![]() ![]() In the 1900 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer Thomas Hilliard, 53 wife Fortine, 58 children Olive, 24, Becky, 21, and Thomas, 16 and adopted son Thadeous Battle, 12. My husband expired, but I’m not alone God is still by my side.” I bought a home and retired then I came back to my old house in Toisnot township to live the rest of my life in 1978. reared six children and worked for 30 years. Our children are all grown and have their own families. Today Cornelia, Magnolia and Marie are mission workers around our community, if we can help somebody along life’s way. Our father, Tom, was the Sunday school superintendent. We drove a mule and buggy to Sunday school and church. “We had a 1919 Model T Ford our father drove often. We helped clear new ground by removing stumps and roots by hand after school in the evening. Often we picked cotton in the late fall the weather was so cold that icicles were hanging on the bolls of cotton. “Our most sorrowful experience was when we lost our mother at an early age in 1932. Our pleasures were fireplace reading and church and Sunday school. After growing up and marrying we still farmed and kept house. Our social activities were concerts and in-school spelling matches every Friday evening. “We farmed and attended Parker and Turners Elementary School in Wilson Co. Our grandparents were Tom and Fortant Hilliard and Nelson and Mary B. in or around 1917 when their two daughters, Cornelia and Magnolia, were eight and nine years old. Zion First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount in 1914, they moved to Wilson Co. “Our late father and mother were Thomas and Mamie Armstrong Hilliard.
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