13 September 2010

Divorce Action in Williams County, Ohio - Bayley, 1882


Ida May Hathaway Bayley v Perry Henry Bayley (Journal 11/12 p492 - 12 Sept 1882; Roll 38 case number 1053)

 

By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 23 September 2021)

 

The couple was married in Ottawa, Putnam Co, OH, on 3 Aug 1878.  Ida, b 30 Mar 1858, Columbia City, Whitley Co, IN, was the daughter of Thomas B. and Frances Elizabeth Andrews Hathaway. Ida told the court Perry had been willfully absent for three years or more.  He refused to support her.  Mrs. FE Hathaway, her mother, of Van Buren Twp, Putnam Co, OH gave testimony to support Ida.  A divorce was granted.   

 

In 1870 Sidney, Shelby Co, OH federal census Ida Hathaway was 12 OH with her parents. From the 1880 Belmore, Putnam Co, OH federal census, p301, the Hathaways were listed as TB 50 OH house carpenter, FE 42 OH, Ida Bailey 22 OH, Jennie Hathaway 18 OH, Clara Hathaway 16 OH, Hattie Hathaway 9 OH, Bessie Hathaway 2 OH, and Jessie Bailey 2 OH, granddaughter; evidently Ida and her daughter made a home in Putnam Co with her parents. After that census, nothing else is known of Ida or Jessie.

 

More records need to be investigated, particularly in Shelby Co, OH, but the following is a very interesting possibility.  Perry Henry Bayley, born 21 April 1857 in Sidney Shelby Co, OH, the son of Elisha and Ellen Duvall Bayley,  fathered a son, Bruce Bayley, born 4 August 1878 in Franklin, Shelby Co, OH. Bruce’s birth certificate listed his parents as Perry Bayley and Mary E “Jenny” Ware.  In 1880 Perry is living in Sidney, Shelby Co, OH as 24 OH clerk in a store, residing with his parents; he’s enumerated as single.  Bruce Bayley is listed in 1880 Dinsmore, Shelby Co, OH as Brucey Bayley with his grandparents Israel and Josephine Ware; he’s 2 OH grandson. The 1880 Girls Reformatory in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH has a Mary E Ware listed as inmate, 18 OH.  If these facts are correct, Perry married Ida a day before his son Bruce was born.  Since the mother, Mary E Ware, was underage (15 or 16) perhaps she was sent away to that reformatory. Perry, having married Ida and it would seem fathered a child, Jessie born 1878, left Ida sometime in 1879 and went back home to live with his parents.  This is not a pretty picture - one underage girl he did not marry but abandoned  and one woman he married but later abandoned.  Both women were the mothers of his children, Bruce and Jessie.

 

In 1902 Perry applied for a US patent on a soldering iron heater.  His occupation according to his death certificate stated he was a thinner. Perry H. Bayley was enumerated in 1910 Sidney, Shelby Co, OH as 55 OH-MD-OH retail merchant married c1885 with wife Mary Ann (Steinle) and three children (one died). Perry died on 13 December 1914 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Sidney, Shelby Co, OH. 

 



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