sheriff sale

Sheriff’s tax sale, 1914.

Wilson Daily Times, 7 August 1914.

This 1914 notice of impending sheriff’s sale for non-payment of property taxes included these African-Americans:

Wilson township

  • Charlotte Aycock — in the 1900 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Ash Street, teacher Charlotte Aycock, 29, widow; niece Gertrude Jourdin, 10, dressmaker (?); and servant Any Williams, 20, cook. 
  • H.R. Barnes (or Baines) 
  • John A. Barnes 
  • H.G. Barnes
  • Ed Barnes
  • Winnie Best — in the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Grace Street, Winnie Best, 66; son Isaac, 28, odd jobs; and daughter Mary, 25, house servant.
  • Arch Bynum — in the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Sugg Street, Arch Bynum, 37; wife Lillie, 31; and children Nnes, 11, Junis, 7, George, 4, Rena, 2, and Ressie, 6 months.
  • Ella Woodard Bynum — in the 1910 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: laundress Ella Woodard, 28, and children Willie J., 9, Oscar, 4, Mary L., 3, and Jesse B., 1.
  • John Reid
  • Emma Dunston
  • Isaac C. Fields — perhaps, in the 1880 census of Cross Roads township, Wilson County: farmer Washington Fields, 30; wife Julia, 35; and children Renda, 12, Penninah, 11, Jane, 9, Christany, 8, London, 6, William, 5, and twins Isaac and Jacob, 3.
  • Chas. B. Gay — Charles B. Gay.
  • Dr. M.S. Gilliam — Matthew S. Gilliam.
  • Garfield Grantham — in the 1912 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Grantham Garfield (c) carp h Carolina nr Vick
  • Amos Hines — in the 1900 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: Amos Hines, 32; wife Sarah, 28; and sons Ashley, 7, Branch, 4, and George D., 1.
  • Ed Hinnant
  • Jeff Holoway — in the 1916 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Holloway Jeff (c) 316 (423) South
  • P.P. Johnson
  • T.D. Johnson
  • W.A. Johnson
  • Levi Jones
  • Lottie Marlowe
  • L.A. Moore — Lee A. Moore.
  • Plummer Pittman — in the 1900 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: Hariette Pittman, 40; children Minnie, 20, Plummer, 19, Haywood, 10, Herbert, 7, and Effie, 4; and grandchild Bessie, 7.
  • J.W. Rogers — John W. Rogers.
  • Jane Sutton (or Sutzer) — Mary Jane Taylor Henderson Sutzer.
  • Jordan Taylor
  • Chas. P. Thomas
  • Nathan Weaver — in the 1910 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: on Stantonsburg Road, Nathan Weaver, 35; wife Sallie, 30; and children Doretha, 9, Mable, 7, Frank, 6, Louis, 2, and Sallie, 4 months.
  • Louis Williams — in the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Reid Street, Fred Owens, 32, public ditcher; wife Lula, 31; and boarder Lewis Williams, 52, house carpenter. 
  • White Williams — in the 1910 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer White Williams, 55; wife Elisa, 43; and children Mearicie, 23, Bill, 18, John, 15, Walter, 14, Ephraim, 9, July, 5, and Sarah, 3.
  • Berry Williams — in the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: laborer Berry Williams, 51, and wife Penny, 39.
  • Nancy Woodard (F.A.W.)
  • Nancy Woodard (Ned Barnes)
  • Lula B. White
  • C. Mack Wells

Old Fields township

Toisnot township

  • Chas. Braswell — in the 1910 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: odd jobs laborer Charlie Braswell, 23, and Pauline, 24. 
  • Frank Hodge

Gardners township

  • J. Barnes
  • Jane M. McCoy

Saratoga township

  • Calvin Dixon 

 

Mike Taylor receives deed for land bought at tax sale.

The transactions described in this deed are not entirely clear to me, but my best interpretation follows. At a sheriff sale in 1925, D.N. Hinton bought a tract of land owned by George Pender. Pender apparently redeemed the tract by paying off his tax bill, but the same property sold again in 1927, and Mike Taylor won the bid. In 1926, George Pender’s three-acre tract, inherited from his mother Elva Pender from “the old Abram Farmer land,” was also sold to Mike Taylor for nonpayment of taxes. Pender redeemed the tract by paying his tax bill, but it was listed again in 1927, and Mike Taylor bought it. By this deed, ownership of George Pender’s former property was conveyed officially to Taylor.

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  • Mike Taylor — this was not this Mike Taylor (my great-grandfather, who died in 1927), but this one.
  • George Pender and Elva Pender

In the 1880 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer Martin Pender, 45; wife Elva, 34; and children Abraham, 14, George, 11, Willie, 8, Charley, 4, and Mary, 1.

On 10 April 1887, Abraham Pender, 23, of Toisnot township, son of Martin and Elva Pender, married Priscilla Batts, 24, of Toisnot township, daughter of Orren and Mary Batts, in Toisnot township.

On 25 June 1891, George Pender, 20, of Wilson township, son of Martin and Elder Pender, married Ella Williams, 19, of Wilson township, daughter of Allice Williams. John Green Lassiter applied for the license, and Primitive Baptist minister William Woodard Sr. performed the ceremony at “Rountree place.”

Deed Book 172, page 465, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.