Irvey Bolton's Rail Fence Made Of Wood Which Is 100 Years Old
Irvey Bolton's rail fence isn't the last of its kind; the old-timers zigzag out of the past on a few farms yet. But rail fences are rare. You might drive all day, and never see one.
Irvey Bolton's fence is about 60 yards long, and it is still in service. It separates the woods lot from a field and is strong enough to confine the jumpingest cow or horse.
The split rails in the fence are more than 100 years old. Bolton built the fence about 50 years ago and the rails came from a fence, which was old then, on the farm of his father not far away.
Through the years, Bolton has replaced a few rails with poles and the poles are beginning to rot. But the old rails are still strong. They have considerable spring although they are worn smooth and are almost the color of limestone.
Irvey Bolton doesn't remember ever splitting any rails. It was easier to use rails from other fences when he needed to build a fence on his place. His rails probably are oak: they are so weathered it is hard to tell.
Irvey Bolton soon will be 81 years old and his wife, the former Miss Ola Nicholson, is 75. He has never lived more than a half mile from the place where he was born.
His grandfather, Terrell Bolton, came from North Carolina in an ox wagon and settled near here on about 1,000 acres of land. This was in the 1840s.
Irvey's father, Ben was born just a short distance from the Irvey Bolton home. An old well still marks the homesite.
When Irvey and Ola married, they rented places not far away and then, a half-century ago, they built on their present homesite.
The first house, on a dirt road, burned in 1933.
It was replaced by the present comfortable white house in which they live by themselves.
A son, Murrell, and his family live a short distance down the road. Another son, Clifton: World War II veteran who flew 35 missions as a Liberator bomber pilot, lives in Michigan.
Their other child is. Mrs. Louise Feezor.
The Boltons who have the rail fence live in an area which once was a Bolton settlement.
Not far away is Bolton Cemetery.
A half-mile in the opposite direction is the site of old Bolton School.
The home is on Bolton Road. There would have been a Bolton church across the road from the graveyard. Ben Bolton donated two acres of land for it but no one ever put up a bullding.
Ben Bolton had two brothers: Billy and Brantley. Both settled in the community.
Not many Boltons live in the community now, only Clarence and Clyde live near Irvey and Murrell.
Irvey Bolton and his wife live comfortably; they are surrounded by the old and the new.
They have a food freezer, electric stove,
washing machine and electric well pump.
Yet they heat with a wood stove and often Mrs. Ola cooks on a little wood stove used to warm the kitchen. Irvey cuts all the wood in his lot. He splits it and put it in ricks near the house.
They love to smell a wood fire, and to smell food cooking on a wood stove.
They heated one year with coal but couldn't stand it. "It was too dirty and didn't smell good," said Mrs. Bolton. Ironically, the wood heating stove has an automatic draft which amounts to a thermostat.
They have only some chickens and a cow on the place, too. Mrs. Bolton churns every other day with a churn dasher in an old-fashioned churn. They can't use all the butter but it is stored in the freezer for use when the cow goes dry.
Mrs. Bolton is quite a traveler. She has been to Detroit two or three times. Mr. Bolton made a trip to Savannah, Mo. once: that is the only time he has ever been out of West Kentucky.
He has never owned or driven a car; she bought an A-model in the 1930's and kept it while the boys were at home to drive it. When they left, she sold the little car.
"I tried to drive a car once but it almost got away from me," said Mr. Bolton. "I did pretty well driving oxen and mules, though."
She likes the small cars; a neighbor has one and Mrs. Bolton loves to see it pass. "It seems to almost fly," she said.
Bolton may lear down his old rail fence. At least threatens to do so. His wife, who likes the fence, isn't particularly worried, however.
The old fence, there where they can see it all the time, is a strong attractive link to the old days which they, like moat elderly people, love to remember.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Sunday, December 04, 1960
Irvey R. Bolton, 90, died at 11:23 p.m. Saturday
in Benton Municipal Hospital. He was a resident of Symsonia Rt. 1.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Dwight Feezor of Lincoln Park, Mich.; two sons, Henry Murrel Bolton of Symsonia Rt. 1 and Clifford Bolton of Chelsea, Mich.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Collier Funeral Home. The Rev. Orville Easley and the Rev. Pony Clapp will officiate. Burial will be in Bolton Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of the service.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Monday, July 27, 1970
Irvey Bolton's rail fence isn't the last of its kind; the old-timers zigzag out of the past on a few farms yet. But rail fences are rare. You might drive all day, and never see one.
