Wilson Daily Times, 9 April 1930.
Health
President’s Birthday Ball to fight polio.
A medicine woman holds forth at the courthouse.
The Daily News (Wilson, N.C.), 20 September 1900.
Malaria testing done in 23 schools.
Wilson Daily Times, 29 October 1945.
It’s startling to realize how relatively recently malaria was a health scourge in Wilson County.
Darden band kicks off public health campaign.
Wilson Daily Times, 18 November 1950.
Mass X-Ray campaigns encouraged the public to be screened for tuberculosis. In 1950, public health officials engaged the marching bands of Charles L. Coon and Charles H. Darden High Schools to draw participants.
Where is the ball, and will it kill him?
It is difficult to know how to process this horrifying description of a severe brain injury caused by a gunshot wound to a boy’s head or his medical “treatment.” The child lived, however, and I hope he thrived.
Charlotte Home and Democrat, 21 April 1882.
Social notes.
New York Age, 2 September 1922.
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- Drs. DuBissette, Mitchner, Hargrove, and Yancey — Michael E. DuBissette, William H. Mitchner, Frank S. Hargrave, Darcey C. Yancey.
- James T. Taylor
- Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Darden — Camillus and Norma Duncan Darden.
- Rev. and Mrs. M.A. Talley — Marshall A. and Fannie Anthony Talley.
- Dr. and Mrs. Noah Tate — Noah and Hattie Pierce Tate. [Doctor?]
- “the colored firemen of Wilson” — Red Hot Hose Company.
- Rev. R.E. Gunn
The death of John Dancy.
Wilson Daily Times, 18 November 1921.
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In the 1920 census of Cross Roads township, Wilson County: farmer Alonzo Sanders, 37; wife Evelyn E., 32; son Isaah, 7; and brother-in-law John Dancy, 22, farm laborer.
John Dancy died 18 November 1921 in Wilson County Jail, Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was “about 50” [sic] and was a tenant farmer. Darden & Son buried him in “Wilson, N.C.,” which probably meant Vick Cemetery.
Crazy?
What’s crazy is that the sheriff and a medical professional would consign a man to a notorious mental institution because of his religious fervor.
Wilson News, 24 August 1899.
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- Philip Falkner — Philip Falkland.
In the 1870 census of Joyners township, Wilson County: David, 17, and Phil Falkland, 15.
On 25 March 1880, Phil Falkland, 21, married Jane Farmer, 20, at Jane Farmer’s in Wilson County.
In the 1880 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: Philip Falkland, 25, and wife Jane, 19.
On 27 December 1888, Phil Falkner, 32, of Toisnot township, married Rachel Woodard, 23, of Toisnot township, in Toisnot township.
On 13 April 1940, Willie Faulkland, 56, widower, born in Wilson County, N.C., to Phil Faulkland and Jane Farmer, married Ella Pender, 58, widow, born in Wilson County to William Hinnant and Lou Hinnant, in Emporia, Greensville County, Virginia.
Willie Faulkland died 1 November 1955 in Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was born 16 November 1883 in Wilson County to Phillip Faulkland and Jannie Farmer; lived at 718 Viola Street; was married; and worked as laborer. Ella Faulkland was informant.
Samuel J. Faulkland died 27 January 1975 in Richmond, Virginia. Per his death certificate, he was born 21 July 1886 in North Carolina to Fields Faulkland and Jane Farmerand worked as a clerk.
- Peter Cherry
Perhaps, Peter Cherry, born about 1879, who appears in Edgecombe County, N.C., records.
Wilson’s remarkable hospital.
On 22 February 1914, the Wilmington Morning Star published this detailed account of the establishment of the Wilson Hospital and Tubercular Hospital, which eventually became Mercy Hospital. Originally envisioned with a farm, countryside cottages, and a nurses’ home, only the administrative building was built. Nonetheless, Dr. Frank S. Hargrave‘s vision was “remarkable” indeed, and the hospital served the community for 50 years. (I was born there, in fact, just before it closed.)
[Sidenote: Hospital co-founder J.D. Reid was principal of the Colored Graded School and advisory board member Charles L. Coon was school superintendent. That Samuel H. Vick broke with them just four years later to side with teachers and parents in the 1918 school boycott is all the more astonishing.]