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The summer of 1951 was a little hotter than normal. And that June 10th, Roxie Lee Blackwell Hendrix, her children, and a few others had gone to the private lake of the Roy Roper Yellow Creek Church. They borrowed a motor from a friend to place on their aluminum boat for a ride. The pond in 2024 The Roper Farm on the 1903 Henley Map Lake today, lower right corner The Roper Lake was a spring-fed four-acre lake about 12 to 15 feet deep. It is located roughly a mile west of t