Grocery merchant Haddie Davis Swinson was waylaid and murdered in January 1921, presumably in a robbery gone worse. The year’s support his widow Ianthia Swinson received for herself and their two minor children consisted largely of goods and store fixtures from his grocery, including 17 cans of black-eyed peas, 29 cans of sardines, 11 jars of vinegar, 20 bottles of soft drinks, and so on.
Most of the goods were generic, but note the national brands Swinson carried — Campbell’s soup, Red Devil lye, Pet milk, Octagon soap, Gold Dust soap, Louiseann [Luzianne] tea, and P. Lorillard snuff.
Wilson [County, North Carolina] Special Proceedings, http://www.familysearch.org.