He writes in his book, "Bill Bailey Came Home", published in 1973, on page 11, that his father was 3/4 blue-belly Yankee and one-fourth Cherokee Indian. He also states on page 29 that she said that she was the only girl with 7 brothers and not one had died a natural death. From the census records we count 7 boys and 5 girls.
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