Record #:

22831

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 15-28 1992, p5

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History