STEWART COUNTY, TENN. DEEDS Book 2 [1806-1809 registrations for 1783-1809 deeds] 2 Edward HARRIS (Craven Co., NC) to John BRYAN Jr. (Johnston Co., NC), 640a on N side of Obion River, on a creek below Big Clover Lick, adj. James MARTIN’s N boundary & HARRIS’ entry #2373; wit: Blake BRYAN, M. GILLUS; 17 Jul 1791, registered in Johnston Co. Aug 1791 (Book T, p. 14) 251 State of NC #2406 to Sherrod BARROW, assignee of Archibald DAVIS, 640a in Sumner Co., on the creek that Joseph THOMAS was killed, about 7 miles below Aaron LAMBERT’s entry #1399; 20 Jan 1894, registered 28 Nov 1808 253 Thomas BLANCHARD and George CHANDLER to Samuel MARSH (all of Norfolk, VA), 15 tracts, incl. 13 warrants belonging to Benjamin SHEPHERD of Glasgow Co., NC (warrants 352, 358, 364, 372, 355, 350 & 533 for 640a each; warrants 669, 670, 671, 672 & 673 for 1000a each), plus 2 tracts belonging to the heirs of John McNEESE (Mary McNEESE, Sarah McNEESE, Anna McNEESE, Humphrey & Hannah JONES); wit: Jonan LANGLEY, Richard ARCHER, James L. COX; 24 Sep 1798, registered 19 Dec 1808 256 Benjamin SHEPHERD (Glasgow Co., NC) to James TUCKER (Norfolk, Va.), 13 tracts (patents 352, 358, 364, 372, 355, 350, 533 @ 640a each, 669, 670, 671, 672, 673 @ 1000a each, patent 1807 in Sumner Co. @ 640a); wit: Martin G. SHEPHERD, Sherrod BARROW (Hancock Co., GA); 13 Jan 1797, registered 20 Dec 1808 259 William PUGH Jr. (Bertie Co., NC) to the children of his brother Henry H. PUGH, deed of gift of 5 trunks & 2 beds already in his brother’s possession; 8 Aug 1808, registered 21 Dec 1808 260 William PUGH Sr. (Bertie Co., NC) to the children of his son Henry Hill PUGH, deed of gift of Negroes Jim & Molley; 8 Aug 1808, registered 21 Dec 1808 281 State of NC #1167 to Pvt. Lewis CANNON, 1584a on Spring Creek (where a party of surveyors was defeated in November 1789), adj. MONTFLORENCE; 26 Nov 1789, registered 5 Apr 1808 in Montgomery Co., registered 18 Feb 1809 in Stewart Co. 288 William CURL (Stewart Co. Sheriff) to William M. COOLEY, 388a on Dyers Creek; land was sold for delinquent 1804 taxes of Lewis CANNON, and was part of his 1584a NC grant #1167 on 26 Nov 1789; 25 Oct 1808, registered 25 Feb 1809 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Faster_022009

I found a picture that my sister Adelle says was taken at Conetoe High School. She was born in 1916, so this has to be around 1933-35. Listed are some of the names we could read, some were faint and cannot be sure of them. They did not appear to be in order, so we are not sure which name goes to each person. SOURCE: Conetoe High School Class John Cherry Archie Bennett Jim Perry Vera Edmondson Nathan Worsley Maggie Lee William Worsley Mr. Lucas J. B. Davenport Herbert Brown Myrtle Wilson Miss Smith (not sure name is Miss or Mise) Jack Armstrong Henry Everet Carl Doughtie Gentry McLawhorn C. C. Ra____ (looks like Rawls) Adelle Kittrell

Sarah Lee Wooten Heath b. Mar 12, 1933 d. Jan 26, 2009, d/o Clumbus and Sadie Langley Wooten, w/o Henry Benjamin Heath It is interesting the obituary states she is being buried in the Allen-Heath Family Cemetery. I named this one John Hardee Cemetery (Col. John) as he was one of the oldest buried there. Mrs. Heath's husband is buried there and also a stone for her. This cemetery is in Book 2 page 6 Bill.

THANKS for the site info. Looks interesting.........Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula Baker" <paulabaker69@yahoo.com> To: nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:12:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [NC-PCFR] Place names in this book/Pitt County/1787 http://books.google.com/books?id=uDoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA940&dq=%22pitt+county%22++%22north+carolina%22&lr=#PPA941,M1 Please check out this book in google.  Full view.  On the right at the top you can do a search.  I put Pitt in and got some good results.  Or just read the whole thing.  It has place names like Creeping Swamp, etc.  It also has information about a ferry in Pitt County.  The annexation of a part of Pitt into Beaufort, things like that.  Paula Baker Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina "We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." Thomas Mann Pitt County Family Researchers website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ Message archives address: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny and Peggy Vardeman To: was2nd@charter.net Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:21 AM Subject: Fw: my grandfather ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny and Peggy Vardeman To: vdrh@gotricounty.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:17 AM Subject: my grandfather Hello, I am Margaret Ellsworth Vardeman, granddaughter of William Henry Ellsworth who was the conductor that you wrote about. The year of his birth and death are correct but his first name is wrong. I was born in 1933 and even though I grew up in Tennessee, I spent almost every summer in Washington as my father was on the tobacco market each summer in NC. I never knew my grandfather to be called anything other than William or Captain. He died the year I was a freshman at Gallatin High School in Tennessee. I married in June of 1956 and have lived in Gainesville, Ga every since. I must have inherited the love of trains from Grandpapa. I love to watch them and ride on them. Even though when we go places we mostly fly but we are planning a train ride through the western states. I am a retired school teacher and my father Henry Kirkwood Ellsworth died in 1981. My mother Louise Tull Ellsworth was born in Kinston, NC and she and my dad married in 1930. I enjoyed reading this article which was sent to me by Bill Sellers who used to live in Washington but now lives in Gainesville. He also lived in Gallatin, TN for a while and now has known 5 generations of the Ellsworth family as we introduced my children and grandchildren to him. Sincerely Margaret (Peggy) Ellsworth Vardeman

