North Carolina, Paternal Kin, Photographs

Finding the Barfields.

Some time in the late 1980s, I learned the name of my great-grandmother Bessie Henderson’s father — Joseph Buckner Martin — and learned that, after the death of Bessie’s mother Loudie, Buck Martin had several children with a woman whose last name was Barfield. I marinated on that for a few years, then a bit of sleuthing revealed that Sarah Barfield was the woman, and her children were Walter, Amy, Lillie and Daisy Barfield. I found Walter Barfield Jr. in the phone book, cold-called him, and found him to be a gracious and welcoming cousin. His father had passed away not too many years before, but Aunt Lillie was still living, and he was happy to introduce us the next time I came home to North Carolina.

Sarah Barfield

I met my great-great-aunt in the spring of 1993 at the nursing home in which she lived in Mount Olive. She was a tiny woman with a wizened, apple-cheeked face, her ivory-white hair pulled back in a small bun.

I took notes:

She said she never saw her half-sister Bessie Henderson, but remembers when she died [in 1910]. Her sister Amy went to the funeral and came home and cried and cried.
Jack Henderson, her half-brother, used to visit them in the country. Once when he came, he wanted to meet their father. She took him there, and Buck received his oldest son in a friendly manner. He was good to his children.
Her sister Amy was in her 30s when she died; Daisy was 18. They are buried in the Barfield cemetery, between Mount Olive and Dudley, not far from the railroad.
Her youngest granddaughter has a photo of Daisy.
She has a daughter Gladys and a son Walter Lee Holmes.
She bought the house that Buck left her mother from one of Ira Martin’s children, to whom it had reverted after her mother Sarah’s death.
Her house burned up with most of her photographs.
She knew Buck’s brother Alfred Martin. He committed suicide.
Once on her way to Washington to see her husband, she spent the night in Wilson with Sarah Henderson Jacobs, who told her, “Don’t ever marry an old man.” Walter Lee was 2 years old at the time. [This would have been about 1922.]
She remembered that my grandmother had children by a “barber man.”

The second time I visited Aunt Lillie was at Christmas, and I took my grandmother with me. When we walked in, Aunt Lillie stared wordlessly, then reached out to touch her face.

Lillie Barfield Holmes passed away peacefully on 1 June 2003, just shy of her 100th birthday.

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Photographs taken by Lisa Y. Henderson, 1993.

Births Deaths Marriages, Free People of Color, North Carolina, Other Documents, Paternal Kin

Adam Artis’ children, part 5: Katie Pettiford.

From the “Adam Artis Family History”:

After Amanda died, Adam died Katie Pettieford of Goldsboro. They had one son, Pickney. Adam was 71 and she was 21 when they got married. Katie employed a male nurse to look after Adam. She sold off his land bit by bit.

Adam died of old age at about 100 years. His last wife, Katie, in 1923, had someone dig down to his coffin and saw off his feet. Several years later she committed suicide. She poured kerosene around a room and set it on fire.

In fact, Adam Artis married his fourth and final wife, Katie Pettiford, on 9 July 1902 in Wayne County. He was 71, as told, and she was about 20. Their only son, Alphonzo Pinkney Artis, was born in April 1903. By common account, Pinkney left home as a boy — ran away, in fact, to Baltimore. Adam died in 1919 at age 87. Katie, who remarried, died in 1940. Her death certificate notes that she burned up inside her house, but does not mention suicide.

As for the rest, the story I’ve heard is that Katie, guilt-ridden over her abuse of Adam in his decline, grew convinced that he was haunting her from the grave. On the advice of a root doctor, she had his body exhumed and his feet cut off to keep him from walking the world.

Births Deaths Marriages, Free People of Color, Migration, Other Documents, Paternal Kin

Age 121?!?

On March 30, 1932, in Lucy, Tennessee, just north of today’s Memphis International Raceway, an old man closed his eyes a final time. His doctor described his death in an unusually detailed, almost poetic, passage: “causes due to advanced age weakening of heart muscles beats slowing down until stopping quietly but regular.” He was, according to the death certificate, 121 years old, and his name was Guy Lane.

Guy Lane?!?!

I scanned the rest of the form: farmer … living in Shelby County … born in North Carolina … son of Guy Lane … an informant named Lillie ….

My great-great-great-great-grandmother, Vicey Artis, born free in or near Wayne County around 1810, had a sister named Sylvania. Both women married enslaved men. (And their brother Daniel married an enslaved woman.) On 31 August 1866, Vicey Artis and Solomon Williams and Sylvania Artis and Guy Lane registered their decades-old cohabitations in Wayne County and thereby legalized their marriages. Old Man Guy died before 1880, but ….

Sylvania and Guy Lane’s twelve children, who used both parents’ last names, were born over the course of more than twenty years. Morrison Artis, born 1837, was first, followed by Mary Artis (1839), Jane Lane Sauls (1842), Daniel Artis (1843), Mitchell Lane (1845), Mariah Artis (1846), Guy Lane Jr., Penny Lane (1850), Dinah Lane (1851), Julie Lane Sutton (1853), Washington Lane (1855) and Alford Lane (1859).

In 1869, Guy Lane Jr. married Dinah Dew in Wayne County. They appear together in the 1870 and 1880 censuses and had at least six children: Ora, Moses, Lizzie, William, Mary S., Milton F. Lane, and a girl. By 1900, though, Guy and his family are nowhere to be found in North Carolina. Instead, they surface 800 miles due west, just outside Memphis. (Had they been Exodusters sidetracked on the way to Arkansas?) Guy had a new wife, of four years — Eliza, born in Tennessee — but his youngest two children, Milton and Guy Jr. (actually III), both born in NC, were with him. In 1910, on the Memphis & Shakerag Road, 60 year-old Guy and Eliza Lane are listed with eight year-old daughter Lilly. Both reported that they had been married twice, and Eliza reported that only one of her nine children was living. In the 1920 census, the couple are living with Lillie and her husband Robert Burnett. Guy continued to work as a farmer, and his age is reported as 78. Ten years later, in 1930, Guy and Liza are living alone again, and his age has leapt inexplicably to 114. By time he died in 1932, Guy had gained another seven years.

The credible evidence suggests that cousin Guy Lane, in fact, was born about 1848, making him a more reasonable 84 years old when his heart slowed down until stopping quietly. He is not forgotten.

Maternal Kin, Other Documents, Paternal Kin, Vocation

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.

Births Deaths Marriages, North Carolina, Other Documents, Paternal Kin, Photographs

Funeral Program Friday: Bettie Aldridge Saunders.

Betty Cecilia Aldridge Saunders was born in Dudley, Wayne County, North Carolina, the second daughter among John and Ora Bell Mozingo Aldridge‘s 11 children. She died in 1990 and was buried in the cemetery of the church to which Aldridges have belonged since the 1870s.

L. to R.: Horace “Snook” Henderson, Cecilia A. Saunders, William Saunders, Catherine Aldridge Davis, Frances Henderson Taylor, Carrie Lee Henderson Hill, ??, Johnnie “Dink” Henderson, Annabelle Henderson. Dudley NC, 1970s. Snook, Frances and Dink were Cecilia’s first cousins. Their mother, Nora Aldridge Henderson, was a sister of Catherine A. Davis and Cecilia’s father Johnnie Aldridge. Carrie was the Hendersons’ cousin on their father’s side.

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(The first of an occasional spotlight on these funeral staples.)

Births Deaths Marriages, Education, Migration, Military, Newspaper Articles, Other Documents, Paternal Kin, Photographs

Col. Oscar Randall.

There were surely many more veterans than that, I thought, and I started poking around my files, looking for men and women I might have missed. Oscar Randall was a possible World War I veteran, but his draft card cast doubt — he claimed a service exemption on the basis that he was “rejected by recruiting officer.”

Nonetheless, I Googled Randall and was stunned to find that not only did he serve, he led troops in battle in France during World War I, received a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in Italy during the Second World War, and achieved the rank of colonel. The most amazing find: two photos of Randall from the Chicago Sun-Times archives for sale on eBay! I ordered them immediately, and they arrived in yesterday’s mail.

The first photo, taken after the First World War, depicts a smooth-faced, heavy-jowled man in officer’s uniform. Its reverse carries a scrap of newspaper article, as well as a note that the photo was copied from a portrait hanging in Randall’s living room.

