This family is in my database only in order to hold the census notes which document that Hiram Edward Bayless and Richard Daniel W. Bayless were brothers, because Hiram’s daughter Lucy E. Bayless appears in the censuses only with her uncle and aunt, not with her parents.

I have no Bayless ancestry, so am not interested in further information on the parents or descendants of this family, other than the line through their granddaughter Lucy E. Bayless who married James L. Gregory. (My connection comes in through him.)

1850 census of Putnam Co., Indiana, Washington township, enumerated 13 Sep, lists as family #105:
William Bayless, 40, b. Ohio, miller; Lucy L., 41, b. Va; John, 17, b. Ky; Nathan H., 15, b. Ky; Daniel W., 13, b. Ind; Mary E., 11, b. Ind; Ann E., 9, b. Ind; Amley P. (f), 7, b. Ind; James W., 5, b. Ind; Hiram E. T., 1, b. Ind.

1860 census of Owen Co., Indiana, Jackson township, enumerated 21 July, lists on p. 136 as family #930/910:
William Bayles, 52; farmer, b. Ohio; Lucy, 52, b. Va; Anna L., 18, b. Ind; Permelia, 16, b. Ind; James W., 14, b. Ind; Hiram, 11, b. Ind; James West, 17, day laborer, b. Ind.

1870 census of Owen Co., Indiana, Jackson township, enumerated 4 Aug, lists on p. 2 as family #16:
Bayless, William, 60, farmer, b. Ohio; Lucy, 62, b. Va; Edward, 21, farmer, b. Ind.

1880 census of Owen Co., Indiana, Jackson township, enumerated 8 June, lists on p. 9 as family #85:
Bayless, Hiram E., 31, b. Ind Ohio Va, farmer; Laura, 23, wife, b. Ind Ind Ind; William A., son, 3, b. Ind Ind Ind; Theopolis, 1, son, b. Ind Ind Ind; Lucy P., 73, mother, widowed, b. Va Va Va.