http://books.google.com/books?id=uDoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA940&dq=%22pitt+county%22++%22north+carolina%22&lr=#PPA941,M1 Please check out this book in google.  Full view.  On the right at the top you can do a search.  I put Pitt in and got some good results.  Or just read the whole thing.  It has place names like Creeping Swamp, etc.  It also has information about a ferry in Pitt County.  The annexation of a part of Pitt into Beaufort, things like that.  Paula Baker Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina "We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." Thomas Mann

Sandi, Thanks for the kind note. Best Regards, Roger> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:25:00 -0500> From: sajones45@gmail.com> To: nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [NC-PCFR] An Early History of Trash in Greenville> > Roger,> > Interesting reading, sure enjoyed them. Thanks!> > Sandi> > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_howitworks_012009

Roger, Interesting reading, sure enjoyed them. Thanks! Sandi On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Roger E. Kammerer <kammerer@hotmail.com>wrote: > > An Early History of Trash in Greenville > > > According to an item in the New York newspaper, Saturday Evening > Post in Oct. 1882.. "At Greenville, N. C., the people let their hogs run in > the streets during watermelon time, in order to dispose of the rinds, which > would otherwise furnish a green and slippery pavement." At first glance it > may seem a simple solution to a trash problem; but it represents > Greenville's long struggle to dispose of its never ending accumulation of > rubbish, refuse and trash. > In the olden days there was only a little thought given to > trash, since they would recycle whatever they could. What waste anyone had, > was disposed on the household's own property. Farm families had a use for > most everything left over from production or consumption. Food waste went > to hogs or chickens and pets ate what the family did. When clothes wore out > they were cut up for making gloves, sacks and rugs. The patterned cotton > used for flour sacks would be used for dresses and skirts, with the scraps > left going into quilts. > From Colonial times to the 1830's, paper was made from cotton > and linen rags. The newspaper would run advertisements for buying old rags > and peddlers would wander the countryside buying or trading for rags. One > interesting advertisement appeared in the NC Gazette in Nov. 1777 for a > paper manufacturer in North Carolina which read.. "When the young Ladies are > assured, that by sending to the Paper Mill an old handkerchief, no longer > fit to cover their snowy Breasts, there is a Possibility of its returning to > them again in the more pleasing form of a Billet Doux (love letter) from > their Lovers, the Proprietors flatter themselves with great Success." > When products were purchased in glass containers, it just became > another container to hold homemade food stuffs. When tin cans became > available they were reused around the farm for such things as baking, > growing plants from seed, holding nails, etc. Anything not reused was dumped > or buried at edge of the woods or burned. > As wells and outhouses became old, the holes in the ground were > used as trash receptacles; which have now become an archeologist's dream. > The only mention of garbage disposal in the first Greenville > Town Ordinances of 1832 is a fine of 10 shillings for throwing filth in the > streets. We know that after the Civil War, the area where Ringgold Towers > now sits from Reide Street to Fifth Street, was known as "Buzzards Roost." > It was a horse-trading area and where trash and dead horses and mules were > dumped. Buzzards supposedly covered the trees there. In 1887, the fire > engine horses doubled as trash wagon horses, and the buzzards were so brazen > that the trash men had to put a steel trap on the horses to keep the > buzzards off their backs. The local newspaper also complained in 1889 about > the dead animals that were dumped in the wet lands near the north end of the > bridge. The foul odors certainly didn't make a good impression on visitors > to Greenville. > We know from the Greenville City minutes that a horse and wagon > went door to door collecting garbage. In the Greenville Town Ordinances of > 1885, the only mention of trash is where the Board of Councilmen had the > power to "provide for repairing and cleaning the streets; suppress and > remove nuisances; preserve the health of the town from contagious and > infectious diseases." Later in 1885, the local newspaper