Two Dailey Documents

I am going through all the paper documents I have in my files.  My plan is to either put them in this blog or toss them, although there are some I will keep even though there are digital copies available.  

One of the reasons to keep certain papers is to remind me of the trips I took to locate them.  That was back in the Good Old Days of Genealogy.  Yes, it was a slow way of researching, but the travel was an adventure, the discoveries sometimes astonishing, and the people I met on those trips were certainly the most amiable you could ever hope to run across.

These two items are from my Dailey documents.  After all that positivity about travel, one came from correspondence.  They tie together.

My great-great grandmother is Juliet Dailey, daughter of William.  William is my great-great-great grandfather; Vincent my great-great-great-great grandfather.  Yes, I know that some prefer to use the numerical designations such as 4th great, but I think that the spelled-out greats makes me appreciate more how far back the person is from me.  

Vincent is buried in Zoar Cemetery, Caldwell Twp, Appanoose Co, Iowa.  We were there many years ago and photographed the markers.  The Find-a-Grave memorial for Vincent is 7756539. 

Although you can click on this image and enlarge it for reading, I still like to transcribe handwritten information.  

State of Iowa
Appanoose County
I, Wm Dailey, on oath depose and say that the following named persons are the only children and heirs [known is marked through] of Vincent Dailey deceased, to wit:
John Dailey, Peter Dailey, Thomas Dailey, O V Dailey, Nancy Cline, Zillah Sloan, James Dailey, and Wm Dailey.  
[signed] Wm Dailey
Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said Wm Daily this 2d day of Jany 1872
W __? Johnson
CCC [Clerk of the county court]

The next document is a page from a family Bible.  But - the handwriting is the same for every entry, too consistent to have been written over the years as the events occurred.  Still, the handwriting style of the list appears to be more than a hundred years old.  This copy was sent to me in 2005 by a Dailey descendant. 

I'm not keeping either of these sheets.  The information itself is typed into my computer; the statement of heirs is on file in the courthouse; the Bible page will be kept digitally.  I only have a thousand more to go . . . 

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