Police say they have found an elderly woman who was the subject of a statewide Silver Alert for the past several days.

Candy Mae Bullock was found Thanksgiving afternoon, visiting a home on Sycamore Street for the past three days with a longtime friend. Family members alerted that friend that the 70-year-old Bullock was on TV as a missing person.

Police were contacted who then brought Bullock's sister to the home. The sister has agreed to allow Bullock to remain staying with that friend.

Police say the woman's home burned down last Friday and that they believed she was trying to get back to Whitakers when she became missing. Since the fire the woman had been staying with her sister in Nashville.

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Rocky Mount police say the subject of a statewide Silver Alert was spotted Tuesday afternoon.

Candy Mae Bullock, who is suffering from dementia, was reported seen at the Miner’s Emporium on Sunset Avenue around 2:00 p.m.

Police also released a surveillance picture of Bullock taken from La Placita on Benvenue Road at 1:22 p.m. Tuesday.

Police say the woman's home in Whitakers burned down on Friday and she had been staying with her sister in Nashville. Police believe the woman is trying to make it back to her burned home.

The 70-year-old woman is described as a black woman, 5'3" tall, weighing 130 pounds. Bullock has black and grey short hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, a long black skirt, brown fur-lines boots and a brown purse.

If you've seen Candy Mae Bullock you should call Rocky Mount police at 252-972-1412.