A Historical Column From The Fayette County Historical Commission
It’s a warm Saturday morning in the spring of 1958 on the Hoelscher-Fehmer farm a couple of miles outside of Ellinger in southeast Fayette County. The cows in the pasture are lazily grazing on the lush grass still glistening with early-morning dew. The old sagging cedar plank gate provides an opening in a rusty barbed wire fence that…