Migration

In memoriam: Sgt. Anthony M. Hopkins.

A spur-of-the-moment search of The New York Times yielded the obituary of Wilson native Anthony M. Hopkins, a decorated war veteran. He was one of the more than 200,000 Americans to die of COVID in the first seven months of the pandemic. The Times featured Hopkins’ death in its “Those We’ve Lost” series, which profiled more than 500 people, both famous and ordinary, who succumbed to the disease.

Anthony Hopkins’ paternal grandparents, Jason and Catherine Bryant Hopkins, arrived in Wilson County in the early 1920s from Pitt County by way of Greene County. They settled in Gardners township and worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers. His maternal grandparents, James and Addie Tart Ward, had deep roots in the area of the Wilson and Greene County border between present-day Saratoga, Stantonsburg, and Walstonburg.

  • Jason Hopkins and Catherine Bryant Hopkins Brown

Jason Hopkins died 25 March 1929 in Wilson [Mercy] Hospital. Per his death certificate, he was 41 years old; was born in Pitt County to Luke and Dollie Hopkins; was married to Catherine Hopkins; was a preacher; and was buried in Jones Field, Wilson County.

In the 1930 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: farmer Kathrine Hopkins, 37; children James C., 12, Irena, 10, Octavia, 9, Jason Jr., 8, Etter C., 7, and Mattie, 3; and roomer [illegible] Bryant, 26.

In the 1940 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: farmer Becton Brown, 47; wife Katherine, 47; his children George, 22, Edrine, 20, Millie, 18, May E., 16, B.K., 15, Collie, 13, and Wittonia Brown, 11; and step-children Irene, 21, Octavia, 20, Jason, 19, Ophelia, 17, and Mattie Hopkins, 14.

In 1942, Jason Hopkins registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 29 April 1921 in Greene County; lived at R.F.D. #3, Gardners township; his contact was mother Cassie Brown; and he worked for Pattie W. Uzzell in Wilson.

On 6 March 1946, Jason Hopkins, 24, son of Jason Hopkins and Catherine Bryant Hopkins, married Minnie Lou Ward, 19, daughter of James and Addie Tart Ward, in Wilson County.

In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 522 Hadley Street, Jason Hopkins, 28, serviceman at auto sales/service; wife Minnie, 23; and children Jason III, 3, Thomas L., 1, and Anthony M., born the previous September.

Jason Hopkins Jr. died 31 May 1969 in Norfolk, Virginia. Per his death certificate, he was born 29 April 1921 in Wilson, N.C., to Jason Hopkins Sr. and Catherine Bryant; was married to Minnie Lea Hopkins; worked as a laborer; and was a World War II veteran.

Minnie Lee W. Hopkins, 716 Hooks Street, Wilson, applied for a military headstone for her husband Jason Hopkins. Per the application, he was born 29 April 1921 and died 31 May 1969 and served from 10 October 1942 to 14 December 1945 in the 647th Port Company.

Minnie Lea Hopkins died 28 February 2013.

  • James Ward and Addie Tart Ward

On __ January 1899, James Ward, 18, of Greene County, son of Larance Ward and Sarah [Ward] Artis, married Mit Ellis, 21, of Greene County, daughter of Jacob Ellis, in Greene County, N.C.

In the 1900 census of Speights Bridge township, Greene County: James Ward, 20, day laborer; wife Mitt, 20; and son Nathan, 1. Two households down: widow Sarah Ward, 43, and children Walter, 14, Bessie, 12, and Etta, 9, all day laborers.

On 13 June 1909, James Wood [sic; Ward], 28, of Stantonsburg, married Addie Ward [sic; Tart], 19, of Saratoga, in Saratoga township, Wilson County.

In the 1910 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: on Stantonsburg Road, farmer James Ward, 29; wife Addie, 20; and children Jim, 9, Sarah, 8, Tiny, 5, Mary E., 4, and Maggie, newborn.

In 1918, James Ward registered for the World War I draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 15 October 1879; lived at Route 2, Stantonsburg; farmed for Charlie Whitley; and his nearest relative was Addie Ward.

