Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman and their Descendants

The Seventh Child of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman, 
William Ralph Holliman, Part VII

by Glenn N. Holliman, a nephew

The affluence that Ralph’s generation was creating and enjoying was almost unimaginable to his parent’s generation.  It is startling to recall that the Ulyss Holliman home did not have an indoor bathroom or running water until 1936.  Pearl Holliman was still churning butter in her kitchen, and killing and defeathering her own chickens until her death in 1955.

The 19 grandchildren of Ulyss and Pearl were to live in the greatest economic expansion in the history of the planet and have enjoyed a standard of living far richer than any king  or baron of industry born before the 20^th Century.                                       

This is one of the numerous suburban homes Pam and Kathy Holliman would know in their growing up years.  In the 1950s and 1960s millions of American acres were being converted into subdivisions, ranch style homes with air conditioning, concrete driveways, car ports, large picture windows (as above) and sans front porches (not needed if a house was air conditioned).

                                       

The expanding economy allowed middle class families to travel and visit relatives.  In this 1953 photograph taken at Lake Ponchatrain in New Orleans, Louisiana are from left to right – Becky Holliman Payne, Pam Holliman, Motie and Kathy Holliman, Bishop Holliman and a young Glenn Holliman in front.

Right, two young, up and coming executives, Bishop Holliman with the hat and his younger brother, Ralph Holliman, pose in the front lawn of their childhood home in Irondale, Alabama, Christmas 1954.  Both are formally dressed and attired as if for the office.  In the decade after World War II, men wore fedoras and business suits even when on vacation.

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