Wilson Advance, 22 September 1898.
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- L.H. Peacock — Levi H. Peacock.
- Mack Wells
foreclosure
Parcel No. 5 for sale.
Wilson Daily Times, 4 March 1933.
The assets of the failed Planters Bank went up for sale in 1933, including a house and two lots Samuel H. Vick had owned at the intersection of Manchester and Douglas Streets. The house, in fair condition, was described as one-story, with five rooms and a composition roof.
[I am not sure where this was. Douglas Street (renamed from Spring in the late 1920s) runs on the other side of the railroad from and in no place intersects Manchester.]
504 South Lodge Street.
This house is not within the bounds of East Wilson Historic District. However, South Lodge Street — below the warehouse district — has been an African-American residential area since the turn of the twentieth century.
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 506 [sic] Lodge Street, cafe proprietor Jessie Strickland, 28, and wife Viola, 27, and roomers Mack Strickland, 18, transfer truck driver, and James Johnson, 20, guano company laborer.
In the 1922 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Strickland Jesse (c; Viola) propr Strickland Cafe h 504 S Lodge
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 504 Lodge Street, owned and valued at $4000, Jesse Strickland, 46, and wife Viola, 37. Their occupations are listed as farm laborer and “manufacturing [illegible]/own plant.” However, it appears that entries are off by a line, and should read “manufacturing [illegible]/own plant” and cook for private family.
In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Strickland Jesse (c; Viola) 504 S Lodge
In a familiar tale of woe, the Stricklands defaulted on their mortgage, and Wilson Home & Loan Association advertised the property for auction.
Wilson Daily Times, 10 November 1930.
Jessie Strickland died 18 March 1932 in Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was 40 years old; was born in Wilson to Mose Farmer and Hannah Strickland; was a clerk in a store; and lived at Spring Street. Informant was Viola Strickland, 504 South Lodge.
In the 1941 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Mable Annie (c) maid h 504 S Lodge
In the 1947 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Mable Annie (c) h 504 S Lodge
Photograph by Lisa Y. Henderson, December 2017.
Foreclosure and sale.
Wilson Mirror, 16 May 1888.
Just a few years into his marriage, A. Wilson Jones encountered financial difficulties and let his house and lot on East Nash Street go into foreclosure. Nine years later, he stabbed to death his wife Nettie Vick Jones, sister of Samuel H. Vick.