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Marcellus "Bailey"
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Marcellus "Bailey" Fawcett was born on March
29, 1863 in Preston County, WV, the son of John
Allen and Narcissus (Feather) Fawcett.
Bailey married Ida May Shields (1857 -1950), the daughter of William Shields, and a native of Wheeling, Ohio County, WV.
The Fawcetts resided in Kingwood, Preston County, but are not thought to have had any children.
They are named in Edna (Davis) Rogers' book, Genealogy of the Jacob and Mary (Connoly)
Feather Family of Preston County, West Virginia (Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1980).
Bailey died at age 76 on Feb. 23, 1939, at the Monongalia County Hospital in Morgantown, WV, after suffering from prostate cancer for several years. After funeral services held at their "old home," said the Preston County Journal, his remains were laid to rest at the Kingwood Cemetery. He was survived by his brother Elisha "and several nieces and nephews."
Ida May outlived her husband by 11 years.
She moved to Bridgeport, Harrison County, WV in about 1940, settling near Maple
Lake.
She died at the age of 93, of a cerebral hemorrhage, on June 13, 1950. She was buried beside her husband at the Maplewood Cemetery in Kingwood.
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