Irvey Bolton's fence is about 60 yards long, and it is still in service. It separates the woods lot from a field and is strong enough to confine the jumpingest cow or horse.
The split rails in the fence are more than 100 years old. Bolton built the fence about 50 years ago and the rails came from a fence, which was old then, on the farm of his father not far away.
Through the years, Bolton has replaced a few rails with poles and the poles are beginning to rot. But the old rails are still strong. They have considerable spring although they are worn smooth and are almost the color of limestone.
Irvey Bolton doesn't remember ever splitting any rails. It was easier to use rails from other fences when he needed to build a fence on his place. His rails probably are oak: they are so weathered it is hard to tell.
Irvey Bolton soon will be 81 years old and his wife, the former Miss Ola Nicholson, is 75. He has never lived more than a half mile from the place where he was born.
His grandfather, Terrell Bolton, came from North Carolina in an ox wagon and settled near here on about 1,000 acres of land. This was in the 1840s.
Irvey's father, Ben was born just a short distance from the Irvey Bolton home. An old well still marks the homesite.
When Irvey and Ola married, they rented places not far away and then, a half-century ago, they built on their present homesite.
The first house, on a dirt road, burned in 1933.
It was replaced by the present comfortable white house in which they live by themselves.
A son, Murrell, and his family live a short distance down the road. Another son, Clifton: World War II veteran who flew 35 missions as a Liberator bomber pilot, lives in Michigan.
Their other child is. Mrs. Louise Feezor.
The Boltons who have the rail fence live in an area which once was a Bolton settlement.
Not far away is Bolton Cemetery.
A half-mile in the opposite direction is the site of old Bolton School.
The home is on Bolton Road. There would have been a Bolton church across the road from the graveyard. Ben Bolton donated two acres of land for it but no one ever put up a bullding.
Ben Bolton had two brothers: Billy and Brantley. Both settled in the community.
Not many Boltons live in the community now, only Clarence and Clyde live near Irvey and Murrell.
Irvey Bolton and his wife live comfortably; they are surrounded by the old and the new.
They have a food freezer, electric stove,
washing machine and electric well pump.
Yet they heat with a wood stove and often Mrs. Ola cooks on a little wood stove used to warm the kitchen. Irvey cuts all the wood in his lot. He splits it and put it in ricks near the house.
They love to smell a wood fire, and to smell food cooking on a wood stove.
They heated one year with coal but couldn't stand it. "It was too dirty and didn't smell good," said Mrs. Bolton. Ironically, the wood heating stove has an automatic draft which amounts to a thermostat.
They have only some chickens and a cow on the place, too. Mrs. Bolton churns every other day with a churn dasher in an old-fashioned churn. They can't use all the butter but it is stored in the freezer for use when the cow goes dry.
Mrs. Bolton is quite a traveler. She has been to Detroit two or three times. Mr. Bolton made a trip to Savannah, Mo. once: that is the only time he has ever been out of West Kentucky.
He has never owned or driven a car; she bought an A-model in the 1930's and kept it while the boys were at home to drive it. When they left, she sold the little car.
"I tried to drive a car once but it almost got away from me," said Mr. Bolton. "I did pretty well driving oxen and mules, though."
She likes the small cars; a neighbor has one and Mrs. Bolton loves to see it pass. "It seems to almost fly," she said.
Bolton may lear down his old rail fence. At least threatens to do so. His wife, who likes the fence, isn't particularly worried, however.
The old fence, there where they can see it all the time, is a strong attractive link to the old days which they, like moat elderly people, love to remember.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Sunday, December 04, 1960
Irvey R. Bolton, 90, died at 11:23 p.m. Saturday
in Benton Municipal Hospital. He was a resident of Symsonia Rt. 1.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Dwight Feezor of Lincoln Park, Mich.; two sons, Henry Murrel Bolton of Symsonia Rt. 1 and Clifford Bolton of Chelsea, Mich.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Collier Funeral Home. The Rev. Orville Easley and the Rev. Pony Clapp will officiate. Burial will be in Bolton Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of the service.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Monday, July 27, 1970
Irvey Bolton's Rail Fence Made Of Wood Which Is 100 Years Old
Irvey Bolton's rail fence isn't the last of its kind; the old-timers zigzag out of the past on a few farms yet. But rail fences are rare. You might drive all day, and never see one.
