- In an ironic twist, E.W. Floyd, his youngest brother, became a sheriff's deputy in Sequoyah County, OK.
- According to his only living son, Dempsey, Floyd loved the movie Dracula (1931) with Bela Lugosi.
- While on the run Floyd carried a copy of the book "When The Daltons Rode" by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Brothers outlaw gang of the old West. Family and friends have joked that he used it as a "how-to" book to learn how to be an outlaw.
- Though he was famous as "Pretty Boy" Floyd, for reasons unknown his FBI wanted poster gave his alias as "Pretty Boy" Smith.
- While in hiding as a suspect in the infamous "Kansas City Massacre", Floyd grew tired of life on the run and decided to end it by surrendering. He wrote two letters: One to Oklahoma Gov. William Murray, the other to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In both letters he promised to turn himself in and confess to every crime committed. In exchange, he would agree to be sentenced to life without parole. However, he never got a response from either party. After Floyd was shot down, Hoover finally revealed this info. He had counseled Gov. Murray not to accept Floyd's deal because, in his words, "We don't make deals with rats".
- Oklahoma folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote and recorded "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd". It became on of his most popular songs during the 1930s. The song was later covered by Bob Dylan and The Byrds, among others.
- Once, while traveling through Oklahoma, gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow attempted to meet with Floyd in hopes of joining him on a bank-robbing spree. The best they could do was to meet a cousin of Floyd's, who agreed to pass along their request. According to many friends and relatives, when Floyd heard of their request he immediately balked, saying he didn't want to get mixed up with "those Texas screwballs".
- In October 1934 he was buried in the family plot at the Akins Cemetary in Akins, OK (outside of Sallisaw).
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