DeFord Bailey

1946
Judge George Hay issued his book "A Story of the Grand Ole Opry".

1951
Ida Lee and DeFord Bailey were divorced.

1952
Uncle Dave Macon died.

1956
July - DeFord lived at 1027 Olympic.

1965
October 21 - He appeared on Don McNeil's Breakfast Club.

1967
May 18 - As part of the Edgehill Urban Renewal Project the Nashville Housing Authority acquired the property at 1004 Grand Avenue where DeFord was living as a tenant. This was one of four times DeFord was relocated by the Housing Authority.

June 1 - The Nashville Housing Authority acquired the property at 1053 Edgehill Avenue where DeFord was living as a tenant.

June - DeFord played at the Marketplace, a club on West End Avenue in Nashville.

1968
May 8 - Judge George Hay died in Virginia Beach, VA.

June 14 - The Nashvile Housing Authority relocated DeFord into apartment #307 at the I.W. Gernert Homes public housing high rise building at the corner of 12th and Edgehill.

1969
January 19 - The Nashville Housing Authority acquired title to the property at 1145-12th Avenue, South where DeFord's shoe shine stand was located. He was paying $12 per month rent.

1970
As a part of Edgehill Urban Renewal Project, the Nashville Housing Authority forced DeFord to close his shoe shine shop at 1145-12th Avenue, South.