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We came across the remnants of a blue barn on Page Road in Morrisville, NC. Near the barn was a cemetery for the Page family (dated roughly 1822-1923) on the north side of the intersection of Page Road and Crown Parkway. There were two large upright stones and six small field stones with modern markers glued to them. I imagine the city has or will relocate the small prominent county farmer family cemetery. To learn more about the area, I did some research.
The namesake of the cemetery, LeRoy Page, was beaten to death by his son Fab, with a heavy elm root (from a tree) during a quarrel in 1926. "I'll kill you if I ever get up," were the father's last words, according to witnesses. This was 52 years after LeRoy’s own father Obediah, was aiming a shotgun at his son Alonso for some reason or another. The son ended up killing his father with a rifle. That son disappeared, never to be seen again. Talk about family drama.
I don't know if the cemetery is related to the barn. Despite the tragedies, the barn on Page Road held my interest to paint a picture. I imagined mountains and an old tractor in this award-winning painting created with several layers of soft pastel on sanded paper. Don’t be too surprised if I paint it again.
