From Generation to Generation

The Passing of the Grandchildren of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman by Glenn N. Holliman

It is said that funerals become a time for family reunions, and so it was recently with the passing of a gentle, vibrant soul, Jean Holliman, the fourth of six children of Euhal and Edna Westbrook Holliman.  Sadly, Jean's death was the most recent of the loss of four other grandchildren of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman in the past few years.

                 Euhal, Edna and Jean, 1985

 Since 2023, we have lost cousins Terry Holliman, Nancy Carol Cornelius Morton,  Mary Daly Herrin and Robert W. Daly, Jr.

To refresh memories there were nineteen children born to the seven children of Ulyss (1884-1965) and Pearl Caine Holliman (1888-1955) of Fayette County and later in life, Irondale, Alabama.  The seven children in chonological birth order are Melton (1908-1958), Vena (1909-1990), Euhal (1912-1989), Loudell (1914-1998), Bishop (1919-2018), Virginia (1922-2011) and Ralph (1924-2017).

Nineteen grandchildren of Ulyss and Pearl were born between 1931 and 1956. Thirteen survive as of this writing.

Attending Jean's funeral in Trussville, Alabama were left to right Jean's brother Bill, his family Kathryn Holliman Woods, Kyle Finley (Joey's husband). Rossi Arnold (Bill's grand daughter), Joey Holliman (Rossi's mother), then Bill's wife Beverly Holliman and Bill's brother-in-law Wally Allen, husband of Tommie Holliman.

Also present left to right, this writer, Glenn N. Holliman, Wally Allen next to his daughter Holly, Tommie Holliman Allen, Brian Allen, Linda Herrin Bradley, David Herrin and Alice Holliman Murphy.  Other family members, Nancy Holliman Justice and her husband Bobby were present but out of camera range.  Nancy lives in Southaven MS about a 5 minute drive from her mother Ann, the third born child of Euhal and Edna.  Nancy's two sons Michael and Jeffery live in Dothan, Alabama.

The family of Euhal and Edna had lost Jerry Holliman in 2003 and his twin, Terry Holliman on December 28, 2023.  Bill Holliman emailed me the following on Terry's life.

"Terry passed on Dec 28, 2023 at his home in Green Valley AZ. He joined the Anchorage, Alaska Fire Department as a volunteer while serving in the Army. His duty station in the Army was in the Federal Building in downtown Anchorage. The fire station was across the street from the Federal Building. He retired from the fire department with the rank of assistant fire chief.  He had four children with Georgi Hercha, his first wife.  Terry Ann died at birth, and three who survive him, Bronwyn, Jodi and Jason. His second wife Deborah had a child, Samantha, from a previous marrieage that Terry adopted."  Picture right are Debbie and Terry in 2001.

Like Terry and Jerry, their brother Bill was attracted to Alaska, going to college there and working in the airline industry. He returned to Birmingham to the employment of another airline and over twenty-five years was stationed at five different airports. His next career move led to being a freight customs broker, and then a position with the Customs and Border Protection agency in Memphis, finally retiring for good in 2019.

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The picture left is of Jerry Holliman with his nephew Brian Allen in 2002.

Terry's twin brother Jerry had entered the Army at the same time as Terry, only he was sent to Germany.  When Jerry left the Army, he joined Terry in Anchorage.  As noted, Jerry died July 16, 2003 while employed as a supervisor with Alaska Airline."

This writer, who spent the first two weeks of his life at the Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman home on 3rd Avenue in Irondale in 1946, remembered a time in the early 1960s when Jean joined me on a walk on the property pointing out where Grandmother Holliman had located her chicken house. There was Christmas 1960 when Bobby Daly and I played touch football with Jerry and Terry on the Daly lawn in Irondale.  Such memories of cousins, the aunts and uncles, form the fabric of a person's life.

In my next articles, will celebrate the lives of departed cousins Mary Daly Herrin, Robert W. Daly, Jr. and Nancy Carol Cornelius Morton.

A Visit Between Two Storms, Part 2

by Glenn N. Holliman

In this article, the story of the trip my two sisters, Becky and Alice, and I took to Alabama visiting cousins and old home places continues.  This excursion occurred the week before the explosion of the Covid 19 virus upon the American nation.  If we had waited another week, we would have had to cancel the visit.

