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Cousin Bailey: “I hate to claim it, we are kin!”

February 23, 2021

Last week the call came that I had been expecting for some time; my oldest living relative Bailey had passed away. He would have been 95 on his next birthday. He was my grandmother Grace Valentine Kembel Spencer’s first cousin. Bailey’s Mom Nancy [“Nannie”] was Grace’s father Robert’s sister.

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Cousin Bailey: “I hate to claim it, we are kin!”

Michelle Spencer

Genealogist, Speaker, Writer

Researcher for two seasons of TLC’s
Who Do You Think You Are? and 2021 Season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. on PBS.

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