Chad Fred Bailey is a historian and a very avid genealogist. He is a graduate of East Tennessee State University in the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program concentrating in Archival Studies with hopes of becoming an Archivist. He is currently an accounts payable representative at A. O. Smith (American Water Heater Co.) in Johnson City. He was a graduate assistant at the Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia from August 2014 to April 2016. He is a 2014 graduate of East Tennessee State University with a Bachelors of Business Administration with a major of Accounting and minor in Management and Bachelors of Arts with a major of History and minor in Appalachian Studies. He is a 2009 graduate of David Crockett High School, Jonesborough. He is the treasurer and the webmaster of the Jonesborough Genealogical Society. He received the 2012 Tennessee Historical Commission’s Special Commissioner’s Certificate of Merit for his work with the Washington County, Tennessee Obituary Project. He, also, has been inducted into the 2014 class of the Jonesborough Genealogical Society’s Hall of Fame.

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