Great...I didn't know it was out..Joan Howell does a fantastic and mostly unpraised job..... At 05:04 PM 4/23/1999 EST5EDT, you wrote: >Hunter, the 4th volume of Wilson County Cemeteries is now available. >It includes Maplewood. > >Al Jones > > > > >Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:02:12 -0400 >From: [email protected] (psmartoc) >Subject: [NCWILSON-L] Wilson County info needed >To: [email protected] >Reply-to: [email protected] > >Hunter, I do know that the survey for the Major cemetery in Wilson has not >been published yet. It is well on its way, but not completed. That would be >Maplewood Cemetery. > >I am hoping someone with the knowledge can respond to you about the >newspaper and the funeral homes. > >I don't know when the Wilson Daily Times was started but I suspect the >library in Wilson would be your best bet for old papers. ECU may have them >also. > >I know that Yelverton Funeral home has been around a very long time also. >Carol > > > > > > >At 04:37 PM 4/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: >>During a recent visit to the NC State Archives, I checked the 1900, 1910, >>and 1920 Wilson Co, NC Census and found the following: >> >>In 1900, Levy (Levi) T. Williamson was living at dwelling # 342 in Cross >>Roads Township with wife Sarah and daughters Susan and Bettie. He was listed >>as being 68 years old and born in NC in 1837. His birth year agrees with his >>Civil War records, so he was probably closer to 63. His son, Albert C. >>Williamson, lived in Black Creek Township at dwelling #402 with wife Clarkie >>(Lamm), daughters Minnie L. and Eva B. (Blanche). >> >>In 1910, Albert Williamson was living at dwelling # 289 in Black Creek >>Township with wife Clarkie, daughters Minnie, Blanche, and Georgia, and sons >>Wade, Grover, and Earl. Two doors down, in dwelling # 291, was Loften T. >>Lamm, wife Mary, son Joseph, and daughters Edith and Louberta. Listed as a >>boarder and a widower was Levi Williamson, age 79. >> >>In 1920, Albert Williamson was listed with his family in Sampson Co, NC, >>where they lived for awhile before returning to Wilson Co. There was no >>listing for Levi Williamson or Williams with the right age in either Wilson >>or Sampson Co, nor the entire state of NC. I checked the death records of >>the state and the counties and could find no record of his death between >>1910 and 1920. I also found no record of his wife's death between 1900 and >>1910. I know that the counties were not required to keep death records until >>1917 or so. I also found no listing for them in the Wilson Co. Cemeteries >>books. My great aunts, Rosamond Wells and Grace Williamson of Wilson Co, >>daughters of Albert Williamson, do not know when Levi and Sarah died or >>where they might be buried. I also have checked the Wilson Co. Estate >>records and found nothing, although it's possible that I may have overlooked >>something. >> >>The leads that I want to follow are the Loften Lamm connection and possible >>obituaries in the Wilson papers of that time frame. What papers were being >>published between 1900 and 1920 and are they archived? If so, where can I >>get more information? >> >>Does anyone know more about Loften Lamm and his descendants, maybe a family >>member that is alive and may remember something about Levi Williamson. >> >>One last item: does anyone know the funeral homes of the area between 1900 >>and 1920 and whether or not records are available from them for that time >>frame. >> >>I'm sorry this is so long, but I would really appreciate any help on this >>matter. It would bring some sort of closure for many people concerning a not >>too distant ancestor. Thanks to everyone in advance. >> >>Hunter Ferrell >>Louisville, KY >>[email protected] >> >> >Carol P. Martoccia >903 East Fifth Street >Greenville, NC 27858 >Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 >Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >Plummer Alston "Al" Jones, Jr., PhD >Director of Library Services >Corriher-Linn-Black Library >Catawba College >2300 W. Innes St. >Salisbury, NC 28144 >Tel: (704) 637-4449 >FAX: (704) 637-4304 >E-mail: [email protected] > > Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl