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by Bruce Osburn
Tue July 30, 2013, 10:08 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: MAN SHOT DEAD AT MOONSHINE STILL, HAMLET... 1915
Replies: 0
Views: 2517

MAN SHOT DEAD AT MOONSHINE STILL, HAMLET... 1915

FROM: THE ANDERSON DAILY INTELLIGENCER, Anderson, S.C., Feb. 28, 1915. ONE MAN SHOT and KILLED in RAID on MOONSHINE STILL on STATE LINE. (By Associated Press.) HAMLET, N.C., Feb. 27. — A coroner's jury today exonerated Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Richmond county, North Carolina, and a posse composed of...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue July 30, 2013, 9:51 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: FIRE IN COTTON COMPRESS, HAMLET,...1902
Replies: 1
Views: 3203

FIRE IN COTTON COMPRESS, HAMLET,...1902

FROM: THE WATCHMAN and SOUTHRON, Sumter, S.C., Oct. 22, 1902. Charlotte, N.C., Oct. 19. — A special to The Observer from Hamlet, N.C., says: Fire, which broke out at the cotton compress here about noon, destroyed property valued at $225,000 and caused the death of J.M. Wilson, of Clarksville, Ga., b...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue July 30, 2013, 7:45 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DINES AT HAMLET HOTEL...1903
Replies: 0
Views: 2262

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DINES AT HAMLET HOTEL...1903

FROM: KEOWEE COURIER, Pickens Court House, S.C., Sept. 2, 1903 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, ET. AL. DINE LIKE WHITE FOLKS at HAMLET, N.C. — VIGOROUS PROTESTS MADE. Charlotte, N.C., August 24. — There was much discussion in Charlotte to-day, especially among traveling men, over the fact that Booker T. Washi...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue July 30, 2013, 12:12 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: E.A. LACKEY ADVERTISEMENT... NOV. 20, 1901
Replies: 2
Views: 3717

Re: E.A. LACKEY ADVERTISEMENT... NOV. 20, 1901

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by Bruce Osburn
Tue July 30, 2013, 12:51 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: E.A. LACKEY ADVERTISEMENT... NOV. 20, 1901
Replies: 2
Views: 3717

E.A. LACKEY ADVERTISEMENT... NOV. 20, 1901

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by Bruce Osburn
Sat July 6, 2013, 4:33 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: ANOTHER S.A.L. WRECK AT HAMLET...1901
Replies: 0
Views: 6313

ANOTHER S.A.L. WRECK AT HAMLET...1901

FROM: THE TIMES, Richmond Va., June 18, 1901. PASSENGER TRAIN DITCHED NEAR HAMLET. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. CARS ROLLED DOWN EMBANKMENT AND UPSET IN A POND. RALEIGH, N.C., June 17. — Particulars were received here this morning of a right serious wreck which occurred about 12:30 o'clock this morning ...
by Bruce Osburn
Thu July 4, 2013, 8:45 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: TRAIN WRECK AT PEMBROKE, N.C. ...1914.
Replies: 0
Views: 3740

TRAIN WRECK AT PEMBROKE, N.C. ...1914.

SOURCE: THE WATCHMAN AND SOUTHRON, Sumter, S.C., February 4, 1914. Charlotte, N.C., Jan. 30. — Several people were more or less seriously injured when Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 14, from Wilmington to Charlotte, collided with Atlantic Coast Line local passenger train No. 79, running from ...
by Bruce Osburn
Thu July 4, 2013, 8:02 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: TRAIN WRECK AT HAMLET... 20 PEOPLE KILLED, 1906
Replies: 0
Views: 3633

TRAIN WRECK AT HAMLET... 20 PEOPLE KILLED, 1906

FROM: KEOWEE COURIER, Pickens Court House, S.C., July 25, 1906 TWENTY KILLED IN WRECK. Charlotte, July 22. — Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 44 collided with an extra freight train one mile west of Hamlet to-day, and from 18 to 25 people are reported to have met death. The wreck occurred at 7:...
by Bruce Osburn
Wed July 3, 2013, 9:18 am
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: BOILER EXPLODES IN SEABOARD SHOPS; HAMLET... 1912
Replies: 1
Views: 5154

