New York Age, 9 December 1915.
Remembering Henry A. Houser, born this day in 1915.
Category Archives: Maternal Kin
Where we worked: barbers and hairdressers.
Lon W. Colvert, Statesville NC – owned and operated L.W. Colvert Barbershop, 1900s-1920s.
James N. Guess Sr., Goldsboro NC – owned and operated barber shop, 1900s-1950s; 114 Walnut East, circa 1906; 120 Walnut East, 1912.
H. Golar Tomlin, Statesville NC – barber in brother’s shop, 1910s.
Charles H. Henderson, Richmond VA – barber, 1910s-1920s.
Roderick Taylor Sr., Wilson NC – barber, 1910s-1947; Paragon Shaving Parlor, 1916; Tate & Hines Barbershop, New Briggs Hotel, Nash Street, 1917; Hines Barbershop, Nash Street.
Ernest Smith, Goldsboro NC – worked in uncle’s barber shop, circa 1917.
Golar Colvert Bradshaw, Statesville NC – Poro agent, 1920s.
John W. Colvert II, Statesville NC – barber, 1920s-1937.
Blanchard K. Aldridge, Fremont NC – barber, 1920s-1965.
Freeman Ennis, Wilson NC – bootblack, barber shop, circa 1930.
Julia Allen Maclin, Newport News VA – owned and operated hairdressing shop, 1940s-1970s.
Ardeanur Smith Hart, Columbus OH — hairdresser, 1940s?-1980s?
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The third in an occasional series exploring the ways in which my kinfolk made their livings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
POSTSCRIPT, 1/21/2014: This brief history focuses on an earlier period, but provides useful insight into the role of African-American barbers.
Lon Colvert: straight and shady.
If reports are to be believed, Lon Colvert had a bit of a shaky start. “Otho Turner”?
Statesville Landmark, 18 August 1898.
Statesville Carolina Mascot, 8 February 1900.
Lou Colvert was Lon’s uncle. No details on Lon packing. But he switched gears a bit. To retailing, which specifically meant selling liquor — unauthorized.
Iredell County Superior Court —
Lon Colvert, retailing; guilty.
— Statesville Landmark, 5 Nov 1901.
Another poor outcome.
“Cases Disposed of Since Monday — Some Recruits for the Chain Gang — A City Ordinance Held Invalid”
The following cases have been disposed of in the Superior Court since Monday: …
Lon Colvert, convicted of retailing, was discharged on payment of the costs.
— Statesville Landmark, 8 Nov 1901.
But somewhere along in here, he began to right his ship.
Notices of New Advertisements.
L.W. Colvert has moved his barber shop from Depot Hill to 109 east Broad street.
— Statesville Landmark, 23 Aug 1904.
It’s not clear when Lon first opened his barber shop, or how he got into the business, but it was a good move. Depot Hill was a few blocks south of downtown; the 100 block of East Broad was right at the heart of the business district. He had arrived.
Still, there were setbacks. (I read “liquor” in this “little pilgrimage,” but I could be wrong.)
“Played His Bondsman False and Will Spend his Holidays in Jail.”
Thursday afternoon a colored barber, Lon Colvert by name, braced Mr. J.P. Cathey for a horse and buggy with which to make a little pilgrimage that night, and Mr. Cathey refused. Lon was just obliged to make that little run, so later he stated the case to Jo. Thomas. Jo. is the colored individual who worked for Mr. Cathey then and who is now being boarded by the county. Jo. slipped out with a horse and buggy. Lon made his trip, came back, paid Jo. one plank, which he shoved down in his jeans, and then Jo. slept the sleep of the consciousless offender.
But the snow that fell during the interval between the exit and return of that buggy caused Jo’s little house of cards to tumble. Next morning Mr. Cathey saw the tracks, asked Jo. who had got a buggy the night before, and Jo straightaway told the thing that was not. So Mr. Cathey got off of Jo’s bond, which he had signed not long since, and now Jo. is behind bars.
— Statesville Landmark, 20 Dec 1904.
He pressed on.
Lon Colvert, colored, has recently equipped his barber shop on east Broad street with a handsome two-chair dressing case and has made other improvements in the shop.
— Statesville Landmark, 1 Jan 1907.
Occasionally, his friends let him down.
