Virginia Baytop's mother Francis "Frankey" Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, Michigan, where she was neighbors with Smokey Robinson, who first met Ross when she was eight.
Virginia Baytop's mother Francis "Frankey" Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the American Civil War. Ross and her family originally lived at Belmont Road in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, Michigan, where she was neighbors with Smokey Robinson, who first met Ross when she was eight.