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This website has been constructed to provide a consolidated reference for lineage of and repository of historical information for three of Onslow Counties families that have roots going back to the early 1800s and Europe. Please contact Leven Ervin Morton, son of Leven and Nannie Morton, grandson of Cader and Bessie Barbee, for revisions to information found here and to provide additional information that we do not want lost to our children My contact information is:
Email: lemorton@att.net |
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The 2022 Barbee Reunion will be held on Sunday October 2, 2022 at The First Christian Church, 124 Trott Rd, Richlands, NC 28574, Our William Minter Barbee cousins are this year's hosts. - Everitte Barbee Letter identifying locations on 1921 Onslow County Soils and Geodetic Survey Map This letter was written in support of a claimed boundary line. A full image of the 1921 Onslow County and Geodetic Survey Map is stored in the North Carolina State Archives.
Christopher Barbee (1739-1834), son of William Barbee (1711-1758), and Gray Barbee (1750-1830), son of Joseph Barbee (1721-1733),
were grandsons of John Barbee (about 1683 -1749).
In 1943, Everett Barbee, grandson of Isaiah Grayson Barbee and son of Cader Barbee, was called from his Richlands home and rushed into World War II.
Just like thousands of young Americans from 1941 to 1945, he found himself in situations for which he had hardly prepared.
With limited training, he and his group was rushed over the skies of Europe. These excerpts from Everette Barbee’s diary -
A Waist Gunners Story was published in the Jacksonville Daily News in February 2004. |