In the 1920 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: farmer James Ward, 40; wife Addie, 29; and children Maliza, 14, Maggie, 10, Ozee, 8, Ida, 6, Joseph, 4, and Ora, 4.

In the 1930 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: farmer James Ward, 50; wife Addie, 39; children Maggie, 19, Oz, 17, Ida, 16, Joseph, 15, Ora, 12, Bourgard, 11, Charlie, 8, Leland, 5, Minnie L., 3, and Annie M., 0; and mother Sarah Ward, 72, widow.

In the 1940 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: farmer James Ward, 58; wife Addie, 46; children Ida, 24, Charles, 18, Leland, 14, Minnie, 13, Annie, 10, Molena, 5, and Beauregard, 20; daughter-in-law Bertha Lee, 20; and grandson John Lewis Barnes, 9.

Addie Ward died 21 July 1943 in Saratoga township, Wilson County. Per her death certificate, she was born 2 January 1893 in Greene County to Gray Tart and Mittie Ward, both of Greene County; was married to James Ward; and was buried in Community Cemetery, Greene County.

James Ward Sr. died 11 November 1944 in Saratoga township, Wilson County. Per his death certificate, he was born 12 October 1882 in Wilson County to Lawrence Ward and Sarah Artis; was the widower of Addie Ward; was a farmer; and was buried Saint Delight cemetery, Greene County, N.C.

The obituary of Ruth Neal Webb.

Journey and Guide (Norfolk, Va.), 14 July 1946.

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In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 105 Wainwright, widowed barber Austin Neal, 42, with children Bryant, 21, also a barber, Daisy, 16, Annie, 13, Samuel, 7, and Ruth, 5.

In the 1930 census, Wilson, Wilson County: at 1114 East Nash Street, odd jobs laborer Jessie Adams, 43; wife Rosa, 34, cook; daughter Larcinia, 15; and roomer Ruth Neal, 16.

On 5 June 1943, Oliver DuBois Webb, 37, born in Norfolk to Joseph C. Webb and Mattie Martha Brown, married Ruth Neal, 24, born Wilson to Austin Neal and Lula Thompson.

Ruth Neal Webb died 26 June 1945 in Norfolk, Virginia. Per her death certificate, she was born 1918 in Wilson, N.C., to Austin and Lula Neal; was married to Oliver D. Neal; lived at 854 Norchester Avenue, Norfolk; and was buried in Wilson.

Funeral Program Friday: Victoria Scarborough Notree.

A reader, Antoinette Dickens, recently emailed me a copy of her great-great-grandmother’s funeral program. Victoria Scarborough Notree was born in Wilson County and, like dozens, maybe hundreds, of others, migrated to Arkansas with her family circa 1890.

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In the 1880 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: farmer Charles Bynum, 59; wife Bunney, 50; and children Mary, 23, Daniel, 20, Henry, 18, Herbert, 16, Adiline, 14, and Charles, 10.

In the 1880 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: Jason Scarboro, 20, servant. [Likely, in the household of white farmer Devro Whitley, next door.]

On 14 October 1886, Jason Scarborough, 26, married Adline Bynum, 21, at Charles Bynum’s in the presence of Haywood Bynum, David Bynum, and Charles Bynum. (Justice of the Peace Seth H. Tyson performed the ceremony, which indicates it likely took place in the Saratoga area.)

In the 1900 census of Owen township, Saline County, Arkansas: Jason Scarber, 46; wife Adline, 36; and children Ella, 16, Jessie, 16, Victoria, 11, Hugh, 8, Arch, 7, Joe, 6, Cora, 4, and Florence, 1. The five youngest children were born in Arkansas; the rest of the family, including Victoria, in North Carolina.

In the 1910 census of Lafayette township, Lonoke County, Arkansas: farmer Albert Maxwell, 46; wife Ellah, 25, born in N.C.; children Ray, 7, Virginia, 5, and Albert, 8 months; and sister-in-law Victoria Scarber, 21, born in N.C.

On 18 October 1910, Ed Notree, 34, married Victoria Scarborough in Lonoke County, Arkansas.

