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23484
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Mrs. T. E. Hooker and friends organized the \"First Friday Afternoon Musical Club\" for interested women in the town of Greenville, limiting it to 20 members. An elaborate German (dance) took place in Perkins Hall on a Friday night in December 1908. Lanterns and American flags from Ellsworth of New York decorated the hall. Walter Wilson, Jr. and Miss Nell Skinner, along with others led the German dance. Mr. W. H. Strum and Miss Ada Norris applied for a marriage license at the Register of Deeds office in Pitt County during October 1893. Ms. Norris's parents objected to the marriage, vowing to stop the wedding. Mr. Strum waited for his chance, and he and Ms. Norris were married within 30 feet of the bride's father, without him even knowing of the union.
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23492
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Kammerer recounts local stories, including those of a shooting at a church in Swift Creek township in October 1887 between Frank Moore and John Coward and an instance of hogs getting into the home of Simon Moye of Winterville. Other stories told are about Joe C. Boyd,a local farmer who walked 12,496 miles to and from his farm over a period of 45 years and a silver cup awarded to a local child with "perfect" teeth in 1926. The Greenville Cotillion Club held the first series of dances in 1902. And lastly, an old mule, claimed by his owner Charles Case to be over 30 years old, that was brought into town in 1901.
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23494
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The author gives a series of varied stories from Pitt County such as the 1938 order from the Town Clerk, J. O. Duval warning “all persons owning turtles are requested to keep them from running at large on the streets of Greenville.” In 1937 seven Moore children from Fountain married into three families. There was an unusual missing dog advertisement from 1931 and in 1932, Loonis R. McGlohon, of Ayden, was a musical prodigy at eleven years old. In 1935, David L. (Jesse) James, of Wintervlle, NC, was an US Army soldier stationed in Hawaii. He was honored for making history when he pitched the first no-hit, no run game ever hurled in league competition in Honolulu. There is a funny poem from 1932 about gossiping and an episode from 1932 about a 15 year old boy captured for having a still and the judge sentencing him to a sound spanking. In 1937, Pitt County ABC officials poured 339 gallons of bootleg whisky down the sewer on 10th Street. The sewer probably went into Greene Mill Run which led to drunken critters. In 1937, Mrs. J. D. Copeland had a hen that adopted nine little puppies And lastly, in 1933 there was Court House pandemonium when Preston Pierce, City Tax Collector, was cleaning his gun in his office, when it discharged unexpectedly. The bullet went through his office door, through the corridor and lodged in the top of the door of the Register of Deeds office.
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23495
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Kammerer gives a number of interesting short tales such as the impatient couple, W. L. Butts and Cynthia A. Spain, who got married in R. H. Horne’s Millinery Shop and after tying the knot, the husband went straight to a bar. In 1886, G. W. Gay of Falkland township was a local thug and terror, sent to the penitentiary. Whiskey and evil associations brought him to ruin. In 1886, John Slaughter became demented and committed suicide. A beautiful crazy quilt made by Miss Sue McClure, was raffled off for the benefit of the Episcopal Church. The winner was Master Willie Arnheim and another boy said he rubbed his rabbit foot for all it was worth, but it failed to charm the dice. In 1892, Edgar Buck and W. B. James put on a big fish fry at the seine four miles down the river. In 1881 it was reported that H. F. Albritton of Greene County weighed 120 pounds and his wife weighed 120 pounds and had a ten year old daughter that weighed 60 pounds and an eight year old daughter that weighed only 27 pounds. There were other large families in Greene County and a man weighed 500 pounds.In 1902, a black man named Isaac McGowan, ran down and killed a 176 pound deer with his bare hands on Dickinson Avenue. A hail storm in 1915, left eight inches of hail on Greenville streets. In 1948, the John Flanagan Buggy Company became dealers for two English built cars made by the Ford Company of England. In 1901, hogs got into the home of Simon Moye and wrecked the place.In 1883, W. L. Blount of Grifton had a prize 16 year old Coon Dog. And finally in 1901, Charles Case had a 30 year old mule.
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23497
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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.
