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Mrs. Edna Reaves
Elected Chairman
Home Ec Teachers
Group Meets at Central
High and Considers
Work For Year
Home Economics teachers from
Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank,
Gates and Currituck Counties met
Thursday, August 11, at Central High
School to plan their work for the
coming school year.
Mrs. Edna W. Reaves of Chowan
High School was elected chairman of
the group. Miss Ann Atkinson of
Hertford was elected vice chairman;
Mrs. Miriam Scott of Edenton, secre
tary; Mrs. Annette Carter of Gates
ville, reporter, and Miss Mary Hum
phrey of Central High, F. H. A.
sponsor
The group meets each month of the
school year in one of the Home Eco
nomics Departments. Programs were
planned for each of these meetings :
which will include: Joint program ;
with agriculture or inductrial arts :
teacher; adult units to be used in ]
adult classes; audiovisual needs; Fu
ture Homemakers of America pro- i
grams. -
Miss Mary Humphrey, Central High '
School Home Economics teacher, was 1
hostess to the group. ]
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HEALTH FOR ALL I
TB AND DANGER SIGNALS I
People who refuse to “keep tabs” ,
on their health with regular physical ,
examinations, even though they think ,
they are well, are unwise. But those ]
who ignore definite signals that ]
something is wrong take a foolish j
chance and invite serious illness and ,
even death.
During summer months, people who
seemed tired all the time, lose weight, *
and never seem hungry at mealtime ]
frequently blame the summer heat (
and insist there is nothing they can (
do about it. It’s true that intense j
heat and humidity can interfere with
“pep” and appetite, but the loss of
energy can also be the sign of such
a serious disease as tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis has no obvious symp- ,
toms when it first strikes, but is fre- f
quently accompanied by fatigue, loss ,
of appetite and loss of weight. Hence,
while a person who has these com
plaints is btisy blaming it all on the
weather, he may be losing valuable
time in fighting his disease.
There are other danger signals of
tuberculosis, which usually come later,
including a cough that hangs on,
pain in the chest, and spitting up of
blood. When these accompany fatigue
and poor appetite, tuberculosis may
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have taken serious hold.
If people, would get chest X-rays
regularly—at least once a year—tu
berculosis could be found in an early
stage, before it became more advanc
ed and more difficult to cure.
Hot summer days are frequently re
sponsible for bringing out the lazy
streak in some of us. The weather
might be responsible for making a
person feel “dragged out” all the
time —and again it may not. But a
constant feeling of exhaustion might
mean tuberculosis. Those who suffer
from such fatigue should see the
doctor promptly and find out what is
wrong.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs.-J. Sidney Hollowed
announce the birth of a daughter,
Janet Elizabeth, born Friday night in
Chowan Hospital. The newcomer
weighed seven pounds, nine ounces.
Penelope Barker’s
House A Mystery
(Continued from Page One)
gett Hodgson, the widow of John
Hodgson, for on February 2, 1752, she
sold it back to James Craven, whom
she was soon to marry. When he died
in October, 1755, he left all this pro
perty to his wife Penelope. On July
10, 1756, she repeated the procedure
and sold it to Thomas Barker, whom
she was to marry within two months.
When Thomas died, twenty-one years
later, she again inherited the same
property, and she continued to hold
it until she died, in October, 1794.
She left no will, but her nephew,
Henry Eelbeck, was her administra
tor, and he and his brother William
and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Dick
inson, were the only heirs. In Novem
ber, 1798, they sold the property to
Dr. John Beasley, a cousin of theirs
who had come to Edenton to practice
medicine. By December, 1814, only
sixteen years later, both John Beas
ley and his wife were dead, and all
his property had to be sold to provide
for his four young children. In Jan
uary, 1817, his executors, Ebenezer
Pettigrew, Clement Hall Blount and
James Iredell, sold his house and the
square on which it stood to James
Rice Creecy. It was James Rice
Creecy who in 1818 sold the southern
two-fifths of the square to Henry-
Holmes, and in 1829 mortgaged all
the rest to Augustus Moore.
