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Matthews, William O. (b. OCT 1880, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Wilson County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 19A
Source: (Individual)
Title: Wilson County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 26 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #378/379, Black Creek Township, Wilson County, North Carolina: William O. Matthews, born October 1880, age 19, single, farm laborer, attended school 3 months, literate
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Lamm, Mary E. (b. JAN 1875, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: Mary E. Lam, born January 1875, age 25, single, 1 child alive, literate
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Lamm, Martha J. (b. MAY 1877, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: Martha J. Lam, born May 1877, age 23, single, farm laborer, illiterate
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Lamm, Georganne (b. AUG 1879, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: George A. Lam, born August 1879, age 20, single, farm laborer, illiterate
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Lamm, Henly P. (b. JAN 1881, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: Henly P. Lam, born January 1881, age 19, single, farm laborer, illiterate
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Lamm, Charles M. (b. JUN 1884, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: Charles M. Lam, born June 1884, age 15, farm laborer, literate
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Lamm, Octavia (b. APR 1889, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: Octava Lam, born April 1889, age 11, farm laborer, illiterate
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Lamm, James W. (b. APR 1898, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 313
Source: (Individual)
Title: Johnston County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Census: Date: 8 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #41/41, Creech's Precinct, Smithfield Township, Johnston County, North Carolina: James W. Lam, born April 1898, age 2 (household of grandfather, John W. Lamm)
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Hinnant, John Ransom (b. 13 SEP 1868, d. 4 NOV 1937)
Death: 4 NOV 1937 Wilson County, North Carolina
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Boyette, Sudie L. (b. 28 NOV 1874, d. 14 JAN 1950)
Death: 14 JAN 1950 Wilson County, North Carolina
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Watson, John Robert (b. 1874, d. 1945)
Death: 1945 Wilson County, North Carolina
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Simpson, Vollis (b. --Not Shown--)
Note: Wilson (NC) Daily Times
November 3, 2007
Jean and Vollis a good team
By Keith Barnes Daily Times Photojournalist
As the saying goes, "Behind every successful man is a good woman."
For Vollis Simpson, "the successful man," his "good woman" is Jean, his wife.
Jean may not be as well-known as Vollis, the renowned Wilson County folk artist who builds whirligigs, but she is just as important to the husband/wife team, based on the many hats she wears.
According to Jean, her duties include doctor, nurse, chauffeur ("hauling Vollis to the doctor"), housekeeper ("but not much of one"), bookkeeper, babysitter and, when necessary, a cook.
"I used to love to cook, but if I do it now it's because I absolutely have to," she said. "It's easier to go get it or eat out."
Jean failed to list her primary job, though, which is comedian, as this is one funny lady.
Her sense of humor, consisting mostly of one-liners and barbs sprinkled with sarcasm, just might have been the secret to the success of the Simpson marriage.
"Sense of humor is very important," Jean said.
Her wit appears to have rubbed off on Vollis, too, who claims that the real key has been "moon pies and nabs."
The couple has been married for 61 years with "not the first cross word in all that time," said Jean smiling and mentioning she spoke with her fingers crossed.
Vollis is 88 years old and Jean is 80.
"He robbed the cradle when we got married," said Jean, smiling. "Besides, when you get old, it don't matter."
The former Jean Barnes met Vollis Simpson in 1944 while both were at her cousin's house in Rock Ridge.
"Most Lucama guys went to Rock Ridge to pick out their doll babies," she explained.
Jean said she was first drawn to Vollis because "he had a convertible," but what finally won her over was "his undying charm, I guess," she said, rolling her eyes.
The couple married in 1947 in Emporia, Va., and afterwards began farming, which lasted until 1951 when Vollis went into the house-moving and welding business.
The welding served as training ground for Vollis' whirligigs, which came about later in the 1980s after he semi-retired.
For those who don't know, whirligigs are those unusual-looking art creations of metal, glass and plastic that move and spin when blown by the wind.
Several are located in Wilson, some are displayed at art museums and other locations nationwide and they are the inspiration for the third annual Whirligig Festival being held this weekend in Wilson.
Jean said when Vollis began building whirligigs and placing them around the farm neither knew what to expect.
"They were always in his head, but when he finally got the time, that's when he got started," she said.
"It makes me proud of him, but I was just as proud of him before," she said. "What's been satisfying is that he's gotten recognized."
While the couple has each other, and the whirligigs of course, even bigger sources of pride have been their grown children, Mike, Barnie and Carol, and the four grandchildren.
"They're beautiful," Jean said of the grandchildren, adding, to get a rise out of Vollis, "They took after their grandmother.
