Record #:

22855

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

This group of local stories includes a tale about a black man named Issac Staton who named his kids "Get All," "Will Have It," and "Save All." M.C.S. Cherry, Jr. had two hound dog puppies named Sullivan and Kilrain, named for noted pugilists. There is a 1904 announcement from the newspaper by parents of young ladies stating the girls cannot attend dances if there escort is not there to pick them up by nine o’clock. In 1835, John Buck raised 2000 pumpkins, the largest weighing 156 pounds. In 1903, Mrs. D. D. Haskett raised a lemon weighing one and a half pounds, measuring 12 ½ inches in circumference. There is a tale from 1900 about George B. King, Greenville postmaster, having challenges trying to get the mail to the train on time. In 1901, government surveyors put a tablet on the Court House stating that Greenville was 68 feet above sea level. The tablet was destroyed in the Court house fire of 1910. In another story, the Standard Oil Company tanks blew up on Dickinson Avenue in 1933, causing tremendous damage. And lastly, there are details of a Prophecy Party given by Mrs. R. W. King in 1900.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jul 4-17 1990, p7

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History