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139    PEAL - CARRINGTON - BRILEY FAMILY

Location - on NC 30, about 0.5 mile east of Oakley Road (SR 1517), on the north side of the road, about two miles west of Stokes an about 200 yards off highway.


Survey compiled by William "Bill" B. Kittrell in 2007. Updated by William "Bill" B. Kittrell in 2016.

SOURCE: Greenville Daily News April 29, 1919 Newspaper did not have all details
Five Persons Drown Last Sunday Near Snow Hill While Boat Riding, Bodies Found.

Vannie Carrington and wife, Adrian Carrington and two daughters of Zeno Brilely (this paper was unable to secure their names) were all drowned within two miles of Snow Hill Sunday afternoon in Moccasin River. Their bodies were all recovered yesterday and the remains passed through Greenville this morning enroute to Stokes where the funeral and interment took place this afternoon in the family burying ground of the Carringtons, two miles from Stokes.

How the parties were drowned is not known as there was no living witness to the tragedy. The surmise is that while boating on the river the boat in some way overturned and they met their death. There was only one member of the party that could swim, this being Adrian Carrington.

All five of the unfortunate resided within two miles of Snow Hill, but they were reared near Stokes.

1. Briley, Clara   (b. 3 Oct 1906 - d. 27 Apr 1919)
Daughter of Z. L. & Mamie Briley. (died in boating accident)
2. Briley, Emma Carlina   (b. 10 Feb 1876 - d. 5 Apr 1926)
Wife of David B. Carrington
3. Briley, Ethel   (b. 7 Sep 1900 - d. 27 Apr 1919)
Daughter of Z. L. & Mamie Briley. (died in boating accident)
4. Briley, J. T.   (b. 1 Jan 1849 - d. 4 Aug 1934)
5. Briley, Lydia M.   (b. Unknown - d. 24 Oct 1926)
6. Briley, Martha Elizabeth   (b. 12 Sep 1845 - d. 3 Jul 1916)
Wife of J. T. Briley
7. Briley, Robert S. J. D.   (b. 25 Jan 1885 - d. 20 May 1893)
Son of J. T. & M. E. Briley
8. Briley, Virginia Dare   (b. 4 Aug 1936 - d. 6 Aug 1936)
Daughter of J. G. & Alma Briley
9. Carrington, Adrian B.   (b. 27 Aug 1896 - d. 27 Apr 1919)
Son of D. B. & Emma Carrington. (died in boating accident)
10. Carrington, Irene   (b. 27 Jan 1898 - d. 27 Apr 1919)
Wife of Van E. Carrington. (died in boating accident)
11. Carrington, Van E.   (b. 4 Feb 1892 - d. 27 Apr 1919)
Son of D. B. & Emma Carrington. (died in boating accident)
12. Daniels, Alma   (b. 26 Oct 1919 - d. 8 Aug 1956)
Wife of J. G. Briley
13. Peal, Lucinda   (b. 20 Nov 1817 - d. 11 Nov 1896)
14. Peal, Sarah F.   (b. 20 Nov 1836 - d. 20 Sep 1900)
15. Roebuck, Bobie Jean   (b. 7 Aug 1932 - d. 12 Sep 1932)
16. Roebuck, Infant   (b. Unknown - d. 28 Feb 1913)
Son of O. G. & A. L. Roebuck
17. Roebuck, Mildred C.   (b. 17 Jul 1936 - d. 19 Jul 1936)
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Roebuck
18. Roebuck, O. C.   (b. 20 Jul 1874 - d. 28 Sep 1924)