I mentioned in an earlier post that I was returning to my
Agard line to fill in the lives of my direct descendants’ siblings. Before I
got incredibly busy with transcription work (my other life), I was working on
the children of Samuel and Lydia Hibbard
Agard. My direct descendant
was their first born, Noah Agard (b:
17 Apr 1823).
Noah’s sister, Anna Maria, intrigued me since my parents owned
property on Anna Maria Island,
Florida for almost sixty years! I
had not taken the time to delve into Anna Maria’s life until now.
And then I had to do the math. From the research Frederick
Browning Agard did on the Agard family I knew that Anna Maria married Dr. Gilbert D. Bailey. The Havana (NY) Republican reports the marriage as 4
November 1841, when Anna Maria would have been ten years old – so I suspect
there was a typo and Anna and Gilbert were married later in the 1840s. It then occurred to me that since Anna
Maria was born in 1831 and Gilbert in 1813 – there was 18 years difference in
their ages. I don’t know why this
struck me as odd, but it did.
I followed this family through the census, both federal and
New York. Anna
Maria and Gilbert had five children: Samuel A (b: 1851), James (b: 1853), Mary
F. (b: 1855) Lydia (b: 1857) and Gilbert (b: 1861). Although Frederick Browning Agard’s book, Agards in America states the family
moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan, the U.S. Federal Census as well as the NYS
1855 census shows the family continuously living in the Catherine, New York
area. There is no 1865 NYS census for Schuyler County, but both the 1860 and
1870 U.S. Federal Census shows the family living in Schuyler County, New York.
Gilbert is listed as being a physician. I will see what resources Benton Harbor
has that might tell me if indeed the family lived there.
Gilbert D. Bailey died 6 February 1872 at 58 yrs, 3
mo, 12 days and is buried in Montour Falls (NY) cemetery.[1] Anna Maria (Agard) Bailey died 27 March
1909 and is buried with her husband in Montour Cemetery.
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