Rocky Mount Telegram, 13 March 1939.
James Leggett was sentenced to six months “on the roads” for scamming two men. Leggett promised them good jobs in Norfolk, Virginia, then exacted $2.50 from each for bogus union dues.
Pittsburgh Courier, 18 September 1937.
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Ed Sheppard, 23, married Sealy Black, 25, in Greene County on 24 April 1924.
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 806 Oil Mill Alley, Ed Sheppard, no age given; wife Celia, no age given, cook; sons Henry, 22, oil mill laborer, Junior, 13, Moses, 11, and Raymon, 7; and lodger Earnest Ross, 11.