JACK Rose Camp

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OWNERS

Jack and Delores Rose
Delmas and Selma Willis

Clyde and Annie Daugherty

1970s and before

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

–NPS lease designation–#5 NDM (old SOP #198)

Tract # 16-22.94 (formerly NC 16-22.59c)

CALO 113-02

Delmas Willis–Jack Rose’s nephew
LOCATION
North Core Banks, Wib’s Creek

Story

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Jack Rose Camp

At Wibs’Creek–The Rose camp was built in the early 70s–it was not there before 1963 but there in 1972, according to Clay Fulcher.

Jack and Delores Rose’s camp was the last one before reaching the marshy area and up the road from Clay and June’s and past Wibs old house–later the site of James Ray Willis’ camp. It was built on a small ridge facing south similar to the Fulcher “big camp “.

The Rose camp is on the left

Jack worked as a fisherman and also had a job at Cherry Point.

Wife Delores and Jack’s mother-in-law and extended family used the camp regularly in season–functioning like the Fulcher “big camp” in many ways.

Jack’s wife’s grandfather and GM Adeline stayed at his camp at Wibs when they clammed there–they were kin that were connected to the Pilentary Club story.

Jack hunted together with Clay for more than 30 years-including shorebird hunting.

{Jack Dudley, in Carteret Waterfowl Heritage wrote that shorebirds were still hunted into the 60s–beach robins, dunlin, gray-backs(dowitchers), occasional willets. Curlews were gone and if seen, were shot–they were at offshore blinds more so. Hunters would dig out a spot on the beach and put up brush to help hide and decoys were placed within range. }

With Jack Rose and Clay Fulcher, one drove and the other sat on the fender going up the beach shooting shorebirds–Jack mostly missed (Clay told) and Clay took over the fender position–finally getting enough for a 9 pm supper cooked by Clays mother who stewed them -legs snd all–didn’t just breast them out.

For vehicles? — a “fishing” truck initially, then later a Model A. Joe Fulcher remembers that the Model A could be lifted out of a rut or nudged free when it became mired in mud or sand.

Monty Nelson also kept a car at Billy Smith’s camp to the south. Ramps were built for the cars to elevate them off the ground in case of over-wash or flooding, but initially vehicles had been kept at Morris’s camp on a ridge beside the weather station or at Billy Smith’s camp.

In 1978, Hooper, James Ray Willis, Clay Fulcher III, Delmas Willis and Jack Rose obtained 25 leses for continued use of their camps from the Park Service. They had 99-year leases in place previously from Madge Nelson (Wilbur’s sister) giving them leverage in negotiations. (Bk 409-page 500)

The lease document includes Jack and Delores Rose, Delmas (Jack Rose’s nephew) and Selma Willis , and Clyde and Annie Daugherty as holders of the lease. As with many camps, ownership and use was shared with family and close friends.