John W. Perrington appears on Wilson’s 1926 delinquent property tax list, owing $3.81. Perrington had left Wilson more than a dozen years earlier to make Portsmouth, Ohio, his home.
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In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 614 Gold Street, widow Louise Perrington, 48; daughters Annie, 22, and Omma, 23, both cooks; son John, 17; and grandchildren John, 2, and Virginia Glastor, 4.
In the 1912 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Perrington Jno (c) lab h 324 S Spring
In the 1916 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Perrington John (c) porter h 324 S Spring
In 1917, John Perrington registered for the World War I draft in Wilson. Per his draft registration card, he was born 22 November 1894 in Wilmington, North Carolina; worked as a barber for Morris Ellis in Black Creek; and had “weak eyes.”
In the 1920 census of Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina, John Perrington, 27, barber, is a boarder in the household of Robert and Annie Penn.
On 22 November 1921, John W. Perrington, 27, of Wilson, son of Weldon and Louisa Perrington, married Nannie F. Frazier, 21, of Smithfield, daughter of Leslie and Amanda Drew, in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C.
In the 1924 Portsmouth, Ohio, city directory: Perrington John W (Nannie) barber Play House Barber Shop h 1012 11th
Portsmouth Daily Times, 5 March 1925.
In the 1928 Portsmouth, Ohio, city directory: Perrington John W (Nannie) barber Gooden & Phifer h 1409 Union
In the 1929, 1930, and 1932 Portsmouth, Ohio, city directories: Perrington John W (Nannie) barber Gooden & McConnell h 1409 Union
In the 1930 census of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio: at 1409 Union Street, owned and valued at $3500, barber John W. Perrington, 35; wife Nannie, 29; and stepsons John, 14, and James, 13. [The boys’ surname was actually Thomas.]
In the 1935 Portsmouth, Ohio, city directory: Perrington John W (Nannie) barber Gooden’s Barber Shop h 1409 Union
Portsmouth Times, 29 October 1936.
Portsmouth Times, 11 March 1937.
John Weldon Perrington died 29 November 1937 in Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio.