Russell

The McNeil-Russell wedding.

Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Va.), 14 November 1936.

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  • Annie Lee Russell

In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Atlantic Street, laborer Jeff Russell, 35; wife Julia, 32; and daughter Annie, 9.

In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: brickmason James [sic] Russell, 42; wife Julia, 42; daughter Annie, 17; and lodger James E. Amos, 41, public school teacher.

Per their marriage license, on 21 December 1936, Annie Russell, 24, daughter of Jeff and Julia Russell, married James McNeill, 28, son of Bernie and Lacy McNeill, in Wilson. Baptist minister B.F. Jordan performed the ceremony. [Jordan applied for the license on October 21, but the certification he signed at the bottom of the license gives the marriage date as December 21, which is inconsistent with the date of the news article.]

  • James McNeil

 

The obituary of Jefferson E. Russell.

Wilson Daily Times, 3 March 1955.

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In the 1900 census of Township #5, Fairfield County, South Carolina: farmer Etta Russel, 46, and children Henry, 17, Ed, 15, Robert, 14, Jeff, 11, Ira, 9, Samuel, 7, Earnest, 2, and Rosa, 1.

In the 1910 census of Township #5, Fairfield County, South Carolina: Jeff Russell, 21; wife Francis, 21; and sons Frank, 1, and Robert, 2 months.

In 1917, Jeff Russell registered for the World War I draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 8 August 1890 in Winnsboro, South Carolina; lived on Virginia Street, Wilson; worked as a bricklayer for Bill McGowan; and supported a wife and three children. [Where was Virginia Street?]

In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Atlantic Street, laborer Jeff Russell, 35; wife Julia, 32; and daughter Annie, 9.

In the 1920 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Russell Jeff E (c) bricklyer h Atlanta nr East

In the 1922 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Russell Jeff E (c) bricklyer h 910 Atlanta; also Russell Julia (c) dom h 910 Atlanta

In the 1928 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Russell Jeff E (c) bricklyer h 915 Atlanta

In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: brickmason James [sic] Russell, 42; wife Julia, 42; daughter Annie, 17; and lodger James E. Amos, 41, public school teacher.

In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Russell Jefferson E (c; Julia) brklyr h 919 Atlantic av

On 21 December 1936, Annie Russell, 24, daughter of Jeff and Julia Russell, married James McNeill, 28, son of Bernie and Lacy McNeill, in Wilson. Baptist minister B.F. Jordan performed the ceremony.

In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 623 Green Street, truck driver Albert Gay, 24; his siblings Harrell, 19, Samuel, 17, Annie M., 14, and Ralph, 12; lodger Mrs. Julia Russell, 40, widow, servant; and lodger’s son Albert, 22, brickmason. [This is curious. Julia Russell was not a widow, as Jeff Russell was very much alive in 1940. Where was he? And where was Albert in earlier censuses?]

The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 8 March 1950.

Jefferson Elliott Russell died 2 March 1955 at Mercy Hospital, Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was born 10 August 1894 in Fairfield County, South Carolina, to Robert Russell and Henrietta Rudgley; worked as a laborer; lived at 203 North Reid Street; and was married. Informant was Francis Gunthorp, Winnsboro, S.C.

Annie Russell Phillips died 12 April 1985 in Wilson. Per her death certificate, she was born 18 November 1910 in York County, South Carolina, to Jeff Russell and Julia Jones; lived at 912 East Nash Street; was married to Preston P. Phillips; worked as a nurse; and was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery.

919 Atlantic Street.

The one hundred ninety-seventh in a series of posts highlighting buildings in East Wilson Historic District, a national historic district located in Wilson, North Carolina. As originally approved, the district encompasses 858 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in a historically African-American section of Wilson. (A significant number have since been lost.) The district was developed between about 1890 to 1940 and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Bungalow/American Craftsman, and Shotgun-style architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

As described in the nomination form for the East Wilson Historic District: “ca. 1930; 1 1/2 stories; Donnie Hargrove house; bungalow with clipped-gable roof and matching dormer, engaged porch; partial brick veneer; Hargrove was a barber; builder was brick mason Jeff Russell; contributing garage”

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In the 1928 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Hobbs Hadie (c; Elsie) attndt Smith’s Filling Sta h 919 Atlanta 

In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Russell Jefferson E (c; Julia) brklyr h 919 Atlantic av

In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 919 Atlantic Avenue, owned and valued at $3000, Donna Hargroves, 35, barber shop at pool room; wife Flora, 31; and daughter Geraldine, 15.

In the 1941 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Hargrove John (c; Flora; 2; Manhattan Billiard Parlor) barber 421 E Nash h 919 Atlantic av

In 1942, John Hargrove registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 20 October 1902 in Wilson; lived at 919 Atlantic Street; his contact was Vina Hargrove, 1110 Carolina Street, Wilson; and was a self-employed barber at 421 East Nash Street.

In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 919 Atlantic, barber John Hargrove, 45, barber; wife Mae B., 34, beautician; and daughter Dorothy, 20. 

413 East Green Street.

The seventy-ninth in a series of posts highlighting buildings in East Wilson Historic District, a national historic district located in Wilson, North Carolina. As originally approved, the district encompasses 858 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in a historically African-American section of Wilson. (A significant number have since been lost.) The district was developed between about 1890 to 1940 and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Bungalow/American Craftsman, and Shotgun-style architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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As described in the nomination form for the East Wilson Historic District, this house is: “ca. 1893; 1 story; Zachariah Barnes house; two-room house; aluminum-sided; Barnes was a porter.” The house was formerly numbered #414.

In the 1912 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Barnes Zachariah porter 414 E Green

In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: office maid Mary Palmer, 50, and her children Beatrice, 23, private cook; James E., 18, drugstore delivery boy; Glayds, 14, private nurse; Mary L., 12, private nurse; Lonie, 9; and Robert L., 8.

In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Palmer Mary (c) janitress h 413 E Green; Palmer Beatrice (c) domestic 413 E Green; and Palmer Edw (c) porter Turlington & Morrison h 413 E Green

In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 413 East Green, rented at $15/month, Georgia-born household servant Isaac Butler, 44; wife Estelle, a household servant; and lodger Eleanor Deans, 38, also a household servant.

In the 1941 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Russell Julia (c) cook h 413 E Green

In the 1947-48 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Lee John W (c; Irene) orderly Woodard-Herring Hosp h 413 E Green

On 16 September 1986, the Wilson Daily Times ran an obituary for Lula B. Collins, who had last lived at 413 East Green: