Record #:

22920

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Andrew J. Griffin, a Greenville jeweler, served on the CSS Virginia (known as the Merrimac) during its battle against USS Monitor. Griffin organized the Greenville Hook and Ladder Company in 1883. In 1884, Joe Fleming killed an owl with a five foot wing span. In 1885, a fox killed 40 chickens of J. G. Sheppard and 200 others in the neighborhood. In 1902, J. W. Smith, raised a thirty-five-pound collard that was eight feet in circumference at the Pitt County Poor House. In 1908, Jordan Hedgepeth and Perlina E. Cherry got married in a buggy. In 1926, seven Pitt County boys set out to see the world, without their parent’s permission. They wound up in Norfolk, VA where Travelers Aid notified their parents. In 1887, at a church service in Gardnersville, Pitt County, Frank Moore shot at John Coward, missing him and hitting the ministers hat on the pulpit.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jan 21-Feb 3 1987, p10

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History; CSS VIRGINIA (Ironclad)