James O. Bailey, white, name on monument, Davie County, North Carolina

James Olin Bailey, full name

Birth: 24 June 1909

Death: 8 August 1944

Buried: Fork Baptist Church Cemetery

1920 US Census, 10, living in Fulton Township with parents, Devit and May Bailey, and 6 siblings

1930 US Census, Olin J., 20, living in Fulton Township with parents, Devit M. and Essie M. Bailey, and 6 siblings

1940 US Census: Olin, 30, farm laborer, living in Fulton Township with parents, Dewitt and Mae, and 6 brothers

Draft Registration: born 24 June 1909 in Davie County; father: Devit Marshall Bailey, Route 2, Advance; signed “Olin Bailey”

Enlistment: enlisted on 14 May 1942 at Fort Bragg, finished grammar school; single

U.S. Rosters of War Dead: yes

Davie County Cemetery Books: 24 June 1909 – 8 August 1944; PFC, U.S. Army, World War II, buried at Fork Baptist Church Cemetery “Killed in Action in Anomo, New Guinea, August 8, 1944”

NARA Records, World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing for NC: PFC, KIA

Online genealogy: Dewitt Marshall and Essie May Livengood Bailey

Davie County Enterprise Record: “Dies in WWII. James O. Bailey of the Fork community entered the Army on May 14, 1942. He was killed at Anomo, near New Guinea, in the South Pacific, on Aug. 8, 1944. His body was returned to the United States on July 10, 1949, and he was buried with military rites at Fork.”

_The Record, _30 August 1944: “Davie Soldier Killed. M.D. Bailey, of near Fork, received a telegram Thursday from the War Department advising that his son, Pfc. James Olin Bailey, was killed in action in New Guinea on Aug. 8th. James had been in service nearly two years, and overseas for the past four months. He has four brothers in foreign service, and is the 14th man from Davie County to give his life for his country.”

Photograph of James from Davie County Enterprise Record, 5 November 1987