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Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist rents temporary space.

Shortly before Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church built the church that now houses Saint Mark’s Episcopal, they rented the second floor of the Knights of King Solomon building on Stantonsburg Street (now South Pender.) The Knights agreed to provide fuel, light, and janitorial service to the church.

Deed Book 147, page 193, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.

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  • J.S. Spell of Wilson, N.C. — John S. Spell.
  • S. Carraway of Kinston, N.C. — Stephen Carraway Sr. (1864-1949) was grocery merchant in Kinston.
  • W.M. Mitchell of Rocky Mount, N.C. — William M. Mitchell (1874-1931) was a Atlantic Coast Line Railway fireman in Rocky Mount.
  • Ed Holden
  • Chas. Woodard
  • Lloyd Thomas

 

Diggs leases farmland in home county.

Edgar H. Diggs, a long-time barber in Wilson, was born into a family with deep roots in northern Wayne County, N.C., just across the county line from  Stantonsburg (in Wilson County). In September 1934, Diggs entered into a ten-year lease with his uncle, Willie Diggs, for the farm Willie Diggs had inherited from his mother Frances Diggs.

Deed book 226, page 297, Wayne County Register of Deeds Office, Goldsboro, N.C.

Under the terms of the lease, Edgar Diggs was permitted to use all the wood he needed to run the farm and to cut as much timber as needed for maintenance of buildings and fences. He was also permitted the sublet the property provided he gave his uncle notice and paid his $100 yearly rent in advance.