Alex Bailey Home

Photographed in about 1990, this was the home of Alex and Lucinda "Cindy" Taylor Bailey . This Bailey homeplace is located on Sinai Mountain near Goodwill, WV. The house was built around 1900. The Bailey family had previsously lived in a log cabin in the vicinity of this house. The Baileys raised their seven children in this house. The house is presently owned by one of the Bailey grandsons. Most of the seven Bailey children lived out their lives in the Goodwill area.

Alex "Pap" Bailey was the night shift foreman for the Buckeye Coal and Coke Company mines in Buckeye Hollow at the time of his death in September 1939. It is said that Mr. Bailey owned the first automobile that was driven on Sinai Mountain. He was a well respected pioneer in the Goodwill area. He spent his life in the coal mining business. History has it that one could walk through a mine that was located close to the Bailey house to the Buckey Hollow No. 1 mine that was several miles away. Additionally, from inside the Bailey home one could hear the coal mining cars passing through a mine that was located well beneath the house. It was also quite common for people to travel from the Buckeye Hollow Coal Tipple to Goodwell on the weekends using the route throught the mines. Several of the Bailey children and relatives lived in the Buckey Hollow Coal Company houses and worked at the Buckeye No.1 mine. They made this journey often.

The Baileys are buried in the Bailey Family Cemetery that is located on a hill top overlooking the Bailey home place.

Alex Bailey ( Mar 7, 1873 - Sept 6, 1939 ) -- Lucinda Bailey ( May 12, 1874 - June 21, 1949 )