This posting continues to examine the wall collage of my grandmother, Pearl Caine Holliman of Irondale, Alabama. She and her husband, Ulyss S. Holliman, had seven children and nineteen grandchildren. The collage today is held by the first of the cousins born, Mary Daly Herrin. Previous sections of the collage can be seen in earlier posts.
23. Pearl Caine Holliman (1887-1955) with Robert W. Daly, Jr. (b 1943) at her feet accepts the first door to door delivery of U.S. Mail at her home at 2300 N. 3rd Street in Irondale, Alabama. Due to her efforts, the post was delivered to Irondale homes, and one no longer had to cross the dangerous and busy railroad tracks to get to the post office. This picture ran in the Woodlawn, Alabama newspaper in 1944. My grandmother was 57 at the time.
24. Dressed in their Sunday best, Ralph and his brother, Bishop, pose by the Daly house, probably around 1937. I suspect Ralph did not enjoy that suit too long. A growth spurt would soon send him towering over all his siblings to 6’4” or more.
25. Bishop holding a football in the 1920s
26. Virginia Holliman Cornelius and a wagon in the 1920s.
The following are obscured in the numbered copy, but can be seen more clearly in the next post and of course in the clear photo above.
27. Virginia Holliman Cornelius (1922-2011) clutches her doll. Virginia was the sixth child
born to Pearl and Ulyss, and the only daughter born in Irondale. Vena and Loudelle were both natives of Fayette, Alabama, 45 miles to the west near the Mississippi
border.
28. Anne Holliman Phillips was the first daughter born to Euhal and Edna
Westbrook Holliman. This is a beautiful photograph and can be appreciated in the top picture.
29. This photograph of the entire Ulyss and Pearl family must have been made around
1930. Left to right, Ulyss, Ralph, Pearl, Virginia (eye obscured in picture), Melton in
back, Bishop, Vena, Euhal and Loudelle on right. Ulyss moved his family to Irondale from Fayette, Alabama during World War I.
He worked until retirement in 1949 for the Birmingham Electric Company, which ran the street cars in the 'Magic City'. His job was to repair the wooden frames and seats of the trolleys. Four years after he retired, the last street car rolled through Birmingham, all replaced by buses. Below, the full collage.
He worked until retirement in 1949 for the Birmingham Electric Company, which ran the street cars in the 'Magic City'. His job was to repair the wooden frames and seats of the trolleys. Four years after he retired, the last street car rolled through Birmingham, all replaced by buses. Below, the full collage.
More next post....
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Since early 2010, I have been publishing research and stories on the broad spectrum of Holliman (Holyman) family history at http://hollimanfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/ . For stories on my more immediate family since the early 20th Century, I have been posting articles since early 2011 at http://ulyssholliman.blogspot.com/ .
Let's save the past for the future! If you have photographs, letters, memorabilia or research you wish to share, please contact me directly at glennhistory@gmail.com. Several of us have an on-going program of scanning and preserving Holyman and related family records. Don't just let your aunt or uncle's genealogical work languish unread and deteriorating in an attic.Write us please and tell us of your items.Thanks to the Internet, we are able to scan, upload to the web (with your permission) and return the materials to you. - GNH
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