
“Theodore Charity, colored ex-convict, who was taken sick several days ago and CH Houston1, an aged man of Houston Hollow were taken down to the county infirmary Tuesday. There are now 43 inmates at the institution.”
“Charity is the man who fell on the lower Market square last Friday afternoon and came near dying before medical aid could reach him.”2
- Charles Henry Houston
- Taken To Infirmary. (1910, March 2). Portsmouth Daily Times, p. 9.