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Mike has been employed in the banking business at Woodbury over 40 years and has seen many changes since the days when the Bailey family was part of the town's business community; many remember and shopped at Bailey's Department Store alone the north side of the square.
We are looking forward to a great presentation as Mike explores his family's contributions to Cannon County history including photos and artifacts. Also, Civil War stores about a 2-story plantation style house that once stood along the Sunny Slope Road just outside the town of Woodbury where Mike's grandfather, Isaac Floyd Bailey, purchased about 1890. Related research has revealed a section of the Bailey farm within a Griffith Rutherford 428 acre grant, surveyed in the early 1790's.
Also, in additional research suggests this entire 428 acre Griffith Rutherford grant was purchased about the year 1808 from the Griffith Rutherford heirs' by one of Woodbury's early founders and pioneers, James Taylor. Twenty acres out of this original Rutherford trace (areas in and around the Baptist Church grounds today) joined the original Danville town site along today's Dillion Street and was deeded with a few corrections to the town commissioner Taylor. It created a larger town, establishing Woodbury as Cannon County's only seat of justice since 1836.
Please join us at 6:30 for refreshments and the meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. As always, meetings are free to attend and you do not have to be a member.
