Bailey Inglish

Bailey Inglish's family record is longer than the plaque suggests. He was born in South Carolina in 1793, the Handbook of Texas says, and married Jane Sloan around 1817. She died about 1835, and in the winter of 1836 he left Arkansas with five of their six children. That year he married Nancy Needham Crooms, widowed sister-in-law of John P. Simpson, his partner in giving Bonham its townsite. One son, Levi, changed the family spelling to English. Inglish died at home in Bonham on March 5, 1867, and was buried in the cemetery he had donated.

What the plaque says

Bailey Inglish (ca. 1797-1867) In 1837, Bailey Inglish moved his family to this area from western Arkansas, where he had been an influential leader of pioneer settlers. Here he was active in the formation of Fannin County, serving on the land board and later as chief justice. To guard against repeated Indian raids, he built a fort on his land for area residents. The settlement that developed, first know as Bois d'Arc, became Bonham. Inglish was instrumental in its early growth through active public service and donations of land for town lots, a cemetery, and a female seminary. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 1.6 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 23 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Eisenhower State Park — 29 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.

More markers nearby

• Military Headquarters Northern Sub-District of Texas, C.S.A. — 0.4 mi
• Sam Rayburn — 0.4 mi
• John P. Simpson — 0.4 mi
• Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi