Wilson Advance, 14 May 1891.
gardening
Spring flower show winners.
Wilson Daily Times, 17 May 1950.
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- Book and Garden Club
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- F.C. Bethel — Flora Clark Bethel.
- Sophia Hart
- Norma Darden
- Irene Phillips
- Georgia Dupree
- Mary E. Diggs
- Clara B. Hicks
- E.L. Shade — Estelle Lane Shade.
- Maggie Crawford
- Flossie Barnes
- A.G. Battle — Ada G. Battle
- Presbyterian Girl Scout troops 11 and 19
- Jo-Ann Jenkins
- Frank Barnes
- Joseph Johnson
- Aggie N. Smith
- Tom Clark
- Percy Bowens
- Helen Barnes
- Catherine Benney
- Margaret Wells
- Marion Watson
Winners of the rural garden contest.
Wilson Daily Times, 10 February 1950.
Even without a photo, we would have known Lizzie Atkinson and Martha Mitchell were African American because the Daily Times did not grant Black women the honorific “Mrs.”
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- Lizzie Atkinson
- Martha Mitchell — in the 1940 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer Kester Mitchell, 45; wife Martha, 44; and children Flora Lee, 23, Mamie, 21, Kester Jr., 20, Roy, 18, Christine, 16, Amanda Gray, 14, Purnell and Inell, 12, Cash, 10, and Mildred, 8.
A beautiful front yard.
Wilson Daily Times, 20 April 1920.
Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.