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.: <br />GT: Yes, I'm the tenth child. <br />BU: OK, how many brothers and sisters did you have? <br />GT: There was 13 in my family, six sisters and 7 boys. <br />BU: So what kind of farming? <br />GT: Tobacco mostly, but we raised everything; hogs, chickens, ducks guineas, <br />turkeys and, we had apple trees, peaches. Most of the farmers did that so they <br />wouldn't have to buy so much groceries. You know with thirteen in the family, <br />you'd need a lot of groceries. <br />BU: You were pretty self - sufficient? <br />GT: Yes, we didn't have to buy nothing much but salt, black pepper stuff like that. In <br />the wintertime they would kill four or five hogs, so you'd have plenty meat. We <br />had two or three cows and had plenty of milk and butter. My uncle sold the <br />farm and in about nine or ten years I had it paid for and I went ahead and built <br />a house. In about another ten years I had that paid for and I raised nine <br />children. <br />BU: How many boys and girls? <br />GT: Five girls and four boys. <br />IC: Yes and all of them are living. I'm the oldest. <br />BU: They all live here in Orange. County? <br />GT: They went to school here in North Carolina, but they had to go out to get a good <br />job. <br />IC: All over the world. <br />GT: They're scattered all over, one in Indiana, one in Michigan, one in Detroit one in <br />Charlotte, and my oldest would have been in South Carolina. But, my wife took <br />sick and she had an aneurysm and so for that cause he moved close to home. <br />BU: Aren't you lucky to have one in the area. <br />GT: Yes, that's right. Another one lives in Hillsborough but she works in Raleigh. <br />IC: The oldest brother lives in Africa. <br />GT: Yes, he went over there and built .... <br />IC: He worked at the Mental Handicapped Institute in the Sudan. <br />