Household #51: Bailey, James

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In the 1900 Barney census, James Bailey headed a 6-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

James Bailey headed a 6-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner, 3 children, and 1 extended-family member.

James Bailey's listed occupation was Farmer.

Reported birthplaces span Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, pointing to movement into Barney or family formation across county or state lines.

1900 Census Household

Children and Later Trails

This section is reserved for later-life child evidence. No later spouse, death, burial, obituary, probate, separate household, or descendant-line identification has been added here yet from direct records.

Family Narrative

James Bailey and Elsie Bailey were married in Brooks County on 1 Aug 1895. The marriage record gives her name as Elsie Flawnoy, while the 1900 manuscript surname for Hannah favors Flownoy/Flournoy, rather than the shortened Flow in the earlier transcription. The reading remains qualified; surname similarity alone does not establish her identity in other records.

The 1900 census securely places this family in Barney. James was a North Carolina-born farmer who could read and write. Elsie was born in Georgia. Their household included three young children—Festus, Rosa, and infant Owen—and Hannah, who is explicitly identified as James Bailey's mother-in-law. The relationship is recorded relative to James, the household head. It supports Hannah as Elsie’s probable mother, but does not independently establish biological maternity.

By 1910, the family appears in Hamburg, Madison County, Florida. James Bailey, 39, and wife Elcy Bailey, 36, were still together, and the household included Festus, Rosa J., Owens W., and Carrie. James was working as a laborer in turpentine, showing a shift from the 1900 Barney farm household into Florida wage labor.

The Flournoy family network around HH#51 is supported by several records. In 1870, Polly Flournoy appears in the Brooks County household of John and Hannah Flournoy. In 1880, the same household includes Mary Flournoy, who may be the same person under a different everyday name. In 1900, Pollie Flournoy heads HH#185 in Barney. Her 1923 Brooks County death certificate names her mother as Hannah Flournoy. Those records support a documented Flournoy kin network in Brooks County and Barney, and they strengthen the connection between HH#51 and HH#185.

A 1920 Quitman household headed by Fess I. Bailey with wife Elcie and daughter Carrie likely represents the next generation rather than James Bailey's own household. Because the record was not tied to James directly, it is better treated as probable continuation of the family line rather than as firm evidence for James's later residence.

Open Research Questions

• Parentage audit: Keep head-of-household and spouse parentage as unresolved unless a cited direct record names the parents or the entry explains the census chain supporting the identification.
• Child census audit: Continue direct-record tracking for each child named in the 1900 household where later census, marriage, death, burial, obituary, or other parent-link proof is not already cited above.
• Other household member audit: Verify every non-nuclear household member, including in-laws, boarders, servants, laborers, uncles, grandchildren, and collateral relatives, before treating the stated relationship as part of the proved family structure.
• The exact relationship between Pollie/Polly Flournoy of HH#185 and Elsie Bailey is strongly suggestive but not stated directly in the surviving records reviewed here.
• The 1880 Mary Flournoy entry is likely the same person as the 1870 Polly Flournoy and the 1900 Pollie Flournoy, but that identification still rests on cumulative evidence rather than an explicit statement.
• A 1930 James Bailey entry in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, with daughter Rosa Williams may fit this household, but it should remain provisional unless bridged by stronger evidence.
• No securely verified death record, burial record, or later-life record for James Bailey or Elsie Bailey has been preserved in this entry.

Research Status

Well-researched through the 1895 marriage record, the 1900 Barney household, the 1910 Madison County household, and the reconstructed Flournoy family network. Later Bailey-family continuity remains partial.

Sources

• Brooks County, Georgia, marriage record for James Bailey and Elsie Flawnoy, 1 Aug 1895.
• 1900 U.S. census, Barney District, Brooks County, Georgia, ED 9, sheet 3A, lines 28–33, dwelling/family 51.
• 1910 United States Federal Census, Hamburg, Madison County, Florida, James Bailey household.
• 1870 United States Federal Census, Brooks County, Georgia, John and Hannah Flournoy household.
• 1880 United States Federal Census, Morven, Brooks County, Georgia, John and Hannah Flournoy household.
• 1900 United States Federal Census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Pollie Flournoy household (HH#185).
• Georgia death certificate for Pollie Flournoy, Brooks County, 6 Aug 1923, naming mother Hannah Flournoy.
• 1920 United States Federal Census, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, Fess I. Bailey household.

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