Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman and their Descendants

by Glenn N. Holliman

Homer Bishop Holliman, 1919
the Fifth Child of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman

With the marriage of The Rev. Charles Ferrell to Loudelle Holliman in 1935, Bishop gained another strong influence on his life.  Charles encouraged Bishop to enter Birmingham-Southern College after graduation from Shades-Cahaba High School in 1937.  With some assistance from Robert Daly and acquiring a youth position job with the North Alabama Methodist Conference (thanks to Charles and Loudelle), Bishop was able to attend this liberal arts school, and after the interruption of war, graduated in 1946 on the G.I. Bill.

During his service with the Conference, Bishop met many young Methodist pastors, one being Paul Nelson Propst (see above) and had the occasion to attend and help conduct youth meetings in Montevalla, Alabama and Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.  In North Carolina, Bishop met another Methodist, a young lady from Greenville, South Carolina, who would in 1990 become his second wife, Anne McLaughlin.

Above is a photo taken in front of the Holliman home in 1939 on 3rd Avenue in Irondale.  Bishop (center) had just returned from a trip to East Tennessee and Western North Carolina with his boyhood friend, Charles Pugh (left) also of Irondale. The man on the right is Stewart Button, a Presbyterian minister and a great friend of the Dalys.  Button, as he was known, could hold his own humor-wise with his fellow Orange Irishman, Robert Daly, Sr. Note the streets in Irondale were not paved until World War II.

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