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From: Laura Lee Scott <>
Subject: Re: [USGenWeb-SE] [NCGENWEB] Thanks for continued support (fwd)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:10:40 -0500


Let's hope those valuable records have been microfilmed by
the LDS
Family History Library!!!

"David W. Morgan" wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:38:11 PDT
> From: Elizabeth Ross <>

> River's width at Greenville is ordinarily measured in yards, not miles. Even
> .1 of an inch at the point of measurement translates into unfathomable tons
> of water spreading across the plains. I can report that the Pitt and
> Beaufort court houses are high and dry, altho the Pitt deeds are stored at
> basement level, and may have suffered some underground seepage. Don't panic,
> I don't know that for sure! Cross your fingers, because the deeds are the
> only records we have prior to the 1858 fire. I think the Lenoir courthouse
> is okay, too, but Edgecombe's is in the flooded Tarboro downtown. No word
> yet on the state of the records. No pictures are available to me yet in
> Martin or Bertie or Greene or Wayne or Duplin. These have the hardest hit
> county seats. The cost in lives, human and animal, and to the economy cannot
> yet be measured, and will not ease up for decades.
>
> Please keep the millions of real victims in your thoughts and purses. They
> are fighting valiantly!
>
> Betsy Ross
> Greenville, NC
>
> CC for Chowan, Gates, and Martin NCGenWeb, and PCFR Pitt County
>
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