Beyond the cities clustered across from Manhattan, Atlantic City appears to have been the most popular landing spot for Wilsonians who moved to New Jersey during the Great Migration.
- Jones, Morris, and Amanda Gillespie Jones and son Frank, Newark, bef. 1905
- Artis, James, Whitesboro, bef. 1907
- Vick, William H., Atlantic City, bef. 1910, Orange, bef. 1930, Montclair, bef. 1936
- Darden, Walter T., Montclair, ca. 1927
- Best, Robert, Atlantic City, bef. 1917
- Joyner, Alexander B., Atlantic City, bef. 1917 (later, New York City)
- Norwood, Richard T., Atlantic City, bef. 1918
- James, Randall R., and Elizabeth Darden James and sons Randall and Charles, Newark, bef. 1920 (Elizabeth and sons returned to Wilson)
- Taylor, Halley B., and Marie Taylor, Paterson, bef. 1923
- Hargrave, Frank S., and Bessie Parker Hargrave, Orange, 1923
- Wilson, Leonard, and Georgia Wilson and children Leonard Jr., Ernest, Elmer, and Toney Lee, and brother Herman Wilson, betw. 1924 and 1930
- Weeks, Alfred L.E., and Annie Cook Weeks, Elizabeth, bef. 1930
- Dawson, Augustus L., Newark, bef. 1930
- Lewis, Lucy Gay, Newark, bef. 1938
- Cannon, Charles, and mother Stattie Cannon and sister Ruth Cannon Langford, Newark, bef. 1940
- Artis, Ernest, and Louise Artis and son Ernest, Atlantic City, bef. 1940
- Thomas, Elton H., Newark, bef. 1942
- Cook, Oscar, Monmouth, bef. 1942
- Sims El, Alex, Camden, bef. 1942
- Woodard, Edward, and William Woodard, siblings, Camden, bef. 1942
- Williams, Lovie, Newark, bef. 1942
- Wilson, Chester, Newark, bef. 1942
- Whitley, Robert, Englewood, bef. 1942
- Washington, Paul, East Orange, bef. 1942
- Taylor, Frank, Trenton, bef. 1942
- Taylor, Warren T., Atlantic City, bef. 1942
- Best, Morris, East Orange, bef. 1942
- Parker, Amos, Atlantic City, bef. 1942
- Moore, Arthur, Glen Rock, bef. 1942
- Barnes, William C., Plainfield, bef. 1942
- Bynum, James H., Orange, bef. 1942
- Baker, William H., Belleville, bef. 1942
- Bess, Wilson, Jr., Palmyra, bef. 1945 (prior, in Baltimore, Md.)
- Bright, Jesse L., Glassboro, bef. 1918
- Alston, Charles S., Newark, bef. 1930
- Tarboro, Oscar L., Pleasantville, bef. 1950
- Reid, James D., Camden, bef. 1950
- Barron, Robert, Plainfield, bef. 1951
- Rountree, Fannie Best, Asbury Park, bef. 1953
- Faison, William, and Mena Townsend Faison, Newark, bef. 1957
- Bailey, James H., Riverton, bef. 1959
- Powell, Beatrice Hines
Wilson Bess Jr. (1920-1995).
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