{"id":30865,"date":"2018-04-26T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=30865"},"modified":"2018-04-26T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:16:45","slug":"genealogy-discovery-disaster-takes-lives-of-mother-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-discovery-disaster-takes-lives-of-mother-daughter.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Discovery: Disaster Takes Lives of Mother, Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about using the clues in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> to locate a painting of my cousin Jacob Whitman Bailey and his children. (See: Newspaper Clue Leads to Old Family Painting<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In looking at my family tree, I noticed that both Jacob\u2019s wife Maria (Slaughter) Bailey and daughter Maria Whitman Bailey had died on the same day \u2013 so I searched in GenealogyBank to find an obituary or other article about them.<\/p>\n

I found this grim news.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Republic (Washington, D.C.), 2 August 1852, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were both killed in a shipping disaster when the steamer Henry Clay<\/em> caught fire and burned on the Hudson River near Yonkers, New York, on their way back to West Point, New York, on 28 July 1852.<\/p>\n

I have taken day cruises on the Hudson. They are restful and beautiful, as you slip by towns, enjoying cool breezes and pleasant views.<\/p>\n

But on that day in 1852, it was a disaster \u2013 etched in memory by Nathaniel Currier in this print.<\/p>\n

\"Illustration:<\/a>
Illustration: \u201cBurning of the Henry Clay near Yonkers\u201d by Nathaniel Currier, 1852. Source: Springfield Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GenealogyBank has your ancestors\u2019 stories \u2013 even when they are painful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn why his cousin Jacob Bailey\u2019s wife and daughter had died on the same day in 1852.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[20173,12,30073,2020],"class_list":["post-30865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-accidents-and-disasters","tag-genealogy","tag-henry-clay","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/illustration-0426-2018-featured-graphic-henry-clay-disaster.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}