Pitt County, NC: Repost 2011
Around the turn of the century Pitt County was
very poor while Edgecombe was prosperous with Tarboro having a much
larger population than Rocky Mount.
The population part has now been reversed. As such, the women in
Edgecombe only had to attend to household endeavors while the men were
farmers. My Cousin Bill Bass tells a story of his grandfather being
driven from Tarboro to Rocky Mount
in his horse and buggy accompanied by Bob, a black servant. At any
rate, after they had pranced along for awhile Bob said to Mr. Bass,
"we're in Pitt County now" to which Mr. Bass replied "How do you know
that, Bob?"which was answered with "there's a woman plowing over there!
I grew up on the Pitt Co end of Conetoe creek and, yeah, our women know what work looks like :-P
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DeleteMust have made a wrong turn in Albequerque to go through Pitt County to get to Rocky Mount. Back in the early 90s did lost of work for the now defunct Comer Oil Company among others.
ReplyDeleteSame names in NM I assume?
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