Statesville Landmark, 1 January 1907.
But he had a new wife and a new baby to add to his first three, and the straight and narrow was starting to win.
Statesville Landmark, 7 May 1907.
Statesville Landmark, 7 January 1910.
A momentary setback, no more. Lon moved his business back down Center Street toward the train depot and entered the golden age of his entrepreneurship, the period of my grandmother’s childhood.
Papa had a barber shop. Well, of course, Papa did white customers. And, see, the trains came through Statesville going west to Kentucky and Tennessee and Asheville and all through there. They came through, and they had, they would stop in Statesville to coal up and water up, you know. There were people there to fill up that thing in the back where the coal was. And there was another — it had great, big round things that they’d put in water. And when those trains would stop for refueling, they would, there were a couple of men who would come. I can see Walker and my uncle and Papa standing, waiting for these men who were on the train to give them a shave and get back on the train in time. And there wasn’t any need of anybody else coming in at that time ‘cause they couldn’t be waited on. They were waiting for these conductors and maybe mailmen, but I know there would be at least three at a time. And Papa would shave them. And he made a lot of money.
Papa had a taxi, too. Walker drove it most of the time. And then he would hire somebody to drive it other times. And then when people had to go to Wilkesboro, Papa would take them. Because Wilkesboro was a town north of Statesville. And there was no transportation out there. No buses, no trains, or anything. So when people would come on the train that were, what they call them, drummers, the salesmen, when they would come through, Papa would carry them up there.
And he had this clean-and-press in the back of the barbershop. And, look, had on the window, on the store, ‘Press Your Clothes While You Wait.’ I can see those letters on there right now. ‘Press Your Clothes While You Wait.’ And people would go in there, get their clothes pressed, you know. And I know ‘barber shop’ was on the door…. ‘L.W. Colvert Barber Shop.’ ‘L.W.’ was on the side of this door, and ‘Colvert’ was on this side of the door. They had a double door.
There were, of course, risks to doing business. Though I’m casting a side-eye at the carnie. (“H.G.” was Lon’s 21 year-old half-brother Golar, and I never knew he was a partner in the business.)
Damages for Scorching Suit — Court Cases.
Lon Colvert and H.G. Tomlin, doing a pressing club business under the name of Colvert & Tomlin, were before Justice Sloan Saturday in a case in which Chas. Moore, white, a member of the carnival, was asking $18 damage for them. They pressed a suit for Moore and it was scorched, for which Moore asked damage. The case was finally compromised by Colvert & Tomlin paying Moore $5 and $1.20 cost.
— Statesville Landmark, 27 March 1917.
And there was the little matter of a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in 1919; a jury returned a not guilty verdict. Still, a burglary at the shop was an omen. The good years were coming to an end. Lon was struck with encephalitis in the 1920s and was largely unable to work in his final years.
Statesville Landmark, 25 September 1925.
By this time, Golda had embarked upon a peripatetic life in the Ohio Valley, and Walker was left to keep his father’s businesses running. He exercised his best judgment.
Walker Colvert, driver of the Wilkesboro jitney Steve Herman, driver of the Charlotte jitney, and Henry Metlock, driver of the Taylorsville jitney were charged with delivering passengers to the depot rather than the jitney station. It appearing that all the violations were emergency calls, the defendants were discharged.
— Statesville Landmark, 1 Mar 1926.
Lon Colvert died 23 October 1930. “He was an old resident of Statesville,” his obituary noted, “and for a number of years had a barbershop on South Center street, near the Southern station.”
The barbershop, 1918, when it was at 101 South Center Street. Walker Colvert, center, and L.W. Colvert, right.
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Interview of Margaret C. Allen by Lisa Y. Henderson; all rights reserved. Copy of photograph in possession of Lisa Y. Henderson.
Nicholson reunion.
These were Harriet Nicholson Hart‘s people, though I can guarantee you she was not there:
Statesville Landmark, 17 August 1922.
Statesville Landmark, 9 August 1923.
Statesville Landmark, 12 August 1926.
