Hackney Wagon Company (and related Hackney Brothers Company, and later iterations) manufactured thousands upon thousands of wagons, buggies, drays (and later truck bodies) during its 140+ year existence in Wilson. Hackney employed innumerable African-American men over its long existence, and this running list can capture only a fraction.
Illustration from an early twentieth-century catalog. Hackney Brothers Body Company Prints; Images of Historic Wilson, N.C.; Images of North Carolina, http://www.digitalnc.org.
- Cleveland Adams, wheelwright, 1918
- Charley R. and Carnel Barnes [twins?], laborers, 1917
- Dock Barnes, laborer, 1917
- Henry Barnes, laborer, 1917
- John Allen Barnes Jr., laborer, 1918
- John Allen Barnes Sr., laborer, 1918
- John H. Barnes, laborer, 1918
- Julius Barnes, laborer, 1930
- Lemon Barnes, laborer, 1918
- Renzo Barnes, blacksmith, 1918
- Tobe Barnes, machine operator, 1918
- Wade Barnes, laborer, 1920
- Walter N. Barnes, laborer, 1917
- William S. Barnes, laborer, 1918
- Burrell B. Barron, mechanic, 1918
- Ed Battle, painter, 1917
- Frank B. Battle, laborer, 1918
- William Batts, laborer, 1918
- William A. Batts, laborer, 1918
- Charlie H. Bell, laborer, 1918
- Bennie Bethea, wagon factory laborer, 1920
- Junius Best, mechanic, 1918
- Charlie H. Boone, laborer, 1918
- Albert L. Boswell, mechanic, 1918
- Zeb A. Brewer, mechanic, 1918
- Arthur Brodie, machine operator, 1918
- Henry Bryant, laborer, 1917; 1920
- Arthur Cobb, laborer, 1917
- Howard Cousar, laborer, 1917
- Lindsay Covington, mechanic in iron department, 1918
- Will Covington, laborer, 1918
- William Darring, laborer, 1917
- Ross Dew, laborer, 1917
- Robert Dickens, laborer, 1918
- William O. Dixson, laborer, 1918
- William Dudley, drayman for buggy factory, 1917
- Benjamin Earl, 1918
- Robert Ellis, machine operator, 1918
- Windsor Ellis, laborer, 1918
- George W. Farmer, machine operator, 1918
- Jesse Farmer, blacksmith, 1917
- Jesse Falkland, tire setter, 1917
- Fred Faulkland, laborer, 1917
- Joseph R. Falkland, wood worker, 1917
- Will Faulkland, laborer, 1918
- Walter Faulkland, laborer, 1918
- Walter M. Foster, fireman, 1910
- Bennie E. Fuller, “cleaning brick,” 1917
- Denis Fox, laborer, 1917
- Walter Garner, laborer, 1918
- Earnest Gibbs, blacksmith, 1917
- John G. Graham, laborer, 1917
- Richard Green, laborer, 1918
- Charlie I. Ham, laborer, 1918
- Charlie Harris, laborer, 1917
- Ed Herring, laborer, 1918
- Allen Hines, laborer, 1918
- Hardy Hinnant, laborer, 1917
- Jona Hogan, laborer, 1918
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William Howard, laborer, 1920
- William J. Howell, laborer, 1930
- Barney Huggins, wagon factory laborer, 1920
- Will Hunter, laborer, 1918
- Allen Jackson, fireman, 1917
- Jesse James, wagon factory laborer, 1920
- Amos Johnson, laborer, 1917
- Charley Johnson, laborer, 1917
- Walter A. Johnson, laborer, 1917
- Willard Johnson, laborer, 1918
- William V. Johnson, laborer, 1917
- Sankey Jones, laborer, 1918
- Colonel Joyner, wagon factory laborer, 1920
- Thomas King, laborer, 1918
- Lewis Knight, sawmill worker, killed in accident at sawmill, 1920
- Jarrette J. Langley, blacksmith, 1918
- Dempsey Lassiter, blacksmith, 1918
- Jesse C. Lassiter, laborer, 1917
- Ed Lucas, killed by falling timber, 1910
- Alexander McCrae, laborer, 1918
- William F. McDowell, laborer, 1918
- William J. McLane, laborer, 1918
- Minor McLaughlin, laborer, 1918
- Arthur Moore, laborer, 1917
- John L. Moore, “works on buggies,” 1918
- Arch Morrison, laborer, 1918
- Buck Parker, laborer, 1917
- Jesse Parker, laborer, 1917
- Samuel Perry, 1915-1945
- Braxton Purdie, laborer, 1917
- Dock Royall, buggy factory laborer, 1920; mechanic, 1938
- Fraun Sharp, laborer, 1918
- Ben Smith, fireman, 1918
- Willie Smith, laborer, 1918
- Joshua Speight, logging, 1918
- James D. Stallings, blacksmith, 1918
- Lucian Studaway, painter, injured in a fire, 1918
- Willie Sutton, laborer, 1918
- Henry Tate, laborer, 1918
- Davis Taylor, laborer, 1917
- James H. Tinsley, laborer, 1917
- Dan Umphrey, laborer, 1918
- Shelton Thompson, laborer, 1917
- John Ward, drayman, 1918
- Merriman E. Watkins, laborer, 1917
- Robert Wilkins, laborer, 1918
- Washington Wilkins, blacksmith, 1917
- Arthur Williams, wood worker, 1917
- Joseph Williams, wagon maker, 1917
- Roston Williams, fireman, 1917
- Walter Williams, laborer, 1917
- Jesse Williamson, machine operator, 1918
- Will Woodard, laborer, 1918
- Simeon Wooten, mechanic, 1918