ROBESON COUNTY, NC - MISCELLANEOUS - Evander (Van) Speir Walters, Pig Farmer
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                  100 HOGS DROWNED

Mr Van Walters of Princess Ann Lost That Number During recent High
Waters---Robeson's Leading Hog Raiser

Mr Van Walters, the well-known stock raiser, who lives near Princess Ann
told the Robesonian reporter recently that he lost 100 hogs during the
recent floods.  Most of the hogs lost were pigs and were swept away by
the waters which over flowed Lumber River.  Mr Walters raises more hogs
than any man in Robeson County.  He says his usual number runs from two
to three hundred head.  He has several thousand acres of swamp lands
fenced and it does not cost him much to grow hogs in his pasture.



From the Contributor: The above article was in the August 21, 1916
Robesonian Newspaper.
Evander (Van) Speir Walters was born in Robeson County in 1853 and died
January 1940. He was the son of Speir Walters and Pollie Ann Nichols
Walters.


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