Wilson Daily Times, 6 November 1997.
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In the 1900 census of Cokey township, Edgecombe County, N.C.: Jessee Baker, 25; wife Luvenia, 25; daughter Mary J., 8 months; and mother-in-law Charlet Lancaster, 50.
In the 1910 census of Cokey township, Edgecombe County, N.C.: Jessie Baker, 35; wife Venus, 34; and children Mary Jane, 10, Alice, 8, Maggie, 6, Addison, 4, and Authur L., 1.
On 23 November 1921, Hubert Ward, 25, of Wilson County, son of Jim and Lucinda Ward, married Mary Jane Baker, 22, of Edgecombe County, daughter of Jesse and Venus Baker, in Edgecombe County.
Lucinda Ward died 30 June 1923 in Stantonsburg township, Wilson County. Per her death certificate, she was born 25 November 1922 to Hubert Ward and Mary J. Baker.
In the 1930 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County, N.C.: farmer Hubert Ward, 34; wife Mary J., 30; and children Lacy A., 5, Katherine, 3, and Louvenia, 1.
In the 1940 census of Nahunta township, Wayne County, N.C.: Hubert Ward, 43; wife Mary Jane, 40; and children Lacy, 15, Catherine, 12, Luvinia, 10, Suvada, 6, and Mary Lee, 4.
In the 1950 census of Bull Head township, Greene County, N.C.: Hubert Ward, 53; wife Mary, 49; and daughters Lacey, 24, and Mary Lee, 19.