Chicago Defender, 7 December 1940.
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In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 419 Hines Street, tobacco contractor Lewis Townsend, 62; wife Henretta, 60; and children Alzie Townsend, 22, tobacco factory worker, and Geneva Brown, 24; son-in-law George, 26, garage mechanic; and Ester, 1, George Jr., 4, and Martha, 2.
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 508 South Spring, George Porter, 34, pressing clothes at pressing club; Jeneva Brown, 30, and her children Brown, 15, Estelle, 13, Martha, 12, and Olive, 9; and daughter George M. Porter, 4.
Esther B. Goodwin died 21 July 1984 in Newport News, Virginia. Per her death certificate, she was born 10 January 1916 in North Carolina to George Brown and Geneva Townsend; was married to Felix Lee Goodwin; and he worked as a social worker in Tucson, Arizona.
Tucson Citizen, 30 July 1984.