complained that the > town ordinance prohibiting the running at large of cattle on the streets > later than 9:00 pm was being ignored like many of the other town ordinances. > You can "hardly go on a single street of the town but what the senses are > met with foul odors, caused by deposits and accumulation of filth and > garbage. I some places stables, hog pens and such are allowed to stand right > on the line of the sidewalks, and they prove very offensive to passers by." > In the 1880's the area along the river around Pitt Street to > Washington Street was used as a city dump. In 1887, the foot of Washington > Street was called "Baptism Landing" and was used as a ferry landing, trash > dump, baptismal font and oyster boat landing. According to the Greenville > City Minutes, Joab Tyson was named as street hauler from 1889-90; F. G. > James was street hauler from 1890-91; and Joe T. Moye was street hauler from > 1895-97. F. G. James was mayor of Greenville from 1889-1892, which probably > means he was the head of the street committee or hired the job out, since I > can't see the Mayor out picking up garbage. In May 1895, street hauling was > put under the supervision of the Chief of Police and street work was placed > under the supervision of the Assistant Policeman. > In 1917 the newspaper asked the citizens to keep Greenville > clean. "Put your garbage out only on the days when the trash man is > due...And then let it be a covered can if possible. An old lard stand will > do." In Aug. 1919, the City advertised that..."Due to the scarcity of labor > and number of carts," nothing but garbage and grass placed in cans, will be > hauled away. All limbs and debris will have to be hauled away at the owner's > expense. > Around 1910, older residents said that trash was carried some > place north of the river on Greene Street and dumped on the ground. After > the City bought part of the Brown farm on east Fifth Street in the 1920's, > the City created Greenwood Cemetery and moved the dump to a site on the Tar > River behind the Cemetery. > In the Greenville Town Ordinances of 1926 is found an ordinance > to Regulate Garbage Disposal. It ordered that everyone must keep "galvanized > can or cans equipped with covers not exceeding a thirty capacity." It was > the duty of the street department to make inspection from time to time of > every garbage can maintained. All debris, tree limbs and rubbish placed in > the cans would be removed, but larger items would be hauled away at the > owner's expense. Anyone violating the ordinance was fines $10.00 a day for > every offense. > In 1931, The City erected a fence to obstruct the view of the > city dump behind Greenwood Cemetery. By 1953, the City was running ten > garbage trucks that could only hold five to seven cubic yards. In Oct. 1954, > they began replacing the old garbage trucks with new compaction type bodies > with a 15 cubic yard capacity. > In 1958, the City began a new program turning the dump behind > Greenwood Cemetery into a landfill operation. They leased bull dozers, > operated by local prisoners, to work daily to cover the refuse with dirt. It > was hoped this would eliminate fires and the rodent population. The County > eventually took over the dump and when it became full, a county landfill was > established west of Greenville on Allen Road. > An interesting story about the dump behind Greenwood Cemetery is > that in 1960 it was the home of an 82 year old hermit named Henry Daniel > Bennett. He moved to the dump in 1956 after his farm house blew over in a > storm. He lived in an old school bus body with a tin chimney and had a brood > of chickens. Mr. Bennett whose family was from Rocky Mount, was once a > boiler maker and once worked for the government in the Navy Yard in 1917. He > received a Welfare check of $31.00 a month. The City, wanting to build a > sewage treatment plant where he had his structures, made him to go to a > sanitarium for his health. The bulldozers tore up his abode and his chickens > were sold off. When he returned from the sanitarium, he was given the money > for his chickens and moved in with a family south of town. Apparently happy > with his new situation, he received a few more dollars in his Welfare check > for his higher expenses living in a private home. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail(R) goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. > > http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208 > Pitt County Family Researchers website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ > > Message archives address: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

