Valentine’s Day

Love x love.

Top row: Jesse and Sarah Henderson Jacobs; M. John and Delphia Taylor Locus; James and Narcissa Dunn Howard; and Castonoble and Della Gary Hooks.

Second row: Spencer and Bitha Richardson Shaw; Colon and Christine Artis Currie; Joseph and Nettie Peacock Shaw; Benjamin and Phereby Barnes Artis.

Third row: Haywood and Agnes Bullock Armstrong; William and Ethel Cornwell Hines; Kenneth and Nina Darden Speight; Jesse and Sarah Barnes Barnes.

Bottom row: Roderick Taylor and Hattie Mae Henderson; Lawrence and Mary Pender Hagans; Theodore and Edith Barnes Ellis; and Rederick and Beverly Allen Henderson.

Valentines and Negro History Week.

In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. Here, Rocky Branch 4-H Club celebrated Valentine’s Day and Negro History Week in February 1947.

Wilson Daily Times, 21 February 1947.

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  • Francis Ashby — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: Joe Barnes, 82; wife Kizzie, 65; daughter Ester, 18; niece Gladys Smith, 14; grandchildren Francis, 7, and Bubble Ashby, 5; son S[illegible] Barnes, 24, and wife Bulah, 24.
  • George Reid
  • Ormond Ashby — “Bubble” Ashby, above?
  • Wadell Bagley
  • Mary E. Hinnant
  • Shirley Terrell
  • Louretha Renfrow — in the 1940 census of Springhill township, Wilson County: farm laborer John Renfrow, 25; wife Eula Mae, 24; and children Louretha, 3, Edna Gray, 2, and Marie, 1.
  • Miss Wade — Helen T. Wade, home demonstration agent.