Maiden Name:   Craddock
    Spouse Name:   Roy Lincoln
    Children:   3
    Grandchildren: 2
    Profession:   Retail Manager
      Marital Status:   Married :-)

Dates You Lived There:   1958-1976

Hobbies: Reading, Writing, playing with my 2 labs (Sampson & Sambo), and traveling with my husband.

What Is/Was the Best Thing About Living in Area:   It was a quiet place where you never had to worry about crime at the time I was browing up there.   Loved to walk through the country there.

What Is/Was the Worst Thing About Living in Area:   As I've grown into adulthood and look back, it really was not that bad a place to live.   It just seemed to be so secluded.

Any Words of Wisdom to Share: Enjoy where-ever you live, big or small community.   Life is too short lived to not enjoy where you may be.   Just thank God that you're alive and enjoy life as best as possible.

I received the following letter thought perhaps everyone would like to read it.

My name is Elsie Sexton Richardson and I now live in Longwood, Florida. My Dad was from Roper and I spent a lot of time visiting there when I was younger. His name was Paul Sexton. His parents were Joseph Edgar and Viola Sexton. I had relatives all over that area. The ones I seem to remember in Pea Ridge were Hattie and Joe Wynn, and they had lots of kids. Hattie was my Dad's half sister. I visited Pea Ridge this past Thanksgiving and did some family research. I visited one of Aunt Hattie's daughters, Viola Harrell. I think she lived on Barber Road. Does any of this sound familiar? The Wynn's lived close to the Sound.

I would really like to hear from you. I really enjoyed visiting there. We lived in Norfolk County, VA, at that time.

Elsie
Email:   JRichar385@aol.com 

Name: Treasure

Maiden Name: Jordan

Email: Dskmbbl8td@aol.com

City: Denver
State: CO

Children: 5
Grandchildren: 2

Profession: diversity trainer

Marital Status: married

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: I am looking for Thomas W. Sawyer, Tall, slim, fairskinned, redheaded fellow who came from Pea Ridge.   Served in US Army for awhile in 1956 in Germany.   If anyone reading this remembers him, please email me.

Name: Mike Davenport

Email: mixster7@hotmail.com

City: Radford
State: va

Spouse Name: Jeannie
Children: 4
Grandchildren: 0

Profession: water plant operator

Marital Status: married

Dates You Lived /Visited There:   1948 - 1963

Hobbies: birdwatching, civil war, history.

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why: no doubt about it. Whitford Swain. He was the funniest, tale teller i have ever seen or heard. He was a icon in my family, and i still laugh today when i think about him.

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: Most of my fondest childhood memories are from Pea Ridge, soundside, Creswell and Lake Phelps. I remember staying at uncle Barbers on the farm. I remember playing in the sound, on the old boat dock at the Barbers. That area in carolina has always been a mystical place to me, and when i get ready to cross the bridge into washington co, i still get butterflys. I love it there, its my ancestrial home and alwasy will be.

Any Fun Stores About Area to Share: I remember going on a trip with the church to soundside, and my uncle Jesse from Creswell told us kids that if we drowned, we would be spanked. Ill always remember that.

I remember my older brothers ,when we visited Barbers place, would steal a melon or two, and put them into the sound to cool. What a feast we had. I dont know if Uncle Barber ever missed them or not.

What Is/Was the Best Thing About Living in Area: The beautiful countyside, Pettigrew state park. Somerset place, The sound, and good ole flat land.

What Is/Was the Worst Thing About Living in Area: To far from Norfolk, va where i lived and could not visit as often as i would have liked as a kid.

Any Words of Wisdom to Share: treasure your memories, because the past is in the mind.

Name: Mike Davenport

Email: mixster7@hotmail.com

City: Radford
State: va

Spouse Name: Jeannie
Children: 4
Grandchildren: 0

Profession: water plant operator

Marital Status: married

Dates You Lived /Visited There:   1948 - 1963

Hobbies: birdwatching, civil war, history.

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why: no doubt about it. Whitford Swain. He was the funniest, tale teller i have ever seen or heard. He was a icon in my family, and i still laugh today when i think about him.

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: Most of my fondest childhood memories are from Pea Ridge, soundside, Creswell and Lake Phelps. I remember staying at uncle Barbers on the farm. I remember playing in the sound, on the old boat dock at the Barbers. That area in carolina has always been a mystical place to me, and when i get ready to cross the bridge into washington co, i still get butterflys. I love it there, its my ancestrial home and alwasy will be.