Maybe to keep up with his wife, Vollis likes to tell jokes to anyone who will listen, although Jean rates him as a poor joke teller as "he usually ruins it by giving up the punch line."
Besides, she's heard all the jokes, some "100,000 times over."
Jean tells jokes pretty well herself but pointed out: "I can't tell you one now because you'd put it in the paper and people would say she's a nasty woman."
Watching late night television is something the Simpsons do together, sort of.
"Vollis likes David Letterman and I like Jay Leno," she said. "But, he watches in the kitchen, and I watch in the den -- he has to sit close to the TV so he can hear it."
One fact unknown to many is that Jean once worked for the FBI in Washington after her graduation from Rock Ridge High School in 1945.
"I worked there for six months, but it was too far away from home and the people I loved," she said.
Her job with the bureau? "I can't tell you because I'd have to kill you," she laughed. "I'm sworn to secrecy."
Among the pleasant memories from Jean's youth are her days spent on the farm.
"We used to put in tobacco, but during lunch break we'd run to the creek and go swimming," she said. "One time I got attacked by leeches and got scared because I didn't know what they were."
Other items on her resume include majorette/cheerleader at Rock Ridge High School and contestant in the Miss Wilson pageant in 1946.
Said Vollis about Jean: "She's been a good wife for all these years and, you know, they're kind of hard to find."
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Peele, Joanna W. (b. NOV 1833, d. 4 FEB 1907)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: CensusPage: 111B
Source: (Birth)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1860
Author: Joan L. Howell
Publication: Wilson, NC: Generations Past, 1997
Media: BookPage: 72
Source: (Birth)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Church & Family Cemeteries: K - Z
Author: Timothy W. Rackley
Publication: 1997: Kernersville, N. C.
Media: BookPage: 2
Source: (Individual)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1860
Author: Joan L. Howell
Publication: Wilson, NC: Generations Past, 1997
Media: Book
Source: (Individual)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1870
Author: Joan L. Howell
Media: Book
Source: (Individual)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1880
Media: Census
Source: (Individual)
Title: Nash County, North Carolina Federal Census of 1900
Media: Census
Death: 4 FEB 1907 Nash County, North Carolina
Burial: Joanna Lamm Cemetery, Mannings Township, Nash County, North Carolina
Census: Date: 1860
Place: Family #0703, Nash County, North Carolina: Joana Lamm, age 25
Census: Date: 1870
Place: Family #242, Union Township, Nash County, North Carolina: Joana Lamb, age 36, keeping house
Census: Date: 1 JUN 1880
Place: Dwelling/Family #6/6, Mannings Township, Nash County, North Carolina: Joanna Lamm, age 46, keeping house, cannot read
Census: Date: 7 JUN 1900
Place: Dwelling/Family #67/67, South Mannings Township, Nash County, North Carolina: Josephine W. Lamm, age 66, Widowed, farmer
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Lamm, Michael (b. , d. ?)
Note: Wilson (NC) Daily Times
December 20, 2003
Lamm buys Southern National
By Phil Goble Jr., Daily Times Sports Editor
Southern National Speedway is back in familiar hands.
In an exclusive interview Friday night, Mike Lamm announced his purchase of the track and surrounding land from Ron Gammon.
Gammon bought the track from original owners Mack and Bobbie Lamm, Mike Lamm's parents, in July 2001.
"I was there when the first trees were pushed down," Mike Lamm said. "It's real close to my heart. The good Lord has helped greatly in this endeavor. We've been blessed."
The deal has been in the works the past two weeks.
"He approached us," Lamm said of Gammon. "He approached the family and said he just wanted to get out of the business and asked if we were interested."
The sale from Gammon was closed Friday morning. Lamm did not disclose the exact purchase price but said the $1.5 million tax value "is in the neighborhood."
The purchase included 95 acres of land and the facility. It did not include Four G's Racing Inc., the company Gammon owns that operated Southern National.
"I bought the dirt and everything that's on the dirt," said Lamm, who credited Heritage Bank and officials Joey Evans and John Tilton with expediting the sale.
Southern National Raceway Inc. was established as the operating company for the speedway. According to the N.C. Department of Secretary of State, the company was officially formed Tuesday with Lamm listed as the agent.
Lamm said he will be the track's chief executive officer and sole stockholder.
Charlie Lamm, Mike Lamm's brother, will be president of Southern National Raceway Inc. and the facility's promoter. Renee Lamm, Mike Lamm's wife, will be the office manager.
"It's been an intense two weeks," Charlie Lamm said. "A lot has happened. A lot of cooperation between a lot of people.
"I'm excited to be getting back in the pits with the guys."