On March 9, 2020 we rendezvoused with many cousins at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Irondale, the town where the seven children of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman, came of age.  The seven children, now all passed away, are in order of birth Melton, Vena, Euhal, Loudell, Bishop, Virginia and Ralph.

While we cousins indulged in good southern comfort food and not yet knowing to practice social distancing, I snapped this picture of those who still live in the Birmingham area and who could make the lunch.

  Moving clockwise beginning from the left is Clayton Herrin, son of E.C. and Mary Daly Herrin, and grandson of Robert W. and Vena Holliman Daly.  Next is Alice Holliman Murphy, daughter of Bishop and Geraldine Stansbery Holliman.  Behind Alice are Charles and Nancy Ferrell.  Charles is the son of Charles and Loudelle Holliman Ferrell.  John Daly, son of Bob and Carol Daly and grandson of Robert W. and Vena Daly, peeks around Nancy, Charles' wife.  In the red jacket is David Herrin, Clayton's brother.

At the far end in black is my sister, Becky Holliman Payne and seated next to her is Mary Daly Herrin, mother of Clayton and David, and daughter of Robert W. and Vena Daly.  The gentleman is green is Wally Allen, husband of Tommie Holliman Allen.  The last two ladies are Jean Holliman and Tommie Holliman Allen, daughters of Euhal and Edna Holliman.

One of the pleasant ironies of this extended lunch was knowing we were sitting in the part of the restaurant that had been the hardware store owned by Robert W. and George Daly which operated from 1944 to 1960.

The Whistle Stop, formally the Irondale Cafe had been run in the 1930s by Bess Fortenberry.  The Holliman children were forbidden to eat there as the cafe sold beer!  It was Bess's niece, Fanny Flag, who inspired by the cafe and setting, wrote Fried Green Tomatoes which became a famous movie.  

Under later ownership, the cafe expanded into the Daly Hardware building and changed its name to the Whistle Stop and yes, serves fried green tomatoes as an entree.

Below from Mary Daly Herrin's scrapbook are some mementos from the business her father and uncle ran.

After catching up on family comings and goings, and discussing some hint of the coming pandemic (Charles was touching elbows rather than shaking hands, a foreshadowing of the coming turbulence), my sisters and I bade our cherished relatives goodbye, warmly remembering our father, aunts and uncles and many earlier times together.  

More on our visit in the next blog. - GNH

After 46 Years...a Trip Back in Time, Part 2

by Glenn N. Holliman

Day One, March 5, 2015 continued....

We have left Chicago....headed west on my emotional return to Asia.  My mind drifts back to the summer of 1968....the summer I joined the U.S. Army, the summer the family gathered in Alabama....and Vietnam loomed darkly in my mind.

Below, at the home of E.C. and Mary Daly Herrin in Irondale, Alabama, many of the siblings and my cousins gathered. Three years had passed since Ulyss Holliman had died; ten since Pearl Caine Holliman (Grandmother Holliman) had died of a heart attack at age 67.

Left, Robert and Vena Holliman Daly had built their 'white house' in 1946 and there Mary and Bob Daly, their children finished growing up.  A few months after the group photograph (see below), the house was sold and demolished.  A business park now occupies this space along Highway US 70.

The photograph to the left was made in 1946 of Vena and Robert in front of their new home.  Robert was manager of a bank in Woodlawn.  The home has three large bedrooms, a huge kitchen, two baths, a long combination living and dinning room and a screened in porch over an underground garage.  The 'lot' must have been at least two acres or so.

In the 1950s, their daughter, Mary and her husband, E.C. Herrin would build a second house on the property and begin raising four children: Clayton, Linda, Suzanne and David Herrin.  Robert died early of heart disease in 1959.  In the 1960s, Vena became a sorority mother at the Universities of Alabama and Mississippi, and the Herrins with their large family moved to the 'white house', a home my immediate family and cousins visited often through the years.

Our thanks to Susan Cornelius Williams for the color photograph of this reunion in July 1968.

