Lenoir County, NC - Industrial Issue - 1906

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This Industrial Issue of the Kinston Free Press was published in 1906
although there was an earlier Industrial Issue published in 1899. The issue
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                        PINK HILL TOWNSHIP

  Pink Hill and Trent are the only townships in the county that have no Negro 
landowners according to the tax commission for 1905. The number of acres of land 
listed for taxation are 22,521. Of the polls, 158 are white and 56 are colored 
There is much pine timber of value to be found in the township, though a great 
deal has been cut out. There is little or no swamp land. Hay, oats, corn, cotton 
and tobacco are the usual products.

  There are about twenty-nine miles of public roadway in the county. The present 
terminus of the Kinston and Carolina railroad is at Turner Brothers store in this 
township, near Duplin County line. This road was built by the Kinston Lumber 
Company as a log road but the company is now making it a permanent road for 
passenger and freight traffic. It is already doing a fine business of this class 
and the management will soon change the track from narrow to standard guage and 
put down heavy rails. When this is done the people of Pink Hill and other townships 
lying along the line and people further out in Duplin county, will have excellent 
rail connection with Kinston. At present the K. and C. provides a daily service 
between Kinston and Pink Hill.

  The school committee of Pink Hill are JOHN W. WORLEY, R.K. NOBLE and PARKER 
HOWARD. Miss EMMA SCHOLFIELD is the teacher of school No. 1, which has an average 
attendance of 40 pupils. School No. 2, is presided over by Miss HATTIE HARTSFIELD 
assisted by ARBIE SUTTON. The attendance at this school is over 40. Miss Lola 
Worley is the teacher at school No. 3, which has an average attendance of 30. There 
is an average attendance of 25 at school No. 4, which is taught by Miss LAURA ROUSE. 
Miss BESSIE ELMORE teaches school No. 4, and the average attendance is about 15.
  
  RICHARD K. NOBLE, one of the leading citizens of Pink Hill Township, was born in 
the township November 28, 1853. His parents were RICHARD and CATHERINE NOBLE, his 
father being deputy, under Sheriff Fields. He has served his community as Justice 
of the peace and school committeeman. He has been a member of the county board of 
education, and was a county commissioner along with S. H. ROUNTREE, E. D. BROOKS, 
REV. C. W. HOWARD, S. H. ABBOTT, A. T. DAWSON and R. J. NOBLE.

  Mr. NOBLE is a large land owner and one of the largest farmers of his township. 
He owns 1,400 acres of land and cultivates 250 acres. Besides he owns and operate 
a cotton gin of a capacity of 12 bales a day. He married Miss ZOBEDIA, daughter of  
LENDS and NANCY DAVIS, of Pink Hill township. Their children are VERDIE, GARLAND, 
REXFORD, VERA, VIERNA and Vendetta.

                        W. W. DENNY

  The oldest citizen of Pink Hill township and a man respected by all, is DR. 
WILLIAM W. DENNY. He was born at Dennysville, Guilford County, August 7, 1833. 
His parents were ELIJAH and ELIZABETH DENNY.

  His early education was received in the schools of Guilford. He studied medicine 
under Dr. JOSEPH McLEAN, of that county and later at the South Carolina Medical 
College, of Charleston, graduating from that institution in 1857. He went to Pink 
Hill township in 1859 and has practiced for the last forty years in Lenoir, Jones, 
Duplin and Onslow counties.

  Dr. DENNY married Miss SARAH TAYLOR. There is one child, Mrs. Katie Tyndal, wife 
of LOUIS P. TYNDAL, of Pink Hill township.
  
  ELKANAH DAVIS was born in Pink Hill township, at the old DAVIS homestead, December 
20, 1857. His parents were SENERSE and NANCY DAVIS. His father was captain in the 
forty-fifth North Carolina volunteers, during the Civil War.

  Mr. DAVIS attended the neighborhood schools and has been a farmer all his life. 
He owns 436 acres of choice farm land, with about 125 acres under cultivation. He 
raises fine crops of cotton, corn, tobacco and home supplies.

  Mr. DAVIS married Miss LAURA, daughter of W. A. and CARRIE JONES. The children are 
THURMAN, CARRIE, NORA, MABEL and RUDOLPH. THURMAN is one of the proprietors of the 
Neuse Hotel at Kinston, Miss CARRIE teaches in Jones County, Miss NORA attends at 
the Winterville High School and the others are at home.
  
        General Merchandise Store of TURNER Brothers, Pink Hill, N. C.

  This store is owned by T. A. and H. R. TURNER. It is located at the terminus of 
the Kinston and Carolina railroad. TURNER Brothers carry a line of dry goods, shoes, 
clothing, groceries, proprietary medicines and drugs. They sell fertilizers and 
various kinds of farm implements.    

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