In February 1918, the Colored Ministerial Union published an appeal to white Wilsonians to adjust the working hours of their “colored help” to allow them to attend daytime Sunday services.
Wilson Daily Times, 4 February 1918.
Wilson Daily Times, 8 August 1914.
Wilson Daily Times, 14 November 1922.
Baptist minister Alfred L.E. Weeks posted this notice of the sale of lots in an unspecified part of the “colored residential section.”
Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Thomas III.
Wilson Daily Times, 30 April 1943.
In the 1910 census of New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina: at 176 George Street, pastor Alfred L. Weeks, 34; wife Annie, 34, a teacher; daughter Marie E., 4; and sister Bessie, 20.
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson township, Wilson County: Alfred Weeks, 44, a minister; wife Annie, 44; daughter Marie, 14, and sister Bessie, 26.
In the 1940 census of Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., public school teacher Marie Weeks, 34, is listed as a lodger in the household of Isaac and Hattie A. Miller at 1008 West Monroe Street.
Annie Elizabeth Marie Weeks died 3 March 1962 in Salisbury, N.C. Per her death certificate, she was born 4 July 1905 in New Bern, N.C., to A.L.E. Weeks and Annie E. Cook; was never married; and worked as a teacher.
Annie E. Cook Weeks, Alfred L.E. Weeks, and A.E. Marie Weeks. A.B. Caldwell, ed., History of the American Negro and His Institutions, North Carolina Edition (1921).
Wilson Daily Times, 3 February 1922.
Alfred L.E. Weeks was pastor of Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, then located on Hadley Street.
Though he may have been “chief among the gamblers,” H.T. Bowers [not Bowser] did not leave much record in Wilson. He and Bertha Knight were married 30 January 1922 by Rev. Weeks. Per their marriage license, Bowers, 33, was the son of H.T. and Manda Bowers of Wilson County, and Knight, 31, was the daughter of Mahala Knight of Wilson County. The ceremony took place in the presence of F.F. Battle, Mack Bullock and David C. Weeks.
Bowers repented just in time, as he died of typhoid fever on 23 January 1923, a week shy of a year after his marriage. Per his death certificate, he was about 40 years old; was born in Texas; lived at 306 South Street; and was married to Bertha Bowers. Daisy McClain, 306 South, was the informant.
Wilson Daily Times, 6 August 1918.
Among business considered the first week of August 1918 by Wilson’s town commissioners were matters raised by:
In the 1880 census of Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina: farmer Henderson Cook, 37; wife Mariah, 30; and children Livelina, 12, Lidia J., 9, Bryant, 7, Bettie A., 5, Willie, 3. and Laura A., one month.
In the 1910 census of New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina: at 176 George Street, pastor Alfred L. Weeks, 34; wife Annie, 34, a teacher; daughter Marie E., 4; and sister Bessie, 20.
Hill’s New Bern, N.C., City Directory (1911-1912).
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson township, Wilson County: Alfred Weeks, 44, a minister; wife Annie, 44; daughter Marie, 14, and sister Bessie, 26.
In the 1930 census of Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey: at 233 West Grand Street, minister Alfred L. Weeks, 54; wife Annie, 54; and seven boarders.
Annie Elizabeth Cook Weeks, then a resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey, died while visiting Wilson on 19 April 1943. Her death certificate noted that she was born in Wake Forest, North Carolina, on 4 December 1875 to Henderson B. and Mariah D. Batchlor Cook of Wake County, and was a teacher. [Annie Weeks died at 916 East Green Street, the home of her brother Jerry L. Cook. He acted as informant on the death certificate.]
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Wilson Daily Times, 18 March 1924.
In 1917, Baptist minister Alfred L.E. Weeks and his wife Annie Weeks sold a tract of land to George W. Evans subject to mortgage. Evans defaulted in 1924, and the property was exposed to sale on the courthouse steps.
Reverend Spurgeon D. Davis‘ predecessor, Alfred L.E. Weeks, also left Wilson’s First Baptist Church under a cloud, but seems immediately to have landed a post at Tabernacle Baptist.
New Berne Weekly Journal, 16 April 1915.
A.B. Caldwell, ed., History of the American Negro and His Institutions, North Carolina Edition (1921).
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For more on Rev. A.L.E. Weeks, see here.