City: Nashville
BAILEY, John Edmonds, music teacher; born Southhampton County Va., June 14, 1831; son William O. and Jacquette (Jarratt) BAILEY; English descent; educated Smithfield (Va.) Academy; married Julia Bell POWELL April 21, 1853; 1st private in Co. I, N. C. state troops C. S. A., May 16, 1861; 2d Lieut. (soon after) 1st Lieut. Williamsburg, 1862; made Capt. 1863 at Fredericksburg; served until 1864; resigned on account of ill health; in early life clerked in dry-goods store, Southville, Va., moved to Nashville in 1872; Supervisor Music, Nashville City Schools since 1873.
