Evening Star, 19 May 1968.

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In the six years before and after Lucinda T. Waugh‘s death, the Taylor family lost at least four other members in Washington, D.C.

Sunday Star, 5 August 1962.

Evening Star, 2 November 1965.

Evening Star, 20 October 1972.

Washington Star News, 20 September 1974.

In the 1900 census of Old Fields township, Wilson County: Daniel Taylor, 56, wife Lucinda, 43, and children Ardellis, 18, Willie T., 17, Joseph, 15, Martha, 12, Allis, 10, and Jesse, 6.

On 6 March 1906, Joe Taylor, 21, of Od Fields township, son of Daniel and Cindy Taylor, married Milly Smith, 21, of Old Fields, daughter of Penny Smith, in Wilson County. Original Free Will Baptist minister B.H. Boykin performed the ceremony in the presence of George Hinnant, Amos T. Perry, and Arthur Hinnant.

In the 1910 census of Old Fields township, Wilson County: farmer Joseph Taylor, 23; wife Mollie, 23; and son Percy, 2.

In 1918, Joe Dan Taylor registered for the World War I draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 8 November 1886; lived at R.F.D. #1, Sims; was a tenant farmer for A.T. Stott; and his nearest relative was Mollie Taylor.

In the 1920 census of Old Fields township, Wilson County: farmer Joe Taylor, 34; wife Mollie, 29; and children Perry, 12, David D., 8, Julian, 6, and James R., 3.

In the 1930 census of Old Fields township, Wilson County: farmer Joe Taylor, 44; wife Mollie, 40; and children Julian, 16, James R., 13, Lucinda, 9, John R., 7, and Beatrice, 3.

In the 1940 census of Washington, District of Columbia: Mollie Taylor, 49; children James, 24, paint store truck driver; John R., 17, barber shop shoe shiner; and Beatrice, 13; granddaughter Ella Mae, 9; and lodgers Maxcine Ruffin, 24, Clarence Young, 25, and Mattie Lee Jones, 22.

Also, in the 1940 census of Old Fields township, Wilson County: Percy Taylor, 32, WPA roadwork construction; wife Mary M., 33; children Sylvania, 12, Leonard, 10, Marie, 7, Walter, 5, James R., 4, and Nathaniel, 1; and father Joe Taylor, 53, farm laborer.

In 1940, James Ranson Taylor registered for the World War II draft in Washington, D.C. Per his registration card, he was born 1 July 1916 in Wilson, N.C.: lived at 232 G Street, N.E., Washington; his contact was mother Mollie Taylor, same address; and he worked for John E. German, Washington, D.C.

In the 1950 census of Washington, District of Columbia: retail market saleswoman Mollie Taylor, 59; daughter Beatrice, 23; grandchildren Deloris, 9, Melvin, 6, Linda, 2, Ella M., 19, domestic, and Owens, 16, railroad mail handler; daughter Lucinda Waugh, 29, cashier at Dunham Hotel; and lodger [sic] Joseph Taylor, 65.