I don’t even know what to say about this one.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 10 January 1939.

The story of Stantonsburg’s mastodon (whale? dinosaur?) caromed around the state for a week or so, then faded away. Perhaps a call to the North Carolina State Natural History Museum is in order.

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In 1940, Moses Rountree registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 24 October 1906 in Saratoga, N.C.; lived at 413 Warren Street, Wilson; his contact was wife Mamie Mitchell Rountree; and he worked for the W.P.A.