Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman and their Descendants

by Glenn N. Holliman


Loudelle Holliman Ferrell, 1914 - 1998
the Fourth Child of Ulyss and Pearl Holliman

Loudelle Holliman Ferrell was born in Fayette, Alabama in 1914, the 2nd daughter of Pearl and Ulyss Holliman. Ulyss worked in the nearby lumber mill, and probably walked to and from his home which was located not far from his parent's house, John Thomas and Martha Jane Walker Holliman.  In the late 1990s with Charles Holliman and his first cousin, my father, Bishop Holliman, we visited the little white frame house, perhaps a 1,000 square feet in size, where Ulyss and Pearl were raising their growing family.  The couple had been married 7 years and had four children to support.

Below is a photograph of Loudelle Holliman Ferrell as a baby in 1914, the year World War I broke out in Europe.  This war would feed the already rapid economic expansion of Birmingham, Alabama.  By the time Loudelle was three, the family moved to a new subdivision begun in an older part of Jefferson County - Irondale.

Below is a photograph, perhaps 1917, made in Fayette, Alabama.  Left to right: Loudelle (with a new haircut evidently), Euhal and Vena Holliman.  Vena hold one of her first cousins, a Cook child and a second Cook cousin on the far right.  Maude Caine, one of Pearl's sisters, married a Cook in Fayette.  As with the Holliman's, the Cooks moved also to Irondale and during the 1920s inhabited a home just behind the Ulyss Holliman house.  Around 1930 the Cook's moved to a farm near Leeds, Alabama.  Maude, who had tuberculosis of the spine as a child, was physically disabled, and died around 1940.

Note: The information and opinions expressed in these family biographies are those of the writer alone. Comments, corrections and additions are most welcome. The purpose of these articles is to capture a period and family in American history and to pass this legacy along to future generations who share the common bond of family


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