How Elbon Mill Farm got its name...
My husband and I purchased the farm in 2013 after being transferred from his company's Pennsylvania office to its West Virginia office. We are both originally from WV but spent two years in PA for his job. When we were looking for a house we could pick any city in central WV. Every house we liked had something major wrong with it or went into contract before we could make an offer. I finally found a farm for sale in Buckhannon, WV which I thought was funny because my great grandparents were from there and when I was little I said I could never live there. It got even more ironic when I realized the house was on the same road as the cemetery where my great grandparents are buried. My husband went and looked at the house and decided he liked it. While he was looking at the house I was still in PA trying to figure out where exactly the farm was and where the property lines were so I could figure out how much pasture there was. While looking at the maps I made the discovery that the property bordered Ours Mill Road and was across from the Elbon Cemetery. The Ours Mill was owned by my great granddad's family! Both of my great grandparent's families are buried in the Elbon Cemetery! There are even pictures of me playing in the river by the property! We bought the farm and then I started to do some researching. The property was once a part of my great-great-great-great-great grandparent's farm on my great grandmother's side, the old log cabin was located just around the hill from us. If my great granddad's family mill hadn't burned, I could probably see it from our hill. My nana used to visit her grandmother just down at the bottom of the hill, the old stone foundation is even still there. The family stories are just all around me here. Without even knowing it and with no real desire to do so we had purchased my history. So in honor of those ancestors dragging my butt back to my roots, I named the farm Elbon Mill Farm. "Elbon" for my great grandmother's family farm on Elbon Hill, and "Mill" for my great granddad's Ours Mill. Now I just have to try to make something of this place to make it worthy off the name.
