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What Can I Do? by: Stella Knight Question: My widowed aunt lives alone in another city. She is in fairly good health, but I feel she may be an easy target for unscrupulous individuals. Recently, I learned that Aunt Penny withdrew a large sum of money to “help a friend.” Apparently, as my aunt’s neighbor tells me, this “friend” is a woman who works at the beauty salon where my aunt gets her hair done. The friend had fallen behind on her car payments and was in danger of losing her car. Aunt Penny has always been a kind-hearted woman, but I’m afraid this woman took advantage of her. I learned that last week the friend borrowed some additional funds – apparently, she needed the money to pay for her child’s summer camp. If this continues, Aunt Penny may not have sufficient funds to take care of herself. Plus, I doubt this friend intends on repaying my aunt the money she borrowed. How can I protect my Aunt Penny? Concerned Nephew Answer: You have good reason to be concerned. Kindhearted individuals, regardless of their age, are always easy targets for the unscrupulous. However, several things concern me with regard to your aunt’s situation. First, assuming this “friend” is legitimately in need of the money, your aunt should have her sign a promissory note. This promissory note to your Aunt Penny should outline the amount borrowed and the terms of payment (amount of payment, date of payment, interest rate and when the debt will be paid in full). If possible, this note should be secured. It’s not too late to try to get something in writing. Second, do you believe your Aunt Penny is competent? If so, opening the lines of communication and discussing a durable power of attorney or a revocable trust would Second Amendment News by:Ben Barnhill be a viable option. These legal documents enable your aunt to appoint you (or another family member or a professional individual) to manage her financial affairs. By “turning over the financial reigns” to someone else, your aunt will no longer have daily control over her finances. This alternative may make it more difficult, if not impossible, for individuals to borrow money from her. If your aunt could truthfully say she doesn’t control her finances, the pressure would be taken off her to deal with similar situations in the future. If you believe your Aunt Penny is losing her mental faculties and is no longer competent to make her financial decisions, you may have to seek court intervention – a guardianship. General Guardianship means that you petition the Court to have your aunt declared judicially incompetent. Thereafter, you (or another individual) would be appointed guardian. A general guardian is a court-appointed fiduciary to manage your Aunt Penny’s financial and medical decisions. You may think this is an intrusive step to take. If you aunt is incompetent, your options are limited. Remember that implementing either of these suggestions is for your aunt’s protection. As her nephew, you have a moral responsibility to protect your aunt from herself and unscrupulous individuals. Many times, older people are “easy target” for scams – whether it’s instant sweepstakes, telemarketers, repairmen or “friends.” It’s our moral responsibility to protect those that are vulnerable. It’s not easy, and you may experience some resentment from your aunt for “meddling in her affairs.” On the other hand, Aunt Penny may be grateful to you for taking the time and the interest in her. Stella Knight Attorney Estate Planning & Elder Law Wills and Trusts Power of Attorney & Living Wills Asset Protection Guardianships for Adults & Children Probate Licensed in North Carolina 751 Body Rd, Hertford NC 27944 (252)264-3600 Home Visits Available Ask us about Proximity Marketing Call Scott 252-312-2302 Step Up --- Take a Stand As I write this, it strikes me as ironic. I never thought I would find myself, once again, taking a stand in defense of our natural rights to self defense as codified in the second amendment to the US Constitution. Yet, here I am. I have spent my life in the service of our great nation and the Republic that governs us. I served 34 years as a US Army officer with most of it spent in Army Special Forces and other areas of the Special Operations Community. Every soldier takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic as did I. Now retired, I am greatly concerned when I see well-funded organizations undermining the basic freedoms granted by God as natural law and enshrined in our Constitution. We saw the effects of their subversion in Virginia with the election of an anti-gun legislature and rapid passage of draconian laws that with a stroke of a pen turn 10’s of thousands of Virginians into instant felons. That gives me great concern that this could happen in North Carolina. There is hope though in that Virginia has joined a grass roots movement declaring 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Counties. This was done with great success. Now I see this movement take root in North Carolina. There are over 40 counties who have proclaimed sanctuary status or are considering it and the numbers increase daily. Pasquotank County will consider such a resolution on 3 February 2020. We shall see what the outcome brings. It’s my fervent hope that we join with other counties sending a bold message to Raleigh that we will not support sweeping anti-freedom gun laws envisioned by those who would take our freedoms away. 30 Albemarle Tradewinds February 2020 albemarletradewinds.com
