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Tales of the Odd and Unusual
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22847
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Kammerer recounts several very interesting stories, including the story of A. D. Gardner, Fountain Police Chief, who drove to Greenville in 1926 and had car trouble. He drove back home and went straight to his mechanic. He opened the hood to discover three sticks of dynamite. In 1874, the Steamboat Cotton Plant found a small coffin floating down the Tar River. After retrieving it, they opened it to find a live baby sucking on a bottle of milk. The baby was taken to Washington and given to a loving older woman. There is the story of W. A. Manning, who lived on the Plank Road, who won the Baltimore Lottery in 1854 and received a check for $2,500. In 1869, the Greenville Municipal election resulted in a shooting when Arthur Dennis killed Edward Hoell. There is a story from 1912 of a black man who went to a store to select a coffin for his wife who had died the night before. While choosing a coffin he was almost killed when a number of them fell on him. And lastly there is the story of a black man named John Burney who owned land in Pitt County, but had a debt on it. Burney moved to Florida and was never heard from again and was presumed dead. In 1907, Burney, now age 64 returned to Pitt County and filed a claim to get his land back.
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