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Interview no. | K-1102 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.6. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Cary Heritage Museum's Oral History Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1985-2015, conducted by Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel members as part of the Cary Heritage Museum's Oral History Project. Interviewees include members of prominent families, a former mayor, former sharecropping families, long-time community merchants, a retired chief of police and a fire chief, and former Page-Walker Hotel owners, all of whom discuss topics relating to the character and development of the town. |
Date | 14 April 2015 |
Interviewee | Barbee, Ron. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Undisclosed |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Van Scoyoc, Peggy. |
Abstract | Ron Barbee was born in Cary, N.C. The Barbees arrived in North Carolina in the late 1600s. His great grandfather, Kit Barbee, was the largest single contributor of land to the founding of the University of North Carolina. He had a farm in today's Research Triangle Park (Kit Creek Road is named after him.) Then Ron's grandfather Luther bought and established a 300 acre farm and built a house on Davis Drive. Luther then hired a tenant farmer family to work the land, and they stayed on the farm and worked for his father and Ron himself until the husband died. The tenants had nine children that Ron has remained very close to throughout the years. He talked about his family history, the farm history, and growing tobacco and hay for the mules. He also told about a lynching that took place, he thought, near the high house in Cary in 1918, [but it actually took place near Pittsboro in 1921.] |
Citation | Interview with Ron Barbee by Peggy Van Scoyoc, 14 April 2015 K-1102, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collections, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K1102_Audio |