Record #:

23497

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer gives a variety of unusual stories from Pitt County that include the marriage in 1908 of Henry Mills and Ella Bullock. She married without her father’s consent and he took Mills to court for obtaining the license falsely. Also in 1908, Mack Mobley and Mrs. Chrissie Baker married in Martin County because the marriage license was cheaper in Martin County. This was the groom’s second wife and the bride’s third husband. . In 1900, a shooting scrape occurred near Stokes at a young folk’s party at James S. Whitehurst’s. A certain William Bryan incurred the displeasure of Mr. Whitehurst and was asked to leave. Bryan didn’t leave fast enough and received buckshot in his butt. In 1935, there was a 94th birthday celebration held for Hardy J. Stokes, Civil war veteran and probably the last veteran in Pitt County. In 1910, there were a large number of cigar dealers in Greenville and in 1894, John F. Whichard was troubled by a mink killing his pigs. And lastly, Miss Maude Evans, daughter of M. A. Evans, won the “Founder’s Medal” in 1908 from the Southern Female College in Petersburg, VA.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Feb 6-19 2002, p6-7

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History