Wilson Daily Times, 21 October 1910.
In 1910, fire destroyed seven houses owned by Samuel H. Vick and damaged others. Though he carried insurance, his losses greatly outweighed the payout. I have not been able to learn more about the fire.
Month: October 2021
She overpowered her and took her weapons.
Wilson Daily Times, 21 September 1936.
- Ossie Mae Woodard
- Rosa White
Lane Street Project: “North Carolina Cemeteries: Documentation and Research”
The Friends of the Archives will host a virtual annual meeting and program, “North Carolina Cemeteries: Documentation and Research,” Monday, November 1, 2021, 1-3 p.m.
Celebrate All Saints Day by learning about cemetery archaeology and genealogy!
Panels include:
- Identifying and Protecting North Carolina’s Cemeteries, John J. Mintz, State Archaeologist, NC Office of State Archaeology (NC OSA), will discuss the active role DNCR and the NC OSA play in protecting North Carolina’s cemeteries.
- Find a Grave? Identifying, Recording, and Preserving Historic Cemeteries in North Carolina, Melissa Timo, Historic Cemetery Specialist, NC OSA, will share tips for identifying graves and cemeteries using more than headstones. She will also introduce guidelines for care and research resources, including the NC Site File.
- You Don’t Always Get What You See: Best Practices in Cemetery Identification, Sarah Lowry and Maeve Herrick, Archaeologists, New South Associates, Inc., will detail methods for locating, identifying, and delineating cemeteries.
- Cemetery Resources for Family Researchers, Victoria P. Young, professional genealogist and FOA board member, will discuss several online sites for genealogical research, including recommendations for best practices and how to work around misleading information.
Keynote — Gone and Nearly Forgotten: Reclaiming African American Heritage in Rural Southern Cemeteries. Professor Charles Ewen of East Carolina University will provide comments and discuss his current project, a 400-grave cemetery in Ayden, N.C., and ways ECU has partnered with communities for twenty years to investigate African American cemeteries.
Join this free event to learn more about cemetery documentation, research, and archaeology. Register here, https://us06web.zoom.us/
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Wilson, North Carolina.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, April 2020.
The apprenticeship of Condary Taylor (1895).
On 25 October 1895, a Wilson County Superior Court clerk issued an indenture binding Condary Taylor, age 10 years and 8 days, described as an orphan, to serve Jackson Hayes until she was 21 years of age.
A year later, however, the same clerk rescinded the indenture after Jackson Hayes came into court asking to be released. His wife had died, leaving him with “seven children of his own” that were apparently all he could handle.
United States Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939, database at https://familysearch.org.
Sarah Shade visits her brother in Brooklyn.
Thirteen year-old Sarah L. Shade spent some time with her brother John A. Shade and sister-in-law Ruby Purcell Shade before the school year began in 1924.
New York Age, 18 October 1924.
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In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 535 Nash Street, Turner Stokes, 50, carpenter; wife Morah, 39; mother-in-law Martha Pitt, 83; and boarders Isac Shade, 44, drugstore manager; wife Estella, 38; and children Kenneth, 13, and Sarah, 9. [Estella Lane Shade was Isaac A. Shade‘s second wife. His first marriage, to Emma Green Shade, apparently ended in divorce.]
On 9 September 1937, Sarah Luvenia Shade, 27, of Wilson, daughter of I.A. Shade and Estella Shade, married Richard Clyde Minor, 27, of Columbus, Ohio, son of Richard C. Minor and Alice G. Minor, in Wilson. A.M.E. Zion minister Richard A.G. Foster performed the ceremony in the presence of Thelma B. Foster, Norma E. Darden, and C.L. Darden.
In the 1940 census of Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri: at 809 East Dunklin, university professor Richard C. Minor, 40; wife Sara, 28; and boarder Rubye Harris, 20, university music teacher. [Richard Minor and Harris taught at Lincoln University.] Both Minors reported having lived in Salisbury, N.C., five years earlier.
The Lincoln Clarion (Jefferson City, Missouri), 30 October 1942.
Sarah and Richard Minor divorced in Missouri in October 1948, and a year later she filed a notice in Wilson County of her intention to resume use of her maiden name.
Sarah L. Shade died 5 March 1992 in Wilson. [She reverted to her maiden name after divorce.] Per her death certificate, she was born 10 November 1910 in Asheville, N.C., to Isaac Albert Shade and Estelle Lane.
North Carolina, Wilson County Divorce Records, http://www.familysearch.org.
Con man arrested in Rocky Mount.
Leaving for college.
Wilson Daily Times, 19 October 1892.
- Henry Vick — William Henry Vick graduated from Lincoln in 1894, passed his pharmacy boards in 1897, and settled in New Jersey.
- S.H. Vick — Samuel H. Vick.
- Oscar Vick — James Oscar F. Vick was the youngest Vick brother. Presumably, he attended Biddle University (later Johnson C. Smith University) in Charlotte. He became an A.M.E. minister.
Young Mary Vick drowned?
Wilson Daily Times, 1 June 1940.
The brief news report about Mary N. Vick stated that the ten year-old drowned after falling into a wash tub. Her death certificate, however, declared hers a natural death, with “no signs of foul play.”
An article in the 2 June 1940 News and Observer helps explain:
The majority of the children are picking cotton.
Wilson Advance, 15 October 1891.
School calendars aligned with the rhythms of the agricultural calendar. Even so, children picking cotton missed the beginning of school in October. (Just as children at my high school who worked in tobacco nearly one hundred years later sometimes did not report until after Labor Day.)
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- F.O. Blount — Frank O. Blount.
- Braswell Winstead
- Levi Peacock
- Lucy Thompson
In the 1880 census of Stantonsburg township, Wilson County: farmer Enos Thompson, 41; wife Hillon, 41; and children John, 17, Margaret, 16, Lucy, 6, Pet, 4, and Ennis, 3.
In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: garden laborer Ennis Thompson, 72; wife Helen, 65; and daughter Lucy, 35, laundress.
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 144 East, Lucy Thompson, 40, and father Ennice Thompson, 81, widower.
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 200 Pender, renting [likely a room] at $2/month, Lucy Thompson, 65.
Lucy A. Thompson died 24 July 1946 at her home at 310 Singletary Street, Wilson. Per her death certificate, she was 71 years old; was born in Wilson County to Ennis Thompson of Greene County, N.C., and Hellen A. Ruffin of Louisburg, N.C.; worked as a teacher; and was buried in Rountree cemetery.
- Victoria Battle
Transportation to the Colored Industrial Fair and Colored Farmers Convention.
Wilson Daily Times, 18 October 1910.
Wilson’s Norfolk Southern passenger station stood at the corner of South Spring (now Douglas) and East Barnes Streets.
Detail from 1908 Wilson, N.C., Sanborn fire insurance map.
A Google Maps image shows that the much-modified rail station is still standing, as is the cotton and freight platform, which was completely enclosed subsequent to 1908.