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33205
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She was nursemaid in 1795 to the father of B. C. Pearce.
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32714
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In June 1840, Edwin Gorham, Esq., of Tranter’s Creek District, owned a slave named Boston, who was 107 years old. He served in the Army in the Revolution as a servant to Major McClure.
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32586
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Died on June 27, 1878, Joab Smith, of Pitt County, about age 100 years; m.1) Millie Sermons; m.2) in 1847 to Pollie Elks. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
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32588
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Died on Dec. 21, 1877, Mrs. Winifred Congleton, of Beaufort County, born in 1776.
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32502
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Death Notice of Judy Roberson, former slave, of Belvoir township, d. June 13, 1897.
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32509
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Charles Harris, died June 3, 1897 aged 96 years, son of Charles Harris who died at age 108;
Mrs. Betsy Harris, d. April 1897, wife of Tommy Harris of Farmville Township;
May Harris, dau. of J. S. Harris, of near Falkland, married Dec. 16, 1896 to Robert Whitehead, of Wilson, NC.
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23481
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William H. Atkinson was born to former slave parents on May 15, 1867, in a log cabin with a dirt floor near Handy Corner, Edgecombe County, NC. He lived in Pitt County around the turn of the century worked for Jeff Fountain on the steamboat, \"Lillian.\" Atkinson worked on the steamboat Shiloh at Centre Bluff Landing near Bruce, Pitt County. Atkinson died on March 23, 1973, at the age of 106.
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32301
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This small feature article about Annice Gorham Wilson, a former slave appeared in April 1938 and she died later that same month.
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32328
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In June 1953, Lovey Green Daniel, b. June 28, 1841, was given a birthday dinner.
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32346
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In June 1953, Lovey Green Daniel, b. June 28, 1841, was given a birthday dinner.
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32414
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Mrs. Dempsey Gardner died at age 95 and her husband, Dempsey Gardner, died at age 104.
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32150
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According to articles in 1942, Della Parker, b. 1841, was a slave owned by Joe Laughinghouse of Pitt County, NC. Her sister, Lucy Thompson, b. 1839 in Africa, lived in Pamlico Co., NC.
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31936
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An abstract of Revolutionary War service of Loderick Teel , b. Oct. 7, 1754 in Pitt County; his 1850 listing in Alabama and a mention of him in Coosa Co., AL from 1853.
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14.Oldest Man in the County by Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly Vol. IV Issue No. 1, February 1997
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31860
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In Feb. 1891, David McKinney (1788-1891) died in the Pitt County Home, lacking only three months of being 107 years old.
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31755
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John Allen, age 104 in 1876, was born on Oct. 9, 1771 at sea when his parents were coming from England to America. He left his home near Greenville, NC and walked for a year to Huntington, WV.
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