29184
(Non-Stock)
Certificate of Incorporation
of
The Eureka Social Club, Incorporated
This is to Certify that we, the undersigned, do hereby associate ourselves into a non-stock corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the State of North Carolina as contained in Chapter 22 of the Consolidated Statutes, entitled “Corporations,” and the several amendments thereto, and to that end do hereby set forth:
1. The name of this Corporation is the Eureka Social Club, Incorporated.
2. The location of the principal office of the corporation in this state is at No. 417 East Nash Street, in the Town of Wilson, County of Wilson.
3. The objects for which this corporation is formed are as follows:
(a) To conduct and maintain a social club for the amusement and recreation of its members, to promote social intercourse among the members of the Eureka Social Club, Incorporated, and to provide rooms in which they can meet for recreation, amusement and social intercourse.
And in order properly to prosecute the objects and purposes above set forth, the Corporation shall have full power and authority to purchase, lease and otherwise acquire, hold, mortgage, convey and otherwise dispose of all kinds of property, both real and personal, located both in the state and in all other states, territories and dependencies of the United States, and generally to perform all acts which may be deemed necessary for the proper and successful prosecution of the objects and purposes for which the Corporation is created.
4. The Corporation is to have no capital stock.
5. The names and post office addresses of the incorporators are as follows:
O.N. Freeman — Wilson, N.C.
Charlie Woodard — Wilson, N.C.
Harry Brown — Wilson, N.C.
6. The period of existence of this corporation is limited to sixty years.
7. Members may be admitted after organization under the following terms: By ballot of the Board of Governors as set forth in the by-laws, and by paying an initiation fee prescribed by the by-laws.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, this the 25 day of February, A.D. 1927.
O.N. Freeman (Seal)
Chas. Woodard (Seal)
Harry Brown (Seal)
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Eureka Social Club shared an address, 417 East Nash Street, with Lincoln Theatre and presumably rented space upstairs.
On 28 November 1908, Charlie Woodard, 22, son of Phoebe Woodard, married Georgia Clayton, 19, daughter of Sarah Clayton, at Sarah Clayton’s in Wilson. Baptist minister Fred M. Davis performed the ceremony in the presence of Luther Barbour, L.A. Moore, and James Taylor.
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 528 Nash Street, May Akin, 40; Delma Branch, 24, dressmaker; Charlie Branch, 25, laborer; Mildred, 10, Helen, 7, Jessie L., 4, and Harry Branch, 2; laborer Charlie Woodard, 34; wife Georgia, 28; and sons Herbert, 4, and Charles Jr., 1; and laborers John Barnes, 22, Dave Barnes, 20, and Harry Carter, 34.
In the 1928 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Woodard Chas (c; Georgia) barber 421 E Nash h 1000 Lincoln
In the 1908 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Brown Harry (c; meatctr) h 132 Suggs
In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Harry Brown, 35, and wife Mary, 22, both laborers.
On 26 July 1913, Harry Brown, 32, of Wilson, son of Jim and Viana Brown, married Loucina Spence, 20, of Wilson, daughter of John and Nancy Spence, at John Spence’s home in Wilson. Free Will Baptist minister B.F. Loftin performed the ceremony in the presence of E.F. Killette, T.S. Smith, and John Spence.
In 1917, William Harrison Brown registered for the World War I draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 25 September 1888 in Summerton, South Carolina; lived at 413 Stantonsburg, Wilson; and worked as a painter.
Corporations Book 3, page 171, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
