The State Chronicle, 3 May 1884.
Another account of Daniel Vick‘s appointment as mail carrier in 1884. (Note that Vick’s job involved transporting mail from the train station to the post office, not delivering it from house to house.)
Vick
Soldier stabbed.
Wilson Daily Times, 12 April 1943.
William H. Vick survived this knife attack and lived till 1963.
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- Willie Ruffin
- William H. Vick
In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Rufus Neal, 66, gardener; wife Hattie B., 55; children David L., 17, tobacco warehouse trucker, Joseph, 16, tobacco warehouse trucker, and Viola, 12; granddaughter Essie Ray Lucas, 7; and lodger William H. Vick, 22, tobacco factory cooper.
In 1940, William Henry Vick registered for the World War II draft in Wilson. Per his registration card, he was born 1 May 1917 in Nash County, North Carolina; lived at 608 Daniel Street; his contact was friend Sam Clark, same address; and he worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Wilson.
In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Sam Clark, 45, nightwatchman at tobacco redrying plant; William H. Vick, 32, repacker at tobacco warehouse; and Luther Walker, 26, “ships out” at tobacco warehouse.
William Henry Vick died 27 January 1963 at the Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, N.C. Per his death certificate, he was born in Rocky Mount, N.C., to Will Vick and Bessie Cook; was never married; lived at 707 West Walnut Street, Wilson; was an odd jobs laborer for James I. Miller; was a veteran of World War II; and was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery.
The Vicks entertain.
The Colored American, 21 February 1903.
The headline, I think, should say “Mr. and Mrs. Vick Entertained at Wilson, North Carolina.” This charming social piece, submitted pseudonymously by “Juliet,” details a dinner party hosted by Samuel and Annie Washington Vick in 1903. (Where was their home at that time? The house we now know as the Vick residence was not yet built.)
Guests included Rev. Owen L.W. Smith, former minister to Liberia; Annie Vick’s brother Paul Washington; Mrs. M.E. Dortch; Po_a S[illegible]; and Julia A. Amee. Geneva Battle and Sarah Dortch assisted Annie Vick as hostesses. (Four years later, Sarah Dortch would marry Walter S. Hines.)
Church club performs “Old Timers Program.”
Wilson Daily Times, 17 July 1943,
What was “Old Lassiters School”?? “The first Old Graded School”??
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- John Clark
- S.H. Vick — Samuel H. Vick.
- L.A. Thompson
Certificate of incorporation of Wilson Hospital.
Dr. Frank S. Hargrave, Samuel H. Vick, and J.D. Reid filed for incorporation of Wilson Hospital and Tubercular Home was in 1912. The facility opened a year later.
Thank you to V. Cowan for sharing this treasure!
Annie’s all right.
Boston Globe, 24 September 1903.
This odd little all’s-well-that-ends-well story involves Samuel H. Vick and a ten year-old headed North for school. Annie Holloway‘s father Louis Holloway was an Odd Fellow with Vick, and her brother Lewis Holloway attended Vick’s college alma mater, Lincoln University. Her aunt, Abigail Holloway McLeod, was a well-to-do businesswoman who owned a lodging house and laundry. For more about Sam Vick’s brother, Ernest L. Vick, see here.
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- Annie Holloway
In the 1900 census of Wilson, Wilson County: brick laborer Louis Holoway, 40; wife Lear, 39; and children Jeff, 14, Edwin, 12, Elic, 10, Harry, 5, Anie, 8, Lewis, 4, and Willie, 7 months.
On 30 March 1910, Henry Rountree, 20, of Wilson, married Annie Holloway, 19, of Wilson, daughter of Louis and Lear Holloway, at Louis Holloway’s residence in Wilson. Noah Best applied for the license, and Primitive Baptist minister Jonah Williams performed the ceremony in the presence of James A. Whitfield, Jeff Holloway, and Lewis Holloway.
In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Nash Road [in Grabneck], machine shop laborer Henry Rountree, 21; wife Annie, 19; and stepdaughter Vary Lee Holloway, 15 months.
- Mrs. McLeod — Abigail Holloway McLeod
In the 1880 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: south of the Plank Road, Edward Holloway, 39, farm worker; wife Harriet, 44; and children Lewis, 20, Abigail, 11, James S., 6, and Milly, 3.
On 10 February 1892, John A. McLeod, 24, of Boston, Massachusetts, son of John and Ruth McLeod, married Abbie G. Holloway, 21, of New York City, New York, daughter of James and Amanda Holloway, at People’s Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. John A. Hughes officiating.
Boston Globe, 13 February 1892.
In the 1900 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 15 Village Street, porter John McLeod, 33, and wife Abbie, 28, with 13 lodgers, mostly North Carolina-born men working as waiters.
The Sunday Herald (Boston, Mass.), 16 June 1907.
Boston Globe, 20 August 1909.
Boston Globe, 14 October 1910.
In the 1912 Boston, Massachusetts, city directory: McLeod Abbie Mrs (Edison Hand Laundry) 10 Clarendon h 19 Newbern Rox[bury]
The 17 April 1912 of the Boston Evening Transcript reported that Abbie McLeod had sold the building at 19 Newbern, which carried a tax valuation of $10,900..
The Sunday Herald (Boston, Mass.), 4 October 1914.
The Sunday Herald (Boston, Mass.), 14 April 1918.
In the 1920 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 24 Yarmouth, John A. McLeod, 50, laundry business; wife Abigail, 46, laundry business; and eight lodgers.
