Dolores Clark - On the Barbees (clip)
Interviewed by Kathy Atwater on April 6, 2023
Dolores Clark: So my great grandmother and great grandfather had two children, Sally and William. Okay, the two children. And that’s when they added on to their house after they built the log house, because they started a family. Sally married a Barbee. She married Fred Barbee and he was down there by Barbee’s Chapel, Farrington Road down that way. Out near Meadowmont now, there’s several streets that says Barbee – Barbee Street or Barbee Lane or whatever. So he was from that area. So he actually attended what was Barbee’s Chapel, and I’m not sure how they met, but they met and had ten children. And then my grandfather, he was a brick mason and my grandmother, she had to stay home and take care of all those children, but he taught his sons, Alfred and Willis, about bricklaying, so that’s how they learned. My great grandfather (also my grandfather) was a stone mason also. My grandfather was a brick mason. He did some stone work, but he did more brick work.
Kathy Atwater: This was William Barbee?
DC: That was Willis and Alfred, my uncles. They were Fred sons and they were Toney’s great grandchildren.
