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George Pease Dailey (b. 1818, d. date unknown)
Notes for George Pease Dailey:
The first marriage was between George Daly and Rebecca Arble, in the spring of 1839.Miss Arble had recently arrived from Pennsylavia, in company with Mr. Cooper, father of Michael Cooper.
An amusing incident, illustrating the trials and disappointments of early life here, is related by Mr. Morris, which we give in his own words.speaking of the marriage of Mr. Daly and Miss Arble in 1839 he says:"This feat was accomplished after many trials and tribulations had been undergone, arising mainly from the inappropriativeness of poor Lo, the wandering red man.Pease, Daly, et al, had oftentimes had occasion to congratulate themselves and each otherupon the honesty, probity and other old-time characteristics of their neighbors, and had laughed themselves into paroxysms of glee over the thought that locks and bars and all such were for those who needed them; when lo! a change came over the spirit of their dream.When the poor Indian, of untutored mind, had been incautiously left without the realms of their reckoning, he, or they (for there was a brace of them), had felt the slight to such a degree as to so cautiously appear upon the scene, so quietly operate, and silently disappear as to prove, even in these pioneer days, that "the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft a'glee."Pease's Guinea gold watch was gone, his riding bridle, and enough else to vex his soul.And Daly - his wedding beaver hat was gone; his wedding suit was gone; and, alas! too, was gone the money he had saved for a license fee for the minister who was to tie the Gordian knot, and for part payment for sewing upon these same wedding garments, justly due to Miss Lydia Pinneo, a sister of Madison Pinneo, who had in her kind womanly heart so efficiently aided him in his so landable and hazardous undertaking.And with these were gone, too, the good motherly hens, brooding upon nests so soon to reward their maternal care.His spoons were gone; his knives ditto, and truly our hero, for he was a hero, had fallen upon troublous times.Think of it, yeyoung men and maidens; sympatize with this heartbroken young man while your historian leaves him prostrate in the ashes of his dead hopes and hastens after the gaunt authors of his woe.In impartial mood our Indians wended their devious way to the house of Pease, and in the quiet, restful hours of slumber, awaked his household in their ill-timed efforts to kindle a blaze upon his hearth."Ugh! me welly cold," and he bade them bring in some logs and warm their beauteous anatomies."Ugh! me welly hungry," and he fed them upon the viands then and there in plenteous vogue."Ugh! me welly sleepy," and he bade them roll their glorious frames, bedecked in all their gorgeous panoply of blanket, paint, buckskin, feathers, beads, etc., at length before the hearth and sleep the sleep of the just.And the Pease household accepted the advice of its head, and slumbered as do the just and upright; and it happening to be on a Sabbath morn they indulged then as we of later day times do - in too much of slumber of the just and upright.This fault, if such, cannot be laid upon their visitors, the Indians, who, in praise be it said, were up betimes or perhaps a little previous, and fearing to awake their host, had silently stolen away a Guinea gold watch, a riding bridle, and such else as to vex the household of Pease.And then there was a wild hurrying to and fro.Norris rode to the raging Wapsie where Bowen's ferry did its roaring tide bespan, and earnestly be sought its Charon of tidings of the truant twain.Daly - but we left him prostrare, etc., and our veracions intermant saith now further of him; and Pease, he rode to the hamlet of Davenport thence to Long Grove, Allen's Grove and Little Walnut Grove, where he heard of our Indians, one of whom was bedecked in wedding raiment, betopped with wedding beaver hat, and bejeweled with Buinea gold watch, all of which finery he hastenedto barter to a man named Woods, for divers quantities of calico goods, buttons, trinkets, etc., to the value of $9.And Pease overtook the Indians, and after some parley betook unto himself the riding bridle, the spoons and the knives, and was of course properly rejoiced thereat.Upon our man woods he found the beaver wedding hat, plowing corn with its new-found owner, and to him he was also indebted for restoration of the wedding suit upon the just consideration of $7 lawful money.And Daly, hero and Phoenix that he was, straightway arose from the ashes aforesaid, donned his marriage raiment, his wedding beaver hat - both tried and not found wanting - and joyfully led to the Hymen's alter his blushing bride, the fair Becky Arble.
More About George Pease Dailey:
Occupation: 1850, Per 1850 Census, Lawyer.
More About George Pease Dailey and Rebecca Arble:
Marriage 1: 1839, First Marriage in BUTLER TOWNSHIP.
Marriage 2: 1839, Butler, IA, USA.438
Children of George Pease Dailey and Rebecca Arble are:
- Frederick A Dailey, b. 1840, Canton, Jackson, IA, USA438, d. date unknown.
- Rebecca A Dailey, b. 1842, Canton, Jackson, IA, USA438, d. date unknown.
- Joshua Dailey, b. 1844, Canton, Jackson, IA, USA438, d. date unknown.
- +Rosanna Collar Dailey, b. 07 Apr 1846, Scott, IA, USA438, 438, 438, d. 26 May 1922, Middletown, Lake, CA, USA438, 438, 438.
- Lucinda Dailey, b. 1848, Canton, Jackson, IA, USA438, d. date unknown.
- +Henrietta Dailey, b. 23 Jun 1853, Canton, Jackson, IA, USA438, 438, d. 1905438, 438.