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Memories of Creelsboro, come join us Saturday Remembering the town of Creelsboro, KY in childhood, walking to Union Chapel Elementary School, stopping to thread Cora Garner's needle on the way in exchange for a sausage biscuit, and great teachers like Mary Bessie Malone, Eliza Pearl Garner, Opal Coffey, Alene Grider, Joe F. Campbell and more. By Brenda Higginbotham My town is loaded with awesome memories and a lifetime of friends. We had two churches, two stores and a one-room school. That small town molded us into the people we are today. I was born and raised in Creelsboro. My life began in the Dalton Hollow, we later moved to the Smith house and then to the Buster place. My brother, my sister and I would walk to school - around a four-mile walk. On the way to school, we would stop and thread Cora Garner's needle. She would be waiting by the road to have us thread that needle. This was the first memory I had of "helping others". Ms. Cora would give us a sausage and biscuit for threading her needle, and boy was that a treat. Sisty years have passed and I still remember that sweet lady so vividly. My town had many young people. We would meet up and play tag, hide and seek, and ball in the middle of the road, never worrying about anything in life - man, those were the times. The one-room school was everyone's favorite, safe place. I can see it as if it was yesterday. There were around 20 kids that attended this school. This is the place we learned to tie our shoes and tell time. That school had the best teachers - Mary Bessie Malone, Eliza Pearl Garner, Opal Coffey, Alene Grider, Joe F. Campbell and more (with age comes forgetfulness, sorry if I left anyone out). I have this vivid memory of Darrell having the measles. Opal Coffey, our teacher, put chairs around the wood burning stove and he would stay there all day in those chairs, so she could come and teach. What a childhood. From playing Rook to playing marbles, our childhood was perfect. Our school, Union Chapel Elementary, was built in 1961. After it closed, we got on a bus, for the very first time, and went to a brand new building. This is just some of the memories I have of our perfect little town, Creelsboro. On September 14, 2019, come visit my town. This story was posted on 2019-09-11 05:41:17
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