An effort on the part of Mrs. Ida Ferebee, widow of the late T.C. Ferebee, who died at his home in the Sawyer’s Creek section of Camden County about three years ago, to regain possession of her home, which was sold under a mortgage following Mr. Ferebee’s death, by force ended in Mrs. Ferebee’s being put under a suspended judgment in the Camden County recorder’s court Friday by the terms of which Mrs. Ferebee will be dealt with by the courts in case she returns to Camden County within the next 12 months.
According to apparently authentic reports receive here, Mrs. Ferebee got off the train at Belcross Thursday morning and went at once to her former home, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Burgess, armed with a revolver. Finding no one at home but Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. Ferebee is reported to have fired her revolver into the air or the ground a number of times and to have walked in, telling Mrs. Burgess that she had come to stay. Mrs. Burgess went for her husband, and they notified Alfred Sawyer, present owner of the residence, of Mrs. Ferebee’s presence and actions. Oscar Hoffler, son-in-law of Mr. Sawyer, went over to the Burgess home to try to reason with Mrs. Ferebee, but she emphatically declared that she would remain in the home, which was hers by right, and would resist by force and arms any efforts to remove her from it. When Mr. Hoffler left to get legal papers to serve on Mrs. Ferebee, she went down to the swamp with her revolver for a bit of practice.
Deputy Sheriff Kirk Tarkington of Camden with a posse, in which were Oscar Hoffler and john Barnard, arrived at the Burgess home at about 6:30. Mrs. Ferebee saw them coming and ran up into the attic where, with her gun on Deputy Tarkington, she dared them to dislodge her at their peril. When Mr. Hoffler made some remark to the effect that he did not believe the gun was loaded, Mrs. Ferebee fired it just to show that she was in earnest, apparently, but with no intention of hitting anybody. She held the posse at bay for about three hours until Mr. Barnard, entering the attic as a friend who wanted to talk to her, succeeded in taking her off her guard and disarming her.
Mrs. Sallie Evans of Belcross asked Mrs. Ferebee to go home with her and she was permitted to accept the invitation with a guard about the house.
Following the hearing in the recorder’s court Friday, Mrs. Ferebee was taken to Norfolk by her half brother, John Whitehurst of that city, who with Cooper Ferebee of Elizabeth City, a son, gave assurances that the provisions of the court’s judgement would be complied with.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, Saturday, Feb. 2, 1924
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