M.A. Majors, ed., Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Their Activities (1893).
The 1870 census of Wilson, Wilson township, shows Washington Suggs, 42, brickmason, with children Sarena, 8, Mary, 2, Decatur [Daniel Cato], 6, plus farm laborer, Richard Harper, 17. Wife Esther was apparently overlooked.
Edward Moore, per his death certificate, was born in 1853 in Washington, North Carolina, to James and Peggy Keys Moore. A “doctor and teacher,” he died in Salisbury in 1927.
J.C. Price was a noted orator.
Serena Leticia Suggs Moore (1863-1930).
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