The North Carolina branch of the Nicholson Family descended from Revolutionary War veteran John Stockton Nicholson, born 1757 in Princeton, New Jersey, and his wives, Mary McComb Nicholson (1760- 1783) and Catherine Anne “Caty” Stevenson Nicholson (1766-1843). The Nicholsons and Stevensons arrived in America from England in the mid-17th century. The McCombs were perhaps Irish. John and Mary had one child, James Nicholson (1783-1850). John and Caty had a passel: John Stockton Nicholson Jr. (1787-1868), Mary Nicholson Walker (1788-??), Elizabeth Nicholson Beeson (1790-??), Rebecca Nicholson Clampett (1793-1880), George Nicholson (1796-1802), Moses Pinckney Nicholson (1799-1844), Anderson Nicholson (1801-1879), Catherine Nicholson Clampitt (1804-1841), Phoebe Nicholson Barron (1806-1882), and Hannah Nicholson Idol (1811-1877).
Harriet was descended from both of John S. Nicholson’s wives. Mary’s son James married Mary Allison (1792-1857), daughter of Theophilus and Elizabeth Knox Allison, in 1815. They had two children, Thomas Allison Nicholson (1816-1886) and John McComb Nicholson (1820-??). Thomas married his first cousin, Rebecca Clampett Nicholson (1817-1903), daughter of Caty’s son John S. Nicholson Jr. and Mary Fultz. Thomas and Rebecca’s children were: James Lee Nicholson (1841-1871), John Wesley Nicholson (1843-1913), Mary Jane Nicholson Smith (1846-1922), George Watson Nicholson (1848-1913) and Rebecca Ann (or Annie Rebecca) Nicholson Barnard (1860-1925). As detailed here, J. Lee Nicholson was Harriet’s father.
Nearly all of the reunion attendees mentioned by namein these articles were descended from Thomas A. Nicholson’s children Lee, George and Annie. Rev. W.L. and W.T. Nicholson, for example, were Lee’s sons, and the Barnards were Annie’s children and grandchildren. Dr. J.P. Nicholson, however, was Rebecca C. Nicholson Nicholson’s brother and Dr. W.G. Nicholson, her nephew. I’m not sure who the octogenarian John N. Nicholson was.
Where we worked: hotels, clubs and boarding houses.
Caswell C. Henderson, Raleigh NC – porter, Yarborough House, circa 1886.
Richard Morgan, Asheville NC – husband of Elvira Colvert Morgan; saloon servant, circa 1900.
Larry R. Artis, Washington DC — porter, public house, circa 1920.
Rufus Williams, Charlotte NC — husband of Carrie Reeves Williams; porter, club, circa _____; waiter, clubhouse, circa _____.
John E. Reeves, Boston MA — hotel waiter, circa ___________.
Ira Braswell Sr., Norfolk VA — husband of Mattie Brewington Braswell; hotel bellman, Atlantic Hotel, circa 1910s-1920s; head waiter, Atlantic Hotel, circa 1930.
Lewis Renwick Sr., Statesville NC – husband of Louise Colvert Renwick; porter, Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, 1917; bellman, Vance Hotel, 1920s-1950s.
Edward McNeely, Statesville NC – bellboy, Hotel Iredell, circa 1916; hotel porter, Hotel Iredell, circa 1917.
Lafayette Artis, Washington DC – bellboy, Harrington Hotel, circa 1917.
Earle M. Hagans, Norfolk VA – waiter, Southland Hotel, circa 1918.
Toney Brewington, Norfolk VA – bellman, Southland Hotel, circa 1918.
Ned Barnes, Raleigh NC – porter in club, circa 1920.
Quincy E. McNeely, Asheville NC – waiter, boarding house, circa 1930.
Curtis Braswell, Norfolk VA — hotel waiter, circa 1930.
Freeman Ennis, Wilson NC — bellboy, 1930s.
Hattie Brewington Davis, Atlantic City NJ – worked at Ostend Hotel, circa 1937.
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The second in an occasional series exploring the ways in which my kinfolk made their livings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Where we lived: Constable Hook, Bayonne, New Jersey.
