Illustration from The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tales, Traditions and Romance of Border and Revolutionary Times
The legend & the myth of Polly Slocumb Story By Thomas Byrd When I was growing up in the Faison-Calypso area of northern Duplin County in the 1930s and 1940s, going to Goldsboro was always a treat. Somewhere north of Mount Olive, after we had crossed the Wayne County line, was a monument by the highway — US 117 — that had
a lot of writing on it. We must have stopped on one of our trips and read the writing because there was too much to read from a passing car. The writing said a Mary (Polly) Slocumb once lived in a nearby house and that she jumped out of bed one night and rode a horse all the way to
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Moores Creek after dreaming her husband had been killed in a battle there. After graduating from Calypso High School in 1950, I went down to Wilmington and worked a couple of years for the (old) Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. On free Sunday afternoons, a
