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Note: Roscoe Hall b. July 24, 1901 Roscoe out lived three wifes, Dory Case the loving mother of his children, Minny Case his second wife, Beatrice E. Blackwell his
third wife. His forth wife Stella Watson, is still living in Irvine, Ky.
Our children have fond memories of Roscoe, and the one that they remember the most is him sitting and telling them ghost stories. He could
tell some of the best. At one time he worked for the gas companies. He
would go around in the mountain areas and get people to lease their land
to the oil company. He made coffins when someone would die. He said that
most were made of popular wood. Wood sometimes was very scarce and people
would bring him wood to build the coffin with. People said that when
someone died that you could hear him hammering on the coffin all over the
mountain.
He was known to be very good with an axe, and split logs to make railroad ties for the railroad. It was said that he was the best man in
the mountains with an axe, and could split logs all day long. Late in
years when he moved to Dayton, Ohio for a while he had a job at the
Wooldland Cemetery as a caretaker of the grounds. At one time he shoe
horses. Back then you had to do what ever you had a talent for in order
to make a living. Roscoe had many trades he had learned. He helped to
build houses and some of the churches in Patsey, and Cob Hill, Ky.
Dora and Roscoe lived back on the creek in Pasty, they had a small cabin, with a barn. There was a garden, and they had some cows. The cabin
had been built about a hundred feet above the creek on a piece of flat
land. They had to carry the rocks up a steep cliff to get them to where
the cabin was to be built. One by one they put them in place to make the
foundation. Logs then had to be cut and made ready to be put in place to
roll them up pieces of greased boards. It would take several man to get
this done., They had to build a small barn, and clear land for the
garden. A well would also have to be dug by hand. Then rocks placed up
the sides of the well so that the dirt would not be able to muddy the
water. Turn your faucet on and appreciate that you have that convenience.
I look at things a lot differently now, and really appreciate all the
conforts that we take for granted each day.
When I have look down at the creek I think how peaceful a place I had never seen. You can see from where the cabin once stood what is
called "The Baptismal Hole." People have been baptized there for many
years and still some are today. Just imagine all the people gathering for
the special time, and singing praises to God. People in the mountains
have a very strong spritial fellings. It is the one thing that got them
through the tough times. The creek is so clear there that you can see
every pebble and rock in it. I think that I could spend a lot of time
there, and not fell that there was an outside world. It just makes you
fell that nothing could go wrong as long as you are there. Life must have
been so simple then, and all that was important in life was to see to it
that your family was taken care of.
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