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23510
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Historical articles of interest to Pitt County include recollections of Jesse Lillington Jackson (1871-1969) former Pitt County historian, remembering early trips to Reedy Branch Church, and the recollections of Mrs. Josie Joyner McArthur (1864-1958) of going to Farmville as a little girl in 1870. People mentioned include: Reddin Tripp, McCoy Tripp, Elias Braxton, Herbert Ellis, George Ellis, Felix Braxton, William Belcher, William McArthur, J. L. Ballard, Laurence Anderson, William G. Lang, Aaron Turnage, Moses Turnage, Albert Carr, Robert Turnage, Mrs. Betsy Dupree, William Flanagan, Mrs. Lucy Moore, Thomas Flanagan, William Joyner, William Smith, and Eli Williams.
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23514
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Newspaper articles in The Eastern Reflector, the Daily Reflector, Tarboro Southerner from the late 1800s and early 1900s contained stories about early families and hard-to-believe occurrences. Past articles, included Mrs. J. F. Briley's catching a 24-pound turtle with a fishing pole and line lead, and Mr. Charles Harris, a Pitt County's early settler, reported to be 122 years old upon his death in 1860.
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23675
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Kammerer puts together a variety of interesting stories that include the story from 1915, when a daredevil climbed to the top of the dome of the Pitt County Court House using only his hands and feet. The story from 1871 of a man named Edward Brown who hid in the swamps to avoid the draft in the Civil War. He was discovered in animal skins without the knowledge the war had ended years before. In 1925, a meteor crashed on the farm of J. E. Jones near St. John’s Church. A meteor crashed near Farmville, NC and Hookerton, NC in 1924. The fragment recovered near Farmville was given to the State Museum. In 1893, Larry Heilbroner was the Greenville weather observer and displayed weather flags on a flagpole at the newspaper office. There is a tale from 1875 about how General Bryan Grimes kept snakes out of his yard. In 1967, an Atlantic Christian student had an encounter with a UFO near Farmville, NC.
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23697
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In 1926 information came to light about John Henry Powell, a Pitt County native, sailor, soldier, railroader and adventurer who was a soldier for Queen Victoria in India. Powell was from Bell’s Ferry (Grifton) and ran away from home and worked on American and British ships for many years. He had many unique and frightening stories. Powell ended his globe-trotting in India following a mutiny aboard a British ship in the Indian Ocean. He joined the British Army in Calcutta and fought in several campaigns in the Himalayas and western Pakistan. He then worked as a railway engineer on lines across India. Powell then returned to North Carolina for a visit in July 1927 and went to Hopewell, VA to see his elderly mother and brother who were still alive. Powell was planning to move back to North Carolina from India with his children.
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24049
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In January 1937, efforts began to establish Greene Springs Park along Green Mill Run in Greenville, North Carolina. With the coming of World War II, park work ceased until the 1950s, and by 1958 the park was complete and open to the community.
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The Flanagan Buggy Company formerly occupied the corner of Fourth and Cotanche Streets in Greenville, North Carolina, a space that now houses a parking garage. The Flanagan business dates back to 1866 and has an interesting history from its establishment to the time of its closure in 1969.
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Many buildings downtown in Greenville once contained a number of prominent retailers. A site on Fifth Street first held the Glascow Evans Livery stable in 1890. Other companies used the same site, but the first major company to lease the building was Montgomery Ward in 1928. In 1932, Quinn-Miller Furniture moved in, then Belk-Tyler in 1938. Today, the building houses Crossbones Tavern and apartments.
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Pitt County has been visited by many United States presidents, including George Washington, Grover Cleveland, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter, and first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Reagan. Their visits were connected to Greenville’s location on the Tar River, exports, and East Carolina University.
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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.
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31905
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Deposition of Ann Dixon, 1782—talks of Walter Dixon and his brother, William Dixon, who both died in the Revolution, both sons of John Dixon. Also mentions another son, Jeremiah Dixon.
Deposition of John Williams, 1784---talks of when John Williams settled on the Tar River “upwards of 50 years’ before and Matthew Capps lived there. Williams says he went to school in 1738 in a school erected by John Lee on Matthew Capps land. [Also mentions Little, Donan, Rodgers]
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