William married Mary Bailer. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

According to the newspaper article announcing their 50th wedding anniversary on May 23, 1957, "In 1908 they bought a farm near Navarino, sold later to Ralph Pomeroy. In 1942 they moved to their present home in Navarino." An article from the Tully Times dated May 25, 1907, states, "On Thursday, May 23, at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Willis Bailey united in marriage Miss Luella Hobart and Mr. Fred Bailer. The ceremony was performed at the bride's home immediately after which dinner was served. Mr. Edward bailer, brother of the groom, acted as best man and Miss Dora Hobart, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid. Mr. and Mrs. Bailer left for a short trip to New York. Before leaving they were liberally showered with rice. The happy couple were presented with many handsome and useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Bailer will make their future home in Otisco." Also in the same paper it was noted that, "Miss Luella Hobart and Fred Bailer were married Thursday at the home of Henry Tuffley."


Birth:
Dutch Hill

Buried:
Onondaga Valley Cemetery

Died:
Age at Death: 88

Fred married Luella Hobart 23 May 1907, Otisco Township, Onondaga, New York. Luella (daughter of Dix R. Hobart and Mary L. Tuffley) was born 17 Oct 1884, Vesper Hill, New York, United States; died 3 Oct 1966, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States; was buried Oct 1966, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Onondaga Valley Cemetery

Notes:

Johann Bailer was born April 14, 1842 to Richard Bailer and Johanna (Seele) Bailer and according to church records received his first communion in 1856 at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Salmendingen, Germany.

Salmendingen is a small agrarian village located on the Swabian Alb in the southern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. In Germany, whenever a town ends in “ingen” it indicates an Alemannic settlement. Church records have the Bailers living in Salmendingen in 1777.

Johann (John) Bailer and his brother Christian (Chris), who was three years younger were the only two children of Richard and Johanna Bailer to immigrate to America. While the exact reason that compelled them to leave family and friends has been lost to history, family lore provides two possibilities. Johann's son, Floyd Bailer shares that he had always heard that they immigrated to escape conscription into the Kaiser's army and most certain death. Johann's grand-nephew Eugen Bailer, who lives in Germany believes that they immigrated because farming conditions became poor due to famine and drought making farming jobs became scarce. America held the promise of jobs.

In 1865, Johann received his official papers allowing him to immigrate to North America. The 1920 US Federal census lists his immigration year as 1865. He became a naturalized citizen sometime before 1875 according to the 1875 NYS Census.

It is believed that Johann landed in New York harbor. Family lore has it that he had heard that the landscape and climate of central New York was like that of his hometown of Salmendingen which is located in the Black Forest area of Baden-Wurttemburg Germany. Johann kept a journal documenting his voyage to America. The journal is now in the possession of Richard Bailer, son of Horace Bailer. While the journal is written in German, written in English on the inside back cover is the note, "Please direct to Baldwinsville, Clay Corners, Brewerton, West Monroe." Baldwinsville. This address is in the Syracuse vicinity which is near where he settled. The name Basil Bailer is also notated in the journal with an address in central New York. It might be assumed that Basil was a relative who had already immigrated and was a "sponsor" for Johann.

John worked as a laborer on what began as the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad. In addition to passengers, this railroad also carried coal mined in Pennsylvania to be used as fuel for the salt mines of Syracuse. In 1869, this railroad company merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company therefore Johann may have been employed by the D, L & W railroad.

He met Elizabeth Edinger in the United States. Even though her family immigrated to America from Germany, Elizabeth was born in the United States after her family’s arrival. They had their first child, Elizabeth "Lizzie" on January 9, 1873 and according to the 1900 Federal census they were married in 1874.

At some point, Johann Bailer leased a farm in Skaneateles, NY from Ann C. Briggs, entering into a lease agreement on August 26, 1874. He agreed to pay $160.00 annually along with paying highway and school taxes on the property. The lease agreement also required Johann to supply Ann Briggs with all the apples that she and her family might require.

John (Johann), then settled in a small empty house at 1999 Buckwheat Rd., Otisco. The house, built in 1850 was vacated when the owner, John O'Connell and his family decided to follow Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism westward abandoning their Buckwheat Road home. Sometime after the Bailers had moved into the house, John O'Connell showed up and demanded that they get out. The matter ended up in court and the court found in favor of the Bailers, therefore they were able to take over ownership of the house and property. During the time that the property was being contested a guard had to be posted at the Bailer house because the O’Connell’s were threatening to burn the house down while the family was asleep. On January 15th, 1894, John O'Connell pointed a gun at Johann resulting in an arrest warrant for O'Connell.

