INGLESIDE

Perquimans County was full of malaria, consequently the planters usually sent their families to Nag's Head on the Atlantic, or to some other healthful resort, for the summer months. This was often inconvenient as well as expensive.

In 1850 our cousin James Newby sold his home and went to Virginia, settling near Norfolk and engaging in the trucking business. After a visit to the Newbys in this new home in ‘52, my parents decided also to make a change of residence, which decision was carried into effect in the fall of 1853.

Shortly before our removal my brother Walter (Dr. W.W. Scott) left the lower country with his wife and babe to make his home in Caldwell County, the native place of his wife and home of her parents. Thus there was but one great regret in giving up the old home, and that was in leaving my dear sister, Mrs. George Freer, who lived in Hertford.

My father permanently located within eight miles of Norfolk, purchasing the old Livingston place, which he renamed “Ingleside.” Around its hearthstone were many happy reunions, for time and again friends gathered there and relatives from far afield. My parents were given to hospitality, and it was seldom in the days of my girlhood that guests were not included in our family circle. In 1855 besides my parents, our family at Ingleside consisted of three maiden ladies, my father's two sisters and my mother's sister, brother Joe, and we four younger children. Dick was not yet five years old. Next

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