Dennis Raymond York, Sr. was known as "Raymond York" because there were seven different Dennis York members in the family. He was the second child born of nine children born to George Mike York and his wife Lou Velia Routh. He stayed on the family farm of over 300 acres for many years at the request of his father to help care for the many crops and farm animals plus provide funds for his younger brothers to attend Elon College. Raymond and his brothers and sisters were faithful members of the Shady Grove Baptist Church that their grandfather Dennis Culberson York had been so active in establishing.
Raymond and all his siblings walked several miles south through the John Ward farm each day to the Kildee School for the first six years of their education. The Kildee School was south of present day Highway 64 near the Rehobeth United Methodist Church and the Kildee Wesleyan Church. For the years beyond the sixth grade the older York children attended the Staley School up through grade eleven, because there were no buses to the schools. Later the younger brothers and sisters attended the Ramseur Public school when a bus route became available to the school from their farm.
Raymond and his brother Toy York in their teenage years gained a good reputation as mechanics for working on T-Model Ford automobiles in their fathers Tobacco grading barn next to the blacksmith shop. The two level barn was built on a slopping hillside with double large doors. So the boys got permission to cut a hinged door in the ground level floor where they rolled the T-Models into. Then one of them would go down to the lower level to work through the opening of the trap door to work underneath the T-models standing up. He later worked in a gas station and garage at the intersection of Park Street and Salisbury in Asheboro. He always did his own mechanics work on all the automobiles he owned.
In his mid twenties he went to Greensboro in Guilford County to work for the large Coble's Milk Dairy. He was given a milk delivery route that he enjoyed because it allowed him to save some money.
Because of his good mechanic skills he was able to secure a job as a hosiery machine fixer in the Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at the Hill Street intersection. Raymond married Hetty Adelaide Staley on 6 June 1929 in her farther Charles Merriman Staley's home in Staley. She had been attending Greensboro Woman's College. This now is the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Raymond had meet her when he and his brother Toy rented a room form her uncle Herbert Staley so they could attend their last years in the new Staley school, next her fathers farm.
After marriage Raymond and Hetty rented an apartment on Hill Street and Park Street very near his work at Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at Hill Street. Next door to their apartment lived some cousins Carnie and Fleta Rightsell as recorded in the 1930 census.
Raymond and all his siblings walked several miles south through the John Ward farm each day to the Kildee School for the first six years of their education. The Kildee School was south of present day Highway 64 near the Rehobeth United Methodist Church and the Kildee Wesleyan Church. For the years beyond the sixth grade the older York children attended the Staley School up through grade eleven, because there were no buses to the schools. Later the younger brothers and sisters attended the Ramseur Public school when a bus route became available to the school from their farm.
Raymond and his brother Toy York in their teenage years gained a good reputation as mechanics for working on T-Model Ford automobiles in their fathers Tobacco grading barn next to the blacksmith shop. The two level barn was built on a slopping hillside with double large doors. So the boys got permission to cut a hinged door in the ground level floor where they rolled the T-Models into. Then one of them would go down to the lower level to work through the opening of the trap door to work underneath the T-models standing up. He later worked in a gas station and garage at the intersection of Park Street and Salisbury in Asheboro. He always did his own mechanics work on all the automobiles he owned.
In his mid twenties he went to Greensboro in Guilford County to work for the large Coble's Milk Dairy. He was given a milk delivery route that he enjoyed because it allowed him to save some money.
Because of his good mechanic skills he was able to secure a job as a hosiery machine fixer in the Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at the Hill Street intersection. Raymond married Hetty Adelaide Staley on 6 June 1929 in her farther Charles Merriman Staley's home in Staley. She had been attending Greensboro Woman's College. This now is the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Raymond had meet her when he and his brother Toy rented a room form her uncle Herbert Staley so they could attend their last years in the new Staley school, next her fathers farm.
After marriage Raymond and Hetty rented an apartment on Hill Street and Park Street very near his work at Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at Hill Street. Next door to their apartment lived some cousins Carnie and Fleta Rightsell as recorded in the 1930 census.
