"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, p. 432.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

MRS. ETHEL STOERMER BAILEY:  Mrs. Ethel Stoermer Bailey was reared in 
Owensboro, Kentucky, and attended the public schools here.  As to the 
date and place of her birth we are not informed.  She united with the 
First Baptist Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, during the pastorate of 
Rev. E. E. Bomar.  During a consecration service at the Church she 
gave her life for the Lord's service wherever He might lead.  In the 
year 1921 she graduated from the Midway Female College, Midway, 
Kentucky, and then attended the Baptist Hospital Training School For 
Nurses, in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating in 1924.  While attending 
school there she met a young interne [sic], Dr. J. Mansfield Bailey, 
who had also volunteered for Foreign Mission service.  They were 
married in Richmond, Virginia, on July 10, 1924, and soon afterwards 
were appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist 
Convention for services at the Stout Memorial Hospital, at Wuchow, 
South China.
	Dr. and Mrs. Bailey were in China for fourteen years.  Their 
services were successful in spite of many tragic experiences which 
were their lot during that time.  They had one or two sons who died 
and were buried in China, then, in February, 1935, as they were 
making a trip from Wuchow to Kweilin in an ambulance, their little 
daughters were drowned.  Dr. and Mrs. Bailey were in the front seat 
and the two little girls were asleep in the back.  The car slipped as 
they were going onto a ferry.  Dr. and Mrs. Bailey were able to get 
out of the windows, but the girls had died when they got them out of 
the closed part of the ambulance.  The Baileys returned to America 
soon after that and remained for one year and returned to China until 
1938, when they came back to America and resigned.  They were fine 
missionaries and their resignations were a great loss to the Mission 
Board.  They had served at the Kwielin Hospital for some time before 
their return.  Mrs. Bailey's health and the health of their baby 
daughter caused them to resign.  They are now living in Camden, 
Tennessee, where Dr. Bailey practices his profession.

Bailey Stoermer Bomar
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Woodford TN VA China


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