Record #:

22856

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

This group of local tales includes the story of G. M. Mooring, Pitt county Legislator, who received four grandchildren in one week in 1912. Another tale concerns a school shooting at the Bell-Arthur High School principal in 1930. In 1900, there was a feud between the Jesse James family and the E. S. Lewis family. After a terrible shootout, Jesse James stole E. S. Lewis’ daughter and married her anyway. There seems to have been a problem in 1933 that people would crash into the barricades on the end of Pitt Street. The bridge had been taken down, but being creatures of habit, forgot that the bridge was gone. And lastly, there is a funny story about a fox hunt at Red Oak which went terribly wrong.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jun 6-19 1990, p7

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History