Per the 11 December 1921 Boston Globe, Abbie McLeod bought the “3 1/2 story and basement swell front brick house” at 621 Massachusetts Avenue.
Abigail Holloway McLeod died in 1925 in Boston.
Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915, http://www.ancestry.com; People’s Temple Methodist Episcopal Church Records, Northeast Select United Methodist Church Records, 1787-1922, http://www.ancestry.com.
Ernest L. Vick.
The Guardian (Boston, Mass.), 15 April 1944.
Samuel H. Vick‘s brother, Ernest Linwood Vick, the second of Daniel and Fannie Blount Vick‘s sons, migrated to Washington, D.C., then Boston, Massachusetts.
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In the 1870 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: baker Samuel Williams, 30, carpenter Daniel Vick, 25, wife Fannie, 24, children Samuel, 8, Earnest, 3, and Nettie M., 5, plus Violet Drake, 52.
In the 1880 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: grist mill worker Daniel Vick, 38, wife Fannie, 35, children Samuel, 16, Nettie, 14, Earnest Linwood, 12, Henry, 10, and James O.F. Vick, 8, plus Frank O., 20, and Marcus W. Blount, 26.
Ernest L. Vick and Sadie E. Foster were issued a marriage license in Washington, D.C., in September 1890.
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 25 September 1890.
In the 1900 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: on Ruggles Street, butler Ernest L. Vick, 33; wife Sadie E., 28; daughters Wilhelmina, 8, and Helen M., 2, both born in Massachusetts; brother Oscar F. Vick, 24, minister; and lodger [actually, the brother of Sam Vick’s wife Annie Washington Vick] Paul Washington, 24, butler.
The Vicks were members of famed Columbus Avenue A.M.E. Zion Church:
Boston Globe, 9 November 1909.
In the 1910 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: on Shawmut Avenue, Earnest Vick, 42, furniture teamster; wife Sadie E., 39; daughters Wilimina, 18, and Helen, 12; and lodgers Mattie Moore, 25, seamstress; James Bell, 30, hostler at stable; Edith Bell, 30; and James Green, 40, janitor.
This curious double real estate transaction was reported in the Globe in August 1912. “Q” stood for quitclaim deed. In other words, for $1, Solomon Elkind transferred a parcel on Cedar Street to Ernest Vick via quitclaim deed. Ernest Vick then transferred (the same?) parcel on Cedar to his brother Samuel H. Vick for a dollar via quitclaim deed.
Boston Globe, 7 August 1912.
In the 1920 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 11 Saxton Street [in Dorchester], Ernest L. Vick, 50, chauffeur for manufacturing concern; wife Sarah E., 48; and daughter Helen E., 20, trust company stenographer.
In the 1930 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 11 Saxton Street, owned and valued at $6500, Ernest Vick, 58, office building porter; wife Sarah E., 56; daughter Williamina, 30, building cleaner; nephew Samuel H. Jones, 11; and brother-in-law Ernest Foster, 42.
In the 1940 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at 11 Saxton Street, office building janitor Ernest Vick, 57, and wife Sarah, 55.
The Guardian (Boston, Mass.), 1 April 1944.
The Vick-Valle family.
We met Elba Vick Valle, eldest daughter of Samuel H. and Annie Washington Vick, here. A regular contributor to Black Wide-Awake shared these wonderful photos of the Valle family:
Curiously, Elba Vick and Carlos C. Valle were married twice — in December 1921 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and again in July 1922 in Wilson. The photo above appears to have been taken at or after the second ceremony, held at Samuel and Annie Vick’s Green Street home. Samuel Vick Sr. and Annie Vick are at far left, with Samuel Vick Jr. standing beside them. Cousin Bessie Parker Hargrave stands with a small girl, who is the youngest Vick child, Monte Vick Cowan. Newlyweds Carlos Valle and Elba Vick Valle stand at center. One of the flower girls is Doris Vick Walker. Daniel L. Vick may be the man standing behind the couple.
Carlos Valle is seated in the middle on the running board. Daughter Melba Gwendolyn Valle is seated in the lap of an unidentified man in the car.
Elba Vick Valle in about the 1950s.
Carlos Celedonio Valle y Ugarte (1892-1964) in an official portrait in his position as Grand Organizer for the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Valle, a native of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, studied at Tuskegee Institute among a cadre of Afro-Latino students whose experience is set forth in Brian McClure’s 2013 University of Memphis dissertation, “Educating the Globe: Foreign Students and Cultural Exchange at Tuskegee Institute, 1898-1935.” (Mount Olive, North Carolina’s long-time Black physician Tomas Monte Rivera was also part of the Tuskegee-Puerto Rico program.)
Many thanks to V. Cowan!
Lane Street Project: the Vick family plot, revisited.
Look at the difference a year makes! The Vick family plot — right to left, Viola Vick, Daniel and Fannie Vick, Samuel H. Vick, Annie M. Vick (the marble slab just beyond), and Irma Vick. The spaces between these markers suggest additional burials, and we will probe carefully in search of markers.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, February 2024.
Sunday school at Calvary, no. 3.
This photograph of Della Hines Barnes‘ Sunday School class at Calvary Presbyterian appears to have been taken at the same as this one. Della Barnes’ grandchildren Walter Dortch Hines and Elizabeth Scott Hines stand on either end of the front row. Samuel H. and Annie Washington Vick‘s son Robert E. Vick stands between them in light-colored knickers. The three were born in 1908 and 1909, which dates the photo a little later than the 1915 earlier estimate.
Thank you to an anonymous contributor.