Record #:

23481

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

William H. Atkinson was born to former slave parents on May 15, 1867, in a log cabin with a dirt floor near Handy Corner, Edgecombe County, NC. He lived in Pitt County around the turn of the century worked for Jeff Fountain on the steamboat, \"Lillian.\" Atkinson worked on the steamboat Shiloh at Centre Bluff Landing near Bruce, Pitt County. Atkinson died on March 23, 1973, at the age of 106.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Dec 11-24 2002, p6

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History--Centenarians