Peter B. Mosley was one of the earliest settlers of the Meridian, Jonesboro area and a large landowner. There is an old Mosley graveyard about a mile and a half west of Meridian Church. One of his descendants and namesake, Peter (Pete)B. Mosley was the Greenfield Night Marshall in the 1930's and 1940's. It was his job to patrol the business district after all of them had closed up for the night and also to assist the Town Marshall, John Holder, during the day if he needed any help. The County Jail was in Dresden but Greenfield had a "Calaboose" which was located on South Second Street just around the corner of "Soup Street." One of the sayings of Marshall Holder was, "I'll put you in thar", meaning you would be locked up in the "Calaboose." Most of the duties of the Town Marshall's in those days was to handle altercations between people and to lock up those that had tipped the bottle a little too much. Occasional break‑ins happened in the business district but burglary of homes was almost unheard of. It was 1960 before I knew what a locked door was. One Saturday "Pete" was attempting to lock up Cecil White and it became a physical "wrestling match." As he was wrestling him to the ground Cecil started biting on Pete's ear and almost chewed it off. Pete carried a badly mangled ear to his grave. In the late 30's or early 40's Pete had a 1932 Chevrolet. This was a big old box type car. Pete called his car "Old Liz." Don Grooms and some other kids decided to play a prank on Pete and they took some fresh "cow manure" and put in the drivers seat. Not realizing it was there Pete sat down in it and when he realized what had happened he remarked, "somebody put "cow MANURE" in Old Liz or the "REAR END" on that cow must have been pretty high."(These are not the actual words he used but you can use your imagination.) There was also a colorful African American man around Greenfield in those days known as Pewter. His real name was Newman Viney (Viny, Vinny, Vinney). There was probably not 10 people that ever knew his real name. Pewter was also probably part Indian. He was a small man and always wore a red bandana around his neck held together with a small cow-horn tip. He also most always wore cowboy boots. Pewter’s common usage of speech was always prefaced with “yes sir Mr.”, or “no sir Mr.” At the intersection of highway 45 and Broad St. which is also highway 54 in Greenfield there is a crossing of the Illinois Central Rail Road tracks. One day Pete was turning on this road and Pewter was riding on the running board of Pete’s car, OLD LIZ. As they approached the rail road tracks Pete asked “is there anything coming Pewter?” Pewter replied “no sir, ain’t nothing comin but a freight train, Mr. Moseley.” Well, Pete proceeded on across the tracks and the freight train caught the rear end of “Old Liz” and spun them around. Neither Pete nor Pewter were hurt but they sure were shook up. Even to this day if you are riding in a car crossing the railroad tracks in Greenfield and the driver asks “is anything coming”, you may get the reply, “ nothing but a freight train Mr. Moseley.” Just a little more of the way it used to be in Greenfield.