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Richard Franklin Bailey

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Richard Franklin Bailey

Birth
Lynchburg, Moore County, Tennessee, USA
Death
25 Sep 1944 (aged 60)
Irmo, Lexington County, South Carolina, USA
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Irmo, Richland County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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The below INFO was told to me by his son, Richard John (Johnny) Bailey in the summer of 1982.

Richard Franklin Bailey (1884-1944), father of Richard (Johnny) Bailey, was from Lynchburg, Moore County, TN, and helped build the dam at Lake Murray.

He was married to the former Miss. Lena Levina Rigsby (1890-1973) from Lynchburg, Moore County, TN.

Back in the 1920s, work was hard to find in Lynchbury, so Richard and his wife, Lena, moved the Bailey family to Georgia looking for work. While in Georgia, Richard heard about the Lake Murray Dam Project, so he packed up his family and moved to the Irmo area.

By that time, he and his wife had 12 head of children living in and around the Irmo area..... one or two of their children stayed in Georgia and got married.

After the building of the dam, Richard Franklin Bailey was working with his farm tractor one day and somehow got killed in a accident with the tractor.

He and his wife are buried at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church Cemetery north of Irmo.

People working on the Lake Murray Dam Project were know as "The Dam People."
The below INFO was told to me by his son, Richard John (Johnny) Bailey in the summer of 1982.

Richard Franklin Bailey (1884-1944), father of Richard (Johnny) Bailey, was from Lynchburg, Moore County, TN, and helped build the dam at Lake Murray.

He was married to the former Miss. Lena Levina Rigsby (1890-1973) from Lynchburg, Moore County, TN.

Back in the 1920s, work was hard to find in Lynchbury, so Richard and his wife, Lena, moved the Bailey family to Georgia looking for work. While in Georgia, Richard heard about the Lake Murray Dam Project, so he packed up his family and moved to the Irmo area.

By that time, he and his wife had 12 head of children living in and around the Irmo area..... one or two of their children stayed in Georgia and got married.

After the building of the dam, Richard Franklin Bailey was working with his farm tractor one day and somehow got killed in a accident with the tractor.

He and his wife are buried at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church Cemetery north of Irmo.

People working on the Lake Murray Dam Project were know as "The Dam People."

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