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History: More on the Chance, KY Post Offices Store inside Y of KY 768 and 1952 never Chance Post Office, writer believes, but it was a store with a nice living quarters upstairs by Janice Newton Reed From Antioch, where KY 768 and KY 1952 meet in the Y, in 1930 when Henry Clay Bardin died, he owned all of the land all around the Y, down the Sparksville Road a ways and on the left, and right of KY 1952. Where now there are single mobile homes and just about where the one double wide mobile home is now, was where the store/house was. It was still standing into the 1980's. I can't remember exactly when it was burned, but my aunt and I went through the house before it burned down and it was empty and grass was all grown up around it. My aunt Lou Vena Leigh is the only child of Henry and Bettie Bardin still living. She was only two years old when her father died. But she remembered her mother telling her that her father built the entire house and he used Poplar wood for the floors so that termites would not eat the wood. And in the 80's the floors were in perfect shape. No rotting, sagging etc. The store, going from KY 61 to Chance, was on the right side of the road. But the cinder block store was built in the late 1950's by Travis Coomers' Aunt Sallie and her husband Russell Bennett. It had a nice living quarters above. It was first a mechanic's garage and office. Travis Coomer's parents, Christine and Rollin Coomer opened a small store there for a short time. But to my knowledge the Post Office was never in the cinder block store. A can of worms has been opened, because I have been doing my Bardin and associated families genealogy and there is nothing I love better than to talk about my families histories. The cinder block store building is gone and for a very long time a mobile home is on the corner. After my grandfather gave up the Post Office, we think Elbert Wooten took it to the building that is the Last Chance Post Office. After Wooten, a Mr. Aaron from Glensfork bought the store and Post Office. Then the Morrison's, as Bobby Morrison related. I have to tell you that most of the information I have was from my mother before she passed away in 2004, and my Aunt Lou Vena Leigh, who just turned 82 years in February 2010. She has a world of information in her head. As did my mother. Henry Clay and his wife Bettie did not go far. They are buried in their family cemetery next to the mobile home on the corner between two mobile homes. This story was posted on 2010-04-28 06:09:34
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