Farm Security Administration

Pink Reid borrows from F.S.A.

Pink Reid borrowed $585 from the Farm Security Administration on 10 January 1942. To guarantee his loan, he pledged two mules, a Poland China brood sow, and a milch cow, as well as  his farm equipment.

Deed Book 275, page 303, Wilson County Register of Deeds, Wilson.

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In the 1940 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: farmer Pink Reid, 58; wife Matilda, 57; and son Allen T., 20. All were living in Wayne County five years earlier. 

In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 1003 Stantonsburg Street, Pinkey Reid, 68, yard cleaner; son Horace Reid, 32, butler; nephew Randolph Braswell, 26, bricklayer, and his wife Sarah, 25; and wife Matilda Reid, 67, nurse maid.

Pinkney Reid died 30 November 1961 at his residence at 504 North Vick Street, Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was born 25 July 1881 in Wayne County to William Reid and Bettie Wilson; was married to Matilda Reid; was a farmer; and was buried at Turner Swamp cemetery, Wayne County.

Augusta Caple Ford, farmer and learner.

Wilson Daily Times, 17 August 1945.

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In the 1930 census of Black Creek township, North Carolina: farmer James Caple, 36; wife Mary, 37; and children Willie, 16, and Augusta, 12.

On 29 December 1937, Clinton Ford, 23, of Crossroads township, son of Jonathan and Annie Ford, married Augusta Caple, 20, of Crossroads township, daughter of James and Mary Caple. Primitive Baptist minister David Bynum performed the ceremony in the presence of Leslie Lee Miller, Robert Bynum, and Lonnie H. Rose.

In 1940, John Clinton Ford registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 18 April 1914 in Wilson County; lived at R.F.D. #1, Lucama; his contact was wife Agusta Ford; and he was self-employed.

In the 1950 census of Oldfields township, Wilson County: farmer John C. Ford, 35; wife Augusta C., 32; and roomer Nathaniel Williams, 20.

Augusta Ford died 16 September 1951 at Mercy Hospital, Wilson. Per her death certificate, she was born 6 September 1917 in Rockingham County, N.C., to James Capel and Mary Riggins; was married to Clinton Ford; worked as a farmer; lived at R.F.D. 1, Simms; and was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery.

Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.

Henrietta Ruffin, champion canner.

Wilson Daily Times, 25 August 1944.

Once again, Henrietta Ruffin was recognized for her canning prowess, here crowned Wilson County champion canner by the Farm Security Administration. Using a pressure cooker obtained via an FSA loan, Ruffin planned to can 800 quarts of fruit, meat, and vegetables in 1944, topping her 550-quart total the year before.