Record #:

22882

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

This group of local stories includes J. W. Page had a smart mule in 1892, P. J. Bynum had an encounter with a mad dog in 1897 and how W. C. Haddock was attacked by six large minks in 1894. There is a funny story from 1895 of a little girl asking her mother “Who is Procrastination?” In 1895, there was a runaway marriage of W. B. Bullock and Zilva Highsmith and Asa Garris killed a moccasin with 20 frogs in it. In 1899, S. T. Nobles, a barber, was fined one cent and court costs for working after midnight in Greenville. In 1897, John Strickland gave out invitations to his funeral and went home and killed himself. In 1923, Jesse Tedock Hart was killed when a train hit a cow and it flew and landed on him. In 1899, Mrs. J. F. Briley caught a 24 pound turtle. She had also killed a deer with a club when she was young.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Nov 9-22 1988, p10

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History