1613 Fayetteville Street – Gracie K. and Sandy Love House

From the Stokesdale National Historic District Nomination:

This two-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and double-pile with a one-story, hip-roofed ell on the north elevation. The house has a painted brick pier-and-curtain-wall foundation, vinyl siding, and a low gable centered on the façade. It retains one-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows, with taller bottom sashes, on the façade; windows on the side elevations have been sided over. The hip-roofed front porch is supported by tapered wood posts on painted brick piers. The front door is a modern replacement. County tax records date the building to 1921; the earliest known occupant is Sandy Love (tobacco worker) in 1925.

Gracie and Sandy Love were the original and long-term owners of 1613 Fayetteville Street. The couple lived in the home until their respective deaths; Sandy in 1937  and Gracie in 1974. Gracie and Sandy both worked as tobacco laborers, and Sandy later worked as a chauffeur. They also rented out the home at 1613 Fayetteville, likely creating an additional revenue stream for the family.

The couple had two children together: Reba L. Drake and Cleopas Love. Gracie had another daughter from a previous marriage to Anthony Dudley, Euria Lee Williams. The three children were raised in the home at 1613 Fayetteville.  

The children attended Durham public schools for their primary education. Euria, the oldest of the children, attended North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University). She worked as a stenographer clerk, office secretary, and in the tobacco industry in Durham. She then went on to work for Western Electric Company in New Jersey for 28 years. She eventually returned to Durham, where she lived at 1613 Fayetteville until she died in 1985. Cleopas lived his entire life at 1613 Fayetteville Street. He worked as a janitor and served in World War II. Reba L. Drake, the youngest of the three children, worked as a maid while living in Durham. She married at 18 years old, and relocated to Henderson, North Carolina, before eventually moving to New Jersey like her sister.

Sources:

Carolina Times