Wilson Daily Times, 23 April 1949.
1949 Trojan, the yearbook of Charles H. Darden High School.
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In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 412 Daniel Street, Harvey Rogers, 26; wife Martha, 25; and children Amos, 10, and Lena Mae, 7.
In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Harvey Rogers, 36, janitor at laundry and dry-cleaning business; wife Martha T., 36, domestic; and son Amos, 19, packer at tobacco retrying factory.
Wilson Daily Times, 10 January 1948.
Wilson Daily Times, __ December 1949.
“‘The East Nash street block between the railroad and Stantonsburg Street will be decorated for the first time in the last decade,’ Hartford Bess said.”
“The Darden High school band will parade in the main parade and play a few selections in front of the Wilson court house. After this it will march on down to Stantonsburg and East Nash streets where it will provide the music at [a lighting] ceremony.”
Wilson Daily Times, 9 November 1949.
The members of the 1949 Darden gridiron squad were Eddie Best, Hunk McNeal, Herman, Hall, Bill White, Leo Dancy, Harold Darden, Charlie Floyd, John Wesley, Joe Tucker, Offie Clark, Bill Kerr, Booker T. Bridges, Fred Barnes, Jimmy Ellis, Clyde Speight, Johnny Moore, Ben Knight, and Isiah Ward.
Everybody played both of the ball and subbed.
Wilson Daily Times, 20 September 1950.
The Trojan (1952), yearbook of C.H. Darden High School.
The Trojan (1952), yearbook of C.H. Darden High School.
Seventy-five years ago today, the Daily Times reported Darden High School graduates were attending college at Howard University, N.C. College [North Carolina Central University], A&T College [North Carolina State A&T University], Shaw University, Johnson C. Smith University, Barber-Scotia College, Virginia State University, West Virginia State University, Saint Augustine’s College [now University], Temple University, Cortez Peters Business School, and Winston-Salem Teachers College [now Winston-Salem State University.]
Wilson Daily Times, 15 September 1948.
Wilson Daily Times, 19 March 1932.
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Wilson Daily Times, 5 June 1937.
Wilson Daily Times, 9 June 1950.
The Class of 1950 included Alice Cooper, Lorraine Woodard, Katoria Dew, Doris Hyman, Bessie McCowan, Bernice Purdie, Mildred Darden, Mildred Harris, Jannie Stokes, Mae Berta Hargrove, Ethel Anderson, Elizabeth Dew, Geraldine Williams, Irene Pender, Hilda Battle, Elise Moore, Alice Foster, Marie Warren, Mildred Cobb, Hildegarde Melton, Esther Williams, Margaret Barnes, Edna Gray Mitchell, Jessie L. Reeves, Vivian Hill, Rosetta Parker, Georgia McNeil, Alfonza Watson, Willia Dean Edwards, Ruby Ward, Gloria Haskins, Laverda May, Gerlean Farmer, Georgia Moore, James Pender, Clyde Speight, Paul Bryant, Theodore Jackson, William E. Carter, Lonnie Barnes, Altheneus Dew, Joseph Knight, Queen Sauls, James Dew, Rudolph Boykin, Eddie Hilliard, Leander McKeithan, Milton Barnes, Robert Dixon, Roosevelt Wright, Joseph Gay, Marvin Weaver, John Cotton, Clarence McPhail, Woody Farmer, Joe Howard, Leonard Barnes, Thomas Stokes, James Delaney, Offie Clark, Jesse McPhail, John Cotton, Willie Carr, and Lee Williams.
