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The Joe and Fay Roy Wilson Farm up for auction Craigmiles, a Russell County ex-pat living in Indiana, makes weekly trips to Mt. Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery on Damron Creek Road. On a recent trip, signs of a pending auction triggered lots of memories. By Melissa Rexroat Craigmiles Yesterday me and my hubby James went down home to Russell Springs, as I do almost every Saturday. Amid this crisis with corona virus, I could not skip a weekend going down home to put flowers on my mom and dad's grave at Mt Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery in the Webb's Crossroads community. My parents had a nice farm for 54 years on Damrons Creek and a large 2 story home. Mom and I auctioned the house in 2003. Our land we sold to Joe and Fay Wilson, our neighbors next door to my parents farm. My mother I were very fond of the Wilsons. We visited them every weekend at their farm next door. I have fond memories there. So on Sunday when James and I drove down from Jeffersonville, Indiana, where we live, I was standing at my parents' grave, Oris And Gladys Rexroat, and turned and saw an auction sign at the Wilson residence farm. Joe died in 2013, his wife Fay, a 3rd cousin to my mother, died last year. The farm once went together with our farm back in 1946--my dad bought 79 acres off Albert Wilkerson, and so did Joe Wilson. I think he bought his from Albert Wilkerson, while Joe and Fay's farm had been the Stackhouse family residence. My grandma, Flossie Wilson Foley, inherited the Stackhouse family bible from the late 1800s, and my mom then inherited it, then it became mine. I never could find any Stackhouse family members to give it back to. It's so old and dilapidated, but has births, deaths, and marriages wrote in it. Now I see April 18th this farm will be auctioned off. If I had the money, I would buy it... Barry Wilson I haven't gotten to thank you for giving some land to Mt. Calvary Church Cemetery. I always hoped that Wilson would give just an acre to the church to expand the cemetery where most of all my relatives are buried: my grandparents Rexroats and my grandparents Loren and Flossie Foley, and my precious parents Oris and Gladys Rexroat. If I had the money I would buy that farm. I want to move back to Russell County. I cannot do it financially, but we drive down there every weekend to put flowers on my parents' graves. The cemetery backs up to Joe and Fay's farm, and they were both buried there at Mt. Calvary Church Cemetery. I said to James, "How can I buy this farm?"" He said "Pray about it!!!" I will never be able to buy it. But I would give all I own to move back to Damrons Creek Road. My mom and my 73 yr old brother Gary Gene were both born at home in two separate houses on Damrons Creek. I growed up on Damrons Creek Road in Russell Springs' Webbs Crossroads community. My mom passed away at age 88 years old but she told me so many memories of her and her 5 siblings growing up on Damrons Creek... A house fire in 1941 on Damrons Creek took one home they lived in while they were at Mt Calvary Baptist Church just two blocks away. my own memories of living there are precious. I wish i could purchase a home on that road again. This story was posted on 2020-03-17 11:49:29
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