Irvey Bolton's fence is about 60 yards long, and it is still in service. It separates the woods lot from a field and is strong enough to confine the jumpingest cow or horse.
The split rails in the fence are more than 100 years old. Bolton built the fence about 50 years ago and the rails came from a fence, which was old then, on the farm of his father not far away.
Through the years, Bolton has replaced a few rails with poles and the poles are beginning to rot. But the old rails are still strong. They have considerable spring although they are worn smooth and are almost the color of limestone.
Irvey Bolton doesn't remember ever splitting any rails. It was easier to use rails from other fences when he needed to build a fence on his place. His rails probably are oak: they are so weathered it is hard to tell.
Irvey Bolton soon will be 81 years old and his wife, the former Miss Ola Nicholson, is 75. He has never lived more than a half mile from the place where he was born.
His grandfather, Terrell Bolton, came from North Carolina in an ox wagon and settled near here on about 1,000 acres of land. This was in the 1840s.
Irvey's father, Ben was born just a short distance from the Irvey Bolton home. An old well still marks the homesite.
When Irvey and Ola married, they rented places not far away and then, a half-century ago, they built on their present homesite.
The first house, on a dirt road, burned in 1933.
It was replaced by the present comfortable white house in which they live by themselves.
A son, Murrell, and his family live a short distance down the road. Another son, Clifton: World War II veteran who flew 35 missions as a Liberator bomber pilot, lives in Michigan.
Their other child is. Mrs. Louise Feezor.
The Boltons who have the rail fence live in an area which once was a Bolton settlement.
Not far away is Bolton Cemetery.
A half-mile in the opposite direction is the site of old Bolton School.
The home is on Bolton Road. There would have been a Bolton church across the road from the graveyard. Ben Bolton donated two acres of land for it but no one ever put up a bullding.
Ben Bolton had two brothers: Billy and Brantley. Both settled in the community.
Not many Boltons live in the community now, only Clarence and Clyde live near Irvey and Murrell.
Irvey Bolton and his wife live comfortably; they are surrounded by the old and the new.
They have a food freezer, electric stove,
washing machine and electric well pump.
Yet they heat with a wood stove and often Mrs. Ola cooks on a little wood stove used to warm the kitchen. Irvey cuts all the wood in his lot. He splits it and put it in ricks near the house.
They love to smell a wood fire, and to smell food cooking on a wood stove.
They heated one year with coal but couldn't stand it. "It was too dirty and didn't smell good," said Mrs. Bolton. Ironically, the wood heating stove has an automatic draft which amounts to a thermostat.
They have only some chickens and a cow on the place, too. Mrs. Bolton churns every other day with a churn dasher in an old-fashioned churn. They can't use all the butter but it is stored in the freezer for use when the cow goes dry.
Mrs. Bolton is quite a traveler. She has been to Detroit two or three times. Mr. Bolton made a trip to Savannah, Mo. once: that is the only time he has ever been out of West Kentucky.
He has never owned or driven a car; she bought an A-model in the 1930's and kept it while the boys were at home to drive it. When they left, she sold the little car.
"I tried to drive a car once but it almost got away from me," said Mr. Bolton. "I did pretty well driving oxen and mules, though."
She likes the small cars; a neighbor has one and Mrs. Bolton loves to see it pass. "It seems to almost fly," she said.
Bolton may lear down his old rail fence. At least threatens to do so. His wife, who likes the fence, isn't particularly worried, however.
The old fence, there where they can see it all the time, is a strong attractive link to the old days which they, like moat elderly people, love to remember.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Sunday, December 04, 1960
Irvey R. Bolton, 90, died at 11:23 p.m. Saturday
in Benton Municipal Hospital. He was a resident of Symsonia Rt. 1.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Dwight Feezor of Lincoln Park, Mich.; two sons, Henry Murrel Bolton of Symsonia Rt. 1 and Clifford Bolton of Chelsea, Mich.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Collier Funeral Home. The Rev. Orville Easley and the Rev. Pony Clapp will officiate. Burial will be in Bolton Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of the service.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Monday, July 27, 1970
Irvey Bolton's rail fence isn't the last of its kind; the old-timers zigzag out of the past on a few farms yet. But rail fences are rare. You might drive all day, and never see one.
