In March 1934, Mechanics and Farmers Bank filed a plat of eight lots for it owned on Moore Street between Contentnea [now Cemetery] Street and Suggs Street. (Samuel H. Vick owned bordering property to the rear, and Daniel C. Suggs the corner lot at Contentnea.) Lot 3 included a 20 foot by 40 foot frame building — a church.
Plat Book 4, page 85, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson, N.C.
The church appears in the 1930 Sanborn fire insurance maps of Wilson, but not in 1922, providing a rough date for its erection. The records currently available to me roughly sketch its early history. Holy Temple Church’s trustees — Josh Neal, Lee M. Hinnant, Mitchell Hinnant, Nero Oliver, Isiah Israel, and Dock Cooper — bought the building from the bank in April 1934, and the church held it until 1982, when it sold this and a Cemetery Street tract to Whole Truth Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith.
Wilson Daily Times, 22 June 1946.
In 2013, Whole Truth sold the building, which has been bricked and otherwise modernized, to Mission of Faith Free Will Baptist Church.
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- Josh Neal
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Mercer Street, Josh Neal, 39; wife Pearlie, 36; and children Easley, 18, Joshua, 17, Mary, 15, Willie, 10, Louisa, 8, Jessie, 5, Mattie, 4, Charlie, 1, and Essie, 3.
- Lee M. Hinnant
- Mitchell Hinnant
- Nero Oliver
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 705 Stantonsburg Street, A.C.L. Railroad flagman Nero Oliver, 32, born in South Carolina; wife Annie, 23; and adopted daughter Bessie M., newborn.
- Isiah Israel
- Dock Cooper
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: tobacco factory laborer Dock Cooper, 29; wife Jennet, 27; relative Ammie, 37, Standard Oil Company plumber; and roomer Ora Bradshaw, 13.