An Early History of Trash in Greenville According to an item in the New York newspaper, Saturday Evening Post in Oct. 1882.. “At Greenville, N. C., the people let their hogs run in the streets during watermelon time, in order to dispose of the rinds, which would otherwise furnish a green and slippery pavement.” At first glance it may seem a simple solution to a trash problem; but it represents Greenville’s long struggle to dispose of its never ending accumulation of rubbish, refuse and trash. In the olden days there was only a little thought given to trash, since they would recycle whatever they could. What waste anyone had, was disposed on the household’s own property. Farm families had a use for most everything left over from production or consumption. Food waste went to hogs or chickens and pets ate what the family did. When clothes wore out they were cut up for making gloves, sacks and rugs. The patterned cotton used for flour sacks would be used for dresses and skirts, with the scraps left going into quilts. From Colonial times to the 1830’s, paper was made from cotton and linen rags. The newspaper would run advertisements for buying old rags and peddlers would wander the countryside buying or trading for rags. One interesting advertisement appeared in the NC Gazette in Nov. 1777 for a paper manufacturer in North Carolina which read.. "When the young Ladies are assured, that by sending to the Paper Mill an old handkerchief, no longer fit to cover their snowy Breasts, there is a Possibility of its returning to them again in the more pleasing form of a Billet Doux (love letter) from their Lovers, the Proprietors flatter themselves with great Success.” When products were purchased in glass containers, it just became another container to hold homemade food stuffs. When tin cans became available they were reused around the farm for such things as baking, growing plants from seed, holding nails, etc. Anything not reused was dumped or buried at edge of the woods or burned. As wells and outhouses became old, the holes in the ground were used as trash receptacles; which have now become an archeologist’s dream. The only mention of garbage disposal in the first Greenville Town Ordinances of 1832 is a fine of 10 shillings for throwing filth in the streets. We know that after the Civil War, the area where Ringgold Towers now sits from Reide Street to Fifth Street, was known as “Buzzards Roost.” It was a horse-trading area and where trash and dead horses and mules were dumped. Buzzards supposedly covered the trees there. In 1887, the fire engine horses doubled as trash wagon horses, and the buzzards were so brazen that the trash men had to put a steel trap on the horses to keep the buzzards off their backs. The local newspaper also complained in 1889 about the dead animals that were dumped in the wet lands near the north end of the bridge. The foul odors certainly didn’t make a good impression on visitors to Greenville. We know from the Greenville City minutes that a horse and wagon went door to door collecting garbage. In the Greenville Town Ordinances of 1885, the only mention of trash is where the Board of Councilmen had the power to “provide for repairing and cleaning the streets; suppress and remove nuisances; preserve the health of the town from contagious and infectious diseases.” Later in 1885, the local newspaper complained that the town ordinance prohibiting the running at large of cattle on the streets later than 9:00 pm was being ignored like many of the other town ordinances. You can “hardly go on a single street of the town but what the senses are met with foul odors, caused by deposits and accumulation of filth and garbage. I some places stables, hog pens and such are allowed to stand right on the line of the sidewalks, and they prove very offensive to passers by.” In the 1880’s the area along the river around Pitt Street to Washington Street was used as a city dump. In 1887, the foot of Washington Street was called “Baptism Landing” and was used as a ferry landing, trash dump, baptismal font and oyster boat landing. According to the Greenville City Minutes, Joab Tyson was named as street hauler from 1889-90; F. G. James was street hauler from 1890-91; and Joe T. Moye was street hauler from 1895-97. F. G. James was mayor of Greenville from 1889-1892, which probably means he was the head of the street committee or hired the job out, since I can’t see the Mayor out picking up garbage. In May 1895, street hauling was put under the supervision of the Chief of Police and street work was placed under the supervision of the Assistant Policeman. In 1917 the newspaper asked the citizens to keep Greenville clean. “Put your garbage out only on the days when the trash man is due...And then let it be a covered can if possible. An old lard stand will do.” In Aug. 1919, the City advertised that...”Due to the scarcity of labor and number of carts,” nothing but garbage and grass placed in cans, will be hauled away. All limbs and debris will have to be hauled away at the owner’s expense. Around 1910, older residents said that trash was carried some place north of the river on Greene Street and dumped on the ground. After the City bought part of the Brown farm on east Fifth Street in the 1920’s, the City created Greenwood Cemetery and moved the dump to a site on the Tar River behind the Cemetery. In the Greenville Town Ordinances of 1926 is found an ordinance to Regulate Garbage Disposal. It ordered that everyone must keep “galvanized can or cans equipped with covers not exceeding a thirty capacity.” It was the duty of the street department to make inspection from time to time of every garbage can maintained. All debris, tree limbs and rubbish placed in the cans would be removed, but larger items would be hauled away at the owner’s expense. Anyone violating the ordinance was fines $10.00 a day for every offense. In 1931, The City erected a fence to obstruct the view of the city dump behind Greenwood Cemetery. By 1953, the City was running ten garbage trucks that could only hold five to seven cubic yards. In Oct. 1954, they began replacing the old garbage trucks with new compaction type bodies with a 15 cubic yard capacity. In 1958, the City began a new program turning the dump behind Greenwood Cemetery into a landfill operation. They leased bull dozers, operated by local prisoners, to work daily to cover the refuse with dirt. It was hoped this would eliminate fires and the rodent population. The County eventually took over the dump and when it became full, a county landfill was established west of Greenville on Allen Road. An interesting story about the dump behind Greenwood Cemetery is that in 1960 it was the home of an 82 year old hermit named Henry Daniel Bennett. He moved to the dump in 1956 after his farm house blew over in a storm. He lived in an old school bus body with a tin chimney and had a brood of chickens. Mr. Bennett whose family was from Rocky Mount, was once a boiler maker and once worked for the government in the Navy Yard in 1917. He received a Welfare check of $31.00 a month. The City, wanting to build a sewage treatment plant where he had his structures, made him to go to a sanitarium for his health. The bulldozers tore up his abode and his chickens were sold off. When he returned from the sanitarium, he was given the money for his chickens and moved in with a family south of town. Apparently happy with his new situation, he received a few more dollars in his Welfare check for his higher expenses living in a private home. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208