BOILER EXPLODES IN SEABOARD SHOPS; HAMLET... 1912

News item taken from the KEOWEE COURIER, Pickens Court House, S.C. January 1, 1913. BOILER BURSTS; NINE KILLED. FEARFUL DISASTER IN SEABOARD AIR LINE SHOPS IN HAMLET, N.C. Hamlet, N.C., Dec. 28. — Nine men, three white and six negroes, were killed here to-day when a stationary boiler at the Seaboard...
by Bruce Osburn
Thu June 20, 2013, 7:13 pm
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
Replies: 2
Views: 5318

Re: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".

Thanks, Jody, for that bit of info because I was way off in what I thought was the reason for including "air line" in a railroad company name. Being just a little mechanically inclined, I thought the term referred to the braking system. Something like more dependable air brakes as opposed ...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue June 18, 2013, 3:18 pm
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
Replies: 2
Views: 5318

SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".

While I was searching old newspaper files I came across this item in a March 1888 Kansas publication: The Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railroad is completed. There is now an air line from Denver to Fort Worth and thence to the Gulf of Mexico . I know that the SAL touted itself as an "air line...
by Bruce Osburn
Sat June 8, 2013, 9:35 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: State Magazine 1953
Replies: 4
Views: 5300

Interesting stuff. I hope this isn't a reflection on my school days, but I learned more about Richmond County from this one short article than I did in all the
years I attended school in Hamlet. And an unemployment rate of just
2.6 percent boggles the mind.
by Bruce Osburn
Fri May 10, 2013, 9:00 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: McEachern Murders
Replies: 12
Views: 18552

Was anyone ever charged and prosecuted for these murders? What was the final outcome?
by Bruce Osburn
Wed January 30, 2013, 3:13 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Just Curious:
Replies: 13
Views: 17273

@Terry, I don't know how far afield ypu want to go with the Leviners but you can find Whiteford Leviner's parents and other ancestors here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leviner/Descendants%20of%20John%20Leviner%20of%201792.html The Freeman-Leviner cemetery mentioned by Lynn is l...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue January 29, 2013, 12:59 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Just Curious:
Replies: 13
Views: 17273

Terry,
What is your wife's aunt's name and dates of birth and death?
by Bruce Osburn
Mon January 21, 2013, 1:01 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Hamlet - five SAL lines?
Replies: 7
Views: 11007

If I remember correctly, there was a line that branched off the east-west line about a half mile east of NC#38 and then bent in a southerly direction and ran parallel to NC 381, all the way to Gibson, N.C., continuing into S.C. and down to the coast somewhere.
by Bruce Osburn
Mon December 17, 2012, 9:37 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: Train Pictures
Replies: 15
Views: 21520

Bruce B.
What duties did a fireman perform on the run from Hamlet to Raleigh to Columbia and back to Hamlet?
by Bruce Osburn
Thu December 13, 2012, 10:21 am
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
Replies: 18
Views: 23471

Aaah, those ol' sloughed off brain cells do make us forget. My memory of the two Lynn wrote about is that he was in line to be king and she was a divorcee by the name of Wallis Warfield Simpson. The part of being divorced put the kibosh on Edward taking the throne. (I didn't google this, just took i...
by Bruce Osburn
Sun November 11, 2012, 11:34 pm
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: Who was he?
Replies: 10
Views: 14104

Bruce Hardin, a school bus-mate for five years. I undrstand he went on to be quite involved with sports.
by Bruce Osburn
Sat November 10, 2012, 11:57 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Rex Howell 1949
Replies: 9
Views: 10997

Maybe David holds the answer to the rest of this story. So how about it, David, do you have a newspaper clipping describing the incident? If David doesn't have the complete item, Im sure it can be found on microfilm at the local library. I know the film is there because I searched old Hamlet newspap...
by Bruce Osburn
Mon October 29, 2012, 10:51 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Rex Howell 1949
Replies: 9
Views: 10997