My grandmother said that her aunt Emma was the first of the McNeelys to move to Bayonne, New Jersey. She and her husband, Irving Houser, who had a job with Standard Oil, settled there around 1910. Over the next 15-20 years, most of the McNeelys followed. The family settled in an area a few blocks square, not far from the refinery that dominated Bayonne life:
(1) 87-A West 16th Street (between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Avenue C) — The “home house,” as they say. This was Minnie McNeely‘s house, I believe, though her mother Martha Miller McNeely was the nominal head. Luther McNeely and his wife lived here for a stretch, as did Irving “Jay” McNeely when he moved North after his mother’s death. Margaret Colvert Allen stayed in this house during the summers she spent in New Jersey, and it is likely that Sarah McNeely Green also spent time here. Louise Colvert Renwick and Launie Mae Colvert Jones finished high school in Bayonne, and they probably lived on West 16th, too.
(2) 79 West 19th Street (between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Avenue C) — John McNeely, wife Laura and stepdaughter Marie lived here.
(3) 88 Andrew Street (between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Avenue C) — another of John McNeely’s addresses.
(4) 92 Andrew Street (between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Avenue C) — the home of Emma and Irving Houser and children.
(5) 95 Andrew Street (between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Avenue C) — another of the Housers’ addresses.
(6) 392 Avenue C (corner of 17th) — Wallace Temple AME Zion Church, location of funerals of Martha M. McNeely, Wardenur Houser Jones, Henry A. Houser.
(7) 421 Avenue C (between Andrew Street and 18th) — another of the Housers’ addresses.
(8) 454 Avenue C (between 19th and 20th) — the home of Edward McNeely at the time of his death.
(9) 41 West 20th Street (between Avenue C and Broadway) — Friendship Baptist Church, location of John McNeely’s funeral.
(10) 73 Andrew Street (between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Avenue C) — perhaps the first of the Housers’ addresses.
Mildred Wardenur Houser Jones.
Wardenur was a pianist, and played an organ for WOR radio station in Jersey City. In Jersey somewhere. Honey, she was — girl, she could play the piano. And she played this organ, you know, they would have plays and have organ music, and she did that for them. She could play. And when I was up there one time, I went with her to take her piano lessons, and the lady said, ah, “What – you do play the piano or organ?” I said, “No, ma’am, I don’t….” Look like she looked at me like she thought I was about the worst she had ever seen. [Laughs.] And her father made her take piano lessons. And the teacher graded her, and if she got anything below a B, her father would punish her severely. But, honey, she could play a piano and organ. She was good.
But she took TB and died.
She was lovely — Wardenur. She was about 15 here, palling about with my grandmother, her older cousin, vying for the attention of the college boys mooning about them that summer in Bayonne.
New York Age, 21 June 1930.
Wardenur graduated from the Lee Music School a couple of summers later and in February 1931 finished Bayonne High School. A few years after that, her elopement was reported in the Age.
New York Age, 16 March 1935.
Happy times did not last long. Wardenur contracted tuberculosis, the disease that had killed her aunt Elethea and beloved cousin Jay, and spent her last months in a sanatorium. A short notice appeared in the 20 September 1941 issue of the Bayonne Times:
JONES – Mildred (nee Houser), of 421 Avenue C, on September 18, 1941, devoted wife of Willard Jones and beloved daughter of Irving and Emma Houser and sister of Henry and Irving Houser Jr. Reposing at Wallace Temple A.M.E. Zion Church from 9 p.m. Sunday until funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday, September 22. “Murray’s Service.”
She was 28.
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P.S. The taskmaster piano teacher was probably the inimitable Miss L.A. Lee of 100 Kearney Avenue, Jersey City, who, according to the Age, opened her well-regarded music school in 1907.
Interview of Margaret C. Allen by Lisa Y. Henderson, all rights reserved. Photographs in collection of Lisa Y. Henderson.
Where we worked: cafes, restaurants & eating houses.
Larry Artis, Norfolk VA – butcher, 1897.
Lloyd Artis, Norfolk VA –baker, 1897.
Celebus Thompson, Goldsboro NC — restaurant keeper, circa 1913.
Columbus E. Artis, Wilson NC — operated an “eating house” at 214 Goldsboro Street, circa 1912; proprietor of The Delicatessen, circa 1922.
Milford E. Carter — husband of Beulah Aldridge Carter; chef at the Lincoln Inn, Coatesville PA, circa 1917; New Britain CT, chef, circa 1924; Queens NY, restaurant chef, 1930s-1960s.
