Rocky Mount Landmarks for the Bryant Family |
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Sunset Avenue House Mildred Hendricks & Sally Bryant 1989?-2004 |
1416 Sunset Ave. Ed & Johnna Bryant 1995?-2001? |
Rocky Mount Senior High School Ed Bryant 1953-1961 |
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Wilkinson Elementary School (now Grace Covenant Church) Ed Bryant 1st - 6th grade 1950-1956 |
Hardee's #1. The Hardees where Ed Bryant worked 1962-1965 Fulltime as cashier and asst. manager. Went to college part-time at Atlantic Christian (now Barton in Wilson) for 2 semesters. |
Gay Street Apartment across the street from the tobbaco train loading station there was a store with rental apartment above (now a parking lot). Ed Bryant; Mildred & Bill Bryant; Sally and William Clarence Bryant 1943-1956 |
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Downtown Rocky Mount from across the street from Gay Street Apartment |
Auto Equip Company Bill Bryant - Manager 1943-1961 |
Next door was GS Tucker Furniture Company. Bill Bryant got Ed his first job there after high school. |
321 Rose Street Ed Bryant, Mildred & Bill Bryant, Sally Bryant (Clarence had died). rented this house from 1956-1965. Ed and Brenda were married in 1963 and moved to Richmond, VA based on a Rose's Department Store transfer. Bill Bryant left and moved to Jacksonville, FL in 1961 with family friend Billie Fay Bullard. Ronnie Web lived right down the street. |
(no picture) Wilson Apartment (rental) Brenda & Ed Bryant were there while Ed continued with Rose's in Wilson. Ed had first worked for Rose's as a stock boy and then was offered a management position. They transferred them to Richmond, VA and then Roanoke Rapids, NC. |
(no picture) Paul Street House (rental) Sally Bryant & Mildred Hendricks 1965-1970 Brenda Bryant also moved here from Wilson to Paul Street in 1968 when Ed (then called Ray) was drafted in the Army. |
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Pine View Cementary in Rocky Mount, NC Sally; William Clarence and Bill Bryant (there's one plot still open and owned by William Bland Bryant). Mildred elected to be buried in Nashville Cementary.There plots are near the flag pole across the road from JD Winston Family Plot (owner of Auto Equip Company).
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A&P Store (now Jeff's Furniture) Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Mildred Hendricks (Bryant) Worked in meat department as the only woman butcher in Rocky Mount. 1950-1970? She worked for a small local owned grocery store for a couple of years & then A & P opened and offered her two or three times more money. |
R. M. Wilson (mans name) Junior High School (now retirement home) Ed Bryant 1957-1959 |
Nashville Cemetary Mildred Bryant Hendricks; Logan McGout Richardson "Goy" (ryhmes with boy); and Sanchez Richardson. There's one open plot for Faye Richardson. Kit Carson "Buck" Richardson is also in Nashville Cemetary. He died in 1967 in an auto accident. |
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Richardson Home (Hamilton Farm) Nashville, NC 1940?-1958 Goy farmed this land with Black Sharecroppers, some of which were descendants from near by slave plantations. He also ran a "country store" where many of the basic supplies were purchased. Sanchez Richardson's sister lived at the next farm over (a mile or so down the road... corner of Old Spring Hope & Erkin Smith). Mr. Hamilton owned several businesses including the farm and he gave Goy a percentage for running it.In the 50's Goy moved to Newport News to be a ferry boat captain, but soon came back to Hamilton Farm. |
310 Pine St. Mildred Bryant Hendricks 1970-1971 Mildred was still working at A&P in Rocky Mount. She had just married Bill Hendricks. One of his close friends sold Bill the Minit Shop and the house next to it. Mildred quit the A& P to run the minit shop. |
310 Pine St. |
Hwy 64 Spring Hope Minit Shop and Residence 1971 - 1978? Mildred Bryant Hendricks and Bill Richardson In 1977 Bill Hendricks died. Bill Bryant had been manager of JAck's Minit Shop in Jacksonville, FL. She committed suicide (after being diagnosed with Cancer) and Bill decided to move to Aiken, SC where Ed and Brenda now lived. He bought a Mobile gas and service station and later married Madge Gibson (of Aiken, SC). Madge was a neighbor of Brenda and Ed's. 5 or 6 years later he sold the Mobile station and he and Madge moved to Spring Hope to help Mildred run the gas station. Madge and Bill broke-up and then he married Carrie (also of Aiken). Shortly there after he died and Mildred decided to sell the Minit Shop. |
Hwy 64 Spring Hope Minit Shop and Residence
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Hwy 64 Spring Hope Minit Shop and Residence
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Hwy 64 Spring Hope Minit Shop and Residence
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Richardson Home (Rental Farm) between Nashville & Rocky Mount 1955-1958? Goy Richardson left the Hamilton Farm for a better deal at this farm, but didn't like it very much... he stopped farming and moved to Dorches around 1958. |
across from Joe Ellen Rd. Dorches, NC Richardson (rental home) 1958-'til Goy Richardson's death. Goy and Sanchez Richardson stayed in this house and Jerry and later Faye rented the house across the street. |
4721 Joe Ellen Rd. (rental home)
June and Herbert Richardson live at the corner of Joe Ellen and still own that land. |
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