Lost town of Oakley Oakley, also called “Leens,”was located in Carolina township nearly four miles north of Stokes and was an important lumber shipping point on the Washington Branch Rail Road. Like several other villages in Pitt County, the depot was called one name and the village that grew up around it was called another. The depot was called “Leens,” and the village was called Oakley (sometimes corrupted as Coakley). The story began in 1892, when the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad built and opened a rail line 19.25 miles through Pitt County known as the Washington Branch Road, stretching from Parmele to Washington. This small community began as a stop on the railroad line named by C. E. Leens, the train engineer. C. E. Leens (1858-1923) was a native of DeKalb, Illinois born to Swedish immigrants. He began working for the Burlington railroad in Iowa in 1874. He was qualified as an engineer on Oct. 3, 1880 and was the youngest engineer in Iowa, being not quite 21 years old. He continued working for the Burlington Line in Iowa until the Railroad strike of 1888. After the settlement of the strike, Leens came to North Carolina and entered the service of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Leens was assigned to the Washington Branch from its opening until Jan. 1, 1921, when he retired on account of failing health. After he retired, Hardy Duke became engineer on the line. Also assigned to this line was the popular conductor, Capt. W. H. Ellsworth. Witt H. Ellsworth (1864-1947) was a native of Duplin County, NC and he began working for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in October 1885. He was conductor on the first passenger train that made the Parmele to Washington run in June 1892 and continued until his retirement on July 1, 1935. Stories are told of how Capt. Ellsworth became a part of the lives of the people that lived along the railroad line. Housewives would come down to the depot station and give him lists of things to pick up in Washington or Parmele. When the train was waiting to make its return run Capt. Ellsworth would go shopping for them. A story is told of when Mr. Leens was stricken with heart trouble in 1920 at Pactolus and Capt. Ellsworth placed him in the baggage car and drove the train to Washington to get him home. Leens began as platform and as a lumber shipping point. On April 23, 1892, a post office was established at Leens called “Oakley” with Willis H. Williams (1846-1904) as first postmaster. The next postmaster, Eli Rogers, was appointed October 4, 1904, who served until it closed in 1910. In 1893, Thomas Fernando Nelson (1866-1943), an afflicted young man, opened a small general merchandise store at Oakley. About the same time, another store opened under the style Gray & Rogers, which operated a saloon and general store. In 1895, R. A. Pell & Company moved their store from Parmele to Oakley. In Jan. 1896, Thomas Fernando Nelson moved into his new store in Oakley and Bryant & Whichard of Parmele moved to Oakley and opened a grocery store and bar. By Dec. 1900, H. A. Gray and Eli Rogers built a large store building in Oakley and began operating a general merchandise business. In Jan. 1902, Gray & Rogers and Charles H. Ross each opened a saloon and began selling spirituous liquors. By 1901, S. M. Ross operated a cotton gin and lumber mill at Oakley. On Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11, 1903, the home of Elder Samuel R. Ross, near Oakley, was destroyed by fire. The fire originated from a bad kitchen flue. Only the furniture from the first floor was saved, everything on the second floor was destroyed. The town of Oakley was incorporated on March 2, 1903. The boundaries given in its charter begin at Willis H. Williams’ and John S. James’ corner, to S. R. Ross’ near the railroad, northeast to Willis H. Williams’, to S. G. Williams’ thence to R. E. Mizell’s house to the beginning. Its first officers were Willis H. Williams, as mayor and Charles Herbert Ross, W. G. Bryan and Eli Rogers as commissioners. A meeting hall was also built in 1903 known as C. B. H. Hall, where dances and socials were held. Early school teachers in the Oakley community were Miss Pennie Mizzell, Miss Millie Everett, Miss Dora Everett, Miss Leroy Mooring, Mrs. J. H. Taylor, Miss Mary Whitehurst, and Miss Cora A. Roberson. School houses in the Oakley community included the Piney Green School and the Turner Briley Schoolhouse, located one mile south of Oakley, which was used as the township polling place. In 1906, Oakley town officers were Charles Herbert Ross, mayor; Eli Rogers, W. G. Bryan, and W. J. Jenkins, commissioners; Zeb Vance Whitehurst, constable; and H. A. Gray, treasurer. Some of the leading citizens of the Oakley community were J. T. Jenkins, J. O. Williams, F. F. Nelson, James J. Rawls, Nichols George Belcher, J. E. Hines, J. B. Whitehurst, Jim Taylor, John Taylor, Simon A. Congleton, J. I. James, and Walter Carson. Simon A. Congleton operated a general merchandise store in Oakley. In July 1906, Whitehurst & Wynn put new machinery into the Oakley Iron and Milling Company (cotton gin and sawmill). Later the business was called Whitehurst & Ross. In July 1906, Ben Jenkins associated himself with T. F. Nelson in the market business and by August a city market was completed in Oakley. In Jan. 1907, Messers. Jenkins & Parker opened a barber shop in town. In July 1906, Nash Hardee was named as Chief of Police, but he moved to Winterville in December of that same year. In Dec. 1906, T. A. Manning moved to Oakley. In Oct. 1907, J. I. James was named mayor of Oakley. In April 1908, John Belcher was appointed mayor of Oakley to fill the unexpired term of J. I. James, who moved into his new house out of town and a crate factory moved to Oakley. The crate factory was known as the Oakley Manufacturing Company, making crates for the potato industry in the area. In Jan. 1909, Ben Jenkins opened a stock of goods in a store in the building vacated by E. Carson and by February, Eli Rogers & Co. built a warehouse to accommodate their extensive business. In Jan. 1909, C. Roebuck and C. Wynne moved their families to Oakley, Mr. Wynne being associated with the Oakley Manufacturing Company. In March 1909, a severe windstorm blew down the passenger depot and thankfully no one was hurt. Also, Charles H. Ross moved his family to Butterworth, Va. and the Randolph Brothers closed down their lumber business near Oakley. By 1910, Oakley began to fade away and the post office was discontinued on February 15, 1910. According to the NC Yearbook business guide, from 1910-1915 Leens is listed with only two stores being operated by H. A. Gray and T. F. Nelson and the sawmill of Z. V. Whitehurst. In Aug. 1917, it was advertised that Eli Rogers and J. R. Jenkins, trading as Eli Rogers & Co. in Oakley had filed for bankruptcy. The population of Oakley in 1940 was listed as 27. As roads got better and more people bought cars, railroad passenger service died out. Railroad stations soon closed and fell into decay and people moved away. The passing of the railroad took something exciting away from the countryside. . -- —Roger Kammerer _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208

