Wilson Daily Times, 27 August 1947.

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During the summer, college students returned to sing with their former choristers in Hartford Bess‘ Handel’s Chorus.

• Mary Gilchrist — in the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 707 Viola, Canon Gilchrist, 38; wife Ruth, 32; and children Dorothea, 15, Mary L., 12, Gene, 11, Bella M., 5, and Janey V., 2.
• Katie Chestnut
• Virginia Ward — probably, in the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Preston Ward, 38, widower; sister Annie, 26; and children James P., 20, Alonza, 18, Johnny Lee, 17, Rosa, 14, Virginia, 12, Sylvester, 10, Ruby, 8, Doris, 6, and Golden, 2.
• Ann Johnson

Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.