I suppose there will always be more than one account given for any one incident. I don't recall James Diggs as being from Hamlet but instead he was passing through the area while fleeing from farther north. I recall rumors that he had just recently killed members of his own family — wife and others ...
by Bruce Osburn
Thu October 25, 2012, 10:58 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Rex Howell 1949
Replies: 9
Views: 10997

I remember this incident and it was the topic of conversation for many weeks. Word around town was the bullet was in such a location that surgery was considered to be too dangerous. A few days later the bullet fell out. James Diggs managed to elude the manhunt. But, about 20 or 30 years ago, while r...
by Bruce Osburn
Sat June 23, 2012, 6:10 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Can you help identify?
Replies: 11
Views: 16751

I'll probably be 180 degrees off in my analysis but I'm going to take a stab anyway. The narrow belt on the fellow with a bow tie, plus slacks with cuffs, and the calf-length dresses of the girls in the first photo dates this to about the middle 1950s. It appears that both photos were made in the sa...
by Bruce Osburn
Sat May 26, 2012, 1:16 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Retouched photo
Replies: 22
Views: 23410

Jody cleared up some of my confusion. What had me confused more than anything else about the picture was the terminal building. The building seems to be missing the "witch's cap" (at #2). So the orange line represents modern-day Raleigh street. But it looks more like a wagon trail than an ...
by Bruce Osburn
Fri May 25, 2012, 9:46 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Retouched photo
Replies: 22
Views: 23410

I've seen this photo a few times and always come away a little confused. Could someone get me properly oriented with this shot? Where are north and south? Is the engine (seen at the left side) coming off the north-south main line and heading west toward Rockingham? If that's the case then the termin...
by Bruce Osburn
Wed April 25, 2012, 10:39 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
Replies: 17
Views: 23789

This is great! Ask one little question and get a history lesson. If only my history classes had been so interesting. According to the Richmond County GenWeb web site, the King Freeman cemetery and the Freeman-Leviner cemetery are two and distinctly separate cemeteries. FindAGrave web site for King F...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue April 24, 2012, 6:04 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
Replies: 17
Views: 23789

I did a bit more searching and found that the cemetery I asked about is identified on the Richmond County GenWeb site as the King Freeman Cemetery. So I guess the person who made the first contribution to FindAGrave in March 2011 for interments in the Freeman Cemetery— and probably the one who ident...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue April 24, 2012, 12:00 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
Replies: 17
Views: 23789

Wayne, Thanks for the info. I checked FindAGrave and it is identified as Freeman Family cemetery. I used to go there and read the marker inscriptions when I was a kid, way back in the early 1950s, and was just curious if anyone had entered the names into FindAGrave website. Someone had and I was sur...
by Bruce Osburn
Mon April 23, 2012, 9:16 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
Replies: 17
Views: 23789

Tell me the name of this cemetery

There is an old cemetery on Gin Mill Road, about two miles south of Hamlet, in the southeast quadrant of the intersection where Gin Mill Road and Freeman Mill Road cross. What is the cemetery's name?
by Bruce Osburn
Wed February 29, 2012, 1:26 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Photos from Bruce Sellars
Replies: 2
Views: 4672

The things that caught my attention in the first photo were not the beautiful prom dresses the girls were wearing, but rather their lips. It must have taken an hour or two to get that much lipstick painted on.
by Bruce Osburn
Sat February 18, 2012, 10:57 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Main St 1962
Replies: 20
Views: 20695

It appears that there were about 15 to 20 cars on Main Street at the time the photos were made, which clearly shows that Hamlet was once a vibrant little town. And the more so when the time of day is considered. The long shadow extending onto the north side of the street suggests that this photo was...
by Bruce Osburn
Thu February 16, 2012, 4:56 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Main St 1962
Replies: 20
Views: 20695

The photographer must have just missed me because I remember standing there in front of the nurse's quarter's sometime in the fall of 1962 talking to one of the Rogers girls (Lois or Peggy) who was sitting on that great big ol' porch. But I can't remember the buildings looking that dingy.
by Bruce Osburn
Fri December 30, 2011, 6:20 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Boyd's Lake
Replies: 18
Views: 24780

