Bailey, Charles T. 1862 - 1899

BAILEY, BURDICK

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Source: Decorah Republican June 15, 1899 P 3 C 5

BAILEY—At St. Mary’s Hospital, Hancock, Mich., Friday, June 9th, Charles T. Bailey, eldest son of Ansel K. and Sarah H. Bailey, of Decorah, Iowa.
The news of the death of Charley come as a surprise to his family and acquaintances alike. It was known less than a week previous that he was seriously ill, and the latest intelligence was to the effect that he was improving. The first information was to the effect that he had been suffering from hemorrhage from the nose. A letter which came after his death said that pneumonia set in later and his recovery was impossible.
Charles T. Bailey was born in Decorah, February 20, 1862. His home was here until 1887 when he went to Sault Ste. Marie, to become a bookkeeper in the Sault Ste. Marie National Bank, Later he went to Newberry where he had charge of a bank for some time, but returned to Iowa in 1890 and engaged in the insurance business. In 1896 he returned to the {illegible} and was a resident there when the Spanish-American war broke out. Enlisting in the 34th Michigan regiment he became clerk to Gen. H. M. {?}atfield and continued in that capacity until the advance on Santiago. He rejoined his company, participated in the battle, saw the ca{illegible}ation of the city, and eventually returned to this country and was mustered out at Calumet 1ast fall. Since that time he has resided there and at Houghton. The funeral was held last Sunday afternoon at Calumet, with military honors, and interment made in the soldiers’ burial place,
Married in 1886{?} to Miss Mary A. Burdick. three children—two boys and a daughter survive him. The pen that has so often written of the passing of others who have dropped out of life’s hard contest falters when the task comes home to one’s own heart-strings. We bid him good bye, desiring only to remember the day when he was the brave, manly boy; large hearted, generous, helpful and loving—the pride of his family and beloved of all the associates of his youth and early manhood Peace to his ashes.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Calumet, MI; however, there is also a gravestone in Phelps Cemetery.

Phelps Cemetery
 

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