Bayha, George Lewis Sr.
| Birth Name | Bayha, George Lewis Sr. |
| Call Name | Lewis |
| Nick Name | Lew, Lou |
| Gramps ID | I0851 |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | 89 years, 10 months, 22 days |
Events
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| Birth | 1837-04-15 | Pittsburgh, Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Census | 1850 | Salt Creek Twp, Pickaway Cty, Ohio, USA | |
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| Census | 1860 | Wheeling, Ohio Cty, West Virginia, USA | |
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| Census | 1880 | Monongahela, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Occupation | 1880 | Photographer | |
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| Census | 1900 | Monongahela, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Occupation | 1900 | News dealer | |
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| Census | 1910 | Monongahela, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Census | 1920 | Monongahela, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Death | 1927-03-07 | Monongahela, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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Parents
| Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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| Father | Bayha, Johann Georg Jr. [I0027] | 1807-03-10 | 1881-09-11 | |
| Mother | Hablitzel, Agnes [I0028] | 1815-03-17 | 1892-11-14 | |
| Bayha, George Lewis Sr. [I0851] | 1837-04-15 | 1927-03-07 | ||
| Brother | Bayha [I3802] | 1838-11-06 | 1838-11-09 | |
| Brother | Bayha [I3803] | 1839-12-10 | 1839-12-10 | |
| Sister | Bayha, Mary Elizabeth [I0852] | 1841-02-17 | 1854-09-30 | |
| Brother | Bayha [I3804] | 1843 | 1843 | |
| Sister | Bayha, Lydia [I0853] | 1844-09-04 | 1917-06-08 | |
| Brother | Bayha, George Washington [I0854] | 1846-11-07 | 1923-03-29 | |
| Sister | Bayha, Mary Margaret [I0855] | 1848-01-16 | 1910-08-30 | |
| Brother | Bayha, John Frederick [I0856] | 1849-08-01 | 1927-06-28 | |
| Brother | Bayha, Jacob [I3805] | 1851-06-15 | 1851-07-13 | |
| Sister | Bayha, Emeli [I0859] | 1853-06-24 | 1890-07-18 | |
| Sister | Bayha, Eliza Jane [I0857] | 1855-10-24 | 1926-04-17 | |
| Sister | Bayha, Anna Helen [I0858] | 1858-01-24 | 1920-02-18 | |
| Brother | Bayha, Franklin J. [I0022] | 1859-12-19 | 1926-12-26 |
Families
| Family of Bayha, George Lewis Sr. and McFarland, Julietta [F0275] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Married | Wife | McFarland, Julietta [I0869] ( * 1849-05-24 + 1914-03-11 ) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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| Bayha, Mary Agnes [I1118] | 1870-10-31 | 1959-11-25 |
| Bayha, Lydia May [I1119] | 1873-05-27 | 1946 |
| Bayha, Anna [I3801] | 1876-11-16 | 1878-10-05 |
| Bayha, George Lewis Jr. [I0870] | 1879-01-27 | 1958-09-27 |
| Bayha, Margaret Kerr [I1117] | 1881-08-24 | 1958-06-26 |
Media
Narrative
[Obituary for George L. Bayha, Sr., publication unknown; clipping from the files of Jane Anne Thomas.]
[headline] Call Comes to a Pioneer Resident
[second line] George L. Bayha, Sr., Passed Away This Morning At His Park Avenue Home After Brief Illness.
George L. Bayha, Sr., one of Monongahela's oldest residents, and a veteran of the civil war, after an illness of a few days, died at his home, Park avenue, early this morning, March 7th.
He was born in Pittsburgh, April 15, 1837, and at the time of his death lacked but a few weeks of being ninety years of age. More than sixty years ago he cane to Monongahela, where he continued to reside until the time of his death. For many years he conducted a photograph gallery at the corner of Main and Second streets, and many homes in Monongahela and vicinity even to this day have some examples of his work, done at that early period.
He was a soldier and served in the civil war, being a member of Company E, Sixth Pennsylvania Artillery. He was one of the few surviving veterans of that great conflict and who went from this section of the valley. His wife died in 1914.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Henry Myers, and Mrs. Luker, both of Monongahela, and Mrs. Edward Watson, of McKeesport, and one son, Rev. George Bayha, Jr., of Saltsburg, Pa. Twelve grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren also survive.
During his residence in Monongahela Mr. Bayha had been a member of the Lutheran church.
Narrative
Note: Researching George Lewis Bayha Sr.
According to notes by Jane Anne Thomas, his birth name was George Ludwig Bayha. Jacob Hablitzel was named as a witness to his birth; I believe this was his uncle, his mother's brother.
She also notes that he served in the Army in the Civil War, in Company E of the 6th Pennsylvania Artillery; she writes that he fought all four days in the battle at Gettysburg. I have not verified the records, but have seen quite a few references in the searches to a military pension (Civil War and later veterans) drawn by a George L. Bayha, b. 1837, in Pennsylvania. Jane Anne had written in another note that she and her mother, Mary Alice (Bayha) Thomas, visited the State of Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg and found the name "George L. Bayha" listed there.
Jane Anne had written (in the biography article on his father, Johan George Bayha Jr., for a Wells Cty, Indiana history text) that "Lew" had worked as a paperboy in Bluffton, Wells Cty, Indiana, before serving in Civil War and then settling in Monongahela, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania. His father's family had been living in Ohio during the 1840s as they moved west, were counted in the 1850 US Census as living in Pickaway Cty, Ohio, and had settled in Bluffton in 1853. Lewis was living with the family in 1850 in Ohio, but he was not listed in Indiana with the family at the time of the 1860 US Census.
