ELECTION DAY IN THE EARLY 1940’S
Gardners Township, Wilson County, N.C. This story is from my childhood memories when I was five or six years old. Election Day was...
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Montress Greene
May 254 min read
“MY FIRST CAR WAS A 1912 REO”
“I ordered my first car from Sears & Roebuck.” Tom and Nannie Wiggins had a big gathering of their family, neighbors and church family...
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Montress Greene
Apr 146 min read
Pender's Crossroads Childhood Romance 1881
Thomas Josephus Wiggins and Bettie Pender He was just thirteen years old in the summer of 1881, as he sat outside the small unpainted...
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Montress Greene
Apr 55 min read
TURPENTINE, TIMBER, GOLD & RAILROADS
Pine products from the “Turpentine Woods” were in high demand for everything from sealing leaks in sailing ships, preserving wood, making...
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Montress Greene
Mar 284 min read
"It’s Just Too Windy to Spread Manure"
Curtis got up early on this Thursday morning in March of 1943. He hitched his favorite mule named Emma to the old wagon with rusty wheels...
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Mar 95 min read
Downtown Wilson is “Wide Awake” AGAIN
“Once upon a time – Tobacco was King” Let's take a stroll through downtown Wilson in the 1940’s and 1950’s - here's a glimpse back at a...
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Montress Greene
Jan 155 min read
BEFORE GOOGLE
Lordy, How Did We Make It? The birds are singing this morning and some I recognize and some I don’t. My IPhone has an app called Merlin....
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Montress Greene
Jan 105 min read
HER FRIENDS CALLED HER “PETE”
Maybelle Winborne "Pete" Rickard 1912-2002 A WILSON LEGEND A Talented Wilson Artist Whose Work Is Treasured On a beautiful fall day in...
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Montress Greene
Dec 31, 20238 min read
Wilson and Edgecombe County Legend
General William Dorsey Pender 1834 - 1863 He was affectionately called, “Dorsey” or “Dorse” by family and friends. Penders Crossroads,...
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Montress Greene
Dec 16, 20232 min read
Rag Tag Group
Wilson County – 1939 The woods near the tobacco barns had really tall trees and most of these trees had vines hanging from way up high...
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Montress Greene
Dec 1, 20236 min read
CHRISTMAS TRAIN RIDE - Elm City, Rocky Mount, Tarboro (1881)
Tom’s first train ride Nashville NC Train Statiom . circa 1880's. Just a few...
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Montress Greene
Nov 21, 20234 min read
A THANKSGIVING MEMORY FROM THE CROSSROADS (1941)
It was the week of Thanksgiving There are some things that happen in childhood that are etched in in our minds. This happened 83 years...
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Montress Greene
Nov 11, 20234 min read
A CORNER ROOM AT HOSPITAL (1954 or '55)
Service and company better than a hotel. Woodard Herring Hospital, Wilson, N.C. “Let’s open a window and get rid of some of this cigar...
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Montress Greene
Nov 2, 20238 min read
KERON WILKINS PENDER
(Native of Wilson/Edgecombe County) And The Thomas J. Wiggins and Nannie Forbes Story “I have never been arrested, never been sued, never...
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Montress Greene
Oct 24, 20234 min read
LEGEND OF THE J. J. PENDER GOLD
Pender’s Crossroads Buried Treasure Mystery Wilson County, N. C. It has been told for over 160 years that Joseph John “Jack” Pender had...
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Montress Greene
Oct 7, 20237 min read
Wilson County Medical Legends
Dr. William Beauregard Young III, Wilson, N.C. Dr. Putney and Dr. Goldin in Elm City, N.C. When you walked into the front lobby of the...
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Montress Greene
Sep 5, 20233 min read
“OLD DAVE”
‘A Stock Hog Just doing his job’ Pa (Tom Wiggins) bought a pig at the North Carolina State Fair Livestock Show in the 1920’s. He was a...
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Montress Greene
Aug 28, 20238 min read
ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE: A WILSON LEGEND
(Some Wilson County History) What is special about these two glasses? They were a gift in 1954. - almost 70 years ago. They came from...
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Montress Greene
Aug 25, 20233 min read
SPINNING YARNS
“Skip To The Loo” Over 80 years ago I was lucky enough to spend time with my Granny, Nannie Wiggins. She was an amazing woman. Small and...
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Montress Greene
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Wilson County's Early Inhabitants
(He told his mule to “whoa”). Some of the earliest inhabitants of Wilson County, North Carolina, were the Tuscarora Indians. The...
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