Record #:

22878

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

This group of local stories tell of an umbrella catching fire in the window of Pender’s Hardware Store in Greenville and the strange tale of Thomas J. Sheppard of Sheppard’s Mill Pond. In 1895, Mayor Ola Forbes got into “a scrap” with R. L. Belcher about a liquor license and the Mayor had to pay the Court costs. From 1895 is a tale about a conjured rooster in Falkland, a midget named Bryant Gardner in Grifton and a large snake getting caught up in a wagon wheel in 1896. Also from 1895, Sheriff R. W. King owned a smart horse named “Frank.”

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jan 4-18 1989, p5

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History