Record #:

9918

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

In an effort to drum up publicity for their yearly gourd festival, the Cary Gourd Club is focusing attention on the display of the Mary Slocumb gourd at the Museum of History in Raleigh. The story of the gourd, which was allegedly used by Mrs. Slocumb as she ministered to the wounded soldiers at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge during the Revolutionary War, has been recorded in John H. Wheeler's HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF NORTH CAROLINA and Mrs. Eddie W. Wilson's THE GOURD IN FOLK LITERATURE.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 6, Aug 1972, p16, il

Subject(s):

Moores Creek Bridge, Battle of, N.C., 1776; Gourds; Slocumb, Mary, d. 1836