Already, the new owners have scheduled a couple of major events for the 2004 season — a Hooters Cup race is tentatively set for the last week in June and the National Tractor Pulling Association will hold a national points event Oct. 8-9 sponsored by the Contentnea Volunteer Fire Department.
Mike and Charlie Lamm are still working out the details for each of the weekly divisions, but expect to have meetings with drivers in the next two or three weeks.
They anticipate opening day 2004 to be the last weekend of March or the first weekend of April.
"We're going to have meetings with the drivers to figure out which way they want to go," Charlie Lamm said. "What's good for the drivers is good for the track."
One change Mike Lamm has already made is ticket prices. Pit passes will be $20 with trackside areas dropping to $15 per person and individual grandstand seats to $12.
"I can't ask a family of four to spend $60 to get in," said Lamm, who will continue to run William M. Lamm & Sons Custom Home Builders. "I can't (pay that) and I'm not going to ask somebody else to. I'm going to make it as value-added as I can."
And that began the moment he signed the papers.
And Mike Lamm wouldn't have it any other way.
"My hair is getting grayer everyday," he said with a laugh. "I got a boat me and wife can't use anymore except Mondays or Tuesdays."
But he has Southern National Speedway back where it started — with the Lamms.
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Peele, Nathan Thomas (b. 15 MAR 1866, d. 20 FEB 1936)
Death: 20 FEB 1936 Wilson County, North Carolina
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Eatman, Rodney (b. 27 OCT 1899, d. 22 DEC 1932)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Wilson County, North Carolina Cemeteries - Volume IV
Author: Joan L. Howell
Publication: Wilson, NC: Wilson County Genealogical Society, 1998
Media: BookPage: 72
Death: 22 DEC 1932 Wilson County, North Carolina
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina
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Eatman, Josephine (b. 12 SEP 1932, d. 22 DEC 1932)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Wilson County, North Carolina Cemeteries - Volume II
Author: Sue Evans Mitchell and Joan Howell
Publication: Wilson, NC: Wilson County Genealogical Society, 1993
Media: BookPage: 164
Death: 22 DEC 1932 Wilson County, North Carolina
Burial: 23 DEC 1932 Lamm/Wells Cemetery (Rock Hill Cemetery), Old Fields Township, Wilson County, North Carolina. Shares a headstone with Margarette W. Eatmon and Georgia Marie Eatmon. Epitaph: "Safe in the arms of Jesu
Cause: Axe blow to the head
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Eatman, Georgia Marie (b. 17 NOV 1930, d. 22 DEC 1932)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Wilson County, North Carolina Cemeteries - Volume II
Author: Sue Evans Mitchell and Joan Howell
Publication: Wilson, NC: Wilson County Genealogical Society, 1993
Media: BookPage: 164
Death: 22 DEC 1932 Wilson County, North Carolina
Burial: 23 DEC 1932 Lamm/Wells Cemetery (Rock Hill Cemetery), Old Fields Township, Wilson County, North Carolina. Shares a headstone with Josephine Eatmon and Margarette W. Eatmon. Epitaph: "Safe in the arms of Jesus"
Cause: Axe blow to the right temple
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Scott, Mary Ann (b. 20 AUG 1862, d. 20 JAN 1900)
Death: 20 JAN 1900 Wilson County, North Carolina
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Fulghum, Annie (b. 18 JAN 1908, d. 8 NOV 2004)
Note: Wilson (NC) Daily Times
November 9, 2004
Annie Fulghum Deans
Jan. 18, 1908 - Nov. 8, 2004
Annie Fulghum Deans, 96, of Middlesex died Monday. A graveside service will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Hollywood Cemetery, Middlesex. Arrangements are by Joyner's Funeral Home, 4100 U.S. 264 Alt. West.
The Rev. Steve McCart will officiate.
Deans was a member of Middlesex Baptist Church
Deans is survived by three daughters, Sue D. Sykes and husband, J.G., of Rocky Mount, Helen D. Woodall of Clayton and Betty D. Lamm and husband, Jesse of Wilson; two sons, Donald E. Deans and wife, Anita, and Jesse Brooks Deans and wife, Peggy, all of Middlesex; 11 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Deans; four grandchildren, Ritchie Deans, Jerry Sykes, Lou Anne Lamm and Will Baker and son-in-law, Morris Woodall.
The family will receive friends at Joyner's Funeral Home from 7 — 8:30 tonight and at other times the family will be at the home of Donald Deans, 6535 Buck Deans Road, Middlesex.
Source: (Birth)
Title: Wilson Daily Times
Publication: Wilson, NC
Media: NewspaperPage: November 9, 2004
Death: 8 NOV 2004 Wilson County, North Carolina
Burial: 10 NOV 2004 Kenly Cemetery, Johnston County, North Carolina
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