Record #:

22853

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

These tales include the story of a black man from Grifton in 1906 who died and later revived and the coffin was returned to the store. Also in 1906, a wasp got up the pants leg of “Coot” Whichard while at church and hilarity ensued and the story of a number of mad dogs. There is a story of a man with prize hunting dogs and fancy poultry. The man complained that the neighbor’s dogs were killing his prize chickens. To dispatch the culprits, he sat out with a gun in the chicken yard before day break. He shot two dogs killing his chickens and upon discovery, they were his prize hunting dogs. About 1900, it was discovered there was sand rock along the ravine between Third Street and the river. In 1907, the rock was quarried to make the foundation for the granolithic sidewalks in Greenville Heights and early paving on some streets. And finally, there is the story of the sons of Noah Tyson Cox in 1906 that unknowingly sat beside a bush with a rattlesnake in it.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Aug 15-28 1990, p19

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History