Evening Star, 11 February 1889.
Robert and Rutha Ann Lassiter Cooper and Daniel and Cherry Williamson Hocutt and their families were such migrants. I’ll continue to search for more.
Month: May 2024
The obituaries of Lucinda Taylor Waugh and family of Washington, D.C.
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.
Lane Street Project: Vick Cemetery’s veterans are honored.
I’m always uneasy when I see a text notification at 7:39 A.M., but I needn’t have been. Rev. H. Maurice Barnes was sharing great news!
Cemetery Commission Leader Heather Goff told Barnes that it was laid on her heart that something should be done to recognize Vick Cemetery’s veterans, so she purchased and placed flags at the central monument to honor their service and sacrifice. This marker, in essence, marks tombs of unknown soldiers, and Goff’s gesture is fitting and deeply appreciated.
Studio shots, no. 240: unidentified Winstead portrait.
Though this image, copied from an original, is less pixelated than the first I posted, I still have not identified the young African-American man who posed in Francis Winstead’s downtown Wilson studio.
Sgt. Farrior, Buffalo soldier, speaks of war.
The obituary of J.D. Reid, revisited.
I finally found a clean, dated image of J.D. Reid‘s obituary. It was published 28 January 1962 in the Sunday Star, the Sunday edition of the Washington Star.
D.C. Suggs’ Greensboro property.
We’ve spoken of Daniel C. Suggs‘ real estate wheeling and dealing in Greensboro, North Carolina. This 1923 plat map shows subdivisions of parcels he owned on East Market and East Washington Streets.
Plat Book 5, page , Guilford County Register of Deeds Office, Greensboro, N.C.
Lane Street Project: remember and honor.
Artis elected officer of funeral directors organization.
Wilson undertaker Columbus E. Artis was elected sergeant-at-arms of the Colored Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association of North Carolina at its 1938 annual meeting in Charlotte. The group’s next gathering was set for Wilson.
Twin City Sentinel, 21 June 1938.
Thank you, Commissioners.
On its way to the seven men and women of the Wilson County Commission. They’ve been grappling with the Confederate memorial issue for several years. Reaching consensus could not have been easy, nor finding a solid way to effectuate their decision, but here we are. The monument, with its capped segregated water fountains, Confederate battle flag, and ten Saint Andrew’s crosses, has been removed from courthouse grounds.
Wilson City Council, you’re on the clock.