Back row: Holly, George and Patti Holliman Hairston

Next row, left to right: Glenn and the girl cousins: Jean, Tommie, Alice, Linda, Becky, Kathy Holliman and Susan Cornelius

Next row, left to right: Euhal Holliman, Lynn Draper Holliman, Ralph and Motie Holliman, Vena Daly, Clayton Herrin, Loudelle Holliman Ferrell, Charles Ferrell and Bishop Holliman

Next row, left to right: Walter Cornelius, Virginia Cornelius, E.C. Herrin with David on his lap, Mary Daly Herrin, Suzanne Herrin on her Uncle Bob Daly's lap, his wife, Carol behind him, Carol Cornelius in front and her husband, Carl and behind her Gerry Holliman, Bishop's wife.

Our flight drones over Canada into a long day light....a day which began 4 am in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, travel with my second cousins, Dr. Jim and Karen Holliman and daughter (we spent the night at their house) to the airport, several inches of snow.  Several hours to Chicago; a 3 ½ hour layover and now a long day and night to Japan.

A few days later my daughter, Grace and her Dad, all of 68 years, no longer 22 as in the photo above, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

On the plane, Grace,  chats with her seatmate, a 40 year old Chinese lady, who looks 25, unhappily married to a Chinese husband in Florida, heading home to take a ‘break’.  The world has changed in half a century.  China was the proxy enemy in 1968, the reason America feared, wrongly we now know, the spread of Chinese communism through Asia. Unfortunately our national leaders in the 1960s were not historians; they did not recognize the ancient enmity between the two nations of China and Vietnam.

A few months after the family reunion photograph in Irondale, it was graduation from Basic Training, an ordeal experienced by millions since World War II.  Below, October 1968, I shake hands with a fellow platoon mate.  The M-14 rifles, helmets and gear are stacked and soon I am off from Ft. Benning, Columbus, Georgia to Fort Dix, New Jersey by train for advanced training.  

I am to be an Army clerk thanks to my ability to type 44 words a minute!

Below, another place and time, Jim and Karen Holliman who kindly arranged the trip to Vietnam where Jim was to speak at a medical conference.  This photograph taken 2014 at my home in Pennsylvania.

 Forty five years since I left Asia….we shall see….

Right, "We Were Soldiers Once and Young", published 1992 and later a major movie on Vietnam.  Sad, tragic reading of an American regiment almost wiped out in one of the first battles in 1965. From the book this quotation '...the first major battle of a conflict that would drag on for ten long years and come as near to destroying America as it did to destroying Vietnam'.

Next posting, more the war of my generation and my emotional trip back to Asia.

 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 desabla1@yahoo.com, the list and Facebook manager for Hollyman (and all our various spellings!).

There is also a massive Ancestry.com Holyman and Associated Families Tree available for review.  For an invitation to this collection of over 20,000 individuals, please write glennhistory@gmail.com.  

Also one will find additional Holliman history at http://hollimanfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/ .

I also have a collection of associated family manuscripts and research collected by the late Walt Holliman, Cecil Holliman and Rhodes Holliman.  Happy to send these materials by email and to insure their research is available.  The surnames: Alexander, Baldwin, Barham, Bass, Beall, Blakeney,  Baker, Bond, Bostick, Brewer, Bryan, Bryant, Bullock, Calvert, Carter, Champion, Chew,Cofer, Cole, Crafford, Crockett, Curtis, Dale, Daniel, Davidson, Davies, De Mallpas, Douglas, Duckett, Edwards, Edgerton, Emerson, Fitzhugh, Fowlehurst, Fox, Gains, Garrison, Gonson, Graves, Gray, Guyton, Guins, Hall, Hamby, Hawkins,Hendrix, Hill, Hogg, Holliman, Holt, Howard, Jackson, Jones, Judkins, Love, Lucas, Maget, Mansfield, Manwaring, McBee, McComas, McCurdy, McNewsome, Nicholson, Norsworthy, Noyall, O'dell, Oliver, Pearce, Peerce, Pettigrew, Petway, Pitman, Plow, Plyler, Porten, Prather, Petite, Ridgely, Riggan, Roberts, Smith, Spencer, Sprigg, Standley, Stanyard, Swan, Strother, Thompson, Thornton, Thrope, Trelawney, Turpin, Underhill, Underwood, Wallace, Walters, Weedon, Whitherspoon, Whitten,Williams,Wilmot,Wilson, Whitaker and Yerby.  These are mainly Alabama families and their ancestors from the Carolinas and Virginia. Materials vary from one page to 200. - GNH at glennhistory@gmail.com. 

