Month: March 2024

The obituary of Dollie Roberts.

Wilson Daily Times, 9 March 1950.

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In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Vick Street, dredge boat laborer Wiley Oats, 32; wife Nettie, 28; and daughters Dollena, 8, and Dottie Lee, 13 months. Wily Oates died 23 July 1913 in Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was born 26 September 1879 to Adam and Amanda Oates; was a farmer; and was married.

In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Roberts Dollie (c) dom r 1000 Wainwright av

In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 1000 Wainwright Avenue, Frank Battle, 42, minister at Good Hope Church; wife Rosetta, 43; daughter Mary C., 15; and roomers Dollena Roberts, 30, cook, and her children Virginia D., 7, and Jesse Jr., 4, Laura Bogins, 42, widow, and Margaret Morrison, 17.

In the 1947 and 1949 Montclair, New Jersey, city directories: Roberts Dollie wid Jesse laundry worker h 69 Mission

Dollie Roberts’ father Wiley Oates’ lovely grave marker is adjacent to the Vick family plot at the eastern edge of Odd Fellows Cemetery. Was she buried there, too?

Seeking the Moore family.

The New Pittsburgh Courier, 7 March 1942.

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In the 1940 census of Akron, Summit County, Ohio: Lizzie Settles, 65, widow, born in N.C.; grandson Claude Folds, 18, born in Georgia; cousin Henry Moor, 57, born in Florida; and lodger Stella Bland, 38, born in Florida.

On 12 July 1945 in Akron, Ohio, Henry Moore, 63, of Akron, janitor, born in Milton, Florida, to John Moore and Margaret Rogers, married Lizzie Settles, 62, of Akron, born in Snow Hill, N.C., to Nelson Razberry and Patsy Williams.

There were several Mary Moores in Wilson County in the early 1900s, but none immediately identifiable as the one Lizzie Settles was looking for.

The obituary of Thomas Hilliard.

Wilson Daily Times, 13 March 1942.

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In the 1920 census of Stantonsburg township, Wilson County: on Moyton and Wilson Road, Dock Hillard, 46; wife Mary, 28; and children Gustus, 17, Mattie, 14, Eddie, 12, Mellar, 11, Isabella, 10, Channie, 8, Tommie, 4, and Willie, 3 months.

In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 608 West Nash, county health doctor W.H. Anderson, 63; wife L.H., 57; son Harper, 16; and lodgers L.H. Darden, 72, widow, and Thomas Hilliard, 25, cook.

No headstone for Thomas Hilliard has been found in Rountree Cemetery.

Plantation House Series: Peacock-Applewhite-Yelverton house, again.

A sign hanging at the driveway entrance reads Maywood Manor, Est. 1850, and the large, four-columned portico plays into stereotypes of plantation Big House. In fact, per Stantonsburg Historical Society’s A History of Stantonsburg Circa 1780 to 1980 (1981), though slaveholder James Peacock built this house on the northwestern outskirts of Stantonsburg about 1860, the fancy entrance was not added until 1914. Here’s the house with its original exterior. (Also — “Maywood Manor”???)

Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, March 2024.