buggy factory

Where we worked: Hackney Wagon Company/Hackney Brothers.

Hackney Wagon Company (and related Hackney Brothers Company, and later iterations) manufactured thousands upon thousands of wagons, buggies, drays (and later truck bodies) during its 140+ year existence in Wilson. Hackney employed innumerable African-American men over its long existence, and this running list can capture only a fraction.

Illustration from an early twentieth-century catalog. Hackney Brothers Body Company Prints; Images of Historic Wilson, N.C.; Images of North Carolina, http://www.digitalnc.org.

  • Cleveland Adams, wheelwright, 1918
  • Charley R. and Carnel Barnes [twins?], laborers, 1917
  • Dock Barnes, laborer, 1917
  • Henry Barnes, laborer, 1917
  • John Allen Barnes Jr., laborer, 1918
  • John Allen Barnes Sr., laborer, 1918
  • John H. Barnes, laborer, 1918
  • Julius Barnes, laborer, 1930
  • Lemon Barnes, laborer, 1918
  • Tobe Barnes, machine operator, 1918
  • Wade Barnes, laborer, 1920
  • Walter N. Barnes, laborer, 1917
  • William S. Barnes, laborer, 1918
  • Burrell B. Barron, mechanic, 1918
  • Ed Battle, painter, 1917
  • Frank B. Battle, laborer, 1918
  • William Batts, laborer, 1918
  • William A. Batts, laborer, 1918
  • Charlie H. Bell, laborer, 1918
  • Junius Best, mechanic, 1918
  • Charlie H. Boone, laborer, 1918
  • Albert L. Boswell, mechanic, 1918
  • Zeb A. Brewer, mechanic, 1918
  • Arthur Brodie, machine operator, 1918
  • Henry Bryant, laborer, 1917
  • Arthur Cobb, laborer, 1917
  • Howard Cousar, laborer, 1917
  • Lindsay Covington, mechanic in iron department, 1918
  • Will Covington, laborer, 1918
  • William Darring, laborer, 1917
  • Ross Dew, laborer, 1917
  • Robert Dickens, laborer, 1918
  • William O. Dixson, laborer, 1918
  • William Dudley, drayman for buggy factory, 1917
  • Benjamin Earl, 1918
  • Robert Ellis, machine operator, 1918
  • Windsor Ellis, laborer, 1918
  • George W. Farmer, machine operator, 1918
  • Jesse Farmer, blacksmith, 1917
  • Jesse Falkland, tire setter, 1917
  • Fred Faulkland, laborer, 1917
  • Joseph R. Falkland, wood worker, 1917
  • Will Faulkland, laborer, 1918
  • Walter Faulkland, laborer, 1918
  • Walter M. Foster, fireman, 1910
  • Bennie E. Fuller, “cleaning brick,” 1917
  • Denis Fox, laborer, 1917
  • Walter Garner, laborer, 1918
  • Earnest Gibbs, blacksmith, 1917
  • John G. Graham, laborer, 1917
  • Richard Green, laborer, 1918
  • Charlie I. Ham, laborer, 1918
  • Charlie Harris, laborer, 1917
  • Ed Herring, laborer, 1918
  • Allen Hines, laborer, 1918
  • Hardy Hinnant, laborer, 1917
  • Jona Hogan, laborer, 1918
  • William J. Howell, laborer, 1930
  • Will Hunter, laborer, 1918
  • Allen Jackson, fireman, 1917
  • Amos Johnson, laborer, 1917
  • Charley Johnson, laborer, 1917
  • Walter A. Johnson, laborer, 1917
  • Willard Johnson, laborer, 1918
  • William V. Johnson, laborer, 1917
  • Sankey Jones, laborer, 1918
  • Thomas King, laborer, 1918
  • Lewis Knight, sawmill worker, killed in accident at sawmill, 1920
  • Jarrette J. Langley, blacksmith, 1918
  • Dempsey Lassiter, blacksmith, 1918
  • Jesse C. Lassiter, laborer, 1917
  • Ed Lucas, killed by falling timber, 1910
  • Alexander McCrae, laborer, 1918
  • William F. McDowell, laborer, 1918
  • William J. McLane, laborer, 1918
  • Minor McLaughlin, laborer, 1918
  • Arthur Moore, laborer, 1917
  • John L. Moore, “works on buggies,” 1918
  • Arch Morrison, laborer, 1918
  • Buck Parker, laborer, 1917
  • Jesse Parker, laborer, 1917
  • Samuel Perry, 1915-1945
  • Braxton Purdie, laborer, 1917
  • Dock Royall, mechanic, 1938
  • Fraun Sharp, laborer, 1918
  • Ben Smith, fireman, 1918
  • Willie Smith, laborer, 1918
  • Joshua Speight, logging, 1918
  • James D. Stallings, blacksmith, 1918
  • Lucian Studaway, painter, injured in a fire, 1918
  • Willie Sutton, laborer, 1918
  • Henry Tate, laborer, 1918
  • Davis Taylor, laborer, 1917
  • James H. Tinsley, laborer, 1917
  • Dan Umphrey, laborer, 1918
  • Shelton Thompson, laborer, 1917
  • John Ward, drayman, 1918
  • Merriman E. Watkins, laborer, 1917
  • Robert Wilkins, laborer, 1918
  • Washington Wilkins, blacksmith, 1917
  • Arthur Williams, wood worker, 1917
  • Joseph Williams, wagon maker, 1917
  • Roston Williams, fireman, 1917
  • Walter Williams, laborer, 1917
  • Jesse Williamson, machine operator, 1918
  • Will Woodard, laborer, 1918
  • Simeon Wooten, mechanic, 1918