Zion minister, performed the ceremony in the presence of Lizzie B. Dennis Brooks - on 10 January 1898, Dennis Brooks, 31, son of Henry Brooks, married Mary Helms, 24, at Brooks’ residence in Wilson.Elvy Sutton - presumably, on 3 September 1900, Elvy Sutton, 23, daughter of Isham and Exie Sutton, married Robert Allen, 40, at Primitive Baptist minister P.D.Williams and Annie Williams of Wilson County. Williams performed the ceremony in the presence of Pennina Bottoms of Edgecombe County and Jesse L.
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Their marriage license shows that Primitive Baptist minister William B. Mattie Speight - possibly the Mattie Speight, 24, who married Elbert Sanders, in Toisnot township on 28 February 1906.Inquest had and signed and sealed in the presence of Albert Anderson, Coroner of Wilson Co. Barnes, by me summoned for that purpose according to law after being by me duly swored and empanelled at the Mayor’s office in the county of fore said did hold an inquest over the dead body of George Williford and after examination in the facts & circumstances of the death of the deceased from a view of the corps and all the testomonal to be procured the said Jury find as follow that is to say that George Williford came to his death from a pistol shot wound inflicted by Albert Battle. 1904, I, Albert Anderson, Coroner of Wilson County attended by a Jury of good & lawful men viz: Sanford Christman, R.J. Elvy X Suttonīe it remembered that on this the 5th day of Nov. George went after Albert with a knife last summer and tried to kill him I have heard George say he was goin to kill Albert if he ever caught him with me. s/ Minnie HodgesĮlvy Sutton being sworn says: I was asleep and when I waked up Geo was dead Albert called me to get up. Minnie Hodges being sworn says: I don’t know any thing about except Albert Battle & Elvy Sutton & I were in the house when Geo Williford came there & knocked and asked for Elvy and I opened the door and let him come in and he run to the bed where Elvy was she was sleep then he runned towards Albert he Albert had gone out in the passage and Albert said get back off of me and George kept coming towards Albert and Albert shot him once then Geo went back towards the bed and I run out the front door and run up the street and when I came back Geo was out dores and had fell between steps and walling. When I got around the house from the garden Albert Battle was on the poarch.ĭennis Brooks being sworn says: I don’t know any thing about the killing about 2 1/2 years ago Geo Williford was in my bar raising sand one Monday morning I ask him what was the matter Albert Battle was there and Geo said he was going to kill a man that morning if any one bothered him Albert told him to come on an have a drink and George told him he had money enough to buy his drinks Albert took me back in the pool room and said that Geo was mad with him and I ask him what about and he said Elvy. Mattie Speight reexamine says: after I went back from up town Albert Battle, Elvy Sutton & another woman were the only ones in the house when I got back from up town. I suppose I was coming from up town when the shooting took place Elvy was setting by the fire when I got there. s/ Mattie SpeightĬhas Richerson being duly sworn says: I came up town when I came back to the corner house I heard some one say they were fighting down there and I run p there and ask what was the matter this Albert Battle run by me I heard Geo Williford say O Lord and he turned over. I heard the pistol fire and I went around the house to see what the matter I found Geo Williford on the ground between the door steps and the walling I run after the police I never heard him Geo Williford say any thing except Oh Lordy. Williford came up and knocked at the door and when he knocked at the door the front door was shut but my room door was open and I went out. Mattie Speight, being sworn says: Well yesterday while it was raining I went home and shortly after I got home Albert Battle came in we all were sitting down by the fire and laufing and talking and I came up town and when I went I went back Geo. Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace of Wilson County on the day and date above mentions. Sharp who maketh oath that Geo Williford is dead that he hath reason to believe to doth believe that he came to his death by unlawful means. Pearsonal appeared before me this the 5 day of Nov 1904 Sheriff W.D.P.