Tilithia Brewington King Goldbold Dabney, Norfolk VA — owned and operated Strand Cafe, 426 Brambleton Avenue, as early as 1920.
Mike Taylor, Wilson NC – cook, café (probably his son-in-law’s), circa 1920.
William I. Barnes, Wilson NC – husband of Madie Taylor Barnes; owned and operated café, circa 1920.
Barbara Brewington, Brooklyn NY — wife of Elijah Brewington; worked in a “tea room” circa 1930.
Luther McNeely, Bayonne NJ — restaurant chef, circa 1930.
J. Maxwell Allen, Washington DC — waiter in restaurant, circa 1930.
William J. Murdock, Statesville NC – husband of Bertha Hart Murdock; caterer, owned and operated Bill Bailey’s Steakhouse, 1930s-1944.
Bertha Hart Murdock, Statesville NC – managed husband’s restaurant/roadhouse, 1930s-1940.
Allen Aldridge, Goldsboro NC — Central Cafe, Center Street, circa 1940s.
Milford Aldridge, Goldsboro NC – Central Café, Center Street, circa 1940s.
Adam H. Artis – restaurant cook, 1960s.
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The first in an occasional series exploring the ways in which my kinfolk made their livings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bill Bailey’s life and times.
My grandmother did not mince words when it came to her aunt’s husband. William James “Bill Bailey” Murdock was “trashy.” “We couldn’t stand him,” she said. “He did everything illegal and got away with it.” I laughed, and thought, “Oh, Grandma. Really?”
Well, yes.
Consider this:
Statesville Landmark, 14 July 1903.
He was born William Bailey in Iredell County, the son of Lela Bailey, black, and John T. Murdock, white, both teenagers. His stepfather was Floyd Murdock, and he eventually adopted the surname, but he was known as “Bill Bailey” all his infamous life. His mother was a cook, and it is likely that he gained his culinary skills at her side. In 1920, he lived on Washington Street in Statesville’s Rabbit Town section with Lela and his first wife Hattie, biding his time as a flour mill laborer.
Two years later, Bill and his roadhouse merited their first in a long line of write-ups in the local newspaper:
Statesville Landmark, 27 November 1922.
Three months later, in March 1923, Ethel Wallace was arrested for shooting her husband — and the husband of her husband’s girlfriend — at Bill Bailey’s Emporium. Before this matter was even tried, Bill himself was arraigned on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon against Howard Houston. It didn’t stick. In February 1924, however, Bill plead guilty to bootlegging, was fined $50 and given two years’ probation. In January 1926, he was arrested for bootlegging again.
In December 1927, Bill was acquitted of assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of “a colored girl” named Veola Knox and of transporting and possessing liquor, but fined $50 for assaulting Jim Moore. Two years later, on the day after Christmas, someone “severely carved up” Alfred Hough, slashed his jugular, outside Bill Bailey’s.
In July 1931, Bill was charged with manufacturing and possessing “home brew” — a barrel and 18 cases worth — on his premises just beyond the southern Statesville city limits. In November 1932, Crawford Scott was shot in the shoulder just passing by the place. In 1934, three men were arrested for liquor possession at Bill Bailey’s, and 1936 brought this:
Statesville Landmark, 1 October 1936.
Nothing stuck. As the Depression wound down and the War picked up, Bill Bailey’s reputation shifted from gutbucket to speakeasy to wholesome purveyor of steaks and libations to Statesville’s white middle class. Shootings and cuttings disappeared from the pages of the Landmark to be replaced by jovial accounts of “delightful fried chicken suppers” at Bill’s “popular resort,” enjoyed by society ladies, sportsmen, company men, and civic boosters alike.
The bonhomie slammed to a halt on the night of March 28, 1944, when Bertha Hart “Aunt Bert” Murdock shot James Warren, a white serviceman out to celebrate leave with a juicy steak. My mother’s cousin N. asserts that Bill and Bert thought that their clientele, not to mention his father’s relatives — who’d kept Bill out of prison during Prohibition and rewarded his good cooking with steady patronage — would stand by them. It did not happen. The place shut down, and just over a year after wife’s conviction, Bill Bailey was dead.
Statesville Landmark, 6 December 1945.
In honor and recognition.
John C. Allen Jr., U.S. Army, circa 1943.