James Rice Creecy did not build
the old house now known by Augus
tus Moore’s name. When the latter
acquired it, it was already considered
old, this fact was stated by Miss
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Hibby Moore, who livei in it all her
, eighty-three years and is still re
membered by most of the older in
habitants of Edenton. It consisted, in
1829, of two rooms on each floor, with
■ a side hall and one attic room, like
many other old houses in Edenton.
The new owner built the five rooms
on the south side, rebuilt the chim- .
neys, and added the double-deck porch
in front. The small building which
was later known as the “Judge Shop”
(from the number of Judge Moore’s i
law pupils who became judges them
selves) was already there; John Beas
ley had used it for his office and
may have built it. But what about
the house? It was certainly not built .
by John Beasley’s executors, for they j
could not legally have used his money 1
for such a purpose. The Eelbeck bro- ,
therj, as heirs, had a legal right to •
enhance the value of their property 1
by building a second house on it, ,
but they were not men of sufficient ■.
wealth to have built one of the hand- 1
somest houses in town. John Beasley, 1
then, and Thomas and Penelope Bark- j
er remain as the only possible build- 1
ers.
John Beasley was not a rich man. ,
He owned about a thousand acres in
the county, and two or three lots \
around town, as well as the square
on which he lived. His will shows ,
small bequests to five relatives and s
close friends, and mourning rings to ,
ten other relatives and friends. More
significantly, it contains specific
directions as to how his clothing was
to be divided among relatives, as if
this were a matter of real importance.
Thomas Barker, on the other hand,
was a wealthy man. He had a good
law practice and held very responsible
positions in the colonial government.
He had married first a rich young
widow in Bertie County and at the
time of his death still owned two
large plantations there. He left be
quests amounting to 900 pounds, to
his relatives and one friend, Governor
Samuel Johnston. His will mentions
his carriage, his silver, his books, and
fifty slaves left to his wife. Penelope
Barker herself was well-to-do. She
and her sister, Mrs. Eelbeck, were the
only surviving heirs of their father,
Samuel Pagett; for most of the pro
perty inherited by the children of
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their elder sister, Elizabeth Hodgson,
came back to them as one after an
other of the Hodgson children died.
Penelope Barker inherited property
from her first husband, John Hodg
son, and later inherited what he left
to their children, both of whom died
before her. Her second husband,
James Craven, left her the whole
square under discussion, as well as
slaves, all his silver and furniture and
books, and a horse and side saddle
specially for her.
From the wills and deeds in Eddn
ton, and the newspapers and letters in
the state archives in Raleigh, it is im
possible to assign a date for the con
struction of the house, except to set
as outside limits 1767 and 1814. On
the basis of the facts already review
ed, it seems at least possible that
Thomas and Penelope Barker, rather
than John Beasley, built it. There is
one other fact to strengthen that pos
sibility: Tax lists for the town of
Edenton, from 1782 on, show that
the sales value of a given piece of
property was usually two and a third
to three- times as great as the tax
value. But they do not show any
significant increase in the tax value
of at least seven old places in Eden
ton between 1782 and 1832. That
would indicate that all of them were
older than 1782. And the 1782 tax list
shows that Thelmas Barker’s square
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, was valued for taxation at a figure
two and a half times as much as he
had paid for it; in other words, the
sales value was from five and three
fourths to more than seven times as
great as_ wheh he bought it. This
would indicate great improvement of
some kind.
How does it happen that Penelope
Barker’s name has not been connect
ed with a piece of property which
was hers for fifty years? On the
other hand, how many other facts
about her are known? She was not
famous until long after her death.
When Col. R. B. Creecy, Dr. Richard
Dillard, and Mrs. J. N. Hathaway
were making" their researches fifty
years ago, they found that the names
of the women who signed the resolu
tions were alipost all forgotten. It is
largely due to their efforts that we
know anything at all about that Tea
Party or the signers. In case the old
Moore house was Penelope Barker’s
home, it would be of great histori
cal interest to Edenton and to the
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The information contained in the 9
above article was assembled by Miss
Elizabeth Moore, who says that every
statement in it can be confirmed by ('
records in the Court House here and \
papers in the State archives in Ra
leigh. She expressed special appre
ciation to Mrs. S. M. MacMullan and
Mrs. C. P. Wales for their kindly
interest, and to Mr. E. W. Spires
for his unfailing cooperation in giving
her access to court records.
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