c 1822 Gamaliel Bailey Jr and Alesenia Bailey were named on a directory listing of the Charge of Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. [1][2]
1859 Gamaliel Bailey dated his will on January 15 in Washington, D.C. The will named wife Margaret L. [3]
1859 Gamaliel Bailey died at sea and was buried at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia. [4] [5]
Physician, journalist, editor and publisher of various abolitionist newspapers, the offices of which in Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. were repeatedly attacked, besieged or ransacked by pro-slavery mobs during the 1840's. His nationally-circulated The National Era serialized Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1851-1852.
Dr. Bailey died of heart failure on June 5, 1859, while en route to Europe aboard the steamship Arago. His remains were put on ice, returned aboard the steamer Vanderbilt, and buried at Congressional Cemetery on July 5 of that year.
His widow, Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey, died in 1888 and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown. On January 7, 1889, at the direction of family his remains were disinterred and reburied next to her at Oak Hill, in an unmarked grave.
[1] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, List 138, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Washington, D.C., U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1737-1952, [AncestryImage].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial 112859556, [FindAGrave].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].