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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, December 22, 1987
Couple remembers ghostly meeting
Kelleys still won't believe in spirits despite night sighting
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.. BRAZORIA (AP) — It is a good
thing Theo and Sammie Kelley do
not believe in ghosts.
Their house sits in about the same
spot where they saw the legendary
ghost of Brit Bailey 20 years ago.
“What it was, I don’t know,” Kel
ley said. “Whether it was Bailey’s
ghost... I don’t believe in ghosts.”
It happened after a late night of
domino playing with Sammie’s par
ents in Angleton.
Both their kids were asleep in the
back seat of the car as they headed to
Brazoria at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m.
As they crossed the old Oyster
Creek bridge they both saw a small
orange light moving forward with
them, to their right. They thought it
was a low-flying airplane.
But as they continued to watch it,
they were not sure.
“It was an orange ball, kind of like
a sunset,” Mrs. Kelley said.
“It was about like a basketball, or a
beach ball.”
When they reached the intersec
tion of Farm Road 521, they turned
left.
And so did the orange light.
Their airplane theory was shot, as
the light stayed about six feet off the
ground, dodging in between trees.
“By that time, it sort of was getting
weird,” Mrs. Kelley said.
It appeared to be 100 to 200 feet
to their right.
Kelley said it followed them for
Five or six miles. “We kept looking
and looking and it stayed right along
with us,” he said.
Then it stopped, and as the Kel
leys continued on toward Brazoria,
they lost sight of the bobbing ball of
light.
They did not give it much further
thought.
“We went home and went to bed,”
Mrs. Kelley said.
They had both grown up in this
area, on the Clemens state prison
farm. They were steeped in county
folklore and legends, so they knew
about Bailey’s ghost.
Legend has it that James “Brit”
Bailey, who settled Bailey’s Prairie in
the early 1820s, asked to he buried
standing and facing to the west. He
also asked that his gun be hung over
his shoulder and a whiskey jug be set
at his feet.
Reportedly, Bailey's wife would
not allow the jug to be put in his cof
fin, and he now roams the country
side looking for his whiskey.
"I’ve heard about it all my life, but
I never thought about it that night,”
Kelley recalled.
The legend did come to mind the
next morning, they said. They men
tioned it to a few friends, who might
have thought Theo had been drink
ing, but for Sammie’s matching testi
mony.
“I don’t think I told too many peo
ple, at first, about it,” Kelley ad
mitted.
Since that night, they have passed
the same route a thousand times and
never seen it again, they said.
“And as long as we’ve lived here,
we’ve never seen it,” Kelley said.
They bought a house near where
they saw the light 14 years ago.
They still are not sure what they
saw.
"Well, you knew it wasn’t a dern
airplane,” Kelley said. "It would
have wrecked.
“I knew it wasn’t a ghost,” he said.
Mrs. Kelley quickly added, "I
couldn't hardly live here if I believed
it was a ghost.”
So now, the Kelleys have a good
story to tell their grandchildren, who
hear about it at every Halloween
party.
This year, Grandpa dressed up in
a rain slicker and sat hunched under
a tree with a shotgun. It gave the
littler ones a scare, and the older
kids got a little nervous.
"Brit Bailey is really a conversa
tion piece,” Mrs. Kelley chortled.
The Kelleys’ home is set back off
Farm Road 521, in the middle of
their turf farm, which they began six
years ago.
Over the years, Kelley has worked
construction, rice farming and cattle
ranching. These days, he stays busy
with the turf farm and Mrs. Kelley
works as a teaching assistant at
Henry O. Tanner Preschool.
They have seen many changes
since tney were both children play
ing at the state farm back during the
Depression.
“That means I’m getting old,
when there are that many changes,”
Kelley said, chuckling.
Now married for 41 years, they
courted from their childhood days.
Theo said he cut the runners on his
elementary school desk so he could
sit closer to Sammie.
She was not so warm to him — he
and his friends were too mischie
vous.
“They were mean as skunks," she
said, quickly recalling the many
times Theo would throw his text-
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Sammie’s father was assis
Theo’s father.
Though they share thesf§
01 ies with other longtime!
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But, then again, they donj
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State Briefs
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Judge denies access to transcripts
FORT WORTH (AP) — A fed
eral judge has denied State Dis-
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trict Judge Tom Cave access to
proceedings of the grand jury
which indicted him on charges of
granting leniency to female de
fendants in exchange for sexual
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U.S. District Judge Mary Lou
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Military jet crash leaves 2 missing
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of the four crew members aboard
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Eyewitnesses said they saw
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A search was launched for the
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