The first photo is the way I remember the diving platform, sitting on pilings, way back in 1950-1953. And the girl standing, facing, suggests this photo may have been made during that time period. Her swim suit has a skirt, which was normal back then.
by Bruce Osburn
Tue November 15, 2011, 8:58 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Red & White 1963
Replies: 16
Views: 16981

The shops were still standing as late as 2000 when I wrote my memories of Lackey Street. Liles' grocery was demolished a few years after I made the photo. This paragraph was extracted from my tale of "Lackey Street." The Lackey St. of my childhood has vanished. What once were several block...
by Bruce Osburn
Tue November 15, 2011, 1:12 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Red & White 1963
Replies: 16
Views: 16981

If my memory serves me right, Liles' north side property line was also the south side property line of the parking lot at Red and White.

This photo was made standing in the middle of Lackey Street.

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by Bruce Osburn
Wed September 14, 2011, 9:41 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Sanitary Laundry
Replies: 7
Views: 8587

I remember Sanitary Laundry, that is, if it was the one on Vance Street, just a hop, skip and jump to the east of Pansy Fetner School. Although I doubt my family ever used the laundry's washing services since we had a washer and clothesline, the chances are good that we had dry cleaning done there. ...
by Bruce Osburn
Sat September 10, 2011, 10:20 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Coca-Cola
Replies: 14
Views: 16661

Way back in 1948 the Coke bottling plant was on US #74 east of town, just a couple hundred feet or so from the junction of N.C. #381. A little bit of searching on Google maps will show the building still there, although I don't remember the two wings being on the building. My memory only conjures up...
by Bruce Osburn
Sun August 7, 2011, 8:08 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember Mangum Coal & Oil
Replies: 4
Views: 6061

I remember an oil and coal company on/near Raleigh Street way back in 1948-1953. The coal storage pile (at least one of them) was on the east side of Raleigh Street, right where the curving track linking the south bound main line connected with the west bound track. If that was Mangum Co., then I re...
by Bruce Osburn
Sat August 6, 2011, 7:39 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Buttercup Ice Cream
Replies: 17
Views: 79092

Hey, I remember Buttercup well. Had some kinfolk who worked there in the late 40s and into the 50s. I remember seeing a Buttercup sign several years ago, a lighted plastic one about 3 feet in length. It was hanging at an abandoned gas station on route 38, smack dab in the middle of Blenheim, a few m...
by Bruce Osburn
Sat July 16, 2011, 7:35 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Gin & Supply
Replies: 10
Views: 12186

Lynn, Ellerbe Grove Church Road lies to the west of N.C. 177. It begins at Lock Haven Road and runs south. After a couple of name changes it eventually reaches U.S. 1 at Everetts Mill pond. I never knew the name of the road until I posted a reply to this string. But I had traveled it many times goin...
by Bruce Osburn
Thu July 14, 2011, 10:05 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Gin & Supply
Replies: 10
Views: 12186

Lynn, You know what? I probably ate some of those peaches your kinfolk raised there in the sandhills. Well, maybe not, but I remember my aunts preserving several bushels at a time. That was way back in the early 50s and I remember them saying that they were $2-a-bushel culls from the packing houses....
by Bruce Osburn
Wed May 25, 2011, 10:53 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Frank Wetzel
Replies: 6
Views: 9275

I don't remember these murders since my family had moved from Hamlet four years before they happened. But I do remember another shooting that happened in the early 1950s, probably around 1951 or 1952. That was the day city policeman Rex Howell was shot point-blank in the mouth by a fugitive from up ...
by Bruce Osburn
Sun January 16, 2011, 9:06 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: My Book Report by Jody Meacham
Replies: 2
Views: 4886

Jody,
I read in another posting that you left a couple copies of your book at the library, and I hope you also left some at the Depot. I talked to my brother in Bennettsville a few days ago and told him to pick me up a copy.