HARRY, Olive ¹

  General Notes:

UA Record #:2347
In THE FRIEND her description records: "Olive ... was born in 1703 or 1704. She was a member of the Chester Monthly Meeting until her marriage with Daniel Baily, a member of Newark, afterward Kennett Monthly Meeting, in 1721. She appears to have been brought under the discipline of the cross in early life, and was qualified thereby for by usefulness in the church. She was much employed in the meeting of which she was a member, in the exercise of the discipline, and at times visiting families. Some years before her death, she was appointed an elder, and her memorial staes, "in which she conducted to general satisfaction." She was of a "sober, orderly conversation, a diligent attender of meetings, for worship and discipline, behaving with an awful, solid demeanor therein." She was an example of plainness in speech and apparel both to her family and others; she was a loving wife, a mother, a kind neighbor and friend, and serviceable in the society in diverse respects. Being taken ill with an intermittent fever, she lay about two weeks, and was then released from suffering. During her sickness, she expressed herself glad of the company of Friends, who called to see her, yet her "distemper being heavy upon her, she kept mostly still and composed in mind, as one gathered from the world, and the things of it." Her death took place Tenth month 4th, 1766, she being in the sixty-third year of her age." (C-437)

Olive married Daniel BAILEY on Jan 16, 1720/21 in Goshen M.M., Chester, PA, USA.