In the 1920 census of Walls township, Lonoke County, Arkansas: farmer Edd Notree, 46; wife Victoria, 25, born in N.C.; and children Alice, 9, Little Edd, 5, Pankie, 3, and Johnie, 7 months.

In the 1930 census of Lafayette township, Lonoke County, Arkansas: farmer Ed Notree, 45; wife Victoria, 38, born in N.C.; and children Ed Jr., 15, Pinkie, 13, and Johnie, 9.

In the 1940 census of Keo, Lonoke County, Arkansas: on Fordyce Street, Ed Notree, 64, farm laborer; wife Victoria, 50; “s-son” T.B. Mahone, 7; and sister Littie Phillips, 45.

Annie Bell Notree died 3 April 1941 in Little Rock, Big Rock township, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Per her death certificate, she was born 24 December 1922 to Eddie Notree and Victoria Scoggins; lived at 1718 Cedar Street, Little Rock; and was a schoolgirl.

In 1942, John Notree registered for the World War II draft in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Per his registration card, he was born 21 April 1922 in Little Rock, Arkansas; lived at 5529 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago; his contact was Mrs. V. Notree, 1468 Randolph Street, Chicago; and he worked for Penfield Oil Company.

In the 1950 census of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois: Victoria Q. Notree, 55, maid, widow, born in N.C., and daughter Allie M., 16.

Thank you, Antoinette!

Affidavits of good behavior, no. 2.

NOTE: I found these documents before my trip to Aberdeen. They, in fact, spurred me to go.

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I’ve been hunting for digitized evidence of the trade of Wilson County slavers like Wyatt Moye, Robert S. Adams, Stephenton Page Jr., and Joshua Barnes in Aberdeen, Mississippi. I finally found some in a deed book dated 1847-1850. (Wilson County, of course, had not yet formed, but these traders lived or had lived in parts of Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne, or Johnston Counties that are now Wilson County.) These registered affidavits attest to the affiants’ personal acquaintance with an enslaved person who had been sent from North Carolina to Mississippi for further sale.

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Deed Record 13, page 641. Chancery Clerk’s Office, Monroe County, Mississippi.

Know all men by these presents that we Josh. Barnes and Jas. D. Barnes, Citizens & free holders of the County of Edgecomb & State of North Carolina do hereby certify that we are acquainted with negro woman Esther a very black thick set Slave about forty or fifty years of age which Slave Larry D. Farmer sent to Aberdeen, Mississippi, by Robert S. Adams that said Slave has not been guilty or convicted of murder, arson, burglary or felony within our knowledge or belief in said state. Signed with our Seals and dated  Feby 27th 1849.    /s/ Josh. Barnes, Jas. D. Barnes

Deed Record 13, page 642. Chancery Clerk’s Office, Monroe County, Mississippi.

Know all men by these presents that we Josh. Barnes & Jas. D. Barnes Citizens & free holders of the County of Edgecomb & State of North Carolina do hereby certify that we are acquainted with negro Friday a very black fellow about twenty or twenty five years of age rather awkard and a little open mouthed weighs about one hundred & sixty pounds that William Barnes sent to Aberdeen, Mississippi, furthermore that said Slave has not been guilty or convicted of murder, arson, burglary or other felony within our knowledge or belief in said state aforesaid. Signed this 27th day of Feby 1849.    /s/ Josh. Barnes, Jas. D. Barnes

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  • Joshua Barnes
  • James D. Barnes — James Dew Barnes. In the 1860 census of Wilson County, farmer James D. Barnes reported $62,580 in personal property. The 1860 slave schedule reveals that this property included 34 enslaved people.
  • Larry D. Farmer
  • Robert S. Adams — Adams was a partner with Wyatt Moye in the slave-trading firm Moye and Adams.
  • William Barnes — brother of Joshua Barnes.

Documents reproduced at www.familysearch.org.

Notes from Mississippi: Wyatt Moye.

Among the documents I perused at Aberdeen’s Evans Memorial Library were local historian John Rodabough’s newspaper columns from the 1970s. Densely detailed and wide-ranging, Rodabaugh’s articles did not shy away from chronicling Monroe County’s roots as a center of Mississippi’s slave trade.

