Winifred Bailor | HistoryForge

Year	Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
1900	Bailor, Winnifred	Daughter	90 Bailor Rd	8	Black	New York	Single	At School
1910	Bailor, Winnifred	Servant	11 Central Ave	18	Black	New York	Single	Servant

Relatives in 1900 US Census

Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
Bailor, Daniel	Head	90 Bailor Rd	62	Black	Virginia	Widowed	Farmer
Bailor, William	Son	90 Bailor Rd	28	Black	New York	Single	Farm Laborer
Bailor, Verna B	Daughter	90 Bailor Rd	16	Black	New York	Single	At School
Bailor, Bradford D	Son	90 Bailor Rd	14	Black	New York	Single	At School
Bailor, Garrett	Son	90 Bailor Rd	11	Black	New York	Single	At School
Bailor, Rachel	Daughter	90 Bailor Rd	6	Black	New York	Single	At School

Name	Relation to Head	Address	Age	Race	POB	Marriage	Occupation
Chamberlain, George	Head	11 Central Ave	44	White	Vermont	1st Marriage	Professor
Chamberlain, Grace	Wife	11 Central Ave	39	White	New York	1st Marriage	None
Burr, George L	Lodger	11 Central Ave	53	White	New York	Widowed	Professor
Upton, George B	Lodger	11 Central Ave	28	White	New York	Single	Instructor

Her teacher, Bessie Whitaker, helped her go to the nearest high school in Ithaca by finding her a place to live and work with the family of Cornell professor Robert Chamberlain [See 1910 census "Relatives"].

"At the agricultural college, Anna Botsford Comstock took a special interest in young Winifred, and Miss Bailor graduated in 1921, in a time when few women and virtually no black women had any higher education. She went down south to teach....she never taught again after she came back north in the 1920s. "Well, you had to go down south. You might have a degree, but there wasn't any colored teachers in schools here," she said. Wasn't that unfair? "Ohhhhh," she said. "That was the law. A colored teacher in a white school? No indeed.""

Judith Horstman, "Miss Winifred Bailor: 89 Years in Caroline," Ithaca Journal, June 26, 1980, p5. https://ithacajournal.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-judith-horstman-artic/100623519/

1980

Graduate of Ithaca High School class of 1915, "will probably enter Cornell in September."

"New Record in Ithaca By Colored Students," New York Age, July 8, 1915, p2.

"Daniel Bailor has received word of the safe arrival of his daughter, Miss Winifred Bailor, Cornell '20, in Macon, Ga. Miss Bailor is teaching biology in the Ballard Normal School."

Ithaca Journal, November 14, 1919, 11.

1919

Graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in 1921.

Winifred Georgie Bailor in the U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935, Ancestry.com.

1921

"Mrs. Rachel De Williams and little daughter of Rochester and Miss Winifred Bailor of Utica Institute in Mississippi are visiting their father, Daniel Bailor, who is quite feeble."

"Slaterville Springs," Ithaca Journal, February 21, 1923, p13.

1923