Excerpted from the “Hyde County Items” column:

Mrs. TOOLEY, the keeper of the county alms house for over four years, retires from that place very soon.  She has never been excelled by any of her predecessors and I doubt if every equalled [sic].  Commissioners, public and paupers regret her departure.  She has been faithful to her trust.

Source:  Washington Gazette (Washington, NC). 12 June 1884.