My Grandmother's Wall Photographs, Part 8

by Glenn N. Holliman

We continue our tour of Pearl Caine Holliman's photographic collage which now hangs on the kitchen wall of Mary and E.C. Herrin in Irondale, Alabama.  E.C.'s parents, Elliot Clayton Sr. and Pyretta Walker Herrin are bottom left and his aunt and uncle, Ludi and George Herrin bottom right under the collage.  In the center are portraits of Mary's parents, Robert and Vena Holliman Daly.

Below, the next section of the collage.

30. Euhal and the family dog, Sport.       

31. Ralph, meticulous as always, combs his hair for the photographer.       

32. A studious looking Euhal presents a handsome portrait in this picture.       

33. Melton was nicknamed ‘Rosie’ by his classmates while in high school. He graduated in 1927, and went to work in his Uncle Floyd Caine’s drug store. There he mastered the      pharmaceutical trade and stayed in it all his life. Floyd (1883 – 1966) as Lula Hocutt Caine’s son.       

34.Melton Holliman in sporty dress in the 1920s.       

35. Vena Holliman Daly and her daughter, Mary Daly Herrin, on the Daly-Holliman lawn.       
36. Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman on the lawn with grandson Glenn N. Holliman, Bishop’s Son.       

37. Far right stands Pearl Caine Holliman who in the 1940s entertained in Irondale her Sunday School class for which she was a teacher. Ulyss and Pearl were very active in the Gospel Tabernacle Church of The Rev. Glenn Tingly of Birmingham. Tingly was controversial, and the first radio preacher in the city from the early 1930s. 

While he preached against vice and immorality, Tingly's emotional, end of time theology was not shared by the entire family. The Ferrells in particular, moderate Methodists, were in disagreement with Loudelle’s parents and their financial support of the Tabernacle. Robert Daly, Sr. wrote scathingly during World War II how this ministry was taking resources from Ulyss and Pearl that could have been better used supporting Lula Caine, Pearl’s mother, who lived on a small rail road widow’s pension and who took in boarders to make end's meet.

38. Andrew ‘Eck’ Holliman was one of the six brothers of John Thomas Holliman, and the first to die (1882-1926). Interesting he is the only brother of Ulyss on the picture board. He succumbed to a heart attack and is buried in Anniston, Alabama where he worked for the railroad.

39. Jerry and Terry Holliman.

40. Melton and Ida Hughes Holliman (1905-1995). 

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Have questions about Holliman family history? You are invited to join the Hollyman Email List at Hollyman-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com and the Hollyman Family Facebook Page located on Facebook at "Hollyman Family". Post your questions and perhaps one of the dozens Holyman cousins on the list will have an answer. For more information contact Tina Peddie at desablai@yahoo.com, the list and Facebook manager for Hollyman (and all our various spellings!).

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

My Grandmother's Wall Photographs, Part 7

by Glenn N. Holliman

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.

The numbered pictures may be seen in the next photograph below.

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. 3^rd 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.
 

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Have questions about Holliman family history? You are invited to join the Hollyman Email List at Hollyman-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com and the Hollyman Family Facebook Page located on Facebook at "Hollyman Family". Post your questions and perhaps one of the dozens Holyman cousins on the list will have an answer. For more information contact Tina Peddie at desablai@yahoo.com, the list and Facebook manager for Hollyman (and all our various spellings!).

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

My Grandmother's Wall Photographs, Part 6

by Glenn N. Holliman

We continue our tour of my grandmother's, Pearl Caine Holliman, collage of photographs in the late 1940s.  Until her death in May 1955, this collection hung on her wall in Irondale, Alabama.  Today it hangs in the home of Mary and E.C. Herrin.  We begin again with #17.

17.  In 1944, the family of Robert W. Daly, Sr. posed on the steps of the Ulyss family home at  2300 N. 3^rd Street.  Left to right, Robert W. Daly, Jr. (b 1943), Mary Daly Herrin (b 1931), Vena and Robert Daly.  Their home is in the background.  Even before he and Vena married in 1928, Robert Daly, Sr. had become a beloved mentor to the 'second generation' of the children of Ulyss and Pearl Holliman - Bishop, Virginia and Ralph Holliman.  His benevolent influence on the whole Holliman family of that generation is incalculable.

18.  A snapshot of Ralph Holliman evidently taken while in high school at Shades Cahaba.

 As with his sister, Virginia, two years older, Ralph graduated with honors.  However,

 the lack of family financial resources and the all-consuming World War II delayed his

 entry to Birmingham-Southern College until 1945.  Ralph went to work, considered

 his military options and courted Motie Chisom, his high school sweetheart.  They

 married in winter 1943, and a month later the draft swept him into the U.S. Army.

19.   Glenn Holliman (b 1946) in the stroller with his young mother, Gerry Stansbery Holliman (b 1923) beside him in 1947.  This war time marriage resulted in two other children besides Glenn.  Rebecca Louise Holliman Payne was born in 1950 and Alice Lynn Holliman Murphy in 1956. 

20.  Melton, wife Ida Hughes Holliman (1905 – 1995) and Pati, probably taken in February 1944 during a short leave Melton had before being shipped to England and France.  Drafted at age 35 into the U.S. Army, the 3rd son of Uylss and Pearl to go to war, Melton already had been married for 12 years.  Pati had entered their lives only three months before he put on his uniform in August 1943. 

21.     Mary Daly Herrin was the first born of the 19 first cousins of this generation.  To her aunt and uncles - Virginia, Bishop and Ralph - whom she was close to in age, she was more a kid sister than a niece. 

22.  Mary Daly Herrin in 1940, Irondale, Alabama, would marry E.C. Herrin in 1951.  This generous couple by the late 1960s made their Irondale homes the gathering place for her aunts, uncles, cousins and all their children during the many family gatherings into the early 2000s.  Today, their daughter, Linda Herrin Bradley and her husband, Al, continue this tradition by opening their Alabama beach home to family and many cousins.

More of the pictures next posting....