After John and Elizabeth passed away, the house was occupied by the son Floyd Bailer, who lived there until his death in 1972. James and Lynn Cummings now own the home. It has been remodeled but the Cummings incorporated a large beam from the existing structure as the Bailer family had made inscriptions in it.

John and Elizabeth spoke German in their home, so English was a second language for the children.


Buried:
Lake View Cemetery

Johann married Elizabeth Edinger 1874. Elizabeth (daughter of Johann Georg Edinger and Maria Elisabetha Cappel) was born 6 Sep 1849, Erdesbach, Germany; died 26 Dec 1926, Otisco, Onondaga, New York, USA; was buried , Amber, Onondaga County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes:

There is not much information known about Dix Hobart. This is due to the fact that Mary Tuffley, his wife left him due to his abusive nature, a result of alchoholism. Sometime after 1900, Mary developed a plan to leave him. While he was at work she packed the children's belongings and hid them from his sight. In the middle of the night, perhaps with the help of the older children she hitched the horses to the wagon and loaded it with the children's belongings. She then woke the children and quietly spirited them to the awaiting wagon. She fled to her parent's house. From that point forward, no one ever spoke much of Dix R. Hobart. According to his daughter Dora Maude Hobart Bailer, while they were married, Dix would come home from work and he would make the children sit in a circle in the the straight backed dining room chairs. They weren't allowed to utter a word. According to Dora, the children developed hand signals to silently communicate and make the situation tolerable. When Dix was 72, he was living in the Cortland County Almshouse which was a county "poorhouse."

Following the US Federal Census information allows us to piece together where Dix was living and with whom every ten years.
In 1860, Dix was 1 years old living with his parents Amasa and Jeanette Hobart in Marcellus, NY where his father was a laborer most likely on a farm.
In 1870, Dix was 11 living with his parents in Tully New York where his father was a farm laborer.
In 1880, Dix was 21 living with his parents and six siblings in Tully, NY where he was a farm hand.
In 1900, Dix was 41 living in Scott Town, Cortland County, NY. He and Mary had been married to Mary for 18 years and had nine children living with them. Dix owned the farm
In 1910, Dix was 51 living in Spafford, Cortland County, NY. He and Mary were divorced and living with Dix on a farm that he owned was his 70 year old mother Jeanette who was widowed and his 24 year old sister Carrie J Hobart
According to the 1910 US Federal Census, Dix ex-wife Mary and her four youngest children were living with her father Henry Tuffley and her brother Edward Tuffley in Otisco, NY
In 1920, Dix was still living on the farm in Spafford, NY but by himself.
In 1930, Dix was 72 living in Cortlandville Township listed as an "inmate" in the Cortland County Almshouse.

Dix death certificate reflects that he died July 6, 1937. His death certificate was witnessed by his sister, Carrie (Hobart) Keyes.


Buried:
Elmwood Cemetery Hwy 281

Died:
Cortland County Hospital

Dix married Mary L. Tuffley 25 Dec 1881, Otisco, Onondaga, New York, USA. Mary (daughter of Henry J. Tuffley and Anne Tuffley, daughter of Henry J. Tuffley and Ann Skinner) was born Nov 1863, New York; died 3 Dec 1942, Onondaga, Onondaga, New York, United States; was buried , Vesper, Onondaga County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary married Dix R Hobart in 1882 according to the 1900 US Fderal Census. In 1900 the Hobart's had nine children living with them. At some point between 1900 and 1910,she seperated and divorced Dix. According to family lore, fearing for her children's safety, Mary (Tuffley) Hobart, then in her late-thirties devised a plan to remove herself and nine children ranging in age from age seventeen to five months old at the time of the 1900 census from the intolerable circumstances of abuse. She spent days furtively packing the children's belongings and hiding them under their beds. Then, in the middle of one night she must have been both dreading and dreaming of for weeks, she snuck out of the house and into the barn to hitch the wagon to the horse. One can only imagine the fear awaking Dix with sounds eminating from the process. She then returned to the house and awoke the children begging their silence. She quietly spirited them out of the house back to the barn each carrying their own belongings. is difficult to comprehend the level of fear as she slowly pushed the barn door open to the creaking, screetching groaning sounds that used to be so familiar to this agrarian generation. One wonders, did she move the buggy slowly out of the barn or did she take of like a bolt? At what point in the journey from the hell of home to the security of her father's house did she feel that sense relief and release? Did her mother and father know of her plan and help her plan or were they stunned to see Mary and the children?

In 1910 Mary is shown living with her four youngest children with her father Henry Tuffley and her brother Edward.