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23035
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Kammerer relates an article from 1882 written by Jesse L. Smith (1813-1885) of the people and farms of Beaver Dam Township (now Bell Arthur Township). Jesse L. Smith was a farmer and Pitt County Commissioner, who married three times and had 20 children. According to Smith, in 1826 there were 38 white families in Beaver Dam Township, 24 of which lived in log houses and cabins, 12 in small buildings and only two, Archibald Adams and Benjamin Briley, lived in two-story plastered houses. Smith talks about courting and early amusements and games like “Cotton Picking” and “Selling the Thimble.” Smith relates that in 1882 there were 114 families, 84 white and 60 black, living in Beaver Dam Township, plus several good stores and steam sawmills. Cotton and wheat were the big agricultural products at the time.
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32093
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This article written in 1940 by Mrs. Josie Joyner McArthur (1864-1958) wife of Charles William McArthur, and daughter of Calvin Joyner and Mary Ballard. This article is a wonderful historical record of relationships and location of houses from near Ballard’s Cross Roads to Farmville, NC. Surnames include: Belcher, Smith, McArthur, Ballard, Joyner, Anderson, Easton, Lang, Moye, Turnage, Carr, Dupree, Flanagan, Moore, Flanagan, Williams.
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33653
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33445
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Taken from a composition written by Nellie A. Joyner, a student under Miss Fannie A. Smith, of Smith’s School house. She talks of Tommie Little, C. D. Smith, Rochdale, J. C. Cobb & Son, W. L. Cobb, C. L. Tyson, R. A. Nichols, Mrs. Pattie Smith, R. A. Willoughby, George Allen, Ivy Smith, Smith town, Jesse L. Smith.
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