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Down the Plank Road

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31817
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Abstract:
In 1928, the Daily Reflector newspaper in Greenville, NC, ran a series of articles submitted by Abram James Moye (1853-1932) in which he recalled the houses and people who lived along the Plank Road running down Dickinson Avenue to Farmville. There are pen & ink drawings of several houses by Roger Kammerer, including the Wiley Nobles house, Joseph L. Ballard house, Alfred Moye house, Plank Road Toll House. Mr. Moye discusses such people as: William Moore, Marcellus Moore, John Moore, Henry Sutton, Ben Manning, Mr. Evans, Wiley Nobles, Japeth Tyson, Willis Briley, Betsy Howell, Moses Joyner, Mrs. Denton, Mrs. Titus Elks, Sally Lassiter, Amos Hines, Mr. Joyner, Mrs. Richard Tyson, Mrs. Sally Ann Anderson, Elias Turnage, Moses Tyson Moye, John Lang, William G. Lang, J. M. Morehead, Mrs. Susan Streeter Atkinson.