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Including Farmville, Grifton, Ayden, Bethel, Fountain, Pactolus, Stokes, Falkland, Grimesland, Winterville, and Greenville, this article offers small histories of the towns comprising Pitt County.
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22800
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Kammerer relates several odd tales from Pitt County's past. One Greenville resident, James O. Bond, found a shell clump at the beach in 1973 and took it home. In 1979 he decided to open it and found an ancient Roman coin from Claudius I. In 1951 the Greenville City Aldermen questioned the purchase of a case of sardines by the Street Department. C. K. Beatty, department head explained that they used the sardines with rat poison and molasses to control rats. People still use "Lard Stands," once to store lard and now as large flower pots. A nine-year-old hero named Dickie Haar, son of Dr. Fred B. Harr, saved Roy Tripp Jr., a one and a half year old boy from drowning when he fell off a pier in Bayboro. Dickie was honored on the radio and on the Abbott and Costello Show, of which he received numerous gifts. Judge Charles Whedbee laid down an unusual sentence in 1959 when a local boy had to serve punishment in a "Graveyard Stint." And finally, "Cheated Taste Buds" occurred when a baby ruined chicken on the grill.
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22802
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Named after the town's first merchant, Robert A. Fountain, this small town is located west of Greenville. In 1901, the East Carolina Railroad put a depot near Fountain’s store and called it “Reba.” This community became Fountain after the establishment of a post office there on January 15, 1902, with R. A. Fountain as postmaster. Fountain was incorporated as a town in 1903 and by 1910, was a bustling commercial center with 126 people. A fire in 1907 destroyed all the stores and they were rebuilt with brick. In 1912, a Presbyterian Church was organized. The first graded school for the town had 150 pupils in 1917. The Fountain Fire Department was organized in 1937 and the East Carolina Railroad closed in 1955.
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22804
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Kammerer relates a story from 1925 as told by Lucy Cherry Crisp, a noted writer from Falkland. Crisp interviewed Aleck Corbett, an ex-slave from Falkland, who recalled several interesting stories about Pitt County before and directly after the Civil War. One of these stories describes Tom Dupree, a slave owner who killed a Yankee soldier who was plundering his stables. Terrified, Dupree fled and lived in a cave the size of a large bed quilt, on a creek near his house for several months. Corbett said the cave still existed in 1925.
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22812
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Stories include interesting facts relating to the \"good old days.\"
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22814
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This article gives tidbits and facts about life in Pitt County from the antebellum period to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. From these memories we can see “the good old days” were not as easy as we would like to think. He talks about log houses in 1857, roads, church services, germs and sanitation, drinking water and schools.
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22819
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This is the second installment of Jesse Lillington Jackson (1874-1969) narratives about his early life in Pitt County. The stories in this article concern shad fishing, Joe John Jackson, Burt Jackson, J. H. Ellis, Bryant Tripp, stores and barrooms in Greenville, election polling places, Richard Craft and Silas Craft.
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22820
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In 1956, Jesse Lillington Jackson (1874-1969) wrote a series of narratives about his early life in Pitt County. Known as “Lil,” he was an early Pitt County historian and genealogist. He was one of the founders of the Pitt County Historical Society. Jackson talks of his early life in Jacksontown, Pitt County, about wheat threshing, eating robins in bird stews, building houses, Levi Dawson, Ben Nobles, Alex L. Blow and Matthew Deal.
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22821
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In this second article, continuing the reminiscences of Abram James Moye from 1928, about the people and houses along Plank Road, we find information on Henry Joyner; Mrs. Lucy Turnage, widow of Elias Turnage; Moses Tyson Moye, W. G. Lang and Alfred Moye. He also talks about the Plank road, toll houses and the Sons of Temperance.
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22822
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In 1928, Abram James Moye (1853-1932), son of James Willis Moye and Henrietta L. Anderson, wrote several articles reminiscing about the people and houses along Plank Road (old Highway #264 to Farmville) after the Civil War. In this article he talks about Marcellus and John Moore, merchants in Greenville; Benjamin Manning; Mr. Evans; Wiley Nobles; Japhet Tyson; Willis Briley; J. L. Ballard and Moses Joyner.
