My mother, me, and my sister soon-to-arrive, Easter 1967, 1401 Carolina Street.
Honoring and remembering all our mothers, past and present, this Mother’s Day.
Children
Reid Street Community Center project update.
Mother and accomplices believed to have kidnapped boy.
Wilson Daily Times, 19 May 1937.
When 16 year-old John Lane was snatched from one of U.H. Cozart’s fields in May 1937, authorities blamed his mother. Seven years earlier, she had allowed a family named Williams to adopt the boy, and she migrated to Washington, D.C. A radio bulletin went out seeking three men and a women traveling in older model Paige automobile with D.C. tags.
Church club performs “Old Timers Program.”
Wilson Daily Times, 17 July 1943,
What was “Old Lassiters School”?? “The first Old Graded School”??
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- John Clark
- S.H. Vick — Samuel H. Vick.
- L.A. Thompson
The Black Wolves.
Wilson Daily Times, 11 April 1945.
Annie’s all right.
Boston Globe, 24 September 1903.
This odd little all’s-well-that-ends-well story involves Samuel H. Vick and a ten year-old headed North for school. Annie Holloway‘s father Louis Holloway was an Odd Fellow with Vick, and her brother Lewis Holloway attended Vick’s college alma mater, Lincoln University. Her aunt, Abigail Holloway McLeod, was a well-to-do businesswoman who owned a lodging house and laundry. For more about Sam Vick’s brother, Ernest L. Vick, see here.
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- Annie Holloway
In the 1900 census of Wilson, Wilson County: brick laborer Louis Holoway, 40; wife Lear, 39; and children Jeff, 14, Edwin, 12, Elic, 10, Harry, 5, Anie, 8, Lewis, 4, and Willie, 7 months.
On 30 March 1910, Henry Rountree, 20, of Wilson, married Annie Holloway, 19, of Wilson, daughter of Louis and Lear Holloway, at Louis Holloway’s residence in Wilson. Noah Best applied for the license, and Primitive Baptist minister Jonah Williams performed the ceremony in the presence of James A. Whitfield, Jeff Holloway, and Lewis Holloway.
In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Nash Road [in Grabneck], machine shop laborer Henry Rountree, 21; wife Annie, 19; and stepdaughter Vary Lee Holloway, 15 months.
- Mrs. McLeod — Abigail Holloway McLeod
In the 1880 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: south of the Plank Road, Edward Holloway, 39, farm worker; wife Harriet, 44; and children Lewis, 20, Abigail, 11, James S., 6, and Milly, 3.
On 10 February 1892, John A. McLeod, 24, of Boston, Massachusetts, son of John and Ruth McLeod, married Abbie G. Holloway, 21, of New York City, New York, daughter of James and Amanda Holloway, at People’s Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. John A. Hughes officiating.
Boston Globe, 13 February 1892.
In the 1900 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 15 Village Street, porter John McLeod, 33, and wife Abbie, 28, with 13 lodgers, mostly North Carolina-born men working as waiters.
The Sunday Herald (Boston, Mass.), 16 June 1907.
Boston Globe, 20 August 1909.
Boston Globe, 14 October 1910.
In the 1912 Boston, Massachusetts, city directory: McLeod Abbie Mrs (Edison Hand Laundry) 10 Clarendon h 19 Newbern Rox[bury]
The 17 April 1912 of the Boston Evening Transcript reported that Abbie McLeod had sold the building at 19 Newbern, which carried a tax valuation of $10,900..
The Sunday Herald (Boston, Mass.), 4 October 1914.
The Sunday Herald (Boston, Mass.), 14 April 1918.
In the 1920 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 24 Yarmouth, John A. McLeod, 50, laundry business; wife Abigail, 46, laundry business; and eight lodgers.
Per the 11 December 1921 Boston Globe, Abbie McLeod bought the “3 1/2 story and basement swell front brick house” at 621 Massachusetts Avenue.
Abigail Holloway McLeod died in 1925 in Boston.
Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915, http://www.ancestry.com; People’s Temple Methodist Episcopal Church Records, Northeast Select United Methodist Church Records, 1787-1922, http://www.ancestry.com.
An oasis in the land of Jim Crow.
In 1989, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution published an in-depth piece celebrating Wilson native Augustus S. Clark, his wife Anna W. Clark, and the life-changing school they founded in Cordele, Georgia, in 1902.
I visited Gillespie Institute in the summer of 2021 and wrote about it here.
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12 March 1989.
Papa challenge.
The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), 20 January 1927.
Fifteen years after he made the News & Observer with 19 children, an Oklahoma newspaper reported that Adolphus Saunders had 37.
Darden conducts Lightner funeral.
The New York Age, 19 October 1916.
We learned here of the relationship between Lawrence Lightner and C.H. Darden & Sons. Here, we see that Camillus L. Darden traveled to Raleigh to conduct the funeral of Lightner’s 18 month-old niece.
