home demonstration club

Rocky Branch Demonstration Club at the Whitley home.

Wilson Daily Times, 25 April 1944.

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  • Retha Whitley — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: farmer Rosco Whitley, 33; wife Retha, 26; and children Annie, 8, Mary Ella, 5, William R., 4, and Joice T., 1.
  • Esther Barnes — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: farmer Joe Barnes, 82; wife Lizzie, 65; daughter Ester, 18; niece Gladys Smith, 14; grandchildren Francis, 7, and Bubble Ashby, 5; son Sevil Barnes, 24; and his wife Bulah, 14.

Mitchell’s home demonstration club meets.

In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. (Or schools, like Mitchell, which were not Rosenwald-funded, but were contemporaries.)

Wilson Daily Times, 21 February 1944.

  • Fannie Parker — in the 1940 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: James Parker, 44; wife Fannie, 42; and adopted children Annie, 13, and Silas, 8.
  • Carolina Brodie
  • Louise Chisel
  • Minnie Winstead — in the 1940 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: Clarence Winstead, 42, farmer; wife Minnie, 44; and adopted son Robert Featherson, 14.
  • Dorthea Parker — in the 1940 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer John Parker, 39; wife Doretha, 28; children Nora Lee, 18, James Earl, 14, Elmer, 12, and John S.T. Parker, 8; and stepson Joseph Evans, 8.

Rocky Branch home demonstration club has monthly meeting.

In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. Rocky Branch home demonstration club’s members lived in Rocky Branch school district.

 

Wilson Daily Times, 9 April 1943.

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  • Della O’Neal — in the 1950 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: farmer James O’Neal, 46; wife Della, 46, farm helper; son Rubin, 23, farm helper; daughter Ruby Barnes, 23; and grandsons Tyren W., 2, and Joe Ann Barnes, born in February.
  • Lossie Shaw — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: farmer James R. Shaw, 51; wife Lossie, 44; and James Ray, 12, and Arlene Dixon, 11.
  • Esther Barnes

Williamson Home Demonstration Club news.

In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. As seen here, the schools became the centers of rural communities. The Williamson Home Demonstration Club was comprised of women who lived in Williamson’s district. In this contribution to the Daily Times, the Club reported on members’ gardening, canning, and sewing work; their contribution to a fire fund for demonstration agent Jane Amos Boyd; a successful picnic with the clubs affiliated with Sims, New Vester, and Rocky Branch Schools; a baby shower; and the sick and shut-in.

Wilson Daily Times, 3 July 1945.

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  • Lillie Powell
  • Ida M. Finch— in the 1940 census of Cross Roads township, Wilson County: farmer Eddie Finch, 30; wife Ida M., 28; and sons Joshua T., 7, and Willie G., 1.
  • Gladys Graham — in the 1940 census of Cross Roads township, Wilson County: farm laborer James Graham, 24; wife Gladys, 20; and daughter Mary F., 1.
  • C.W. Foster — Carter W. Foster.
  • Lizzie Atkinson
  • Mamie B. Williamson

Countywide picnic.

Wilson Daily Times, 30 June 1941.

Picnics organized by Wilson County’s Black 4-H and Home Demonstration clubs were annual social highlights. In 1941, a hundred and fifty families traveled to Yelverton School at the far eastern edge of the county for fun and frolic in such contests as milk-sucking, cracker-eating, nail-driving, bag-racing, and horseshoe-pitching.