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iContinued /row. Pave 11 Mr. and Mrs. David Stuart, who settled in the Spring Hill Com munity. iv'ar Brown s Church in Cumberland county, when they came to the United States from Perth. Scotland. The former Longwood resident has some im pressions of the trip from Scot land. She was about six years old at the time. One time when Alfred Barber i came to her father's farm to buy cattle. Miss Chrissie—Mrs. Bar ber's name to her friends and ; neighbors—met him. They were 1 married at her home in 1892. Now Alfred was the son of Wright Barber, to whom the heirs of Nathaniel E. Venable deeded Longwood for the price ®f $3000 ' April 1, The deed was recorded in 1911. Sold In 1920 Alfred Barber came to Virginia with his parents from Bradford. England, when he was four years | old. Tne Barber family was the last owner of Longwood House be fore the estate was purchased by , State Teachers' College in 1920 j lor $20,000. Miss Chrissie recalled that I ongwood House had 16 rooms, 1 including the attic arid basement, i when she lived theie. And. of course, it didn't have ' all of to- ' day's conveniences." she said. She remembered, also, when Long- ' wood Estate consisted of more than 200 acres, and it extended almost to the coin thouse site. ( This is small compared to the 1181 acres in the estate that Abram B. Venable purchased from Peter Johnston, Jr.. June 2. 1811. Today the oldest living member of the Barber Family, Miss Chris- j sie, lives with her daughter. Miss [ Geneva Barber. And from their bedroom wirdow, she views a sight of the past — Longwood House. She, the only living wom an who kept house in the old home, is a link between then and j now. ,
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