The Clyde Ruffin Roney Family of Alamance County North Carolina USA
Clyde R. Roney was born august 15 1887 in Alamance County, NC in a one room leanto built out of mostly rough cut logs by his father Chesley Henry Lea Roney. When the old country Doctor that deliver young Clyde held him upside down and slap him, he yell back to the Doctor what did he do that for! Or perhaps such a fuss yelling and crying that, they must have thought so it the time anyway. Young Clyde's mother was the former Sallie E. Curtis who was born in 1856 and died 1909 and both are buried at Pine Hill Cemtery, Burlington, NC. Chesley Roney remarried to Essie A. Blanchard on 25 December 1910, she past away on 24 December 1949. Chesley H. Roney was a farmer, and part owner in a mill and County commissioner of Alamance County. His house and farm is located off Faucette Lane between Deep Creek Church Rd. and Highway 62 North of Burlington, NC, and his Fathers homeplace is just north of his across a nearby creek. Chesley's GrandFather's house is also nearby off Sandy Cross Road now owned by Mr C. Warren. Clyde Roney's great-GrandFather was John Roney and he was married to Mary Trolinger of HawRiver,NC on December 12 1815. They both are buried in The Trollinger Cemtery at Haw River, along side their daugther Artelia R. Duke, who was married to Washington Duke.Clyde Roney's GrandFather was Benjamin Franklin Roney ,born 1816 at the time was part of Orange County, NC and he on 27 February 1849 married Cornlia Hazell , and their farm was know also as a stagcoach stop. Benjamin Roney was a State house of Representive in 1858, and is buried at Union Ridge Church Cemtery with three of his young children and son Daniel Roney who died had died in 1863. He died the same year Col. Custer was ambush in the Dakotas, 1876 also one hundrenth Celebration of United States. Clyde Ruffin Roney and Family had Celebrated many Birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas Family gatherings, almost always a big crowd of Roney's and family members. Clyde Roney was married to Benice (Bennie) Boone Daugther of William and Betty Thomas Boone on 20 December 1906, and she died 1922. They had lived on the Boon(e) farm ,now inside city limts of Burlington,NC (house and barn now torn down) off Highway 62 North at Lower-Hopedale Rd. Around World War one Clyde had built a store and operated it or rent it to a Mr. Allen sometime around 1920s-1930s.
Clyde Roney had been careing for six kids the oldest only fourteen, so he meet a young woman name Nina Mae Faulkner at a local corn husking party and sometime before 1926 they were married, and raised more youngns then tobacco or other crops. Nina F. Roney and Clyde Roney had moved, in the late 1950s to Deep Creek Church Road were land that he had inherited he overseen the construction of new homes for young growing family and they built for all a small village, which I always thought of as Roneyville. He had past away 5 august 1975, they was together fifty years and raised ten children with six older ones, many grand-children and great-grandkids also.Grandma Nina past away in 1986 she and Grandpa Clyde Roney are buried at Pine Hill Cemtery off Main St. Burlington, NC.
