This site is dedicated to the memory of Sallie Chapman Fulford, nee Chadwick. Sallie was the fourth child and first daughter of Francis Chadwick and Margaret Whitehurst of Straits, Carteret County, North Carolina.
She was born 22 Feb 1869 in Straits.
On 09 Jun 1887 she married Joseph Manley Fulford. The wedding was held at her parents home with the Rev. E. D. Hoover officiating. Sallie and Joseph made their home on what is now known as Sleepy Point Road in Gloucester, N.C. They had a fine house that overlooked Sleepy Creek. Unfortunately, the house burned down sometime in the early part of the 1900s.
Sallie bore Joseph eight children, four boys and four girls:
Sallie was easy going and always willing to go along with whatever the crowd wanted to do or wherever they wanted to go.
Sallie loved to play Chinese Checkers and Dominoes. She and her sister Josie would play dominoes for hours. But Sallie said Josie hated to lose and would cheat when no one was watching her!
Sallied liked to crochet. And was still doing her needlework right up to a few weeks before her death.
In 1961, Sallie was visiting daughter Ethel in North Charleston, SC, when she began to feel as though she couldn't breathe. She had the maid call Ethel at work. Since Sallie never complained and rarely even had so much as a cold, Ethel rushed home and called the doctor (they still made housecalls in those days!). The doctor determined that her heart was just slowing down from old age and there wasn't anything they could do but make her comfortable (this was before the days of pacemakers). Sallie lived for another couple of months, with her children by her side every moment they could be. On 05 Mar 1961, her heart finally stopped and she slipped away. She was taken back to North Carolina and laid to rest beside her husband in the Bell Cemetery at Tusk, NC.
Services were held at Straits Methodist Church. The minister, who had not known her, remarked that all the people he had talked with about Miss Sallie said that if ever there was a saint, Miss Sallie was one. She was the gentlest, sweetest person who ever walked this way.