Samuel H. Vick was administrator of his father Daniel Vick‘s estate and guardian of his deceased sister Nettie Vick Jones‘ children Samuel, Annie, and Nettie Jones. Vick filed this detailed account of receipts and expenditures from March 1908 through November 1909.

The estate’s $562 income consisted of monthly rent from tenant housing, a yearly rental payment for a farm, and a one-time death benefit payment of $100 by the Odd Fellows.

Vick paid out $82.50 for expenses related to his father’s final illness ($8 to Drs. Moore and Dickinson) and death ($45 for a coffin, $5 for a hearse, $12 for carriages), as well as a loan repayment to Wilson Building & Loan Association.

In December 1908, Vick also began to buy material, including lumber, windows, doors, moldings, porch posts, shingles, brick, etc., “for another house adjoining homestead.” Where? For whom? The precise location of Daniel Vick’s house has not been identified, but he owned acreage in the area of what is now Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

Another surprise: “Repairs Brick Store.” Vick had awnings installed, shelving built, a new room partitioned and plastered, and a new tin roof put on a store building at Nash Street and Stantonsburg Road. See below the detail from the 1908 Sanborn fire insurance map of Wilson showing that intersection. Was Daniel Vick’s store at (A) or (B), adjacent to Charles H. Darden‘s undertaking and blacksmith shops? What did he sell?

Sam Vick also made repairs and improvements to rental houses at “#11,” 504, and 509 Stantonsburg Road and at 520-526 Church Street.

Per the 1908 Sanborn fire insurance maps of Wilson, 520-522 and 524-526 Church Street were one-story wooden duplex dwellings with a front porch spanning the width of the building. 

The largest expenditures were paid out for Daniel Vick’s heirs. Son William H. Vick, at this point a practicing pharmacist in New Jersey, received regular payments in 1908-1909 totaling $420, apparently his share of the estate. Youngest son James Oscar Vick received a one-time $25 disbursement.

Daniel Vick’s granddaughters Annie and Nettie Jones were boarding students at Mary Potter Academy in Oxford, North Carolina. Their expenses included carfare to and from Oxford; dress goods at Oettinger’s store in Wilson; payments to Elsie Knight for dressmaking; tuition and board; shoes, hosiery, hats, gloves, and handkerchiefs; and cash.

Account Records 1905-1910, Wilson County, N.C., Records, http://www.familysearch.org.