Indian
Creek Farms is an Illinois Centennial Farm that has been the home of the Walker
family for eight generations. Located on the banks of the Embarras River and
Indian Creek in southeast Coles County, the farm was established by land grant
in 1835.
For more than 60 years, four generations of the Walker/Babbs family have raised Hereford hogs on this farm. Clarel Walker and his son Bill began their herd in the early 1940s and exhibited their first registered Herefords in 1946. Bill and Margie Walker and their daughters, Karen and Cathy, expanded the herd in the 1950s through 1970s. Roger and Cathy (Walker) Babbs and their children, son Corey and daughter Christina, became active partners in the farming and livestock operations in the early 1970s.
Today, Margie Walker lives in the 1920 farmhouse and Roger and Cathy Babbs live in a second home on the farm. Roger and Corey Babbs farm the land and continue the tradition of raising award-winning Hereford breeding and show stock. They are members of the National Hereford Hog Record Association and have won numerous awards at the National Hereford Hog Show and Sale. Roger is a past president of the Association.