When he registered for the World War I draft in 1918, Ernest Bullock reported that he operated a barbecue stand on Kenan Street in Wilson.

In the 1916 Wilson city directory, Ernest Bullock’s occupation is listed as janitor at Primitive Baptist Church. He is not found in the 1920 census of Wilson, but was described as a house painter in the 1930 census and on his 1931 death certificate. I have not been able to locate a barbecue stand on Kenan. I suspect Bullock’s business was on the eastern end of the street among and catering to workers in the tobacco warehouses crowded beyond Tarboro Street.