Yocum, Morgan Co., KY

Yocum



Yocum is a small community on Pleasant Run in northern Morgan County.
The name of Yocum came from Yocum Creek which had been called that for an old man with
that same name.

Following is a list of Yocum Postmasters:
Will Day
Alma Robinson Higbee
Orange Allington
Roe Maxey
John D. Engle
Jim F. Lewis
Floteilla Lewis
Lanford May
F.C. Oakley
Margaret Quicksall

The religious pioneer of Yocum was Willis Lykins who conducted church services
in the old school house.

Yocum has produces two well-known writers: a poet, John D. Engle, and Alma
Robinson Higbee, an author.

(Information from Early Morgan County by Arthur C. Johnson, published in 1974)


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