Exactly when he left to strike out on his own is not entirely certain at this point, though it seems possible (if not outright likely) that he was still living with his father's family in the early 1850s. In Jane Anne's files is a clipping from a Bluffton newspaper about a "Louis" Bayha visiting his sister, Miss Eliza Jane "Lyde" Bayha, and in that clipping it talks about him delivering papers to rural residents near Bluffton on horseback as a twelve-year-old boy.
There is a listing for a Pennsylvania-born George L. Bayha of the appropriate age living with a "Hullihen" family in Wheeling, Ohio Cty, West Virginia, in the 1860 US Census. This may well be Lewis, as his father was known to have relatives living in Wheeling (with whom he stayed when he emigrated from Germany on his arrival in the America). As noted above, Lewis served in the Pennsylvania Artillery for the Union during the Civil War. Given his time of service, and his potential residence time in West Virginia, he may well have been living there during the initial conflicts that served to allow the Wheeling Conventions in the summer of 1861. It seems likely that he had a "front row seat" to the very divisive time that was the early Civil War, and in a very affected region at that.
His obituary mentions that he'd owned a "photograph gallery" in Monongahela, and in fact a handful of the cabinet photos of Lewis found in Jane Anne's files bear the studio stamp "G.L. Bayha."
While Lewis has a number of living descendants, none of them still bear the "Bayha" surname; nearly all of his grandchildren were born to his daughters Agnes, Lydia, and Margaret, while his son, George Lewis Jr., had only one daughter.
Pedigree
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Bayha, Johann Georg Jr. [I0027]
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Hablitzel, Agnes [I0028]
- Bayha, George Lewis Sr.
- Bayha [I3802]
- Bayha [I3803]
- Bayha, Mary Elizabeth [I0852]
- Bayha [I3804]
- Bayha, Lydia [I0853]
- Bayha, George Washington [I0854]
- Bayha, Mary Margaret [I0855]
- Bayha, John Frederick [I0856]
- Bayha, Jacob [I3805]
- Bayha, Emeli [I0859]
- Bayha, Eliza Jane [I0857]
- Bayha, Anna Helen [I0858]
- Bayha, Franklin J. [I0022]
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Hablitzel, Agnes [I0028]
Ancestors
Source References
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US Census of 1850
[S0046]
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- Date: 1850-08-29
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXQB-DWH : accessed 14 Nov 2014), George Bayha, Salt Creek, Pickaway, Ohio, United States; citing family 867, NARA microfilm publication M432, NARA microfilm publication M432, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Salt Creek, Pickaway, Ohio, United States
George Bayha M 43 Germany
Agnes Bayha F 35 Germany
Lewis Bayha M 13 Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Bayha F 9 Ohio
Lydia Bayha F 6 Ohio
George Bayha M 4 Ohio
Mary Bayha F 2 Ohio
John Bayha M 1 Ohio
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US Census of 1860
[S0044]
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- Date: 1860
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1860," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M41R-SY6 : accessed 23 February 2015), George L Bayha in household of Elizabeth Hullihen, 3d Ward City of Wheeling, Ohio, Virginia, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; citing p. 259, household ID 1809, NARA microfilm publication M653, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 805,368.
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: 3d Ward City of Wheeling, Ohio, Virginia, United States
Elizabeth Hullihen F 50 Pennsylvania
Alla F Hullihen M 23 Virginia
Manfried F Hullihen M 23 Virginia
Walter Q Hullihen M 19 Virginia
Jennie Hullihen F 21 Virginia
George L Bayha M 23 Pennsylvania
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US Census of 1880
[S0045]
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- Date: 1880
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWVL-Y8N : accessed 14 Nov 2014), George Bayha, Monongahela, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 361D, NARA microfilm publication T9, NARA microfilm publication T9, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 1255201.
Event Year: 1880
Event Place: Monongahela, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
George Bayha Self M 43 Pennsylvania, United States
Aggie Bayha Daughter F 9 Pennsylvania, United States
Lydia Bayha Daughter F 7 Pennsylvania, United States
George Bayha Son M 1 Pennsylvania, United States
Julia Bayha Wife F 31 Pennsylvania, United States
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US Census of 1900
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- Date: 1900
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M345-QZF : accessed 14 Nov 2014), George L Bayha, Monongahela city Ward 2, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 16B, family 344, NARA microfilm publication T623, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1241494.
Event Year: 1900
Event Place: Monongahela city Ward 2, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
George L Bayha Head M 63 Penna
Julia Bayha Wife F 51 Penna
George S Bayha Jr. Son M 21 Penna
Margaret Bayha Daughter F 19 Penna
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US Census of 1910
[S0040]
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- Date: 1910
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MG6Q-XTP : accessed 14 Nov 2014), George L Bayha, Monongahela Ward 2, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 215, sheet 3B, family 250, NARA microfilm publication T624, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1375439.
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Monongahela Ward 2, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
George L Bayha Head M 73 Pennsylvania
Juliaetta Bayha Wife F 60 Pennsylvania
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US Census of 1920
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- Date: 1920
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MX9Q-8T2 : accessed 14 Nov 2014), George L Bayha in household of Agnes M Myers, Monongahela Ward 2, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 11B, family 256, NARA microfilm publication T625, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 1821659.
Event Year: 1920
Event Place: Monongahela Ward 2, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
Agnes M Myers Head F 49 Pennsylvania
George H Myers Son M 24 Pennsylvania
Robert E Myers Son M 17 Pennsylvania
Garnet E Myers Daughter F 13 Pennsylvania
George L Bayha Father M 83 Pennsylvania
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