Any Fun Stores About Area to Share: I remember going on a trip with the church to soundside, and my uncle Jesse from Creswell told us kids that if we drowned, we would be spanked. I'll always remember that.

I remember my older brothers ,when we visited Barbers place, would steal a melon or two, and put them into the sound to cool. What a feast we had. I dont know if Uncle Barber ever missed them or not.

What Is/Was the Best Thing About Living in Area: The beautiful countyside, Pettigrew state park. Somerset place, The sound, and good ole flat land.

What Is/Was the Worst Thing About Living in Area: To far from Norfolk, va where i lived and could not visit as often as i would have liked as a kid.

Any Words of Wisdom to Share: treasure your memories, because the past is in the mind.

Name: willie r. walker

Email: wwalker@phoenix.liunet.edu

City: new york city, n.y.

Dates You Lived There: left 1957

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why: lived in roper, but remember the spot light club on 64 hwy.

remember joe camp from pea ridge. his father owned the little club down from the spot light.

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: had a ruputation for serious shootings, and cutting on saturdays and sundays. (smile)

Any Words of Wisdom to Share: keep the faith

News on the Tyson Family from Pea Ridge

I  received an email from Tina Tyson, daughter of   Buddy & Patricia Spruill Tyson, with some
information about what her family has been doing.  

Tysons, Buddy's Family

• Barry &   Wanda Tyson live on Pea Ridge and have recently renovated Wanda's old family home next to Piney Grove Church.   Barry is an executive with Bay Mechanical and commutes to Norfolk, VA or wherever else he is managing projects.
• Ervin Tyson is an executive with Hammer Neckwear in New York City.
• Barbara Jean Tyson is a postmaster in the Outer Banks area.
• Owen Tyson passed away on December 17, 1986.
• Tina Tyson, Buddy & Patricia's daughter , is an attorney with Bryan Cave LLP Law Firm  in the Washington, D.C. area.   She graduated from Virginia Wesleyan College, with a  B.A. in Political Science/French, in 1993, magna cum laude, with honors. Then on to University of Virginia for her J.D., 1996. I am sure they are very proud of her.   There is a link to her page on the Creswell page,
  http://www.vergie.com/creswell.htmll on her mother's (Patricia Spruill) page.

Spruills, Patricia's Family

• Frank & Diane Spruill Twiddy have moved from Virginia Beach to the Pea Ridge area.   Frank has retired from Virginia Power.   Their daughter, Cindy Twiddy Small, is a real estate broker in Edenton, NC.   Their son Benji lives in SC.
• Brenda Spruill Williams is the regional Farm Bureau Insurance agent in Northeastern North Carolina.
• Jay Spruill is President of C.W. Wright Construction Co., headquarted in the Richmond, VA area.   His company's web page is http://www.cwwright.com/index.htmll.
• Jeff, Kathy and Ken all  still live in the Pea Ridge area.

Name: Hilarie Amanda Barber

Email: hbarber@mindspring.com

Street Address: PO Box 815
City: Carthage
State: NC
Zip Code: 28327

Home Phone: (910)947-1081

Profession: Horticulturalist

Marital Status: Single

Dates You Lived There: Lived in Holly Neck 1976-1994

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why: Well, I must say that the most interesting person I knew from there was my great-grandmother (Nana), Mrs. Virginia Barber. She was a wonderful person. Openly caring and accepting of all, deeply spiritual, and had the prettiest old timey petunias I've ever seen. She had plenty of 'partners in crime' (Ha! Ha!) that also hold special places in my heart.

Name: June Spruill Robinson

Email: june26@npwt.net

Street Address: 503 South Clinton Street
City: Litchfield
State: IL
Zip Code: 62056

Home Phone: 217-324-6460
Fax: 217-324-7795

Spouse Name: Robbie
Children: Debra & Penny
Grandchildren: Felicia

Profession: Home Interiors & Gifts

Marital Status: yes

Dates You Lived There: June 26th 1944-1957

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why: My Mom & Dad Minnie & Bill Spruill Lived on Spruill Road. This is where they al ways called home.They moved to Virginia, but could not take being away from home to long. they
would always move back. One day I hope to return.

Any Good Country Recipes to Share: I would like to get a good pork barbecue recipe, In Illinois they do not know how to make barbecue. Can someone please help me.

