My Mother

by
Fred McCaleb

Some Things my Mother Eza Etta Hallmark Told me before she Died 1981

Grandpa Samuel Winn Hallmark never had a corn planter until after Eza married.
She had to drop most of the corn that he planted. The other girls did something
else at the house.

Grandpa Hallmark gave each of his girl children except Emma a cow when they got
married.

Momma said she never did like beef even before her pet calf. Said she didn’t
like the smell.

Momma bought the old wardrobe for $5 from Jim Killingsworth who ran a saw mill.
Her dad cut the logs from which it was made. Jim fashioned the old wardrobe
from the lumber sawed from S.W. Hallmark’s logs.

S.W. Hallmark gave each of the girls a little cotton patch and the girls did
what they wanted to with the money. A trunk apiece was one of the going things
they bought and in the trunk they stored their valuable home made quilts and
clothes.

Said her grandma Elizabeth Woodard and grandpa Moses Eason got sick and unable
to take care of themselves in old age. The S.W. Hallmark family took care of
them. Eva, Ethel, and Eza took turns staying all night with them and doing the
cooking and cleaning up. Moses Eason homesteaded the farm there. He used mules
or oxen as power to pull the plows. Cleared small patches of ground. Ground
was very poor and not very farmable. Cooked on fireplace. Momma’s grandpa
Eason said after daughter Mary Roxie Hallmark bought a wooden cook stove that
cornbread wasn’t good cooked on one of these new fangled iron cook stoves.

Jim McCollum was a Baptist preacher. He was a half brother of momma’s grandma
Sudie McCollum Hallmark. In momma’s youth he preached a revival at New River
(Killingsworth) Baptist Church and stayed with the S.W. Hallmark family .
Jim’s wife was Susan Eason McCollum, a sister of Mary Roxie Eason Hallmark.
Kin in several directions.

Grandma and grandpa S.W. Hallmark allowed no back talk from their children.

Frank Hallmark, oldest of Hopwood Hallmark kids, Married aunt Mary Berry. Their
children were John, Sudie, Sid and Lela. Son John married Grandma Regina
Cartherine Holllingsworth’s sister Elizabeth (Bess). John and Bess drank
liquor.

Hopwood’s boy Jim—momma didn’t know about him

His daughter sis married Alec Tidwell. Martha Tidwell Manasco was the baby of
this family. Married Joe Manasco and lived on Dad’s uncle George’s rental
house in Miss. Their Children were Rayford, Ressie, Reba and Sherman.
Daughter Dora Tidwell had no offspring. Married a Baccus.
Andrew Tidwell—good farmer near Wiley Perry place.
Ras Tidwell
Cal Tidwell Tidwells didn’t get much education.

Hopwood’s son Andrew (Drew) Jackson Hallmark married Moses daughter Della
Eason. Their children were Gus, Victor and Annie. Double first cousins of momma
and all gone now. 1978.

Hopwood’s son W. H. (Will Hallmark) married Grace Hartney. Grace’s mother
died with dropsy. The children of Will and Grace were Fent Hallmark who
married Ida Woodard, daughter of George. Their children were Boyd, James, Josie
and Clair.
Son Felix married a Perry girl. Ada married Bill Hollingsworth. Ida married
Hubbert. Ed married Aute Tucker’s girl Sula, and Ector.

Momma’s grandpa Eason fell and broke leg at aunt Sudie McCollums.

I, Fred McCaleb, was born where Walker McCaleb lived. Hubert was born on Barn
Creek, Clancy on Boxes Creek, Raburn where Roland Roby lives, Jean in Miss. And
Leroy near Bluff, Al. Ollie Tucker was midwife for Fred and Hubert, aunt
Margaret Hollingsworth at Clancy’s birth, Raburn & Jean had doctors. Dr.
Cowden of Shannon Ms. At Jean’s and Dr. Barnes of Winfield for Raburn. Mrs.
Mag Hush, midwife, at Leroy’s birth. Told to me by my mother. According to
momma all her children were good. All her grandchildren were also good. Ha!