The second photo, taken in 1982, shows a solemn-faced old man, silver hair swept back from his forehead, his eyes rheumy but mouth set firmly. Light from a window creates a dramatic chiaroscuro. On the back: a slightly longer clipping from the same article, detailing the colonel’s military achievements.

Oscar Randall was born 30 November 1896 in Washington DC, the first of George and Fannie Aldridge Randall‘s children born after their migration from Wayne County, North Carolina. After the War, he returned to college and received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. (He served as president of Tau chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, while there.) Randall taught mathematics at Chicago’s DuSable High School for many years and also worked as a civil engineer for the city’s sanitation department. In the 1950’s, he served as Chief of the U.S. Military Mission to Liberia, which advised that country’s military on training and defense. He married twice, but had no children.

Oscar Randall died three years after his Chicago Sun-Times interview. He was 88 years old.

A memorial service for Oscar Randall, 88, a civil engineer, will be held at 11 a.m. June 9 in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 3301 S. Wabash Ave. Mr. Randall, of the South Side, died April 8 in Veterans Administration Lakeside Medical Center. A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Randall graduated from the University of Illinois and worked for the Chicago Sanitary District for nine years. Mr. Randall also taught mathematics at Du Sable High School. In 1918 he joined the 8th Illinois infantry regiment, one of the nation’s first black-led military units. He also served in World War II. Survivors include his wife, Hilda; a stepdaughter, Vera Levy; two stepgrandchildren; two stepgreat-grandchildren; three sisters; and a brother.

— Chicago Tribune, 23 May 1985.

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[Sidenote: Pete Souza, who photographed Cousin Oscar, is now Chief Official White House photographer for President Barack Obama and Director of the White House Photography Office.]

Births Deaths Marriages, North Carolina, Other Documents, Paternal Kin, Photographs

Perhaps even the custom.

A Social Note: Miss Florence [sic: should read “Frances”] Ann Henderson married her first cousin, Israel H. Wynn. This relationship was very common in her youth, perhaps even the custom, she believes. Rev. R.B. Johns officiated at her marriage on December 12, 1908 in her parents’ home. Many friends and relatives attended including Val Simmons, Milford and Freddie Carter, Mrs. Eva Kornegay, and Mrs. Tina Hagans. In fact, there were so many guests that the floor of the house gave way under the weight of the people.

— from the souvenir booklet commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First Congregational Church, United States of Christ, Dudley NC, 1870-1970.

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Frances Ann “Frankie” Henderson was the daughter of John H. and Sarah Simmons Henderson. Israel Henderson Wynn was the son of John’s sister Hepsie Henderson and her husband, Washington F. “Frank” Wynn. Marriages among descendants of Wayne County’s free families of color were certainly the custom in the 50 years or so after the Civil War, and cousin marriages (if not first cousin) were concomitantly common.

Copy of photograph in possession of Lisa Y. Henderson.

Maternal Kin, Paternal Kin, Vocation

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.

Maternal Kin, Military, Paternal Kin

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

ALDRIDGE, ANTHONY, SR., Army

ALDRIDGE, BLANCHARD K. (1894-1965), Pvt., 78 PROV OP MG TNG CTR, World War I

ALDRIDGE, EDISON M. (1934-1922), Army

ALDRIDGE, FITZGERALD W. (1917-1962), World War II

ALDRIDGE, FREEMAN L., SR. (1932-2008), Cpl., Army, Korean War

ALDRIDGE, GEORGE M. (1919-1995), Army

ALDRIDGE, JAMES E. (1919-1975)

