Olive Harry

Abt 1703 - 1766  (63 years)

• Name	Olive Harry  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1703	Birmingham Twp., Chester, PA, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Oct 1766	, Chester, PA, USA
  Person ID	I11133	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Hugh Harry, *,   b. 1662, Of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, WLS d. Aft 28 Sep 1708, Birmingham Twp., Chester, PA, USA (Age > 46 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Brinton, *,   b. 9 Aug 1665, , Worcestershire, ENG d. Aft 8 Nov 1727 (Age > 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	12 Apr 1686	Chichester, Chester, PA, USA
  Family ID	F3392	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Daniel Bailey   d. 1783, Pennsylvania, USA
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F3385	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• 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 171. 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)

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] Robert Jesse Harry, The Ancestors and Descendants of Hugh Harry and Elizabeth Brinton.