Wilson Daily Times, 25 April 1944.
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Wilson Daily Times, 6 July 1928.
Many of us remember Jim Barbour‘s pressing club as Wardrobe Cleaners at its later South Pender and Elvie Street location. Nannie Barbour and then Willie R. Barnes operated the business for decades. (Ben Mincey, of course, was the legendary leader of the Red Hots.)
Charlotte Observer, 12 April 1921.
Boisey O. Barnes delivered an oration on “Dissatisfaction, the Cause of Progress” at the ceremony for his graduation from Johnson C. Smith’s high school division.
Plat Book 4, page 51.
On 30 September 1946, Dr. B.O. Barnes and his wife Flossie H. Barnes sold the Board of Trustees of Wilson City Schools a tract bordered by North Reid Street, East Vance Street, an unopened section of North Vick Street, and an unopened section of Crowell Street. Deed Book 326, page 43.
As the Google Maps aerial below shows, the property is adjacent to land on which the former Vick Elementary School sits. (Vick had opened ten years earlier.) Ultimately, however, much of it was sold to developers who built a row of houses in the 800 block of East Vance Street.
On 11 November 1857, Jacob S. Barnes of Edgecombe County (present-day Gardners township in Wilson County) executed a will in which he bequeathed, among other things:
North Carolina Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, http://www.ancestry.com.
Pittsburgh Courier, 4 February 1950.
The suit Dr. Boisey O. Barnes and Dr. Darcey C. Yancey filed eventually led to the construction of a new elementary school in East Wilson. Barnes died in 1956, and the school was named in his honor.
In a will executed on 27 November 1859, among other items, Jacob Barnes bequeathed to his daughter Zilpha Ann Barnes, “three Negroes Milby, Anna, and Milby Jane” and directed his executor to “sell two Negroes Ephraigm and Randall.”
He also bequeathed:
North Carolina Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, http://www.ancestry.com.
In his 30 September 1856 will, William J. Armstrong directed his slaves be hired out until all his debts were paid, then divided equally among his heirs with the proviso that “it is my desire that at the division of my Slaves my Daughter Mary E. Barnes have Slave Harry as a part of her share at a fair valuation as she has had him for several years.”
North Carolina Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, http://www.ancestry.com.
Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Va.), 7 September 1940.
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