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22831
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This collection of unusual tales includes a funny story from 1944 about a hen house being robbed and a parrot catching the thief. Funny instances dealing with the coming of rural electricity. Many people were distrustful of this new-fangled electricity. One man got electricity to operate one bulb so he could light his kerosene lamps. One man got electricity when he found out that they made ice cream makers. There was a family named Moore in Fountain with seven children. They married only into three families: Killibrew, Wooten and Deans. A story about wind freaks when the tobacco cloth of Billie Branch, of near Winterville was caught up by the wind in 1944 and made an unusual journey. Also a galvanized wash bucket blew away nearly half a mile and later the wind changed and blew it back against the back door of the house. There are comparison funeral prices from 1944 and the details of a war between Sunshine and Cascade Cleaners in 1939. And lastly, in 1938 it was reported that Mr. and Mrs. Archie Coburn of Bethel had the same great-grandfather and lived in the same house in which he lived.
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22832
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There was a long held tradition told in Pitt County that there was a man from Pactolus whose daughter married Frank James, the outlaw, brother of Jesse James. The tale had grown over the years to include stories of hidden treasure at Pactolus. Kammerer lays out the story, combined with facts, to show how the story was fascinating, but wasn’t true.
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22835
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The author gives several interesting stories including when Richard Ficke and Newman Jones of Grifton made a presidential bet in 1932. Ficke lost and he had to push Jones in a wheelbarrow from the artesian well in Grifton to Five Points in Greenville. They started the 20 mile trek at 8:20 am and finished at 1:10 pm. Another bet of the same nature occurred in Farmville when Bill Whitley lost to Eugene Hobgood. Their wheelbarrow joyride went 12 miles to Saratoga. In 1931, Ross Cannon ran over a fox and he took it home to give his wife a fox stole. During Prohibition, a 15 year old boy was arrested for making moonshine in 1932. The Judge ordered the Sheriff to give him a sound spanking and return him home. In 1931 there was a funny lost dog announcement in the newspaper, G. O. Vanderford raised a 61 pound watermelon and R. L. Manning owned a freak mule that gave milk. In 1932, Miss Grace Hunter, first grade teacher of West Greenville School, organized 30 youngsters into a toy band. In June 1932, the Toy Band gave a concert in Raleigh where it was broadcast over Radio Station WPTF.
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22837
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This article contains a collection of different stories, including a number of snake tales from 1911. Edward W. Hearne killed a snake on a street with a chair and Sheriff Dudley had a milk cow with a large black snake dangling from each horn. The snakes had tried to eat each horn. In 1905, Mrs. H. A. White owned the first bath tub in Greenville. She was also one of the first to have a car and the modern convenience of a radio, a Victrola, oil heat and electric lights. The people of Greenville could not understand how the electric lights could burn without oil. Until the novelty wore off, people walked through Mrs. White’s house day and night, switching the lights on and off, screwing the bulbs out and sticking their fingers into the sockets. There is a funny story of how a cat and rat fight destroyed the garage of the Hines Motor Company in 1923. There was a Anti-Rat Campaign waged in Pitt County in 1923. Leland Forlines of Winterville won with 114 rat tails and Jim Dupree turned in 56 rat tails. The children winning the highest Greenville prize were: Jim Tucker, 51; Downell Elks, 40; Louise Barnett, 38; Leroy Coward, 37; and J. B. Eastman, 14..
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22847
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Kammerer recounts several very interesting stories, including the story of A. D. Gardner, Fountain Police Chief, who drove to Greenville in 1926 and had car trouble. He drove back home and went straight to his mechanic. He opened the hood to discover three sticks of dynamite. In 1874, the Steamboat Cotton Plant found a small coffin floating down the Tar River. After retrieving it, they opened it to find a live baby sucking on a bottle of milk. The baby was taken to Washington and given to a loving older woman. There is the story of W. A. Manning, who lived on the Plank Road, who won the Baltimore Lottery in 1854 and received a check for $2,500. In 1869, the Greenville Municipal election resulted in a shooting when Arthur Dennis killed Edward Hoell. There is a story from 1912 of a black man who went to a store to select a coffin for his wife who had died the night before. While choosing a coffin he was almost killed when a number of them fell on him. And lastly there is the story of a black man named John Burney who owned land in Pitt County, but had a debt on it. Burney moved to Florida and was never heard from again and was presumed dead. In 1907, Burney, now age 64 returned to Pitt County and filed a claim to get his land back.
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