Sad News: Dennis Bailey, Plantersville's Special Tenor

Services for Plantersville native Dennis Bailey are at 11 a.m. today at the chapel of Holland Funeral Directors. Dennis was 67 years old. Dennis is survived by his son Lee Bailey and daughter Brooke Bailey Barnes. A special news story in "The Clarion-Ledger" newspaper in Jackson Friday reported on Dennis' impressive career, describing him as an "opera singer who performed in the United States and Europe beginning in the 1970s." He had performed throughout the country. From the news story: "Lee Bailey said his father also enjoyed performing in Santa Fe, N. M., and at the Glyndburne Festival Opera in England." He performed at the San Francisco Opera from 1979 to 1984.
Sympathy is sent to Lee, to Brooke, and all family members.
Sad days for Plantersville and for Plantersville memories indeed.

The Genealogical Front: Dedications Set for Oct. 8

An email arrived from Ernestine Cody Layton Sunday, Aug. 14, who after a break has resumed her genealogical research. She reports that special dedications are scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 8. She has ordered and had installed Confederate headstones for Charles Wesley Bucy at Saltillo, her great-grandfather and the grandfather of C. L. (Charlie) Bucy of Plantersville. She also has a headstone for Capt. James S. Lyles at the Andrews Chapel Cemetery at Mooreville. She explains that Lyles was the father of Charles Wesley Bucy’s wife Phoebe Ann Lyles Bucy and therefore is Charlie’s great-grandfather and her great-great-grandfather. “Sherry Ray from Okolona, my niece and president of the John Hart Chapter #2443 of The United Daughters of the Confederacy, is going to be the ‘widow’ at the dedication, and the Lt. John Sallis Camp #1776, SCV(Southern Confederate Veterans) Camp at Tremont is going to do the dedication,” she writes. Having both dedications on Oct. 8 is special, says Ernestine, since it is the birthday of her father, and the ceremonies are for his grandfather and great-grandfather.
Ernestine has lived in Harrisburg, Arkansas, near Jonesboro, since 1979. A number of family members live in Tupelo, Plantersville, and Okolona, and her only living sibling, Elizabeth Cody Hegland, resides in Huntsville, AL.