Ahnentafel Cleo BROOKS SANCHEZ

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First Generation
1. Cleo Brooks Sanchez

Second Generation (parents)
2. Eugene Brooks  b.  d. 
3. Alice Hunter b. 1896 January d. 1926 February 16

Third Generation (grandparents)
4. Henderson Hunter b. 1860 December 15  d. 1942 July 27
5. Josephine Fleming b. 1873 July 4  d. 1938 April 4

Fourth Generation (great grandparents)
8. Abram Hunter b. 1827  d.
9. Mariah Kuykendall  b. 1836  d. 1921 October 10

End of Cleo Ahnentafel

Begin Cleo Vita

Cleo is Betty's Paternal First Cousin

Remembrances:

Cleo BROOKS SANCHEZ legend:
Arsene (Elizabeth Hunter Boykin's husband) remembers strolling one-half mile east on 63rd from South Parkway (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) to Cottage Grove Avenue on his way to hear Cleo sing. On the way he would pass:

• Joe's DeLuxe Club with female impersonator Valda Gray,
• Calvin Bostic, jazz pianist at Harry's Show Lounge owned by Sly Kelly of policy wheel wealth
• 411 Club 411 East 63rd
• Harry's Show Lounge owned by Harry Fields and Harry Smith with The Leon Abbey Trio featuring Olivette Miller, "America's Foremost Swing Harpist"
• Kitty Kat 611 East 63rd Stuff Smith Violinist or Sonny Stitt..
• Club Bagdad at 840 East 63rd
• Crown Propeller Lounge 868 East 63rd with Fletcher Henderson and Little Miss Cornshucks (Laverne Baker)
• Turning the corner at Cottage Grove and 63rd was the Strand Lounge with Gene Ammons or Sonny Stitt.
• Continuing south on Cottage Grove past El Grotto in the Pershing Hotel where the Black string quartette played Beethoven you came
• to Cabin in the Sky where upon entering Cleo would give you a celebrity greeting from the bandstand. Cleo was vocalist for a trio (Jimmy Gordon?) of piano, guitar, and bass. Ethel Waters, an investor in the club, played Petunia Jackson in the movie Cabin in the Sky.
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-- Cleo Brooks Sanchez
Chicago, Illinois