The New Pittsburgh Courier covered the 1947 wedding of A.D. and Lucy Hill Dawson‘s granddaughter Wilhelmina Elaine Dawson to Robert L. Smith in Norfolk, Virginia. The bride’s father, Alexander D. Dawson Jr., migrated from Wilson to Norfolk around 1915.
New Pittsburgh Courier, 28 June 1947.
- Alexander D. Dawson
In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: restaurant cook Alexander Dawson, 50; wife Lucy, 49; and children Sophie, 25, school teacher, Mattie, 23, stenographer, Virginia, 19, school teacher, Lucile, 17, Alexander, 15, Clarence, 13, Augusta, 11, and Arlander, 1.
In the 1912 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory Dawson Alex D Jr (c) barber h 505 E Vance
In 1917, Alexander Dawson registered for the World War I draft in Norfolk, Virginia. Per his registration card, he was born 26 July 1894 in Wilson, North Carolina; lived at 363 Queen Street, Norfolk; was single and had one child; and worked as a barber for J.H. Jackson, Norfolk.
In the 1920 census of Norfolk, Virginia: journeyman barber Alexander Dawson, 25, and wife Madie, 23.
In the 1930 Norfolk, Virginia, city directory: Dawson Alex D (c; Maddie) barber Terminal Barber Shop h 432 Lewis
- Cora Fitch and son Jerome Fitch
In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 516 Lodge, letter carrier Milton Fitch, 30; wife Cora, 31; children Jerome, 7, Milton, 3, Patricia, 2, and Ernestine and Christine, born the previous December; father-in-law Walter Whitted, 58; and mother-in-law Helen Whitted, 56, 6th grade school teacher.
- Eva Hines
Probably, in the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 303 Elba Street, Eva Hines, 50, household servant; son Charlie, 21, yard boy; and daughter Henrietta, 13, shared a household with Louis Hines Jr., 21, whiskey storage loader; wife Dolly M., 19, tobacco stemmer; and daughter Martha L., 6 months.