As a bad thunderstorm rolled over Wilson in August 1899, a bolt of lightning stunned Green Uzzell and killed a horse in the barn in which he was working.

The Wilson News, 10 August 1899.

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In the 1870 census of New Hope township, Wayne County, North Carolina: farmer James Tolar, 42; wife Sallie, 51; children Haywood, 16, Elizar, 19, Dilla, 15, and Margarett, 13; Green Uzzel, 6; and Darkis Atkinson, 85.

On 19 November 1892, Green Uzzell, 26, married Molly Wood, 24, in Wayne County, N.C.

In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: farm laborer Green Uzzell, 35, and wife Mollie, 30, wash woman.

In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: factory laborer Green Uzzell, 40, and wife Mollie, 35, laborer.

In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 709 South Goldsboro Street, tobacco factory laborer Green Uzzell, 61, and wife Mollie, 48, laborer.

In the 1928 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Uzzell Green (c; Mollie) tobwkr h 709 S Goldsboro

Molly Uzzell died 26 October 1928 in Wilson. Per her death certificate, she was about 55 years old; was born in Lenoir County, N.C., to Bob and Molly May; was married to Green Uzzell; and was buried in Wilson. [Mollie Uzzell’s fine marble headstone is one of the few standing in Rountree Cemetery. Presumably, Green Uzzell was buried nearby.]

In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 709 South Goldsboro Street, tobacco factory laborer Green Uzzell, 60, widower.

Green Uzzell died 24 May 1935 in Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was 61 years old; was born in Wayne County, N.C., to Harriet Uzzell; was the widower of Mollie Uzzell; lived at 709 South Goldsboro; and worked as a laborer. Margaret Haggans of Stantonsburg, N.C., was informant. Uzzell was buried in Wilson.