Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman and their Descendants

by Glenn N. Holliman

                              Ulyss's Wise Selection of a Wife

Above is pictured Pearl Caine as a young lady.  Those dark eyes must have attracted Ulyss.  The comments are by Bishop Holliman, their fifth child,  who is not sure when his parents were married.  He thinks 1907.  More research is needed, but I believe it was 1906.  

Ulyss and the rest of his descendants are fortunate that a young 19 year old, Pearl Caine, agreed to marry him in 1906.  Pearl balanced Ulyss's quiet, sometimes grumpy nature (at least when he was older).  She was loving, generous, strong willed and terribly hard working.  She is remembered warmly by surviving children and grandchildren old enough to remember.

Born in Fayette County, Alabama in 1887, she died of a heart attack May 5, 1955, stricken at her home in Irondale, Alabama.  She survived in the hospital until all her children could arrive and say goodbye.

The couple had seven children.  They are:

Melton Pearson Holliman (1907 - 1958)

Vena Vivian Holliman Daly Buckheit (1909 - 1990)

Euhal Arlington Holliman (1912 - 1989)

Loudelle Holliman Ferrell (1914 - 1998)

Homer Bishop Holliman (1919)

Virginia Ruth Holliman Cornelius (1922)

William Ralph Holliman (1924)

In my blog at http://hollimanfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/, I have separate pages on each of these children.  In time, I shall be removing those pages and moving their stories and additional information to this blog at http://ulyssholliman.blogspot.com/.


More in a few days....