Link Covington appears on Wilson’s 1926 delinquent property tax list, owing $2.31. Covington had left Wilson more than a dozen years earlier to make Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his home. He was not a Wilson native and left little record there or in his new home.

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On 29 April 1920, Link Covington, 26, of Wilson, married Maggie Morris, 32, of Wilson, in Wilson. Missionary Baptist minister William Baker performed the ceremony.

In the 1930 census of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Link Covington, 35, widower, construction worker, born in Virginia, and Kathryn Curtis, 28, lodger, dress operator.