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Surnames: Bailey, Wetherbee, Odell, Michaels, Shepperd, Shields, Greeburg, Barber, Davis,
Wise, Brown, Bess , Green,
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don‘t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index.
Typed by Lora Radiches: 3-24-2005
Surnames in this biography are: Bailey, Wetherbee, Odell, Michaels, Shepperd, Shields,
Greeburg, Barber, Davis, Wise, Brown, Bess , Green,
TELEMACUS EUGENE BAILEY is a highly respected citizen and successful farmer and stock man
of Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County. On the farm where he lives today he was born March
8, 1877, son of Thomas O. and Urania (Wetherbee) Bailey. His great-grandfather, Joel
Bailey, was a Virginia soldier in the Continental army in the war for independence. Mr.
Bailey's grandparents were Eben and Rhoda (Odell) Bailey. Eben Bailey was born at
Winchester, Virginia, December 23, 1794. He moved to Adams County, Ohio, where he married
and where he reared a large family of children. Thomas O. Bailey was born in Adams County,
Ohio. He as a young man left home to prospect for a new place of settlement in Indiana,
riding horseback, and in 1849 investigated the country in Jackson Township of Tippecanoe
County. By working at day wages he accumulated the modest capital .that comprised his
first payment on the land now owned by his son, T. E. Bailey. He was in every sense of the
word a self-made !
man and became a prosperous citizen and lived a long and active life. He died at the age
of ninety-four and he and his wife are buried in the Sugar Grove Cemetery. He was a member
of the Masonic fraternity and always voted as a Republican. There were six children in the
family, the youngest dying in infancy. Telemacus was the fifth in age. Jacob S. married
Clara Michaels. Ellen C. became the wife of Hale Shepperd and has a son Charles B. Charles
L. married Jane Shields and their children are Rose and Albert L. Nathan 0. is deceased.
Telemacus E. Bailey attended the Sugar Grove schoolhouse. He worked on the home farm after
school hours and during vacations. His education was concluded with a course in a business
college at La Fayette. Then, at the age of twenty, he became actively associated with his
father on the farm and later he bought the homestead from the other heirs. In August,
1897, he married Viola Greeburg, daughter of John C. and Jane (Barber) Greeburg. Her
father was born in Germany and after coming to America located in Jackson Township,
Tippecanoe County. He enlisted as a musician in Company E of the Seventy-second Indiana
Infantry and served in Wilder's Brigade and took part in Sherman's march to the
sea. After the war he was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. There were
seven children in the Greeburg family: Stella E., wife of Thomas Davis and mother of Lee,
Earl and Edna Davis; James A., who married Pearl Wise and has a daughter, Ruth; Lucretia,
wife of Lon Brown; Mrs. !
Bailey; Carl, who married Grace Bess and has two children, Nellie and John; Ernest; and
Everett, who married Helen Green and has two children, Roland E. and James M. Mrs.
Bailey's parents are buried in the Sugar Grove Cemetery. Her father was a Mason, a
Republican, and an active Methodist. Mr. Bailey is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He
is a member of the National Detective Association, the Farm Bureau, and Mrs. Bailey is a
member of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine of Jerusalem. They are members of the
Methodist Church at New Richmond.