The Ram (1949), the annual of Mary Potter Academy.
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In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 909 Washington Street, Sam Harris, 35, laborer; wife Edna, 27, tobacco factory stemmer; daughter Hilda Younger, 9; mother Maggie Younger, 48, cook; sister Sarah Speight, 24, cook; and brother James Younger, 22, odd jobs and tobacco factory laborer.
Wilson Daily Times, 23 July 1921.
Charlie Younger’s beer recipe sounds … intriguing. (Note that as late as 1921, East Wilson was described as a “negro settlement south of the railroad.”)
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In 1918, Charlie Younger registered for the World War I draft in Wilson. Per his registration card, he was born in 1876; lived at 203 Manchester; worked as a laborer for American Tobacco Company; and his nearest relative was Maggie Younger.
In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Charlie Younger, 49; wife Maggie, 31; and children Charlie Jr., 16, Doctor, 13, Florence, 9, Edna, 7, Sarah Bell, 5, and James, 2.
On 7 August 1920, Charlie Younger, 21, son of Charlie and Maggie Younger, married Laura Southern, 21, daughter of Burrell and Eliza Southern, in Wilson. Cleveland Daniel applied for the license, and Missionary Baptist minister Charles T. Jones performed the ceremony in the presence of Thea Owens, Emma Rountree, and Buirl Summerville.
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Methodist minister Raymond Murphy, 31; wife Eula, 31; children Jackson, 11, John D., 9, Robert L., 7, Mary L., 5, and Martha L., 6 months; and roomer Charlie Younger, 58, widower, guano plant laborer.