We’ve talked about Wilson’s early Black photographers, who included “Picture-Taking” George W. Barnes, J. Thomas Artis, Edwin D. Fisher, John H.W. Baker, and Ray J. Dancy. To this cohort add David Reid, who listed his occupation as photographer on his daughter Hattie Olivia Reid‘s 1922 birth certificate.
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I have not identified this Samuel Jones in Wilson County. (He was not Samuel Jones, son of Duke and Emily Jones.)
On 10 February 1918, Sam Jones, 47, of Badgett township, Pulaski County, Arkansas, married Bertha Martin, 28, of Badgett township, Pulaski County, Arkansas, in Pulaski County.
In the 1920 census of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas: city laborer Sam Jones, 48; wife Bertha, 30; daughter Annie May, 8 months; and stepson Edwin Martin, 8. Sam Jones was born in North Carolina; his wife and children in Arkansas.
Bertha Jones died 21 November 1925 in Gray township, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Per her death certificate, she was born 17 May 1899 in Pulaski County to [unnamed] Houston and Mary Houston; was married to Sam Jones; lived on Jacksonville, Arkansas; and was buried in Johnson Cemetery.
In the 1930 census of Eatman township, Pulaski County, Arkansas: farmer Sam Jones, 57, and daughters Annie M., 10, and Sammie L., 6.
The Daily Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.), 4 June 1920.
The state board of health levied five-dollar fines against undertaker Amos Batts for failing to file a death certificate and Dr. William A. Mitchner for failing to file a birth certificate.