Greensboro Daily News, 17 May 1939.

The “Wilson County negro” was a nine year-old boy.

Ned Kent was born 1 January 1930 in Wilson County to Isiah Kent and Clyde Pettieford; lived at Route 1, Wilson; and was a student. He was taken to Woodard-Herring Hospital, where he was pronounced dead of a fractured skull.