[Marion L Bailey] is the eldest of nine children born to Thomas and Henrietta (Keel) Bailey, natives of Greene and Jefferson (now Hamblen) Counties, respectively. Mrs. Bailey was a daughter of William and Lyvia A. Keel. Thomas Bailey was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bailey, natives of Londondery, Ireland, and North Carolina, respectively. ...
[G N Bailey, M.D.] ... is the fourth of nine children of Thomas and Henrietta (Keel) Bailey, natives of Hamblen County, the former a justice for about eighteen years, and an excellent farmer. Thomas Bailey, of Ireland, was the next ancestor. He moved to near Chapel Hill, N. C., and entered land in our subject’s locality about 1775. ...