ALDRIDGE [ALDRICH], Dr. JAMES T. (1886-1968), Army Medical Corps, World War I

ALDRIDGE, JOSEPH E. (1915-1988), S.Sgt., Army, World War II

ALDRIDGE, QUINTIN, Army

ALDRIDGE, RICHARD B. (1939-2013), Air Force

ARMSTRONG, HARVEY G., Army, Vietnam War

ARMSTRONG, IVEY L. (-2013), Army, Vietnam War

ARMSTRONG, JACKIE R., SR., Army, Vietnam War

ARTIS, ADAM H. (1920-1963), World War II

ARTIS, ADAM T., III (1911-2000), Pvt., Army, World War II

ARTIS, COLUMBUS E., II, Corp., Army, World War II

ARTIS, DANIEL (1841-??), Co. G, 14th US Colored Heavy Artillery, Civil War

ARTIS, FREDERICK J. (1890-1954), World War I

ARTIS, GEORGE R. (1931-2011), Sgt., Army

ARTIS, JESSE L. (1919-1960), TEC5, Army, World War II

ARTIS, LAMONT D. (1952-1972), Air Force, Vietnam War

ASHFORD, PAUL, Army, Vietnam War

BARFIELD, BRIGETTE, Sgt., Air Force

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BARFIELD, JOHN, Army

BARFIELD, JOSEPH F. (1933-2014), Army

BARFIELD, RICHARD J., Army

BARFIELD, RICHARD M. (-2021), Air Force

BARNES, BENSON N., Cpl. (1921-2004), Army, World War II

BARNES, BENSON N., JR., Air Force

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BARNES, CARLTON, Navy

BARNES, Dr. LEROY T., Capt., Army Medical Corps, World War II

BARNES, NED R. (1924-2002), T5, Army, World War II

BARNES, SYLVESTER (1893-1936), Army, World War I

BEASLEY, RONALD K., Army

BOSTICK, CODEY, Air Force

BRASWELL, DAVID N., Army

BRASWELL, IRA III, Marines

BRASWELL, KEITH, Army

BRASWELL, RANDOLPH (1923-1989), PFC, Army, World War II

BROWN, NATHANIEL (1921-2004), Tec 5, Army, World War II

CARTER, CLARENCE M. (1927-2005), CMSgt, Army, Air Force

CARTER, M. ELMER, JR., PFC, 184th MP Company, Army, World War II

CLAIBORNE, CLAY T., JR., Vietnam War

CLAIBORNE, MACY ALDRIDGE (1923-1999), Women’s Army Corps, World War II

COOPER, JAMES W., Army, World War I

COOPER, WILLARD M. (1925-2006), Army, World War II

DARDEN, DAVIS C., SR., Navy

DAVIS, GEORGE E. (1921-1964), SSgt, 578th Field Artillery, World War II

DAVIS, DAVID (1939-2022), Navy

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DAVIS, STATON JR., Major, (1935-2018), Air Force

DAVIS, THOMAS, Col., West Point, Army, Vietnam

DePUY, CRAIG, Army, Iraq

DERICOTTE, Dr. EUGENE (1926-), Army, Tuskegee Airmen, Vietnam

DILLARD, TYRONE, Marines, Iraq

DIVERS, WAYNE A., Navy

DIVERS, PATRICK, SR., Air Force

DIVERS, PATRICK, JR., Army

DRAINES, ANTOINE, Capt., Air Force

ELLIS, T. ROOSEVELT, JR. (1934-2010), Navy

ENNIS, EARL E., Army, World War II

FOSTER, DEE, Army

GILLIAM, ALYSHA, Army

GOSS BURCHETT, BRANDI N., Army

GUESS, JAMES, JR. (1923-1955), Cpl., Co. A, 529th QM (Ser) Bn., Army, EAMET Cam., World War II, recipient of 15 Bronze Stars, Good Conduct Medal, Victory Medal

HAGENS, CH’REE, S.Sgt., Marines

HALL, LOUIS, SR. (1920-1997), Cpl., Army Air Corps, World War II

HALL, LOUIS, JR., Sgt., Air Force, Vietnam War

HALL, MARY BRADLEY, Major, Army

HALL, R. ANDREW, SR., 1st Sgt., Army, Vietnam War

HALL, R. ANDREW, JR., Lt. Cpl., Marines

HANEY, JOHN E. (1949-1993), Sgt., Army, Vietnam War

HARDY, LARRY, Navy

HARGROVE, ELLIS RAY (1933-2018), Army

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HARRIS, BENJAMIN A., SR. (1894-1955), Sgt., Army, World War I