I love these stories.  Keep them coming, Roger.  Paula Baker Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina "We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." Thomas Mann ________________________________ From: Roger E. Kammerer <kammerer@hotmail.com> To: PCFR PCFR <nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:20:35 AM Subject: [NC-PCFR] Lost town of Oakley Lost town of Oakley       Oakley, also called “Leens,”was located in Carolina township nearly four miles north of Stokes and was an important lumber shipping point on the Washington Branch Rail Road.  Like several other villages in Pitt County, the depot was called one name and the village that grew up around it was called another. The depot was called  “Leens,” and the village was called Oakley (sometimes corrupted as Coakley).       The story began in 1892, when the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad built and opened a rail line 19.25 miles through Pitt County known as the Washington Branch Road, stretching from Parmele to Washington.  This small community began as a stop on the railroad line named by C. E. Leens, the train engineer.       C. E. Leens (1858-1923) was a native of DeKalb, Illinois born to Swedish immigrants. He began working for the Burlington railroad in Iowa in 1874. He was qualified as an engineer on Oct. 3, 1880 and was the youngest engineer in Iowa, being not quite 21 years old. He continued working for the Burlington Line in Iowa until the Railroad strike of 1888. After the settlement of the strike, Leens came to North Carolina and entered the service of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Leens was assigned to the Washington Branch from its opening until Jan. 1, 1921, when he retired on account of failing health. After he retired, Hardy Duke became engineer on the line. Also assigned to this line was the popular conductor, Capt. W. H. Ellsworth.       Witt H. Ellsworth (1864-1947) was a native of Duplin County, NC and he began working for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in October 1885. He was conductor on the first passenger train that made the Parmele to Washington run in June 1892 and continued until his retirement on July 1, 1935. Stories are told of how Capt. Ellsworth became a part of the lives of the people that lived along the railroad line. Housewives would come down to the depot station and give him lists of things to pick up in Washington or Parmele. When the train was waiting to make its return run Capt. Ellsworth would go shopping for them. A story is told of when Mr. Leens was stricken with heart trouble in 1920 at Pactolus and Capt. Ellsworth placed him in the baggage car and drove the train to Washington to get him home.       Leens began as platform and as a lumber shipping point. On April 23, 1892, a post office was established at Leens called “Oakley” with Willis H. Williams (1846-1904) as first postmaster. The next postmaster, Eli Rogers, was appointed October 4, 1904, who served until it closed in 1910.       In 1893, Thomas Fernando Nelson (1866-1943), an afflicted young man, opened a small general merchandise store at Oakley.  About the same time, another store opened under the style Gray & Rogers, which operated a saloon and general store. In 1895, R. A. Pell & Company moved their store from Parmele to Oakley.       In Jan. 1896, Thomas Fernando Nelson moved into his new store in Oakley and Bryant & Whichard of Parmele moved to Oakley and opened a grocery store and bar.       By Dec. 1900, H. A. Gray and Eli Rogers built a large store building in Oakley and began operating a general merchandise business. In Jan. 1902, Gray & Rogers and Charles H. Ross each opened a saloon and began selling spirituous liquors. By 1901, S. M. Ross operated a cotton gin and lumber mill at Oakley.       On Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11, 1903, the home of Elder Samuel R. Ross, near Oakley, was destroyed by fire. The fire originated from a bad kitchen flue. Only the furniture from the first floor was saved, everything on the second floor was destroyed.       The town of Oakley was incorporated on March 2, 1903. The boundaries given in its charter begin at Willis H. Williams’ and John S. James’ corner, to S. R. Ross’ near the railroad, northeast to Willis H. Williams’, to S. G. Williams’ thence to R. E. Mizell’s house to the beginning. Its first officers were Willis H. Williams, as mayor and Charles Herbert  Ross, W. G. Bryan and Eli Rogers as commissioners. A meeting hall was also built in 1903 known as C. B. H. Hall, where dances and socials were held.       Early school teachers in the Oakley community were Miss Pennie Mizzell, Miss Millie Everett, Miss Dora Everett, Miss Leroy Mooring, Mrs. J. H. Taylor, Miss Mary Whitehurst, and Miss Cora A. Roberson. School houses in the Oakley community included the Piney Green School and the Turner Briley Schoolhouse, located one mile south of Oakley, which was used as the township polling place.       In 1906, Oakley town officers were Charles Herbert Ross, mayor; Eli Rogers, W. G. Bryan, and W. J. Jenkins, commissioners; Zeb Vance Whitehurst, constable; and H. A. Gray, treasurer. Some of the leading citizens of the Oakley community were J. T. Jenkins, J. O. Williams, F. F. Nelson, James J. Rawls, Nichols George Belcher, J. E. Hines, J. B. Whitehurst, Jim Taylor, John Taylor, Simon A. Congleton, J. I. James, and Walter Carson.       Simon A. Congleton operated a general merchandise store in Oakley. In July 1906, Whitehurst & Wynn put new machinery into the Oakley Iron and Milling Company (cotton gin and sawmill). Later the business was called Whitehurst & Ross.       In July 1906, Ben Jenkins associated himself with T. F. Nelson in the market business and by August a city market was completed in Oakley. In Jan. 1907, Messers. Jenkins & Parker opened a barber shop in town. In July 1906, Nash Hardee was named as Chief of Police, but he moved to Winterville in December of that same year. In Dec. 1906, T. A. Manning moved to Oakley. In Oct. 1907, J. I. James was named mayor of Oakley.       In April 1908, John Belcher was appointed mayor of Oakley to fill the unexpired term of J. I. James, who moved into his new house out of town and a crate factory moved to Oakley. The crate factory was known as the Oakley Manufacturing Company, making crates for the potato industry in the area.       In Jan. 1909, Ben Jenkins opened a stock of goods in a store in the building vacated by E. Carson and by February, Eli Rogers & Co. built a warehouse to accommodate their extensive business. In Jan. 1909, C. Roebuck and C. Wynne moved their families to Oakley, Mr. Wynne being associated with the Oakley Manufacturing Company.       In March 1909, a severe windstorm blew down the passenger depot and thankfully no one was hurt. Also, Charles H. Ross moved his family to Butterworth, Va. and the Randolph Brothers closed down their lumber business near Oakley.       By 1910, Oakley began to fade away and the post office was discontinued on February 15, 1910. According to the NC Yearbook business guide, from 1910-1915 Leens is  listed with only two stores being operated by H. A. Gray and T. F. Nelson and the sawmill of Z. V. Whitehurst. In Aug. 1917, it was advertised that Eli Rogers and J. R. Jenkins, trading as Eli Rogers & Co. in Oakley had filed for bankruptcy.       The population of Oakley in 1940 was listed as 27. As roads got better and more people bought cars, railroad passenger service died out. Railroad stations soon closed and fell into decay and people moved away. The passing of the railroad took something exciting away from the countryside. .                                              -- —Roger Kammerer _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208 Pitt County Family Researchers  website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ Message archives address: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Due to the icy weather and possible early closure of Sheppard Library, the January PCFR Meeting has been cancelled. Hope to see you all safe and sound at the February meeting. Roger Kammerer _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_012009

