair & Rose Ann Speckman.

Letter written July 27, 1958 talks about July 4 in Milwaukee and Chippewa Falls tornado. Trip continues to Duluth and steam train ride. On to Paul Bunyan Park and the Badlands in South Dakota. Then Wall Drug Store, Mt. Rushmore, Wyoming, and Denver. Visited Maurice & June at Sam Adair home. Visited by Stuart & Helen Hoover. In Kansas stayed overnight with cousin (Barleen) before Mt. Ayr, Centerville, and Muscatine, Iowa. Mary & Earl working in Melrose Park, Illinois; their age is early 60's now. Pompilio family has NOT moved in next door yet; house is empty. Marvin & Tom gone to Comiskey Park to see Red Sox and White Sox. Earl interested in Volkswagen station wagon.