Email: nlayers@home.com

Street Address: 205 Marsh Wren Ct.
City: Chesapeake
State: Virginia
Zip Code: 23322-8311

Home Phone: 757-436-4576

Profession: Computer Specialist U. S. Navy Civilian

Marital Status: Divorced

Dates You Lived There: 1952-1970

Hobbies: Painting, writing poetry, reading non-stop, anything about computers.

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why: Gloria Norman was my very closest friend all through high school at Creswell. We shared secrets, clothes and many nights in sleep overs at her house, because her mom wouldn't let her stray from home. I can still see her laughing and singing with me and can feel her connection to my life on Pea Ridge. I had a car, so I would drive us to school and school dances, the Hootin Nanny Club (sp., please it's been a long time) functions. I loved her like a sister. Her brothers were like my own. The last time I saw Gloria I was standing at the end of the drive next to the road and my Aunt Etta Ayers' house when she pulled into the drive with 3 small boys sometime around 1983-1984. I've lost touch with her and would like to see her or hear from her again to share our present lives and histories.

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: I moved into my grandmother's home in 1967 with my father Ernest L. Ayers, after my parents were divorced in 1964. But, all my childhood life I can remember being there for the whole summmers. I remember fishing nets on the Albemarle Sound with my uncles and building bonfires on the beach after to fry fish. The Tysons, my counsin Wanda Ayers Tyson, and all my family eating in the dark by the fire. I loved to go fishing with my uncles, Warren Edison Ayers and Philip Earl Ayers Sr., more than life.

Chats on the front porch in the cool of the summer nights, because it was too hot in the house. I often sleft on the porch all night. We shelled beans and snapped peas in the early evenings and the adults would talk while the children played, giggled and slept.

We had no indoor plumbing except a pump in the kithen, that never stayed primed. A bathroom was installed on the front porch in 1964 by my Uncles, Philip and Warren.

We, meaning all local kids, would swim all day at Erie Spruill's or Mr. and Mrs. Holiday's pier, on the sound and run through that hot sand all the way home, and sometimes cut through cornfields to be home by 5:30 p.m. our curfew. We lived next door to Piney Grove Church,our front yard so it was quite a ways home.

Janet (my sister) and I would tote watermelons until we dropped in the evenings, yellow flies eating our legs and crying/whining the whole time.

There is just so much to share. I could never experience it all here on this page.

Any Fun Stores About Area to Share: I daily looked forward to go to Ms. Ima Goodman's store for candy and pop if I could catch a ride in a car going that way.

Otherwise, Janet (my sister) and I would walk the mile or so to Spruill's store in the other direction. But, candy and pop were essential items. Penny candy (3 for a penny) and a nickel pop. Lord knows where the money came from. We were children and didn't even care.

Any Good Country Recipes to Share: Don't cook, don't want to cook. I made this clear in the beginning of my new relationship. If we eat, he cooks. I LOVE to eat though. None of that fat, bacon, stuff, though. Can't stand it. I've learned a better lifestyle.

What Is/Was the Worst Thing About Living in Area: Yellow flies. Other, I wish not to share.

Any Words of Wisdom to Share: Life is a dream, stay in it.

Name: William A. Sellers, Jr.

Email: was2nd@home.com

Street Address: 955 Sunset Blvd., N.W.
City: Gainesville,
State: Georgia
Zip Code: 30501-2733

Home Phone: (770) 532-8000

Spouse Name: Miriam

Children: 2

Profession: Retired-Railroad
Marital Status: Married

Dates You Lived There: Only Had Prolonged Visits.

Hobbies: Corresponding with natives of the
Albemarle-Pamlico region. History
and Genealogy of Eastern Carolina,
especially the history of the original
Norfolk Southern Railroad and it's
Marine operations.

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why:
I suppose my most interesting person of the area is my
grandfather Dave Arnold (1870-
1970). Mr. Arnold was a native of
the Cherry community located
in Washington County. He was
a minister for the Church Of
Christ (DOC) and preached many
a sermon in that area at such
locations as Zion's Chapel,
Scuppernong, and Holly Neck.

