WM. C. Bailey Memoriam

Title

WM. C. Bailey Memoriam

Accession Number

2026.23.22.31

Accession Date

30 March 2026

Accession Creator

Emma Lilyea

Format

Paper

Storage Location

Box 76, Folder 6

Text

In Memoriam
WM. C. Bailey of Greer’s Station, Greenville County, S.C. was born October 16th, 1833, and died October 16th, 1882, aged 49 years.
Deceased was a well-known citizen of honesty, veracity, reliability, and integrity of character; a man of good practical sense and sound judgement, prompt and faithful in meeting his engagements and obligations to his fellowman.
He leaves a wife and five children to mourn their great loss. He was a great sufferer from a complication of diseases. Sometimes in his extreme suffering of body, he would say to his bosom companion, who was ever by his bedside, day and night, ministering with assiduous care, tenderness, affection, and faithfulness, to his relief and comfort, “Oh, that death would come and relieve me from such suffering,” but on a moment’s reflection he would say, “I recall my hasty expression; the Lord’s will be done, not mine; I desire to suffer his will.”
Deceased had been a member of the Presbyterian church over twenty years, and a ruling elder more than seventeen years, and a ruling elder more than seventeen years, and long an acceptable and successful Sabbath-school superintendent in Mt. Tabor church. Durine his long suffering and confinement to house and bed, he frequently deplored his many short-comings, infirmities, and failures in duty, the spirit being willing but the flesh weak; yet his hope in God was an anchor to his soul, and held him from sinking in despair; and when contemplating death as inevitable, with calmness and clearness of mind, and with unwavering faith in Christ, he said in effect to the writer, “I have chosen the Lord for my portion,” and with the Psalmist he thought he could say, “My heart is fixed, trusting in God my Saviour, who forgiveth iniquity, transgression, and sin,” and though he felt himself sinful and unworthy, yet he trusted his “life was hid with Christ in God;” and therefore he did not fear death, but thought it desirable “to be absent from the” suffering “body and present with the Lord.”
May his surviving consort have wisdom from on high “to guide her affairs with discretion,” and grace to train up her fatherless children in the loving, reverential fear and service of their God and redeemer.
W. M’W.

Relation

Bailey Family Collection