Hopwood Hallmark had another daughter named Mary. She married Wesley Fowler.
S.W. Hallmark’s stepmother, Elizabeth Jeffries, got his farm in the Tenn.
Valley. I found from the census that S.W. stayed with the Fowlers at least one
period of time. He also stayed with his grandma Sarah Tipton some of the time.
Grandpa was sort of a boy without a home during his growing up years. Didn’t
seem to like his stepmother. Momma said grandpa rode a horse or mule one of
the times he went to see folks in North Alabama. Had to stay all night on the
way. Weather was very cold. Got between mattresses and still nearly froze.
Traveling was a tough deal back then unless you could catch a train going to
where you wanted to go.

Momma said she dreamed of going off to school. Paid her way to go somewhere and
didn’t get able to go and didn’t know if they would give the money back.

McCollums on momma’s grandma Hallmark side owned slaves. John Wade came to
Church at Killingsworth.

Grandpa S.W. Hallmark changed from Primitive to Missionary Baptist because he
didn’t like footwashing. Momma had been to footwashing at Old Brand. Had
towel tied around waist to dry feet after washing. Had big crowds at washings.
Old man Gillian lived close and raised a big family of girls. Daddy went to a
few to see what went on.

Momma made us wash feet every night, or she couldn’t rest. Washed hands, face
and combed hair when we came in from work at lunch or night. Had a washpan to
dip water into that set on a special table. Talked of people getting 7 year
itch that didn’t clean up.

Her brother Arthur Hallmark met a bear one time on the bluff in the back field.
He let the bear go his way and he went his own way as fast and easy as he
could.

Momma said Eva named me Fred. Hubert named after McCalebs or Whiteheads. Clancy
was named after Clancy Johnson Campbell. Her and momma baptized same big
meeting .This lady came to see momma in the nursing home. Preacher Spann
baptized them. This was befor momma married. They were baptized in Boxes creek.
Didn’t tell me who named Raburn. We named Clara Jean from something we had in
school. I think Hubert and I named Leroy. Myrtle Erving said I was named for
Fred Ervin that died of too thin blood. Fred Ervin was one of dads playmates.

Said grandpa S.W. Hallmark hooked up wagon and carried Easons to church. Grandma
Eason died first. Grandpa Eason stayed around with children, but when at grandpa
Hallmarks he would go home and sit on porch.

Following is Mommas story on Hopwood Hallmark, her grandpa. She didn’t know
about him very well and knew nothing of her great grandpa George Hallmark.
Grandpa Hopwood Hallmark married second time ( a Jeffries.) Her dad, S.W.
didn’t like step mother and stayed with older brothers. Drew was youngest and
her dad the next oldest. Momma didn’t know if he moved back to Tenn. Valley
with 2nd wife. Stayed with John and Frank and finally built a house and married
Roxie Eason. (She didn’t know about her dad being a hired hand of Moses Eason
before marrying one of his girls.) The following seems a little false. There
was a place near Pleasant Grove named Jeffersfield. Jeffries were kin to Andy
Studdard. S.W. used to stop and see her sometimes. I know the following
sentence is false. Diddn’t take second wife to valley. Her dad S.W. rode to
valley one time. Had to beg place to stay all night. Nearly froze with feather
bed over him.

Hopwood didn’t go to civil war.Hid out. Might have been hung. ( wasn’t, it
was his dad George that got shot by home guards.) Hopwood’s little house
used to be on creek below Henry and Clyde Killingsworths. Two Hallmark girls
got killed. May have been aunts of her dad S.W. They were sisters of Hopwood.
S.W. had an aunt and uncle that came to see him. I didn’t find out who they
were. (The aunt might have been Wesley Fowler’s wife Mary Hallmark before
they moved to Arkansas. They died there. ) Hopwood died before his 2nd wife.
Then the wife moved back near Carbon Hill. (According to descds in north Al.
she didn’t.) May have been around Tuscumbia. She got sick and S.W. stopped to
see her on way to Carbon Hill. Second wife had children Jack and Joe Hallmark
and stayed in Valley.