Let me remind you: Wyatt Moye (1793-1862) lived in Greene and Edgecombe Counties in the general vicinity of Stantonsburg. He served as Greene County sheriff for a while, then as an Edgecombe County legislator, where he sponsored legislation to create Wilson County. He was also a slave dealer. Working with other men from Edgecombe County, Moye was a trader and factor, moving “excess” or troublesome Black people from the Upper South to the Lower, where vast cotton fields awaited them.

The photograph of Wyatt Moye’s house, above, makes plain the abundant wages of human trafficking. In his 14 March 1972 “Port of Aberdeen” column, Rodabough described the house as “[t]he finest raised cottage of antebellum Aberdeen.” “The first floor was brick. The main floor above it was frame with a hipped roof. Brick piers supported the gallery of the main floor. A staircase rose from the walkway to that level. The floor of the lower porch was brick. Inside center halls bisected four rooms on each floor.”

As to Moye himself, Rodabough wrote, “Wyatt Moye was a partner in the banking firm of Cunningham, Moye & Co., which flourished in Aberdeen in the 1850’s. After his first wife’s death, he remarried in 1858 “and put his house up for sale. He moved to Memphis.”

Moye was also a director of Mississippi Mutual Insurance Company, which was incorporated in 1850. Among the lives it insured were those of enslaved people — to the benefit of their enslavers. Per Rodabough’s 31 August 1972 column: “In 1855 this firm was two doors from the northwest corner of Commerce and Locust Streets. On September 20, 1858, they purchased the building of Cunningham, Moye & Co., located [at] the present site of the western third of the First National Bank.” “Cunningham, Moye & Company was formed January 11, 1854, with a cash capital of $200,000. The firm was comprised of William R. Cunningham, Wyatt Moye, Robert S. Adams, and Moses J. Wicks.”

The Yazoo Democrat, 2 February 1853.

The I. Y. Johnson Home (Moye-Johnson) on the corner of Canal and Hickory Street in Aberdeen, Mississippi, built in 1855 by Wyatt Moye; Rodabough (John E.) papers, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

First notes from Mississippi.

Obviously, I am terrible at taking breaks.

I’m in Columbus, Mississippi, this morning, about to head home. I came to search for traces of Wyatt Moye and Robert S. Adams, slavetraders who funneled enslaved people from eastern North Carolina, including what is now Wilson County, to the notorious slave markets at Aberdeen, Mississippi.

I spent Juneteenth copying deeds at Chancery Court; talking settlement of Mississippi, the internal slave trade, and convict leasing with a local brother looking at property records for his church; poring over old news columns at the public library; and dodging mad thunderstorms.

It’s hard, heavy stuff, but the warmth of the folks I’ve encountered has countered the weight. I’ll share some photos today and gradually write up what I’ve found.

Aberdeen is an old town by Mississippi standards and was a powerhouse in the antebellum era. Still, from an outsider’s perspective, it doesn’t lean heavily into magnolias and Big House tropes, though it’s got plenty of both.

Tina Robbins at the Visitor’s Bureau provided a wonderful welcome to town and lots of helpful material, including an African-American history driving tour.

Paradise Alley was back of the main street, and the block in which Black folk once gathered for shopping and entertainment among their own. 

Slavetrading was good money. This was Robert S. Adams’ house in Aberdeen. 

The Tombigbee at sunset, Columbus.

I would pay good money for these kind of clearly delineated property records. Props to Monroe County.

Or these.

Both the Choctaw and Chickasaw have ties to this area. Waterways still flow with indigenous names — Tombigbee, Luxapallila, Buttahatchee, Boguegaba, Boguefala, Mattubby, Tubbalubba, Tallabinnela. And deed books reflect the transfers of property from Native people after the Chickasaw Cession of 1832.

Wyatt Moye’s house in Aberdeen. He later moved on to Louisiana to expand his human trafficking activity.

The Masonic Temple.

Home of Bukka White, and maybe Howling Wolf and Albert King.

