"negro dog" "red light" house 4-H Club 10th Cavalry Regiment 50th anniversary 60th anniversary 100th anniversary 135th Regiment 500 block 1619 A.M.E.
Mahala Artis’… on Where did they go?: Intrastate… Gjohns on 10 or 12 likely Negroes for sa…Ģ0 cents for admissi… on Maud Cuney Hare holds recital… Henderson on 10 or 12 likely Negroes for sa… Per his death certificate, he was 37 years old was married lived on Roberson Street was engaged in butler service and was born in Black Creek to Thomas Battle and Rosa Battle. In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 613 Robinson Street, bank janitor Joe Mercer, 39, and wife Ida, 40. His nearest relative was Rose Battle, and he was described as “rheumatic & apparently paralytic.” Per his registration card, he was born April 1881 lived at 136 Roberson worked as a janitor. Joe Mercer registered for the World War I draft in Wilson in 1918. Joe Mercer, 24, married Ida Colley, 22, on 7 December 1908 in Wilson County. Thomas and Rose reported having been married 5 years, and Rose as the mother of one child (presumably, the baby Lou.) In the 1900 census of Gardners township, Wilson County: farmer Thomas Battle, 40 wife Rose, 35 and children Joe, 15, Frank, 13, John H., 10, Amie, 8, Mattie, 6, and Lou T., 8 months. Joe Mercer was also known as Joseph Battle. It’s hard to know what to say about this racist tribute other than “wow, Charlie Chaplin came to Wilson?” The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), 16 March 1920.
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