Sabbath

Sensible negroes agree.

Wilson Daily Times, 26 July 1915.

The Daily Times published a diatribe against Seventh Day Adventists, whose chief offense seemed to be that their members refused to work on Saturdays.

Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.

Sunday funerals.

Wilson Daily Times, 4 May 1935.

Presumably, the “secular organizations” holding funeral parades and services on Sunday were fraternal groups, masonic orders, and social clubs.

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B.F. Jordan — Benjamin F. Jordan
Fred M. Davis
H.H. Daniels — Hattie Daniels?
C.W. Brown
W.H. Holaday — W.H. Holliday.
L.E. Rasberry
W.A. Fordham
Willie McLondon
W.L. Bobbitt — Walter L. Bobbitt
Charlie Jones — Charles T. Jones
G.A. Wood — George A. Wood
C.E. Artis — Columbus E. Artis
C.L. Darden — Camillus L. Darden

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Black Wide-Awake

Documents of Historical and Genealogical Interest to Researchers of Wilson County, North Carolina's African-American Past

Sabbath

Sensible negroes agree.

Sunday funerals.