Y’all know I love a vernacular headstone artist. This was the most remarkable marker of several in Monroe County’s Mount Hebron Missionary Baptist Church cemetery. The stone reads: Nubin White Jr. born Oct. 25 1935 Died Sept. 4 1980 He Drove The School Bus For Ten Years In Aberdeen He Work At Antional Cushion Spring Co.

The obituary of Odell Artis of Washington, D.C.

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 3 May 1958.

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Odell Artis was born and reared in the Eureka area of northeast Wayne County, North Carolina, as was his wife, Lizzie Olivia Diggs Artis. However, the couple married in Wilson, where both had numerous relatives. When Odell Artis died in Washington, D.C., in 1958, his body was returned to Wilson for his funeral and burial.

Odell Artis was a grandson of Adam T. Artis and had several aunts and uncles living in Wilson County. His brother Leslie Artis (who married Olivia Diggs Artis’ cousin Minnie Diggs) also owned property in Wilson and Wilson County.

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On 20 January 1921, Odell Artis of Wayne County, son of Napoleon and Sally Artis, married Olivia Diggs of Wilson County, daughter of Suler Diggs, in Wilson. A.M.E. Zion minister B.P. Coward performed the ceremony in the presence of Edgar Diggs, Alma E. Brooks, and S.A. Coward.

Family ties, no. 12: the Faucettes of Goldsboro, North Carolina.

To date, my Family Ties series has focused on the ways my grandmother Hattie Henderson Ricks and her adoptive mother (her great-aunt) Sarah Henderson Jacobs Silver maintained ties with the Henderson diaspora, which had begun spreading out from Wayne County, North Carolina, in the late 19th century. However, a chance find in a newspaper clipping sends this post in a different direction.

I’ve written of my great-great-grandparents, Green and Fereby Taylor, who were enslaved in far northern Nash County on the plantation of Kinchen Taylor, but appear in 1870 in Lower Town Creek township, Edgecombe County, near present-day Pinetops. In the 1880 census, their household was multi-generational, with five grandchildren — Nannie, Carrie, Lizzie, Louisa, and Isaiah — whose parentage is not clear.

1880 census of Lower Town Creek township, Edgecombe County.

I puzzled out Lizzie Taylor‘s identity (if not her parents) some time ago. As Eliza Taylor — the name she used throughout adulthood — she married Jordan Taylor and lived in Wilson for several decades. The others remained a mystery until I recently stumbled upon this notice of a funeral service:

Goldsboro News-Argus, 24 January 1965.

Edna Gray Taylor Desvigne, Joyce Taylor Crisp, and Roderick Taylor Jr. were my father’s half-siblings — children of Roderick Taylor Sr. and great-grandchildren of Green and Fereby Taylor. Mary John Pender Taylor was their mother. Who was Lula Faucette to them?

Her death certificate answered the question. Lula Faucette was Louisa Lula Taylor Faucette — the Louisa listed in the 1880 census, and Roderick Taylor Sr.’s first cousin. She was born 2 February 1882 [or thereabouts] in Wilson County to parents who were unknown to informant Roderick Taylor Jr. [her first cousin once removed]; lived at 306 South Leslie Street; and was a widow. She was buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

The Faucettes prospered in Goldsboro, and records show Lula Taylor Faucette maintained contact with her Wilson kin for the rest of her life.

On 26 May 1898, J.T. Faucett, 22, of Wayne County, married Lula Taylor, 18, of Wilson County, at the residence of M. Taylor [probably, Mike Taylor, Lula’s uncle.] W.J. Moore, [A.M.E. Zion] minister of the gospel, performed the ceremony in the presence of T.A. Saunders, Mary E. Moore, and Elsie McCullers. The marriage register does not name her parents.

In the 1910 census of Goldsboro township, Wayne County: locomotive fireman Thomas Faucette, 37; wife Louisa, 29; and daughter Susie, 11.

The 1914-1915 catalogue of Scotia Seminary in Concord, N.C., lists Susie Mae Faucette of Goldsboro as a first-year seminary student.