Name Birth Date Birth Location Passport Issue Date Residence Location View Image James B Clark   Pitt County, North Carolina 14 Jul 1860   Clyde Cox 3 Oct 1879 Coxville, Pitt County, North Carolina 12 Apr 1924 Wilson, North Carolina Eulalie Cox 16 Dec 1972 Coxville, Pitt County, North Carolina 12 Apr 1924 Wilson, North Carolina Frank Vines Johnston 23 Jan 1870 Pitt County, North Carolina 22 Apr 1920 Greenville, North Carolina   Charles H Keel 19 Dec 1883 Pitt County, North Carolina 4 Oct 1919 Jamaica, New York   James Madison McGowan 26 Jun 1888 Pitt County, North Carolina 20 Apr 1920 Greenville, North Carolina C D Moore 19 Mar 1876 Pitt County, North Carolina 22 Oct 1920 Jacksonwille, Florida C D Moore 19 Mar 1876 Pitt County, North Carolina 25 Feb 1918 Jacksonville, Florida Clarence Da Tille Moore 19 Mar 1876 Pitt County, North Carolina 10 Apr 1919 Jacksonville, Florida Clerence D Moore 19 Mar 1876 Pitt County, North Carolina 2 Aug 1917 Jacksonville, Florida Victoria Lovenda Pendleton 24 Oct 1837 Pitt County, North Carolina 6 Jul 1889 Warrenton Warren County, North Carolina John C Quinerly 3 Nov 1888 Pitt County, North Carolina 20 Jan 1920 Miami, Florida   Frank E Skinner 18 Jul 1886 Greenville Pitt County, North Carolina 16 Oct 1913 Greenville, North Carolina   R D Tyson 4 Jul 1861 Arear Grcenirll Pitt County, North Carolina 14 Jul 1921 Knoxvill, Tennessee   William F Ward 26 Feb 1878 Bether, Pitt County, North Carolina 20 Nov 1918 Portsmouth, Virginia

