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Northeast North Carolina Family History – thoughts on things new…<br />
By: Irene Hampton - nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com<br />
It has been a year since we moved to lower Currituck. For anyone<br />
who moves, there will always be adjustments and a variety<br />
of new experiences some noteworthy and others not. The question<br />
is what would be of interest to our posterity? A few weeks ago we<br />
had the chance to spend a few hours with my husband’s aunt and<br />
uncle at his sister’s home. They were briefly in the area from their<br />
home in Florida. We had long promised to visit them in Gloucester,<br />
Virginia to talk about family history, stories and look over photos but<br />
years went by and suddenly they were much further away – lesson<br />
learned (AGAIN!) – don’t put those conversations off that you think<br />
you will eventually get to.<br />
As her mother, my husband’s grandmother, had died when his<br />
aunt was twelve, she was concerned she would not have many<br />
memories to share, but as we spoke, I was able to share some information<br />
now available on Ancestry.com that her mother had been<br />
a postmaster in Waterlily in Currituck back in the early 1930’s. She<br />
had never been told that. She shared that her father had been a<br />
surfman during WWI which was a fact none of us knew. She added<br />
that he had often spoken about it which is why she remembered<br />
it well. We had hoped to learn more about her mother’s Sanderlin<br />
line but she said after her mother’s death six months after her<br />
Sanderlin grandmother’s death, she lost touch with her Sanderlin<br />
relatives and her father didn’t share many relevant details and because<br />
of her age she hadn’t thought to ask.<br />
She remembered buying ice cream for five cents after church<br />
then walking to her Hampton grandparents’ home for Sunday dinner.<br />
She recalled eating lots of fried chicken and lemon pies. One<br />
of the sad yet sweet memories she had was after returning from<br />
church, they found her mother very ill and drove her to the old hospital<br />
in Elizabeth City where she was placed in an oxygen tent. The<br />
last words she heard her mother say were, “It’s so beautiful over<br />
there.” It was a great pleasure to share memories of commonplace<br />
things that were new to all of us, with promises to share more.<br />
One of the struggles of a new place is getting used to where<br />
everything is. Many had warned me of the empty shelves at local<br />
stores during the summer on or near the Outer Banks. I generally<br />
like to shop on Mondays, which worked fine during the winter, but I<br />
quickly learned that shelves are not restocked until Wednesday or<br />
Thursday and some items are questionable even then!! I was just<br />
getting used to the Grandy Food Lion when they did a major overhaul<br />
and my tired mind had to start learning where things were all<br />
over again. I think many of us in this region shared that pain. Distances<br />
to many things have been a bit of a challenge after decades<br />
of living in a city. I can only think how spoiled we all are compared<br />
to how our ancestors had to get around – so I won’t complain too<br />
much. I really need to allow more time and add a little extra for the<br />
wait to pull out onto Caratoke Highway…<br />
Living surrounded by trees has been something I haven’t done<br />
in 40 years and in the Rockies we didn’t have anywhere near the<br />
variety of birds we’ve been able to see here. Colors and bird calls<br />
I’ve never seen or heard. We added a hummingbird feeder recently<br />
and laugh at their antics as they chase each other off. Not a fan of<br />
the chiggers in the pine straw or the current crop of yellow flies, but<br />
there has to be a trade off somewhere.<br />
My husband continued his job with closer access to the Outer<br />
Banks and much less drive time but for me it meant two new<br />
jobs. The first one was at H2OBX last summer and my current job<br />
starting last November as a historical interpreter at the Whalehead<br />
in Corolla. What a great blessing, as I was able to discover my new<br />
connection as a sixth cousin to Marie Louise Lebel Knight who built<br />
the home with her second husband Edward Collings Knight. I can’t<br />
forget to mention that I have really enjoyed getting to know the rest<br />
of the staff there – not always the case in every new job situation.<br />
Being in Corolla had me delve more in depth into the Sanderlin line<br />
which brought forth new information, too.<br />
July brought new ornaments made from the original Whalehead<br />
copper roof tiles. Every year 300 are made with the striations from<br />
copper with its lovely green patina. It’s been fun for me to give<br />
some as gifts to my husband’s siblings and our children and tell<br />
them their great or great-great grandparents looked upon the very<br />
roof the shingles come from. I’m including a picture. They are<br />
$15.00 or $16.01 with tax not including shipping. If you won’t be<br />
in Corolla any time soon you can call 453-9040 and get something<br />
new that is very old. I hope you will record some of the new things<br />
happening with you or your family this summer. Even the mundane<br />
– what you ate for Sunday dinner will be of interest to someone<br />
decades from now!<br />
Elizabeth City<br />
Cosmopolitan Club<br />
We are always looking<br />
for new members<br />
Want to join or just ask<br />
questions?<br />
Call (252) 335-1700<br />
1 Cosmo Drive<br />
Elizabeth City, NC<br />
Irene Hampton earned a certificate in Genealogy<br />
from Brigham Young University and worked as<br />
the Genealogical/Local history Researcher for the<br />
Pasquotank-Camden Library for over 12 years. She<br />
has also abstracted and published “Widow’s Years<br />
Provisions, 1881-1899, Pasquotank County, North<br />
Carolina”; “1840 Currituck, North Carolina Federal<br />
Census” and “Record of Marriages, Book A (1851-<br />
1867) Currituck County, North Carolina”.<br />
You may contact her at<br />
nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com.<br />
Elizabeth City NC Lic 27045<br />
Office<br />
Scott Lawrence<br />
Emergency Line<br />
252-330-9988 252-339-9988<br />
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