The Bailey family purchased land originally owned by the Williams family on Tuppers Creek. John Bailey was a farmer, but he used his team of horses to work on the road. He eventually began to operate a small dairy with twenty head of cattle. In 1930 Irene Bailey entered Marshall College and got a teaching certificate. She taught at Buena Vista with Principal Richard Glass. In 1933 she was named principal in Union School. At recess and at noon they played in the snow and skated on the frozen creek. From 1935-45 she taught at Sissonville.