Wilson Advance, 26 August 1881.
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- Dennis Avent
- Caroline Best — in the 1870 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Shepard Best, 32, and wife Caroline Best, 32. In the 1880 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Caroline Best, 36, is listed as a servant in the Spring Street household of Mildred Gordon, 53.
- Amos Barnes — in the 1880 census of Wilson, Wilson County: hireling Amos Barnes, 25; wife Patsey, 24; and Mary E., 2.
- Ella Thomas

even mail was colored…..your name followed by “col”…My My My!!!
Heaven forbid black John Barnes try to claim white John Barnes’ mail!