Record #:

23389

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

An 1881 blurb in The New York Times claimed the people in Greenville, N.C. threw their watermelon rinds in the street for the pigs to eat. In 1896, a small girl spent the night at a friend’s house and couldn’t remember how to say her prayers and the friend did not help her. She asked God to “forgive her because she can’t ‘member my prayers, and I am staying with a lady that don’t know any.” In 1895, Dr. Warren told a story about his brother Ollen reciting poetry in his sleep. In March 1901, several boys, Hill Horne, Hassell Daniel and Jim Anderson, got into a knife fight at the well in the yard of Alfred Forbes. John Flanagan reported that there was a crack in the earth across his yard following the Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886. Mr. W.H. Harrington, Pitt County tax collector, continued to conduct business through the jail window while in prison for four months. In April 1890, a toddler was spotted with a cigarette in his mouth. In 1827, a Tarboro newspaper published a humorous calendar with predictions about weather and politics.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Oct 3-17 2007, p4

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History