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In honor of my family’s veterans, living and dead.
Paternal
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REID, BRODIE (1893-1942), World War I
REID, COUNCIL, Pvt., Army, World War I
REID, HADY (1919-2000), Army, World War II
ROBERTS, ERSKINE W. (1945-2013), Air Force
ROCHELLE, VIRGIL, World War II
ROYAL, GILBERT D., Air Force
ROYAL, WILBERT B., Army
SHERROD, ELMER L., Army
SIMMONS, GEORGE G. (1895-1962), World War I
SIMMONS, HILLARY B., II (1926-2010), Navy, World War II
SUTTON, ROSS M., Sr. (1935-2013), Army, Korea
TANKSLEY, VIENARY ARTIS, M.Sgt., Army
TATE, CHRISTOPHER, Navy
WARD, Dr. JOSEPH H. (1870-1957), Major, Army Medical Corps, World War I
WARD, KERRY L., Navy
WARD, LINWOOD R., Vietnam War
WARD, MORRIS, Navy, Vietnam War
WARD, WANDA A., Army
WATERS, FREDERICK C., Army
WILSON, MAURICE, Army
WILSON, SUMMER, Navy
WOODS, FARRAH M., Army, Iraq
WRIGHT, ANTHONY, Capt., Navy
WYNN, ANTHONY D., Army
WYNN, DANZIE J. (1895-1918), Army, World War I
WYNN, GEORGE E. (1941-1987), Army
WYNN, ISRAEL H. (1892-1967), World War I
WYNN, REGINALD D., Army
Maternal
ALLEN, CHARLES C., Capt. (1935-2017), Army
ALLEN, EDWARD N., Pvt., 153 DEPOT BRIG, Army, World War I
ALLEN, JOHN C., JR. (1906-1948), Pvt., Army, World War II
ALLEN, JOHN C., III, Army
ALLEN, WILLIAM J., S.Sgt., Army, World War II
ALLISON, THOMAS, French & Indian War
BRADSHAW, WILLIAM (1894-1944), Pvt., Co I 365 Infantry, Army, World War I
BRADSHAW, WILLIAM C. (1921-1988), Cpl., Army, World War II
CHRISTIAN, CAREY E., Sgt., Army
CHRISTIAN, MARION A. (1932-2011), Women of the Air Force, Korean War
CLEMONS, J. BRISTOL, Navy, World War II
COLVERT, GEORGE R. (1917-1959)
GIBBS, QUADARIS, Army
HOUSER, GARY, Army
HOUSER, IRVING, JR. (1920-2001), Navy, World War II
HOUSER-GREEN, KEISHA, Army
HOUSER, MELROY, SR., Army
HOUSER, MELROY, JR., Army
HOUSER, MICHAEL, SR., Navy
HOUSER, SHANICE, Navy
JAMES, CHARLES W., JR. (1917-2002), Navy, World War II
JAMES, EDWARD R., III, Navy
JAMES, GARY A., SR., Army
JAMES, SHELTON H. (1919-1973), Pvt., Army, World War II
JAMES, WILLIS H., Navy, World War II
Le BON, IMANI, Army
LOMANS, GILLESPIE G., Army, World War I
McCONNAUGHEY, JAMES W., World War II
McNEELY, EDWARD M., Army, World War I
McNEELY, JOHN (1873-1947), CO G 3 NC INF, Army, Spanish-American War
McNEELY, WILLIAM LUTHER (1875-~1945), CO G 3 NC INF, Army, Spanish-American War
MEYERS, MARCELLUS W. (1909-1973), Navy
MILLER, GOLER L., Pvt., Army, World War I
NICHOLSON, JOHN S., Revolutionary War
RAMSEUR, E. CHAUNCY, Navy
RAMSEUR, STEVEN R., Army, Vietnam War
RENWICK, CHRISTOPHER C., Petty Officer 1st Class, Navy
RENWICK, DONALD, S.Sgt., Army, Korean War
RENWICK, HAYDEN B. (1935-2009), Army
RENWICK, ROY E., SR. (1938-2010), Air Force
SAWYER, SHAWN S., Army
STOCKTON, ALONZO P. (1917-1982), T/5, Army, World War II
STOCKTON, EUGENE A., JR. (1924-2016), Marines, World War II
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