In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. Here, Rocky Branch 4-H Club celebrated Valentine’s Day and Negro History Week in February 1947.
Wilson Daily Times, 21 February 1947.
——
- Francis Ashby — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: Joe Barnes, 82; wife Kizzie, 65; daughter Ester, 18; niece Gladys Smith, 14; grandchildren Francis, 7, and Bubble Ashby, 5; son S[illegible] Barnes, 24, and wife Bulah, 24.
- George Reid
- Ormond Ashby — “Bubble” Ashby, above?
- Wadell Bagley
- Mary E. Hinnant
- Shirley Terrell
- Louretha Renfrow — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: farm laborer John Renfrow, 25; wife Eula Mae, 24; and children Louretha, 3, Edna Gray, 2, and Marie, 1.
- Miss Wade — Helen T. Wade, home demonstration agent.