Of the 130 men who paid poll taxes in Taylors township, Wilson County, in 1902, I can identify forty-four as African-American. North Carolina’s 1900 constitutional amendment added literacy requirements to paying poll taxes as prerequisites to voter eligibility. Thus, most of the men here — all, in fact, but those descended from free men who had voted prior to 1867 — had been recently disenfranchised.
Page one of the 1902 poll tax list for Taylors township.
- Tobe Barnes
- Wm. Barnes
- Ernest Barnes
- Wm. Blackwell
- Eddie Coleman
- Henry Deans
- Thos. Dew
- Henry Dudley
- Peter Eatman
- McGuire Eatman
- Henry Eatman
- Dock Eatman
- Wiley Ethridge
- Robt. Eatman
- Kenyon Eatman
- Pharo Farmer
- Thos. Farmer
- Swift Ford
- Alford Green
- Charlie Howard
- Zealous Howard [Jr.]
- Richard Howard
- Wm. Hardy
- Jas. Hagan
- Chas. Hagan
- Jno. High
- Jas. Howard
- Ira Howard
- Henry Locus
- Kinyon Locus
- Bosa [Boaz] Locus
- Asa Locus
- John Norfleet
- Ennis Pearson
- Wiley Rountree
- Alex Rountree
- Willie Rountree
- Stephen Ruffin
- Andrew Rann
- Haywood Taylor
- Turner Taylor
- Geo. Taylor
- Haywood Winstead
- Reubin White
Poll Tax Lists (1902), Tax Records, Wilson County Records, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.