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and personal property" be conveyed "to my beloved wife, Carrie B . Roberts ." 36 After her husband ' s death, Carrie did not stay on the farm but moved to Hillsborough with Vesta Bacon and Vance Martin. Aubrey Martin operated the farm for several years before it was leased to Jerome "Bud" and Della Garrard in 1947. The Garrards remained at the farm for sixteen years, constructing a large concrete block chicken house west of the farm house, and two pole barns near the southern end of the property in 1950 to replace Addison Holden' s barn that was destroyed by lightning. After Mrs . Roberts ' s death in 1963, her heirs divided the farm, selling a 20- acre parcel to the Garrards ' sons, Vic and . Julian, a 58 . 42- acre parcel containing the house and outbuildings to Thomas Bacon, Jr., and the remainder of the land to Wallace Bacon. 37 After two years, Thomas Bacon sold his property to James Rae and Betty Freeland who constructed the large gable=roofed pole barn in the northeast field, and sold the property to Drs . Nets and Nancy Anderson, the present owners, within a year. 38 In 1970, the Andersons purchased 10 . 31 acres, one half of the Garrard brothers' land, thus acquiring another portion of the original Holden-Roberts farm. a9 After 1970, the Andersons made sensitive and practical alterations to the farmhouse that included : closing in a porch to create a bathroom in the kitchen wing; renovating the north wing by installing sheetrock on the interior walls, replacing bathroom fixtures, and adding a small kitchenette; modernizing appliances in the main kitchen; and replacing one porch post and decking on the front porch and decking on the side porch . Under the Andersons ' ownership, farming activities have included raising small herds of sheep and cattle, and keeping several horses from 1968 to 1983. More recently the farm has been used for the cultivation of fescue hay .40 Today Rolling Acres, the Holden-Roberts Farm, with key elements intact retains integrity as one of an increasingly few late-nineteenth and early4wentieth- century farms in northern Orange County, North Carolina, 36 Orange County Will Book L, p. 505 and Orange County, Deed Book 63, p. 389. 37 Orange County Deed Books 183 and 196, pp. 565 and 675, and Bacon, T., interview. 38 Orange County Deed Books 202 and 210, p. 136 and p . 811 . 39 Orange County Deed Books 227 and 341 , pp. 1538, and 507. 40 Anderson, correspondence.