Ralph Holliman's 90th Birthday

by Glenn N. Holliman

Friends and Family gather to Celebrate a Milestone....July 2014

The youngest of the seven children of Ulyss (1884-1965) and Pearl Caine Holliman (1888-1955) observed his 90th birthday surrounded by friends and family in Gulf Shores, Alabama recently.  Speaking emotionally to over 70 guests at a birthday luncheon, Ralph Holliman, retired corporate executive, father of two and grandfather of one, said "he could not believe he was 90", and "must be the luckiest man alive".  

Ralph grew up in Irondale, Alabama and served in the European theater during World War II.  For sixty years, he was married to the late Motie Chism Holliman (1925-2003).  Below after their wedding in 1943 in front of the Robert W. Daly, Sr. home on 3rd Avenue North, Irondale.   Ralph entered the U.S. Army shortly after the marriage, and did not return home until 1945.  

Below, left to right: Ralph with his lovely wife of seven years, Laura; daughter Pam Holliman, grand daughter Rachel Harbour and front son-in-law Tim Donald, (not shown) Kathy Holliman's husband.  Ninety candles blazed on the cake while the caterer (background) stood by with a fire extinguisher!

Known for his wry and understated sense of humor,

Ralph boldly sported a 'Happy Birthday' cake chapeau

during much of the event!

           

Ralph and his first wife, Motie, were blessed with two talented daughters and grand daughter.

Kathy (left) is a professional writer and Pam (right) a seminary professor.  Kathy's daughter, Rachel, edits art history publications for a Boston publisher.







Relatives in attendance on a glorious summer day were seated left to right: Pam Holliman, Ralph Holliman, Laura Holliman, Kathy Holliman and Rachel Harbour.  Back rows: Terri Heyduk, Jean Holliman, Wally Allen (back row), Tommie Holliman Allen (partially obscured by the candles!), Chuck Morton, Carol Cornelius Morton, Nancy Ferrell, Charles H. Ferrell, Glenn Holliman and Tim Donald.

Bishop Holliman, Ralph's 94 year old brother, had planned to attend but had complications that prohibited his visitation from Indiana.  The two brothers survive from siblings of seven - Melton (1908-1958), Vena (1909-1990), Euhal (1912-1986), Loudell (1914-1999) and Virginia (1922-2011).  Below, Ralph and Bishop Holliman in the 1980s.

Next posting, back to World War II and its impact on the Holliman family of Alabama....

 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 desabla1@yahoo.com, the list and Facebook manager for Hollyman (and all our various spellings!).
For additional information on Hollimans, check out http://hollimanfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/ . 

Visits with Cousins

by Glenn N. Holliman

A Month of Cousins...!

There are 18 living first cousins from the seven children of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman.  During the past month, I have had the pleasure of visiting with five of them (not counting my two sisters - Becky and Alice).  So let's interrupt our Holliman 'World War II' story and share some photographs and updates on our mutual lives.

Below, Clayton Herrin, the first born great grandchild of Ulyss and Pearl Holliman, waves from his mother's Irondale, Alabama home which we visited in October.  His mother, right, is, of course, Mary Daly Herrin, the first born of the grandchildren of Ulyss and Pearl.  For over a generation the Herrin family (E.C. Herrin, Mary and now Al and Linda Herrin Bradley) have hosted family gatherings. E.C. is ailing now, and all of us have him and the family in thought and prayer.

 

 

The famous Irondale Café was the location of a meal shared in October with Jean Holliman and Tommie Holliman Allen, two of the six children of Euhal and Edna Westbrook Holliman.  Back ground in red, is yours truly, with left to right, Jean, Tommie and my sister, Alice Holliman Murphy.  In the café as one consumes fried chicken and fried green tomatoes one can see embedded in the wooden floors the indentions of counters which held merchandise in the former Daly Hardware. The Daly Hardware Store was owned by Robert W. and George Daly during the 1940s and 50s.