In the 1920 census of Goldsboro, Wayne County: at 508 Canal Street, owned and valued at $5000, Thomas Faucette, 46, locomotive fireman; wife Louise, 40; and daughter Susie, 21, public school teacher.

On 23 November 1921, the Goldsboro News-Argus reported that the Civics Department of the Woman’s Club had organized a civic club “among the colored people” that would go house to house to campaign for planting and cleaning up. Mrs. Thomas Faucette was named as the representative for District #5, Little Washington, from the railroad to the Old Folks’ Home.

In this photo taken circa 1925, Susie Faucette is third from right on the top row. Goldsboro News-Argus, 12 December 1976.

In the 1930 census of Goldsboro, Wayne County: at 426 Canal Street, owned and valued at $5000, Thomas Faucette, 54, steam railway fireman; wife Lula, 50; and daughter Susie, 31, public school teacher.

1930 Goldsboro, N.C., city directory.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 30 May 1934.

My review of available death certificates for Wilson County in May 1934 did not establish the identity of the sister who died. However, Eliza Taylor Taylor died 25 May 1934 in Rose Hill township, Duplin County, and I would bet good money that she was the sister.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 28 July 1934.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 27 January 1937.

Thomas Faucett died 27 January 1937 in Goldsboro, Wayne County. Per his death certificate, he was born 11 December 1876 in Hillsboro[ugh], North Carolina, to Ray Faucett and Susan Wortham; was married to Louise Faucett; lived at 209 South James; worked as a railroad fireman; and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

The Faucettes’ charitable contributions were regularly noted in the News-Argus‘ Black society column.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 14 December 1938.

Two years later, principal Hugh V. Brown submitted this tribute to the local newspaper:

Goldsboro News-Argus, 2 February 1939.

Later that year, Lula and Susie Faucette sold their house on Canal Street in Goldsboro’s Little Washington neighborhood. They bought a house at 209 South James Street. In 1959, they built and moved into a house at 308 South Leslie Street, which still stands.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 21 July 1939.

Per the First African Baptist Church 1864-1978: Dedicational Year church history book, in the late 1930s, Lula Faucette, with Henrietta Wooten, founded the Stitch and Chatter Club “for spiritual, social, and financial and to help First African Baptist meet its financial obligations.”

Per News-Argus reports, beginning about 1942, Lula and Susie Faucette began sponsoring the Thomas Faucette Award, given to the “most useful boy” in senior class at Goldsboro’s Dillard High School.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 2 April 1942.

Mrs. Jimmie Reaves was Bertha Taylor Reaves, daughter of Mike and Rachel Barnes Taylor and Lula Faucette’s first cousin.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 3 July 1944.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 5 August 1944.

(Who were these Philadelphia relatives??)

Goldsboro News-Argus, 26 April 1948.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 28 March 1950.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 28 June 1950.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 24 March 1951.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 11 July 1951.

Rev. Fred M. Davis, most closely associated with Wilson’s Jackson Chapel First Missionary Baptist Church, served as pastor of First African Baptist from 1916 to 1924.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 14 August 1957.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 29 June 1962.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 6 February 1963.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 8 February 1963.

Susie Mae Faucette died 6 February 1963 in Goldsboro. Per her death certificate, she was born 9 March 1906 [sic] in Wayne County to Thomas Faucette and Louise Taylor; was never married; worked as a teacher; and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 14 March 1963.

Susie Faucette’s estate was valued at nearly $187,000 in 2025 dollars.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 20 March 1963.

Goldsboro News-Argus, 11 February 1965.

Louise Faucette’s estate was valued at about $234,ooo in 2025 dollars.

308 South Leslie Street, Goldsboro, per Google Street View, June 2022.

Escapes death — now a stage star!

Jackson (Miss.) Advocate, 9 March 1946.

Javotte Sutton Greene was born in Wilson, but her family lived there only briefly, and she grew up in Durham, North Carolina.

More about “Striver’s Row” from the 2 March 1946 edition of The Ohio State News:

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Per the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index 1936-2007, Javotte Sutton Greene was born 6 January 1922 in Wilson, North Carolina, to Ezekiel Sutton and Allensia M. McKinnon.  She died 4 November 1998.