Dates of birth and death are from his gravestone.

A newspaper article in the Mt. Sterling Sentinel reported his death as follows:

ATROCIOUS MURDER.
 
A Drunken Man Deliberately
Slaughtered While Sleeping.
 
   Last Thursday night our neighbor-
ing town of Owingsville was the scene
of a frightful murder, the particulars
of which, as we learn from a gentle-
man who was in Owingsville at the
time, are about as follows:
   A man named David Bailey was in
town drunk pretty much all day, get-
ting his whiskey at a hellery disguised
as a grocery kept by people named,
Shrout. That night Bailey, very drunk,
passed into Shrout’s yard, either for
the purpose of getting more whiskey or
to take a nap. At any rate, he stretch-
ed himself on the ground and immedi-
ately became stupified. One of the
Shrout woman saw him enter the gate,
and told young Shrout, who is aged
about eighteen, that a robber was in
the yard. Shrout loaded his shot gun,
and went out to where his poor victim
was lying insensible from the effects of
whiskey and the intense cold. He took
deliberate aim, and discharged the con-
tents of the weapon into the body of
poor Bailey, producing instant death.
The young assassin was arrested, and
had his examining trail Monday and
Tuesday; with the extraordinary result
of $1,800 bail.
________

I cannot fiind any Shrout family in the 1870 census of Bath County that are listed as grocers; they are all farmers.

Attribution as a son of William Elijah Bailey and Mary “Polly” England is based on the assumption that the four Bailey children living with the Fielder Moreland family in the 1850 census are all siblings.

Her death certificate records Malissa Anderson, age 92 years 1 month 6 days, born 8 Sep 1840 in Owensville, Ky, died 14 Oct 1932 in Lee’s Summit, Prairie township, Jackson Co., Missouri, widowed, father Thomas Atchison, mother’s maiden name Lucrecia Wright, birthplaces unknown, cause of death bronchitis following influenza, informant Chas R. Bailey, Lee’s Summit, Mo, burial in Lee’s Summit Cemetery.

I cannot find Malissa/Melissa in the 1850 census, not even by doing a search on all Atchisons, Wrights or Claytons or variant spellings in the Bath, Fleming or surrounding counties. I also cannot find any Thomas Atchison in the area and time frame who married a Lucretia or a Wright. There was a Thomas J. Atchison born ca 1814, probably a brother of Samuel Crain Atchison, but his only wife, whom he married in 1834 and who was named Matilda Barnes or Bains. Thomas and Matilda had a full stable of children born one every other year between 1837 and 1852, listed with him and Matilda in the 1850 and 1860 censuses, all of whom are accounted for not to be Malissa. I also cannot find an 1850 census reading for the Lucretia Clayton who married first Samuel Crain Atchison and second Thomas Wright. Most likely wherever Lucretia was in 1850, Malissa was with her.

So what I strongly suspect is that the informant (who was Malissa’s son) got her parents’ names mixed up, and attached the given name of Malissa’s stepfather (Thomas Wright) to the surname of her birth father (Samuel Crain Atchison), and then referred to Malissa’s mother by her married name of Lucretia Wright. Charles may have not known his grandmother’s maiden name of Clayton. The only problem with this theory is that it would mean that Samuel named two daughters Malissa, one by his first wife Lucretia Clayton, and one by his second wife Sarah B. Jones (the one born in 1852 is proven.) So it is possibly that Lucretia had a child out-of-wedlock by Thomas J. Atchison before she married Samuel Crain Atchison.

Malissa’s obituary in the Kansas City Times of Sat., Oct 15, 1932 (p. 6, col 1) reported:

MRS. MALLISSA ANDERSON DIES
..
The Lees Summit Woman could Remember Four of Nation's Wars.
...
Mrs. Mallissa Anderson, 92, died yesterday at her home at Lees Summit.

Mrs. Anderson could remember four of America's wars, the Mexican War, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the World War.She was born in Owingsville, Ky., and went to Lees Summit in 1907.

Surviving are three daughters: Miss Mary E. Bailey of the home, Mrs. J.H. Hopkins, 6638 Wabash Ave., Mrs. J.L. Spotts, Parker, Kas., and two sons, Charles R. Bailey of the home and Thomas J. Bailey, Owingsville, Ky. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday at the Fields chapel, Lees Summit; burial in the Lees Summit cemetery.
..........

Bath Co., Ky marriage book 3, p. 57, records the marriage on 29 Oct 1857 of David Bailey and Melissa Atchison.

According to information posted to Malissa’s FindAGrave memorial, after David was killed, Melissa, being unable to care for so many children, kept the two oldest boys and baby Ida with her, and placed the other five children in the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home in Louisville. She apparently retrieved Charles and Mary Ellen after she remarried, because they are with her in the 1880 census.

1860 census of Rowan Co., Ky, Morehead precinct, enumerated 2 Aug, lists on p. 37 as family #280/285:
David Baily, 21, farmer; Malissa, 19; Thos J., 1; William W., 1. All born in Kentucky.

1870 census of Bath Co., Ky, Mudlick precinct, Olympian Springs P.O., enumerated 24 Aug, lists on p. 40 as family #291/293:
Bailey, David, 32, farmer; Melissa, 29; Thomas, 13; William, 11; Mary, 7; Charles, 9; Lulu, 6; Elizabeth, 4; Edward, 4. Stevens, Nancy, 69, house keeper. Moore, Robert, 25, farmer. All born in Kentucky.