Dennis Raymond York, Sr. was known as "Raymond York" because there were seven different Dennis York members in the family. He was the second child born of nine children born to George Mike York and his wife Lou Velia Routh. He stayed on the family farm of over 300 acres for many years at the request of his father to help care for the many crops and farm animals plus provide funds for his younger brothers to attend Elon College. Raymond and his brothers and sisters were faithful members of the Shady Grove Baptist Church that their grandfather Dennis Culberson York had been so active in establishing.
Raymond and all his siblings walked several miles south through the John Ward farm each day to the Kildee School for the first six years of their education. The Kildee School was south of present day Highway 64 near the Rehobeth United Methodist Church and the Kildee Wesleyan Church. For the years beyond the sixth grade the older York children attended the Staley School up through grade eleven, because there were no buses to the schools. Later the younger brothers and sisters attended the Ramseur Public school when a bus route became available to the school from their farm.
Raymond and his brother Toy York in their teenage years gained a good reputation as mechanics for working on T-Model Ford automobiles in their fathers Tobacco grading barn next to the blacksmith shop. The two level barn was built on a slopping hillside with double large doors. So the boys got permission to cut a hinged door in the ground level floor where they rolled the T-Models into. Then one of them would go down to the lower level to work through the opening of the trap door to work underneath the T-models standing up. He later worked in a gas station and garage at the intersection of Park Street and Salisbury in Asheboro. He always did his own mechanics work on all the automobiles he owned.
In his mid twenties he went to Greensboro in Guilford County to work for the large Coble's Milk Dairy. He was given a milk delivery route that he enjoyed because it allowed him to save some money.
Because of his good mechanic skills he was able to secure a job as a hosiery machine fixer in the Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at the Hill Street intersection. Raymond married Hetty Adelaide Staley on 6 June 1929 in her farther Charles Merriman Staley's home in Staley. She had been attending Greensboro Woman's College. This now is the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Raymond had meet her when he and his brother Toy rented a room form her uncle Herbert Staley so they could attend their last years in the new Staley school, next her fathers farm.
After marriage Raymond and Hetty rented an apartment on Hill Street and Park Street very near his work at Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at Hill Street. Next door to their apartment lived some cousins Carnie and Fleta Rightsell as recorded in the 1930 census.
Raymond and all his siblings walked several miles south through the John Ward farm each day to the Kildee School for the first six years of their education. The Kildee School was south of present day Highway 64 near the Rehobeth United Methodist Church and the Kildee Wesleyan Church. For the years beyond the sixth grade the older York children attended the Staley School up through grade eleven, because there were no buses to the schools. Later the younger brothers and sisters attended the Ramseur Public school when a bus route became available to the school from their farm.
Raymond and his brother Toy York in their teenage years gained a good reputation as mechanics for working on T-Model Ford automobiles in their fathers Tobacco grading barn next to the blacksmith shop. The two level barn was built on a slopping hillside with double large doors. So the boys got permission to cut a hinged door in the ground level floor where they rolled the T-Models into. Then one of them would go down to the lower level to work through the opening of the trap door to work underneath the T-models standing up. He later worked in a gas station and garage at the intersection of Park Street and Salisbury in Asheboro. He always did his own mechanics work on all the automobiles he owned.
In his mid twenties he went to Greensboro in Guilford County to work for the large Coble's Milk Dairy. He was given a milk delivery route that he enjoyed because it allowed him to save some money.
Because of his good mechanic skills he was able to secure a job as a hosiery machine fixer in the Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at the Hill Street intersection. Raymond married Hetty Adelaide Staley on 6 June 1929 in her farther Charles Merriman Staley's home in Staley. She had been attending Greensboro Woman's College. This now is the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Raymond had meet her when he and his brother Toy rented a room form her uncle Herbert Staley so they could attend their last years in the new Staley school, next her fathers farm.
After marriage Raymond and Hetty rented an apartment on Hill Street and Park Street very near his work at Asheboro Hosiery Mill on Church Street at Hill Street. Next door to their apartment lived some cousins Carnie and Fleta Rightsell as recorded in the 1930 census.
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