Susan was a Hallmark (dau of Hopwood’s parents George and Sarah Tipton) that
married James Monroe (Jimmy, called Jimmeroo) parents of Jerry Killingsworth
(sons Carlos and “Jim Dandy”) Momma didn’t know too much about her
Hallmark ancesters

There was a Tobias Woodard—brother of grandma Elizabeth Eason, Moses Eason
wife. Jim, Melton, John, steve and Liza Woodard were cousins of Elizabeth.
(Melton was Steve’s son.) George Woodard ( diabetic and lost legs) married
twice. His wife Julie Woodard committed suicide when I was a little boy. Momma
said her grandma Elizabeth Woodard used to go to Ga. ever summer to visit with
her brother Tobias. She would catch the train at Eldridge.

There were many more postoffices in momma’s day. They were at someone’s
home. The Dry Creek postoffice was at home of Bill Killingsworth. This office
was South of her. There was no rural free delivery. The Dublin postoffice was
up the road about 2 miles north of the S.W. Hallmark place. Andy Tidwell was
postmaster and gave momma circulars. After RFD was passed a postoffice was
established at Eldridge, Al. about 1906. Momma was about 14 years old. The
first few times of Rural Free Delivery the mail carrier didn’t know anybody
and would bring the mail in the house and empty the pack and you pick out your
own mail.

Momma was still going to school at Killingsworth Church when the mail carrier
bought an automobile. The teacher let them go outside to see the mail carrier
pass by in his new fangled traveling machine. One of her teachers was Hass
Sherer, one of her best ones she said. Miss Arie Sherer also taught momma. The
daughter of Arie Sherer and wife ,Alma Shirer Kizzire, taught me, Fred McCaleb,
when I started to school at one teacher school Skimming Ridge. She was one of
Momma’s best friends, but I didn’t like her. She made an example of
punishment out of me and her son Albert. Momma said Alma Sherer was her second
cousin. Don’t know if that is right or not.

Daddy met momma at a singing school at Killingsworth Baptist Church. Jack Tucker
and Bill Alldridge taught one. Daddy had some Woodard cousins that lived near
the church and were record keepers. Martha Hollingsworth, Grandma McCalebs
sister married Melton Woodard. Melt’s daughter, Alma Woodard Tucker, was
momma’s best friend in school. So I guess they naturally got thrown together.
Alma lived to be close to 100 years old. She said her and momma were the two
smartest in class and the teacher told them they should take exam to teach
school. Neither one took the exam.

Momma said she never knew her grandpa Moses Eason’s folks. She did know about
the Moses Eason children. The Jim McCollum and aunt Susan (Sudie ) eason
children were Lewis, Travis, Doris, Etta married Howard, Zora married Chambers
(undertaker), and Vera married Dr. Sparks. Momma knew that Moses picked up the
dead during the Civil War.

Dr. Galliger was the country doctor from Eldridge when I was a young boy. Momma
said there was also a Dr. Ashmore. You didn’t go to a doctor at that time.
The Dr. came to see you. Visits cost $3-5.

The Killingsworth Baptist Church preacher was a fellow by the name of Trimm when
momma was young. He came in a buggy from around Winfield, Al.

Momma’s brother Arthur Hallmark was in WW1 about 6 months. Never went
overseas. Drew a veterans pension in his old age. Took care of his mother, Mary
Roxie Eason Hallmark, until she died in 1938, and then married Nannie Lee
Harkins. They had no children.