Irvey Bolton's fence is about 60 yards long, and it is still in service. It separates the woods lot from a field and is strong enough to confine the jumpingest cow or horse.
The split rails in the fence are more than 100 years old. Bolton built the fence about 50 years ago and the rails came from a fence, which was old then, on the farm of his father not far away.
Through the years, Bolton has replaced a few rails with poles and the poles are beginning to rot. But the old rails are still strong. They have considerable spring although they are worn smooth and are almost the color of limestone.
Irvey Bolton doesn't remember ever splitting any rails. It was easier to use rails from other fences when he needed to build a fence on his place. His rails probably are oak: they are so weathered it is hard to tell.
Irvey Bolton soon will be 81 years old and his wife, the former Miss Ola Nicholson, is 75. He has never lived more than a half mile from the place where he was born.
His grandfather, Terrell Bolton, came from North Carolina in an ox wagon and settled near here on about 1,000 acres of land. This was in the 1840s.
Irvey's father, Ben was born just a short distance from the Irvey Bolton home. An old well still marks the homesite.
When Irvey and Ola married, they rented places not far away and then, a half-century ago, they built on their present homesite.
The first house, on a dirt road, burned in 1933.
It was replaced by the present comfortable white house in which they live by themselves.
A son, Murrell, and his family live a short distance down the road. Another son, Clifton: World War II veteran who flew 35 missions as a Liberator bomber pilot, lives in Michigan.
Their other child is. Mrs. Louise Feezor.
The Boltons who have the rail fence live in an area which once was a Bolton settlement.
Not far away is Bolton Cemetery.
A half-mile in the opposite direction is the site of old Bolton School.
The home is on Bolton Road. There would have been a Bolton church across the road from the graveyard. Ben Bolton donated two acres of land for it but no one ever put up a bullding.
Ben Bolton had two brothers: Billy and Brantley. Both settled in the community.
Not many Boltons live in the community now, only Clarence and Clyde live near Irvey and Murrell.
Irvey Bolton and his wife live comfortably; they are surrounded by the old and the new.
They have a food freezer, electric stove,
washing machine and electric well pump.
Yet they heat with a wood stove and often Mrs. Ola cooks on a little wood stove used to warm the kitchen. Irvey cuts all the wood in his lot. He splits it and put it in ricks near the house.
They love to smell a wood fire, and to smell food cooking on a wood stove.
They heated one year with coal but couldn't stand it. "It was too dirty and didn't smell good," said Mrs. Bolton. Ironically, the wood heating stove has an automatic draft which amounts to a thermostat.
They have only some chickens and a cow on the place, too. Mrs. Bolton churns every other day with a churn dasher in an old-fashioned churn. They can't use all the butter but it is stored in the freezer for use when the cow goes dry.
Mrs. Bolton is quite a traveler. She has been to Detroit two or three times. Mr. Bolton made a trip to Savannah, Mo. once: that is the only time he has ever been out of West Kentucky.
He has never owned or driven a car; she bought an A-model in the 1930's and kept it while the boys were at home to drive it. When they left, she sold the little car.
"I tried to drive a car once but it almost got away from me," said Mr. Bolton. "I did pretty well driving oxen and mules, though."
She likes the small cars; a neighbor has one and Mrs. Bolton loves to see it pass. "It seems to almost fly," she said.
Bolton may lear down his old rail fence. At least threatens to do so. His wife, who likes the fence, isn't particularly worried, however.
The old fence, there where they can see it all the time, is a strong attractive link to the old days which they, like moat elderly people, love to remember.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Sunday, December 04, 1960
Irvey R. Bolton, 90, died at 11:23 p.m. Saturday
in Benton Municipal Hospital. He was a resident of Symsonia Rt. 1.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Dwight Feezor of Lincoln Park, Mich.; two sons, Henry Murrel Bolton of Symsonia Rt. 1 and Clifford Bolton of Chelsea, Mich.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Collier Funeral Home. The Rev. Orville Easley and the Rev. Pony Clapp will officiate. Burial will be in Bolton Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of the service.
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky
Monday, July 27, 1970
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