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Rufus Miner Bailey

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Rufus Miner Bailey

Birth
Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio, USA
Death
19 Dec 1925 (aged 73)
Britton, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Rufus Miner Bailey was born in Ohio and his family moved to Kansas about 1867. About 1891 he made a trip to Oklahoma from Hoyt, Kansas to visit his sister, Helen Carson. He liked the new country and looked for a farm that might be for sale. He found 160 acres seven miles west and one mile north of Britton (what is now NW 108th street and County Line - legal description SW1/4 of SEC 19-13N-4W., Spring Creek Township, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma). Rufus built one of the first frame houses in the county. He moved his wife and six children from Hoyt in March 1894. By 1900 three more children were born.

Like all pioneer families their days were filled with long hours of hard work. They endured many hardships; cyclone (1912), drought, wind, and hail.

Elizabeth and Rufus retired from farming December 31 1922 and moved to a home in Britton, where they lived out the remainder of their lives.

In the 1950's the farmhouse was moved to 900 Ann Arbor and clad with brick. It still stands there.
Rufus Miner Bailey was born in Ohio and his family moved to Kansas about 1867. About 1891 he made a trip to Oklahoma from Hoyt, Kansas to visit his sister, Helen Carson. He liked the new country and looked for a farm that might be for sale. He found 160 acres seven miles west and one mile north of Britton (what is now NW 108th street and County Line - legal description SW1/4 of SEC 19-13N-4W., Spring Creek Township, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma). Rufus built one of the first frame houses in the county. He moved his wife and six children from Hoyt in March 1894. By 1900 three more children were born.

Like all pioneer families their days were filled with long hours of hard work. They endured many hardships; cyclone (1912), drought, wind, and hail.

Elizabeth and Rufus retired from farming December 31 1922 and moved to a home in Britton, where they lived out the remainder of their lives.

In the 1950's the farmhouse was moved to 900 Ann Arbor and clad with brick. It still stands there.

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h/o Elizabeth McKeage Bailey / son of Olive Hand Bailey

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