My name is Richard Leya and my great great grandfather was Ferdinand Harris. Some number of years ago(about 6-8) I located his grave in a family cemetery located west of Winterville about two miles. Some refer to it as the Shivers family cemetery and I have also heard it refered to as the Harris cemetery. Between the time I first visited the grave and my return last summer someone has placed an additional stone marker indicating that he was a member of the 67NC infantry co I. I already knew this to be a fact but I would like to know who initiated placing the new headstone. It would appear that the stone is a federal stone such as would be installed by the UDC. I assume that there is a possibility that I may have a distant relative that I have never met that may have done this and I would like the opportunity to talk to them and find out if they have any information on Ferdinand that I don’t already know which is just a little that my grandmother told me when I was a child. Any assistance you could give me on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Greatfully, Richard Leya, H L Hundley camp 143, South Carolina Division SCV. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009

March 14-27, 1990 "An Affair of Honor: The Harris-Yellowly Duel" Dueling used to be a popular way to settle disputes. One duel changed the fate of two Pitt County men forever. On October 1, 1847, Henry Ferdinand Harris (b. 1814) dueled against the county legislator and lawyer Edward C. Yellowly. Yellowly apparently made some rather inappropriate comments about Harris after his 1846 election win. A higher official ordered the men to keep peace for one year. They did. However, they met at the Great Dismal Swamp Canal on October 1, 1847. Harris was killed, and Yellowly participated in another duel years later.  Paula Baker Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina "We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." Thomas Mann ________________________________ From: Roger E. Kammerer <kammerer@hotmail.com> To: PCFR PCFR <nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:39:25 PM Subject: [NC-PCFR] Fernando Harris My name is Richard Leya and my great great grandfather was Ferdinand Harris. Some number of years ago(about 6-8) I located his grave in a family cemetery located west of Winterville about two miles. Some refer to it as the Shivers family cemetery and I have also heard it refered to as the Harris cemetery. Between the time I first visited the grave and my return last summer someone has placed an additional stone marker indicating that he was a member of the 67NC infantry co I. I already knew this to be a fact but I would like to know who initiated placing the new headstone. It would appear that the stone is a federal stone such as would be installed by the UDC. I assume that there is a possibility that I may have a distant relative that I have never met that may have done this and I would like the opportunity to talk to them and find out if they have any information on Ferdinand that I don’t already know which is just a little that my grandmother told me when I was a child. Any assistance you could give me on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Greatfully, Richard Leya, H L Hundley camp 143, South Carolina Division SCV. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 Pitt County Family Researchers  website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ Message archives address: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

tysonmayreunion@gmail.com  Try someone from the Tyson-May Reunion.  A Ferdinand Harris is listed in the website.  Paula Baker Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina "We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." Thomas Mann ________________________________ From: Roger E. Kammerer <kammerer@hotmail.com> To: PCFR PCFR <nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:39:25 PM Subject: [NC-PCFR] Fernando Harris My name is Richard Leya and my great great grandfather was Ferdinand Harris. Some number of years ago(about 6-8) I located his grave in a family cemetery located west of Winterville about two miles. Some refer to it as the Shivers family cemetery and I have also heard it refered to as the Harris cemetery. Between the time I first visited the grave and my return last summer someone has placed an additional stone marker indicating that he was a member of the 67NC infantry co I. I already knew this to be a fact but I would like to know who initiated placing the new headstone. It would appear that the stone is a federal stone such as would be installed by the UDC. I assume that there is a possibility that I may have a distant relative that I have never met that may have done this and I would like the opportunity to talk to them and find out if they have any information on Ferdinand that I don’t already know which is just a little that my grandmother told me when I was a child. Any assistance you could give me on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Greatfully, Richard Leya, H L Hundley camp 143, South Carolina Division SCV. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 Pitt County Family Researchers  website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ Message archives address: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sheppard Memorial Library Roger, Some dates for Meeting Room A have already been taken and I've had to put you guys in Room B - tight fit some times, maybe it'll work. Jan 20, Feb 17, April 21, May 19 all in Meeting Room B; rest of the months in Meeting Room A. 6-9pm each time. Dirck So we will try to make it work. Roger _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009

I have a second article that I am typing from the Daily Reflector in Sept 1966 by Mr. John G. Duncan, who was a well known historian. He wrote many articles about history of Pitt County and other counties. Hope to finish this article soon. I forgot to mention that I have pictures taken by me in the 1990s of the house. Very beautiful old plantation home. Bill

I have an article on Bellefont Plantation, which was home of Reading Blount. is a prt of it that mentions the Hodges family, later owners of this property. The whole article is about four pages and describes the house. Appears to be interview with Mrs. P. B. Myers by Hazel Hodges. Np date given. I have typed the full report on this and have it in the computer. Here is some Hodges information William LaFeette Hodges was born March 7, 1856 and died Dec 24, 1943 was the son of John Gray Hodges who came into possesion of Bellefont Mar 23, 1859 John Gray Hodges and Robert T. Hodges were brothers. William Hodges (Capt. Willie) ran a store on the farm and the only means of transportation was either by mule and cart or by water, coming up Tranters Creek. By boat it often took them two days to get home from Washington. The Bellefont Farm joines Latham farm now owned by I. P> Hodges. Pate and Mrs. Lena Hodges are brother and sister. Their father was John Alfred Hodges born Mary5, 1854 and died at Bellefont Jan 2, 1947. Their home was destroyed by fire. Alfred Hodges married Amanda Pate.

Greetings All..... I just happened to notice that today is the 151st anniversary of the Pitt County Courthouse fire which destroyed a large number of records on January 8th, 1858 and subsequently made all of our research a bit more frustrating. :-) Today, we should be thankful for fire prevention, sprinklers and digital media that are able to be backed up with ease. Charles Harrington