Northeast North Carolina Family History - a local Black History Month Slave story... By: Irene Hampton - nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com You may be familiar with the story of Moses Grandy, a Camden slave who published “Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America in 1843”. In updating my internet websites in January I ran across one from Currituck that I was unaware of. The entire book can be found on the Documenting the American South website with this link (https:///docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/ferebee/ ferebee.html). The Reverend London R. Ferebee published his book about his life and ministry in 1882 when he was 33 years old. He begins with a little background explaining that his father was a blacksmith by trade and an Elder of the A. M. E. Zion Church by the name of Abel M. Ferebee. At the age of twenty-three or four his father married a slave named Chloe who was owned by Mrs. Oley Whitehurst of Currituck. Abel and Chloe were the parents of ten children - seven boys and three girls. Chloe died in May of 1859 and after seven years as a widower his father remarried. When he died, he was in charge of three churches: Moses’ Temple and Mary Holly Grove in Pasquotank and Fork Bridge in Perquimans. L. R. Ferebee refers to his mother as a “spirited woman” which caused her to be sold. “That morning he sold her to a speculator, Halstead, of Camden county, he, (Halstead) not knowing at the time it was my father’s wife until after he had bought her. He then left her and rode thirty-one miles to see my father who was then working at Col. W. F. Martin’s ship yard, Elizabeth City, N. C., and was hiring his time from his master, Dr. E. D. Ferebee, to see what arrangement he could make about buying her or getting his master to do so. The plan was fixed between himself and master, so he bought her from the speculator by paying ($1,100.00,) eleven hundred dollars. The next day, as near as I can remember, moved her and myself and two more of the children with her, where I remained until I was large enough to render service. I was then taken from her, and saw her twice from that time unto her death. According to my age the readers will see that I was quite young. I was born at a place called the Big Ditch, on Coin Jock shore, near the Sound, Currituck county, N. C., the 18th day of August, 1849. After leaving my mother, I had a rough life. Many hardships I had to undergo, as all young slave children had to suffer. I went by water with my master a good deal until I learned to man the vessel pretty well; even at night I could steer by the compass, or by any star. My master would point out to me, before he went to his bunk, and I’ve heard him tell gentlemen in my presence he could lie down as well satisfied with me at the helm as any one of the crew. My aptness gained his affections, and I received favors of him, and he would not allow me to be cruelly treated, and at last I felt satisfied when with him. His name was Edwin T. Cowles, his assigned initials was Capt. E. T. Cowles.” When the Union Army took over northeastern North Carolina early in the Civil War, his father, Abel Ferebee removed his family to New Bern and then to Roanoke Island where a Freeman’s Colony was created. London attended school there and did well which caused anger in another student. “He then, with envy, sought to slay me, and at his first opportunity stabbed me on the 5th day of July, 1865. In the night, about 9 o’clock, he came up behind me and committed the vicious deed. The instrument used was a dirk. He was strong enough to throw it through my left shoulder blade, and came very near touching my heart, so that I was compelled to lie at home during the months of July, August and September. In October I was able to enter school again. The schools all flourished until the latter part of 1866. When, after it was understood by both races, learned and unlearned, that freedom was established, the people then began to scatter to the different parts of North Carolina and many of the teachers went back North. My father moved back to Elizabeth City, N. C., on the 20th day of April,. 1867.” “...I managed to keep in the normal schools until I could master an English education partially, and demanded a first grade certificate front any county examiner, but having an eye and heart on the study of law, I contracted, by the consent of my father, with Judge C. C. Pool, of the First Judicial District, to live with him, for the purpose of taking lessons in Latin, law, &c. I had free access to all the books of his library and also in his law office. It was from him I got the most of my business training. It was rich, good, and came so freely from him I never felt like I wearied him in all classes of law he taught me. He then went to work and got a free school for me, the first I ever taught drawing pay from the State; he also managed that I got first-class pay.” “.... I married in March, 1872, at South Stills, Camden county, where I was then teaching, to a young lady of Gates county, N. C., by the name of Lucinda Smith, her residence being near Sunsbury.” He goes on to discuss his attempts in politics and in becoming an A.M E. preacher and his disappointment that Joseph Price - born in Elizabeth City didn’t support him. Check out this UNC website! Irene Hampton earned a certificate in Genealogy from Brigham Young University and worked as the Genealogical/Local history Researcher for the Pasquotank-Camden Library for over 12 years. She has also abstracted and published “Widow’s Years Provisions, 1881-1899, Pasquotank County, North Carolina”; “1840 Currituck, North Carolina Federal Census” and “Record of Marriages, Book A (1851-1867) Currituck County, North Carolina”. 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