John Baile was born in 1901, the fifth of ten children.  His mother, Minnie Hope Christopher Baile, and his father, Clifton Augustus Baile were also from ten-children families.  John was named after his paternal grandfather.  

He spent his entire life in and around Johnson County working as a farmer. He married Beulah Mae Hampton in 1933 and they had two children, Elizabeth Mae and Martha Louise Baile.

This portrait is from the Simmon’s Studio collection of negatives that was donated to the JCHS by Ben Pierce.