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44071
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The article notes brief biographical sketches of the following: Abraham Baker, Richard Caswell, Issac Croom, James Glasgow, John Herritage, Jacob Johnson, Absalom Price, Benjamin Sheppard, Moses Westbrook and Bryan Whitfield.
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44116
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The article contributed by J. Robert Boykin III is republished from the original taken from the Wilson Daily Times on March 23, 1939. The school began in Wilson County, N.C. shortly after the Civil War and its history is traced through the WPA era of the 1930s.
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44115
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A new book by James Allen Bailey and Margaret Boykin Bailey chronicles history regarding Hollywood Cemetery, which is just a mile south of downtown Middlesex, N.C.
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44028
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Several newspaper lengthy newspaper accounts from the North Carolina Gazette, Wilmington Centinel and Columbian Herald for April, May and July 1788 record violence between Federalists and Anti-federalists over adoption of the U.S. Constitution. North Carolina was the only state that required a "bill of rights' before it would approve the Constitution.
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44118
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The article notes the recent demolition and history surrounding the former J.T. Wiggs on Jackson and West Nash Streets in Wilson. the edifice was noted regarding early education in Wilson. Originally appearing in the Wilson Daily Times on September 21, 1937, the article is contributed here by J. Robert Boykin III.
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43754
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Located on 526 East Nash Street in Wilson, the Orange Hotel was designated a historic property by the city of Wilson on March 21, 1979. It is distinguished as being the first hotel built for African Americans in Wilson and the last frame hotel still standing in Wilson.
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43760
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"David Peelle (1754-1807), the son of Robert Peelle (1730) and Margaret B. Jossey (1732) was born in Northampton County, NC on an unknown date in 1754. He lived with his father in Northampton County until 07 April 1773 when he and his father both requested a certificate of transfer from Rich Square MM to Great Contentnea MM in Dobbs County, NC. David received 220 acres of land on a Deed of Gift from his father in 1790."
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43796
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The author here suggests using a timeline to sort out facts for telling the story of an ancestor. William Henry Harrison, native of Greene County, born March 30, 1834, is subject for this sketch.
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43816
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"Asa Amason, son of Eli Amason and wife Ellender Moore, was born on December 3, 1804, in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and died August 8, 1876, in Sumter County, Alabama."
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43864
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In 1740, Thomas and his wife moved from Nansemond County, Virginia to Edgecombe Precinct in North Carolina. A Quaker, he converted to the Baptist denomination in 1748. He and his sons were instrumental in the formation of the Kehukee and Neuse Baptist Associations in the area of Toisnot and Falls of Tar River.
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43289
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This African American cemetery in wilson county was surveyed in 2013, in reference to a search for Frances Lyles Finch's gravesite.
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43290
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Early photograpahy methods - formats dating from the 1840s-1860s are discussed.
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43291
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Ed Morris is the featured speaker at the Janaury 2022 Wilson County Genealogical program. A native of Wilson County ie recently retired with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. during his career, he has co-authored several publications, including "North Carolina's First Ladies, 1891-2000".
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43322
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Bailey lived in Nash County. The gravesite is located on Lewis School Road in Middlesex, North Carolina.
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42417
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