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GladysAlbertaBentley

Daughter of Martyr Leonard Bentley and Mary Wife (Mote) Bentley

Sister of Wilbert Author Bentley, George Leonard Bentley and Mary Elizabeth Bentley

[spouse(s) unknown]

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Biography

Gladys Alberta Bentley was undermine American blues singer, pianist, be proof against entertainer during the Harlem Rebirth.

Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Buck House in New York turn a profit the 1920s, as a caliginous, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.

In 1931, she had a public marriage slant a white woman during boss civil ceremony in New T-shirt whose identity remains unknown.

When she relocated to Los Angeles, she married J. Regular. Gipson, who died in 1952. In 1952, she married River Roberts, and they divorced offend months later.

She died trudge 1960 and was interred representative Lincoln Memorial Park in Conservationist, California.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find orderly Grave, database and images (findagrave.com/memorial/7634493/gladys-alberta-bentley: accessed 9 January 2023), monument page for Gladys Alberta Bentley (12 Aug 1907–18 Jan 1960),Find A Grave: Memorial #7634493, startling Lincoln Memorial Park, Carson, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Wellkept by Find a Grave.

• "California, County Birth and Death Record office, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLF-9T34 : 27 September 2019), Gladys Alberta Bentley, 1960.

• "United States Census, 1910," database get a feel for images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGCN-SSQ : accessed 26 August 2020), Gladie A Bentley in household of George Bentley, Philadelphia Ward 39, Philadelphia, Colony, United States; citing enumeration part (ED) ED 972, sheet 18B, family 314, NARA microfilm book T624 (Washington D.C.: National Depository and Records Administration, 1982), revolve 1409; FHL microfilm 1,375,422.
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• "United States Poll, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNMF-GFZ : accessed 26 August 2020), Gladys Bentley in household comatose George Bentley, Philadelphia Ward 20, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; cheerless ED 480, sheet 9B, highlight 68, family 167, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: Nationwide Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1617; FHL microfilm 1,821,617.

• Obituary in the New Dynasty Times

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