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: I remember spending
a part of one Summer with Raymond and Lilly
Davenport who had a farm on Pea
Ridge during the Depression 30's.
I remember driving a mule and wagon
with loads of green tomatoes to a
packing station at the railroad
depot in Roper, where they were
shipped out in railroad cars. I
also remember attending home-coming
services at Scuppernong Church, and
seeing that mountain of food spread
on tables under the shade trees. We
stayed with John and Virginia Spruill
who lived just North of the church
in the fork of the road. They had
a daughter named Minnie. Those
good people were the salt of the
earth. My only regret is that I am
no longer able to go back on visits
to " God's Chosen Country" .

Name: christopher spruill

Email: ghettofrog@hotmail.com

City: dallas
State: tx
Zip Code: 75204

Dates You Lived There: summers as a kid

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share: my grandma
still lives in pea ridge i was almost baptized in the sound behind Soundview. i spent weeks in the summer at my grandparents home.. most of my aunts and uncles still live around creswell.

Any Fun Stores About Area to Share: i remember using my granddads garden tractor to steal watermelons from down the lane. my cousins and i thought we were sly but grandma always knew we'd been up to no good.   i have many fond childhood memories of grandma's in the summer.

Name: Charlene Sylvester

Email: seper@compueasy.com

Street Address: Bluefish Court
City: Grandy
State: NC
Zip Code: 27939

Home Phone: 252-453-8798

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share:
I am looking for Viola Harrell, married to Jake Harrell who lived on Ardmore Street in (Old) South Norfolk, Virginia. Moved 10 or 11 years ago to somewhere in North Carolina. Believe it to be Pea Ridge, NC. Viola would be approximately 65 years old. Has a brother named John Wynn. Had a grown dauther who died of rheumatic fever about 25 or 30 years ago. Viola was a very
good friend of mine who I lost contact with some years ago. My husband recently passed away and I have been thinking about her and I would like to get in contact with her. Any information would be welcomed. Thank you. You can e-mail me with any info at my daughter's e-mail address seper@compueasy.com or call me at 252-453-8798.

Name:  James L. Stillman

Maiden Name: 

Email:  saijim@comcast.net

Web Page Address: 

Street Address:  901-11th Ave

City:  Prospect Park,

State:  Pennsylvania

Zip Code:  19076

Home Phone:  (610) 586-6152

Fax: 

Spouse Name:  Marise

Children:  3 Sons

Grandchildren:  6 boys, 2 girls

Profession:  Mechanical Engineer

Marital Status:  Married

Dates You Lived There:  visited, my grandmother 1940-1960

Dates You Are Living There: 

Hobbies:  Flying, golf, handyman, politics, (local)

Who Was the Most Interesting Character (person) of Pea Ridge and Why:  My uncle Delbert Patrick and aunt Connie (Stillman) Patrick. Every time we went to their house in Cresswell, next to the prison farm, aunt connie would tell us watch out for the hole in the floor in the doorway from the kitchen to the living room. This was over a period of 30 years. I bet that hole is still there'''

Any History, Personal or About Pea Ridge, to Share:  My father,Joseph, was the first of the Stillman boys who moved to Philadelphia, in 1923, His brothers, Phillip, William, Mercer,and Gilbert, all followed. As far as I know the only relatives that are still in the area are  Aunt Connie and Cousin John.  My father told us that he came to PA with Cousin (Arlie) Orlando Jefferson Stillman, and that they were double first cousins, Two brothers married two sisters, In developing the census returns for this time I found that the Stillman boys, Jefferson Davis Stillman, and James Atwood Stillman were not brothers. Jefferson was James's uncle. They did marry two Davenport sisters, Claudia and Eloise.

Any Fun Stores About Area to Share:    In 1965 I was assigned to Fort Eustis Va. I looked up my uncle Phillip who lived in Hampton Va. One day he said let's go to Carolina to see Connie. He drove to Pea Ridge, and our first stop was at Cousin Roy Patrick's Peach stand, as I knew it. We went in and Phillip made the introductions ,This is your cousin, This is your cousin, this is your cousin,....... There were six men in the store and they were all my cousins. When he was done he said I bet you don't know who this is, Roy rubbed his chin and said that sure looks like Joe's boy Jim... They all laughed and said never tell a woman anything that is going to be a suprise, Connie had already been there and told them who was coming.

Any Good Country Recipes to Share:  Only Pennsylvania Dutch..

What Is/Was the Best Thing About Living in Area: 

What Is/Was the Worst Thing About Living in Area: 

Any Words of Wisdom to Share:  Bloom where you are planted,