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A cook for the Mattamuskeet dredge crews One day while taking my son to baseball practice, my husband bought a newspaper. After skimming through the paper, David jokingly said, “There is a picture of your grandmother in The Beaufort-Hyde.” The pictured titled “Looking Back” was from 1926 and showed a man, Mr. Earl Pugh, and to my surprise a lady named Nora Daniel. After showing the picture to my family and comparing it to other pictures of my grandmother, we decided it had to be her. When I tried to get in contact with Mr. Pugh, I discovered that he, like my grandmother, had died a few years earlier. I did talk to his son, Mr. Earl Pugh Jr., who told me his father had always kept the picture on his TV as long as he could remember. He also told me my great-grandmother used to cook for the crews that dredged the canals around Lake Mattamuskeet. He sent me a copy of the original photograph and some pictures of the dredges that my great-grandmother worked on. Even though it raised a million other questions, I felt my grandmother had shared a story with me that we had not heard before. Nora Diane
Davis, Pantego |
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