HARRIS, BENJAMIN A., JR. (1935-1981), Army

HENDERSON, DEMPSEY L. (1927-2003), Navy, World War II & Korean War, recipient of three-star Pacific Theater Ribbon, American Theater Ribbon, Victory Medal, Purple Heart, and one-star Philippine Liberation Ribbon

HENDERSON, FREDERICK V., Army

HENDERSON, HAL F., SR., Army

HENDERSON, HORACE B., SR. (1923-1984), Army

HENDERSON, HORACE B., JR., Army

HENDERSON, IRA J. (1911-1984)

HENDERSON, JAMES H. (1906-1947)

HENDERSON, JAMES I. (1922-1966)

HENDERSON, JANEE, Army

HENDERSON, JAZELL W., SR. (1924-2004), World War II

HENDERSON, JAZELL W., JR., Army

HENDERSON, JESSE A., SR. (1929-2005), Army, Korean War

HENDERSON, JESSE A., JR. (1952-1979), Army, Vietnam War

HENDERSON, JOHNNY D. (1925-1992), Navy, World War II

HENDERSON, LUCIAN J., SR. (1926-2003), Army

HENDERSON, LUCIAN J., JR., Army, Vietnam War

HENDERSON, MICHAEL D., Army

HENDERSON, REDERICK C. (1934-2022), Air Force

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HENDERSON, TERRELL A., SR., Army

HENDERSON, WILLIAM H. (1902-1974)

HILL, ELLIOTT W., Marines

HILL, JAMES W., Army

HILL, WILLIAM G., Marines

HINES, ALVIS H., World War II

HOLLOWAY, ASA L. (1942-2013) SP4, Army, Vietnam War

HOLT, JOHN J. (1923-2016), Army, World War II

HOLT, J. DENNIS (1951-1973), Navy

HOWARD, CHARLES L., Army, Vietnam War

HOWARD, LAQUITA, Army

HUTCHINSON, ELLSWORTH W., JR., Army

JOHNSON, SHOMA, Army

KEITH, ANDREW, Navy, World War II

KENNEY, DARRELL J., Navy

KNOX, ROBERT (1923-1996), Army, World War II

LATTIMER, PAUL, Army

LEWIS, TERENCE, Lt. Col., Army

LEWIS, URBAN, War of 1812

LINDENMUTH, COURTNEY ROYAL, Air Force

LLERENA, YANOXY, Army

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MANUEL, WILLIAM, SMSgt., Air Force

MARTIN, LEWIS H., Co. I, 62 Georgia Cavalry, 8 Georgia Cavalry, Confederate Army, Civil War

MUHAMMAD, PATRICIA SMITH, Army

MUSGRAVE, YANCY O., JR. (1946-2010), Army, Vietnam War

NEWSOME, OLLEY V. (1920-1999), 1st Sgt., Army Air Forces, World War II

PARKER, ALBERT T., JR., Air Force

PARKER, DAVID L., Air Force

PEARSON, GLENN, Army

PEARSON, SHERMAN, Army

PERKINS, MAURICE N., Army

PERKINS, WILLIE, Army, World War II

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POUNDS, PATRYCE M., Army, Afghanistan

POUNDS, SHALIA N., Army

RANDALL, OSCAR (1896-1985), Col., Army, World War I, World War II

RANDALL, ROBERT S. (1915-1992), World War II

RANDOLPH, ELISHA B. (1879-1940), Fireman 1st cl., Navy

REAVES, JIMMIE R. (1890-1962), Army, World War I

REID, ALLEN T. (1919-1949), TEC5, Army, World War II

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

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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

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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

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JAMES, EDWARD R., III, Navy

JAMES, GARY A., SR., Army

JAMES, SHELTON H. (1919-1973), Pvt., Army, World War II

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JAMES, WILLIS H., Navy, World War II

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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

Births Deaths Marriages, Free People of Color, North Carolina, Paternal Kin, Photographs

Edward & Susan Henderson Wynn.

Edward James Wynn (1838-1922) was the son of Gray Winn and Sarah “Sallie” Greenfield Winn. His wife, Susan Henderson Wynn (1854-1907), was the daughter of James H. Henderson and Louisa Armwood Henderson. They are buried in a small family cemetery near Dudley in southern Wayne County.

Scuffalong: Genealogy.

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