Below, Charles Ferrell, far right, and his wife Nancy, hosted my sister Alice and myself at their home on an October Sunday afternoon in Homewood, Alabama. Charles is the second born grandchild of Ulyss and Pearl Holliman, the first born son of Charles and Loudelle Ferrell Holliman.  He kindly shared hundreds of photos of the Ferrell and Holliman families, now scanned, and which we will be posting later in this space and at MyFamily.com.

Finally, sharing an evening in my home in Newport, Pennsylvania the past week was Dr. Robert W. Daly, Jr, right.  Just retired from his decades long position as a professor of biology from the University of North Alabama, Bob traveled north to visit his son John and his family in southeastern Pennsylvania.  While on this excursion north, Bob stopped in for the night our central Pennsylvania farm house.

It is a pleasure to reconnect with the cousins of one's youth!

Next posting, back to our story of World War II and the Holliman family....

Join your many cousins at MyFamily.com and view an expanded Holliman family tree and many files on the history of the family.  Just write to glennhistory@gmail.com for an invitation.






 

Return to Irondale 2013, Part 2

by Glenn N. Holliman

More Irondale, Alabama Memories....

As written in the last post, Bishop Holliman, b 1919, returned to his home town of Irondale in January 2013 to join boyhood friend James Pugh in a session before the Irondale Historical Society.  In the 1930s, Bishop called James 'Huck' and James called Bishop 'Tom'.

Below, Denise Wright, director of the Irondale Historical Society moderates 'Tom' and 'Huck' before a full house of persons interested in life in their small Alabama community during the Depression.  Bishop is left in blue and James in dark blue. Against the wall, left of the flag, audio recording the session is accomplished story teller and actress Dolores Hycock of Irondale who interviewed Bishop for two hours earlier that day.

Bishop's take on life in early 20th Century Alabama is written in this manuscript below.  Yours truly added some Irondale history and photographs donated by family members.  A copy is available by email and also on my Ancestry.com site.  Booklets were donated to the Irondale Historical Society and the Public Library.

 

Below, among those attending were Charles H. Ferrell, second row right in pale blue shirt, who is Bishop's nephew.  Wife Nancy sits to his left.  In the row behind are David, E.C. and Mary Daly Herrin, a niece.  Back row, left to right are Wally and Tommie Holliman (niece of Bishop) Allen and Jean Holliman, another niece. Bryan Allen, a great nephew, videos the session.  Dolores Hydock, professional story teller, is against the wall, right.  James and Bishop are in front.

Next posting, more photographs of family and friends at this nostalgic meeting....

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 desabla1@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 family's genealogical work or photographs 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

 

Return to Irondale 2013, Part 1

by Glenn N. Holliman


Memories of Irondale, Alabama....

January 29, 2013, H. Bishop Holliman, b. 1919, returned to his boyhood home to share at a meeting of the Irondale Historical Society his memories of the 1920s and 30s.  A crowd of 46 turned out to listen and ask questions.  Bishop was assisted in his talk by input from his childhood friend, James Pugh, a young 92.

Below, Bishop in the pale blue shirt at the front of the rooms listens to a remark by James Pugh to the back right of this photograph.  The meeting was held at the Irondale Public Library community room.  The distinguished head of flowing gray hair, back to camera in butter scotch colored sweater, belongs to Bishop's great nephew, Clayton Herrin.

Below, among the many relatives attending were back row - Wally and Tommie Holliman Allen and Jean Holliman, daughters of Euhal and Edna Holliman.  Far rear by the camera is Tommie's son, Brian, who videoed the event.  Front row is a brand new father, David Herrin, who brought his new daughter briefly to the meeting.  Next to him in reddish orange shirt is E.C. Herrin and his wife, Mary Daly Herrin, the first grand child born to Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman.

After the speech, Bishop, a young 93, signed copies of his book entitled "Memories of Irondale, Alabama, 1920s and 30s".  E.C. Herrin, back row, looks in stunned wonderment that anyone, anywhere possibly would want Bishop's autograph!  For a free electronic copy of the booklet, please write glennhistory@email.com.

