xi. FLOYD BAILER, (JOHANN⁴, BASIL³, CHRISTIAN², JOHANN¹) b. May 13, 1896,  Otisco, New York⁵; d. March 07, 1972, Otisco, New York⁵.

 Horace Bailer interviews Floyd Bailer

After John and Elizabeth Bailer passed away, their son Floyd Bailer continued to live in the house at 1999 Buckwheat Road . There is a story that one evening Carlton Eibert had been out for a night "on the town". On his way home he drove his car off the road and into Floyd's outhouse tipping it over. Unfortunatley, one of Carlton's tires got stuck in the hole and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get the car out. Floyd came out after Carlton with his shotgun chasing him away...without his car. The car stayed stuck in the hole of the outhouse for months.

It has been said that the local gossip was Eva Coles. But Floyd Bailer knew even more gossip than Eva.  Eva would sit out on her front porch in the summer next to the window. When the telephone rang she would simply reach through the window to answer it. In those days there were "party lines" in the area as switching devices were not available in the rural areas allowing for private conversations. Any home with a phone had a special number of "rings". Eva would wait for the telephone to stop ringing and then pick the phone up and 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.