New York Age, 15 November 1941.
Mess Attendant, First Class, Joseph Johnson was among the 100 sailors killed when a German submarine torpedoed the USS Reuben James off the coast of Iceland shortly before the United States entered World War II.
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In the 1930 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer Sollie Johnson, 38; wife Annie, 37; son Joseph, 14, and daughter Jasper, 9.
Wilson Daily Times, 18 February 1944.
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In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 620 Viola Street, public works laborer Peter King, 50; wife Trecy, 35; sons David, 7, and Thomas, 3; and stepdaughter Emma Davis, 13.
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 611 Viola Street, Peter King, 80; wife Trecy, 42; daughter Emma Davis, 20; sons David, 17, and Thomas King, 12; and adopted son Robert Smith, 10.
On 17 June 1936, David King, 21, son of Peter King and Treay [sic; no maiden name given], married Adlena Parker, 23, daughter of Silas and Mahala Parker. Charles T. Jones, Missionary Baptist minister performed the ceremony at James Alston on Green Street, Wilson, in the presence of Alston, Mag Parker, and Mary Whitley.
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 205 East Street, David King, 27, tobacco factory laborer; wife Addena, 27; and daughter Julia M., 2.
In 1940, William David King registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County. Per his registration card, he was born 4 May 1913 in Wilson; lived at 205 North East Street; was married to Adleana Pearl King; and worked for R.P. Watson Tobacco Company, Wilson.
William D. King died 2 February 1985 in Durham, North Carolina. He was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery.
Wilson Daily Times, 20 May 1948.
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In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 646 Nash Street, Leon A. [Lee Andrew] Moore, 57, insurance agent; wife Virginia, 29; stepchildren Westry, 11, Wall C., 10, and Lula Darden, 9; and children Walter L., 5, Ruth, 3, and Xzimena Moore, 1.
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 106 Pender Street, insurance agent Lee A. Moore, 59; wife Virginia, 37; and children Walter, 14, Ruth, 13, Simenia, 9, Bernard, 6, and Corteze, 4. The house was valued at $5000.
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 106 Pender Street, insurance agent L.A. Moore, 70, retired insurance man; wife Virginia, 46, day laborer at tobacco factory; children Xizmenna, 19, E.R., 23, cafe waiter, Bernard, 17, drugstore delivery boy, and Cortez, 13.
In 1944, Webb C. Moore registered for the World War I draft in Akron, Summitt County, Ohio. Per the registration card, he was born 17 February 1926 in Wilson, N.C.; lived at 854 Douglas Street, Akron; his contact was Annie Darden, 12 Carver Road, Washington, D.C.; and he worked for Star Shoe Shine.
On 5 September 1948, Webb Cortez Moore married Dorothy Lorraine Palmer in Washington, D.C.
On 23 October 1971, Cortez Webb Moore married Linda Rose Pretlow in Bronx, New York.
Webb Cortez Moore died 16 September 2015 in Bronx, New York.
Wilson Daily Times, 20 August 1945.
Seaman 1st Class Charles Christian was stationed in the Southwest Pacific in 1945.
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In the 1930 census of South Union township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania: on Leith Road, Geraldine Christian, 28, born in Virginia, housework; son Charles, 13, born in West Virginia; sister-in-law Carrie, 21, born in West Virginia; and parents Alan Sowers, 43, coal miner, born in West Virginia, and Helen Sowers, 42, born in Virginia.
Charles Christian, 24, married Ada Odell Harris, 26, on 6 March 1940 in Wilson.
In October 1940, Charles Wesley Christian registered for the World War II draft in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. Per his registration card, he was born 15 July 1915 in Grant Town, West Virginia; lived at 816 East 4th Street, Winston-Salem; his contact was wife Ada Odelle Christian; and he worked for R.J. Reynolds.
In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 304 Reid Street, city school janitor Charles Christian, 34; wife Ada O., 36; and children Jacqueline A., 5, Vernon W., 3, and Charles H., 2.
Wilson Daily Times, 15 May 1945.
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In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: carpenter John Dudley, 32; wife Della, 27; children Carl D., 7, James H., 5, and Minnie, 2; and niece Fanie Farmer, 22.
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: carpenter Henry Dudley, 42; wife Della, 38, housekeeper; and children Carl, 17, delivery boy for grocery store; James, 14, Minnie, 12, and Robert, 9.
Carl Douglas Dudley registered for the World War II draft in 1942.
Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.
Wilson Daily Times, 21 January 1942.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 2 July 1910.
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Possibly, in the 1900 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: Clarisea Lewis, 43, widow, farmer; and children Emma, 18,, 15, Gertrude, 12, Whit, 10, George, 8, Mattie, 6, and Hattie, 3.
In the 1910 census of Connecticut State Prison, Wethersfield town, Hartford County, Connecticut: Edward Lewis, 25, prisoner, born in N.C., does not work; “This man is insane.”
The Government Hospital for the Insane was later known as Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
