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31779
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Obituaries for Mrs. Isabella Moore 1906; J. P. Manning 1901; G. S. Johnson 1908; Louis B. Cox 1902; R. A. Willoughby 1910; Mrs. J. T. Smith 1910; Mrs. J. C. C. Jenkins 1910; Alfred James 1908; Mrs. M. A. Hoyt 1889; William Robert Horne 1910; Jesse Cox 1871.
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31782
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In 1888, D. T. House, who had left Pitt County nine years before and settled in Texas, has moved back to Pitt County.
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31784
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In 1899, Mrs. J. F. Briley went fishing and caught a 24-pound turtle. She tied the turtle with a piece of grape vine and dragged it home. She was the same woman who when young caught a deer and killed it herself.
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31785
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1795 Pitt County Diary
This 1795-96 diary was written by Gen. Samuel Simpson (1765-1830) son of Col. John Simpson and Elizabeth Hardee. It was found in a garret in his later residence at Fort Barnwell, Craven Co., NC and presented to the North Carolina Archives in 1880’s. There are several deaths and marriages mentioned:
Jan. 1795—John Moye Esq. died in Greenville;
Jan. 28, 1795---George Falconer died;
Jan. 28, 1795---Samuel Dudley died;
Feb. 1, 1795---Robert Dixon died;
July 2, 1795---Polly Moore married to James Brooks;
Dec. 17, 1795---Sally Simpson married to Joseph Brickell;
Jan. 3, 1796---John Barbers funeral;
Jan. 3, 1796---Mrs. Walter Dixon’s funeral preached by Parson Blount.
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31787
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Cornelius Kinsaul died in Greenville, NC on Oct. 15, 1897.
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31788
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Two Frizzle family letters from 1849 include several marriages and deaths:
Calvin Ruff married a daughter of Isaiah Joyner;
Cornelius Kinsaul married a daughter of Isaiah Joyner;
Jethrew Murphrey married Miss Mushgrave;
Died April 21, Nancy, wife of Richard Warren, died a month after giving birth.
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31789
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In Sept. 1899, Will Sermons and two daughters of J. W. Smith, Superintendent of the County Home, were in a wagon being pulled by a mule. The mule suddenly ran away and one buggy wheel went through a ditch. Miss Nannie Smith was thrown out of the buggy and fell in the ditch. Her head caught between the spokes of the wheel, and when the mule pulled the wheel out of the ditch the young lady was pulled out by the neck. She survived the ordeal being badly bruised and skinned by the accident.
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31790
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In June 1897, the mother of R. L. Nichols, of Beaver Dam township, was injured while getting water at a sweep well.
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31791
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In May 1896, Jesse Tyson, who lived four miles from Greenville, NC, suffered greatly and survived a spider bite.
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31792
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In May 1896, the 10 year old son of Marshal Cox, of Chicod twsp., was hurt badly while driving a log cart.
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31795
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In 1907, Robert T. Wilson (b. Apr. 2, 1827), of Chicod twsp., celebrated his 80th birthday with family and friends.
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31796
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In June 1902, Moses and Mary Tyson, who lived four miles from Greenville, NC, celebrated being married fifty-five Years.
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31799
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Charles B. Schweizer gives a history of the Thomas Gwaltney family from Virginia to North Carolina and descendants that moved to Posey Co., Indiana.
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31802
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A 1911 article about the military service of Robert Lester Jones, son of Wyatt Jones, of near Ayden, NC, who singlehandedly charged 16 attacking Italians in a town called Arochar, and forced them away from a building. For this act, Jones was promoted to Lance Corporal.
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31803
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In 1908, B. F. Tugwell, of Farmville twsp., owned a huge gourd aged 100 years old that could hold a three year old child.
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