Loftin

The estate of Emma L. Evans.

Emma L. Evans‘ administrator, Major J. Loftin, paid $271.oo to C.H. Darden & Son for burial expenses, $25.00 for a tombstone, and $15.00 to rent three cars to transport mourners to the funeral.

Per her death certificate, Evans was buried in Wilson. In 1923, this generic designation usually meant Vick Cemetery (though Rountree, Odd Fellows, and, to a much lesser extent, Oakdale were possible.) I’ve never seen it. If Evans was laid to rest in Vick, her headstone is either deeply, and perhaps irretrievably, buried or destroyed. If in Odd Fellows or Rountree, perhaps it will be found.

Wilson County, N.C., Property Settlement Records 1923-1931, http://www.familysearch.org.

The obituary of Florence Loftin, who was highly esteemed.

Wilson Daily Times, 12 March 1935.

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In the 1910 census of Brogden township, Wayne County: farmer Robert Lofton, 66; wife Eveline, 66; daughters Emma J. Lofton, 37, Alice A. Wilson, 35, and Mary, 24, Bettie, 19, Florence, 19, and Jessie Lofton, 14, plus granddaughters Donnie, 4, Mable, 3, and Marie, 2 months.

In the 1925 and 1928 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directories: Lofton Florence (c) cook h 600 W Nash [the home of Fannie Shepherd Harriss.]

Florence Loftin executed a will on 2 April 1927. She divided her property in even thirds between her sister Mary Hinnant and nieces Donnie Hinnant and Marie Jones.

Florence Lofton died 5 March 1935 at Saint Agnes Hospital, Raleigh, N.C. Per her death certificate, she was 44 years old; was born in Wayne County, N.C., to Barber Lofton and Evelyn Hards of Duplin County N.C.; lived at 600 West Nash Street; and did domestic work. She was buried in Wilson, N.C.