The 1947 edition of The Ram, the annual of Mary Potter Academy in Oxford, North Carolina, featured two seniors from Wilson, Preston Walter Diggs and Charity Wells:
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 205 Vick Street, barber Edgar Diggs, 49; wife Mary, 39; and children Edgar, 12, Mary, 9, and Preston, 11.
In 1946, Preston Walter Diggs registered for the draft in Wilson, Wilson county. Per his registration card, he was born 27 September 1928 in Wilson; lived at 205 North Vick Street, Wilson; was a student at Mary Potter School in Oxford, N.C.; and his contact was Mary Diggs, 205 North Vick.
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: widow Mazzie Wells, 42, county schoolteacher; children George, 17, and Charity, 12; and brother-in-law George Cooper, 40, fireman at Watson Tobacco Company.
In the 1950 census of Raleigh, Wake County, N.C.: at Estey Hall, Shaw University, Charity M. Wells, 19.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 February 1978.