Notes:

Floyd Bailer continued to live in his parent's, John and Elizabeth Bailer house on Buckwheat Road after they both had passed away. Floyds was a great story-teller. He shared that one evening Carlton Eibert ran his car into Floyd's outhouse and tipped it over. One of Carlton's tires got stuck in the hole and he couldn't get the car out. Floyd came chasing after Carlton with a rifle and chased him away. The car stayed stuck in the hole of the outhouse for months.

Local lore is that the local gossip was Eva Coles. However, somehow Floyd Bailer knew even more gossip than Eva. Eva would sit out on her front porch in the summer next the window that opened to the porch. When the telephone rang, she would simply reach through the open window to answer it. In those days they were "party lines"that were shared by several families. Every home with a phone had a special number of "rings". Eva would wait for the telephone to stop ringing and then pick qently pick up the phone's receiver and quietly listen in on everyone's conversations. This is where she got her information. Floyd would then spend some time talking with Eva and they would swap gossip stories.

One of Floyds endearing qualities was his speech. For example, instead of saying the word "yes," he would say "ayup."