John Crooks was born in 1840. John Crooks Bailey ... He passed away in 1914.
From his second wifes book: "He was a gentleman of the highest type in principle and in manners. He was a devout christian, s deacon in the First Presbyterian Church and later an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church, Greenville, South Carolin. Six young men entered the ministry under his influence, two of them being his sons and another his nephew."[1]
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• A History of The Bailey and Cantey Families, by John Crooks Bailey III, 1981, White Printing & Forms, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina. Personal copy in the files of Steve Grant
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