Raleigh Times, 18 May 1904.
W. Lee Person was Samuel H. Vick‘s business associate as well as political ally. See more about Lincoln Benefit Society here and here and here and here.
Lincoln Benefit Society
Certificate No. 6919, Lincoln Benefit Society.
Lincoln Benefit Society of Wilson, N.C., established by Dr. Frank S. Hargrave and Samuel H. Vick, issued burial policies across eastern North Carolina.
Wilson Daily Times, 18 June 1912.
The documents below relate to a policy Lincoln Benefit Society issued in December 1912 to George E. Elliott, a resident of Manchester, Cumberland County, North Carolina. (There were two George E. Elliotts, father and son, and it is not clear which carried the policy.)
Elliott paid thirty cents a month on his policy.
I have not been able to identify J.J. Jordan, who issued Elliott’s initial fee receipt, or his collector H.K. Johnson.
Special thanks to J. Robert Boykin III for sharing these documents.
Colored insurance organization sued.
Samuel Vick‘s Lincoln Benefit Society did business well beyond Wilson. In 1909, Annie Graham, executrix of the estate of Fred Graham of Wilmington, North Carolina, sued Lincoln for a $500 benefit the company refused to pay out, claiming the Grahams paid the final premium to an unauthorized person.
Wilmington Morning Star, 16 July 1909.
- Annie and Fred Graham
- Lincoln Benefit Society
- Sam Vick — Samuel H. Vick.