Taken from Backroads of Barren Co penned as newspaper articles by William Daniel Tolle and published by me. Written in 1921 for this part. "Messrs Lucian and James MARTIN lived there but sold out to Dr. RENICK. Dr. RENICK has a fine bottom farm, well improved, a large farm dwelling and several stock barns. He is a successful farmer and trader. Ed EVERETT lived just across the hill on the old EVERETT place. His widow and children live there now. Chris LANDRUM lives on the Jimmie SETTLE place northwest of Rocky Hill. Mr. SETTLE was a mechanic with much natural genius. He made cotton gins that would pick the seeds from the cotton, card and spin into threads ready for weaving into cloth. Homemade clothing was worn by both men and women on the farms in the early day - the first settlers of the country. Thus were the settlements and settlers of Rocky Hill country twenty years ago. Many changes have taken place since then. Many deaths have occurred, and changes of different kinds have taken place, but [I] know little of the of the village of Rocky Hill and its inhabitants today. I suppose I might say of a trust that Mr. VAUGHAN and Mr EMERSON are selling goods in the village; and a young man ... I think by the name of SMITH ... is running a blacksmith and wood shop there. The PAGE family as noted above are living in the original Franklin SETTLE's house where they have lived for many years and which I suppose have owned for a life time or nearly so. There is a large and commodious school house in the bounds of the village, or accessible thereto. A Masonic lodge, No. 577, is held in the same building. This lodge has lost two of its most prominent members in the last few years; its Master and Secretary. James A SNODDY served the lodge as Master and Secretary from 1906 until 1914, when he died. Capt. Thomas PAGE served the lodge as Secretary a much longer period and has more recently died. At the close of the year 1921 the lodge has 18 members. So far as the church house where the good people of the village worship. I don't know (line of the original manuscript missing) ... Many years (cut off) ago I saw an old log church house on Beaver Creek north or east of the village. Since that time I have seen a more commodious and up-to-date house of worship I think somewhere in the same region of the country but I can't locate it at present." I think I will post one more article from Tolle's writing before moving on to a different series - next week. Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html