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From: "Peggy Hake" <>
Subject: Fw: Fw: Fw: [MOMILLER-L] Wilcox
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:49:23 -0600


Scott,
The Big Tavern creek meanders across Miller County from the south and on
northeasterly where it empties into the Osage river a few miles north of
present day St. Elizabeth. I think your mother probably grew up on the Big
Tavern near Iberia. I was born and reared at Iberia and know that country
so well. Spent many days swimming in the Big Tavern at an old swimming hole
called "The Blue Hole" and also one called 'Sally Hole'. Today I live near
the Big Tavern in northeast Miller County just a few miles south of St.
Elizabeth. I remember when my Dad would drive our old car (probably about
1943-44) to a low water slab at Madden Ford on the Big Tavern and we would
wash the old car from the creek as it flowed over the slab.........Such fun
times!
Peggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott R. Vaughn" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: [MOMILLER-L] Wilcox


At 10:40 AM 2/3/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Mildred, I certainly know about the "creeks rising". Here in Big Tavern
>country where I live in Osage township, our farm is located between the Big
>Tavern creek on one side and Brushy creek on the other. One year I
remember
>that we were 'water bound' for 3 days and couldn't get out. The low water
>crossings across each of these creeks have only the old fashioned 'slabs'
>that were built over 50 years ago. Some in the county go back to the
>1930s.............I love country living, but there are some disadvantages
>such as flooded creeks, ice covered country roads that don't melt until
>almost spring, electric water pumps that only work if you have electricity,
>breaking ice so the cattle can have water to drink in the springs and
>ponds.......but there is still nothing so grand as living out here in God's
>Country..........Peggy
Peggy,

My mother spent most of her growing up years on a farm called Old Dock
which I believe was on the Big Tavern Creek. I have never been there -- my
grandparents had moved before I was born, but I do have some photographs
that I believe are of the place. I do remember visiting my grandfather's
Aunt Ibby (Isabel Setser Dickerson Johnson) on an old farm that was barely
accessible by car even in dry weather. Ibby lived to be 102 -- her eighty
year old daughter lived with her the last five or six years (or more) of
her life.

Scott




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