Learn more about the Irondale Historical Society at www.irondalehistory.org .  Bishop Holliman is grateful to president Denise Tew Wright for their kind invitation to share a bit of Irondale memories.

Next post, more photographs of family and stories from Uncle Bishop's book!

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 desabla1@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 family's genealogical work or photographs 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

 

 

 

Memories of Irondale, 1925 to 1942, Part VIII by H. Bishop Holliman

This is the eight in a series of reflections on an earlier Irondale, Alabama by my father, Bishop Holliman, born 1919. - Glenn N. Holliman


Right, in 1924, Pearl Caine Holliman, age 37, holds her 7th and last child, Ralph Holliman, in her arms at the foot of the tall front stairs of her new home she shared with her husband, Ulyss S. Holliman, and family at 2300 3^rd Avenue North. At the top of the stairs is her 6^thchild, Virginia Holliman Cornelius.









Below in 2010, Bishop Holliman viewed the steps, now all brick, leading to the front porch and his memories of his beloved ‘Mama’.  After his mother died in 1955, his father, Ulyss S. Holliman, sold the home to another son, Euhal Holliman.  After Euhal's wife, Edna, died in 1992, the house was sold out of the Holliman family.

"Each summer Mama would can fruits and vegetables, maybe over 100 jars, as did most housewives. I should note that my sister Vena had married in 1928 and was living next door in the brick house (visible as the white house on the extreme right in the above photo). 

Her husband, Robert Daly, was manager of the Woodlawn bank and had a good job throughout the Depression.  They were able to take vacations to the beach each summer, a treat denied to most folks in those years."

Below, Ulyss Holliman and his grand daughter, Mary Daly Herrin, who lived next door to her Holliman grandparents from 1932 until 1946.  Mary still lives in Irondale with her husband E.C. Herrin whom she married in 1951. Behind the two is the chicken house, typical in the 1940's in small southern towns of families only one generation removed from farming.

Ulyss is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census as a farmer in Fayette, Alabama.  After moving to Irondale in 1917, he is recorded in the 1920 Census as a carpenter (for the Birmingham, Alabama Electric Company working on street cars).

 Right, Euhal and Edna Holliman in 1944 hold their fourth child, Jean Holliman, standing in front of the Robert and Vena Holliman Daly house on 3rd Avenue in Irondale.

As noted, Euhal purchased the next door Ulyss Holliman house in 1956.  Jean would live with her parents in the Holliman house until her mother's death in 1992 when the house was sold.

Next post, more on living in Irondale, Alabama in the 1930s and 1940s....

Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman and their Descendants

by Glenn N. Holliman

The Children of Euhal and Edna Westbrook Holliman


Euhal and Edna Westbrook Holliman were fortunate to have six children, five of whom survive to this day.  

They are:

Melton Terry and Alvin Jerry Holliman, twins (b 1940) - Jerry died of heart disease in his home state of Alaska in 2003. This cute 1941 picture was taken on the Holliman family lawn in Irondale, Alabama.

Ann Holliman Phillips (b 1943) is in the right of the picture below, held by her mother, Edna.  Euhal holds newborn baby Jean Holliman.  Euhal's family lived in Gadsden, Alabama in the 1940s and through the middle of the 1950s.  This picture again seems to have been taken in Irondale in 1944.

Mary Jean Holliman (b 1944) At the 1970 family reunion at E.C. and Mary Daly Herrin's home in Irondale, this picture was taken of Jean, Billy and their mother, Edna. In the far right is Carol Daly, Robert Daly, Jr's wife, holding their son, John Daly.

Tommie Holliman Allen (b 1954), is pictured in November 2010 at the Irondale Cafe with her Uncle Bishop Holliman. Some of the space occupied by the Irondale Cafe is the same location as the Daly Hardware Store from 1944 until its closing in the early 1960s.  The store was owned by brothers Robert, Sr. (Vena's husband) and George Daly.

Billy Holliman (b 1955) - Below is the 50th Anniversary celebration for Edna and Euhal.  Left to right are Tommie, Jean, Ann, Euhal, Edna, Terry, Jerry and Billy Holliman in this 1985 photograph.

Next, An Alaskan memorial to Jerry Holliman....

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 .My thanks to Tommie Holliman Allen for pictures.