Wilson Daily Times, 13 January 1945.

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In the 1900 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County: widow Carolina Pleasant, 30; son Eddie, 18; and stepchildren George, 19, Louis, 17, Walter, 15, Lou E., 12, and Lucy V., 10.

On 8 November 1904, Walter Pleasant, 21, of Black Creek township, son of George and Caroline Pleasant, married Nancy Newsome, 23, of Black Creek township, daughter of Ran and Necy Newsome, at H.M. Rowe’s farm near Black Creek.

On 25 August 1910, Walter Pleasant, 26, of Black Creek, son of George Pleasant, married Tena Anderson, 22, of Black Creek, daughter of Ben Anderson, in Black Creek.

In 1918, Walter Pleasant registered for the World War I draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born May 1883; lived at R.F.D. 1, Black Creek; his nearest relative was “wife”; and he farmed for L.D. and J.S. Tomlinson, Black Creek.

In the 1920 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County: on the road east from Black Creek to Wilson, farmer Walter Pleasant, 36, wife Tenie, 27, farm laborer, and daughter Lillie, 4.

In the 1930 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County: farmer Walter Plesent, 45; wife Tina, 40; and children Lillie, 14, Maud, 9, and Arthur, 7; nephew Robert Best, 14; and widowed aunt Hattie Smith, 60.

In the 1940 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County: farm laborer Walter Pleasant, 53; wife Tenner, 55, school dormitory cook; father-in-law Ben Anderson, 75; nephew Arthur L. Bennett, 20, farm laborer; niece Maude E. Dunn, 18, cook; and nice Tenner L. Dunn, 13.

Walter Pleasant died 9 January 1945 in Black Creek township, Wilson County. Per his death certificate, he was born 12 October 1883 in Wilson County to George Pleasant of Richmond, Virginia, and Adeline Smith of Edgecombe County, N.C.; was married to Teenie Pleasant; was engaged in farming; and was buried in Black Creek Cemetery. [Does Black Creek Cemetery have an African-American section? Is there a separate cemetery?]