Momma said her grandma and grandpa Moses Eason had a little boy that died young
and was buried in Wade Cemetery. His name was Joseph. No marker at Wade.
Grandpa Hallmark bought a two horse buggy while part of the children were home
(Ethel gone) and used small mules to pull it. Grandpa McCaleb had a one seated
buggy when I was a small boy and I got a ride or two in that one.

Letter from Fred to his sister, Clancy

November 8,1997

Dear Clancy and Tom,
I got your nice letter today. I wish I could write one that good. As far as I
can tell you do a perfect job of writing letters. We were glad to have all of
you here, and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for all your nice comments.
You will be welcome to come here for another reunion next year if I am alive
and welcome to come visiting any time you wish.
I am trying to take Lucille’s advice and not talk of being old and disabled
but find it sort of hard to do. The general trend of my thinking has been to
assume that tomorrow will be just the same kind of day as today, but that is
somewhat false thinking. Tomorrow can bring most anything to one, good or bad.
I try not to worry much about the future and find absolutely no reason to worry
about the past. We have only today and have to do the best we can with it.
We went to the genealogy society meeting in Winfield Monday night and to
Tuscaloosa Thursday morning. We ate lunch with some of the old ladies at
Tuscaloosa. I told one I hoped to make it to 2000. She said she didn’t know
if she wanted to make it that long or not. Said they would have the world in
such a mess by then that she didn’t know if she would want to be around. So
some people have my kind of young outlook or worse. Poor things. Ha!
I have been searching the other CD rom disks I have for our genealogy and have
found a few pages more. I am about fed up with genealogy. Need to get my mind on
something else. About as far or further than anybody has ever got anyway, and
its very hard to find the ancestors of wives of husbands where their only last
name is their husband’s. I will just have to pat myself on the back and admit
I have done the best I could. Some of it may not be exactly right, but I will
let others prove the mistakes. I have put ? marks in most all places where
unsure.
Momma told me I might find something I didn’t want to know if I went too far
with the ancestors. She was right on that. I guess none of them have measured
up to being perfect as I might have expected, but one has to take them as they
were. There is no changing of the past. Momma might have meant I might find
something about daddy we didn’t want to know. Best I can find out he was at
least a better man after he got momma but not perfect. I haven’t found faults
with momma except she did some extra worrying that was probably unnecessary.
Their combination produced good children. We are proud to be who we are.
Dad’s favorite song was “Love Lifted Me.” He used to try to sing that
sometimes when we were plowing. He may have been lifted by momma’s love and
Christianity. Let’s hope so.
Guess I had better quit rambling around in my thoughts and quit for this time.
With Love,
Fred McCaleb

Fred McCaleb---Historian

by

Patsy Box Johnson

Fred McCaleb was born 7 September 1918 in Fayette County, Alabama to H McCaleb and Etta Hallmark.

The first time I met Fred McCaleb I thought to myself that this is a very smart and kind man. I had heard so much about all the research he had done on his mother and fathers side of his family. He helped Loretta West Wilson write the McCollum Book. She lived in Arizona and descended from Loretta McCollum Tanner. After she and Fred completed the McCollum Book she passed away. Fred continued to get the book out to as many descendants of Newman McCollum as he could. The book sure helped all of us genealogist with our McCollum research. Since my mother, Ada McCollum Box, descended from Newman McCollum then I was able to connect a lot of our lines by reading the book. I contributed the information on my mother’s side of the family to Loretta and Fred.

Fred has spent many long hours researching and recording cemetery transcriptions. He has several pages on the internet with his work on them. What made me appreciate what Fred did with his work was it was almost all handwritten. He had done such a great job collecting information that he was considered the best genealogist in Fayette County, Alabama.

Every year on the third Saturday of May my mom, my aunt and myself would go to put flowers on my daddy’s grave. Fred and his wife, Bettie would meet us there and we would talk for a while. We always enjoyed meeting and visiting with kinfolk that came to clean off the graves of their loved ones and just visit and talk.

Fred is thought highly by everyone he meets and he and Bettie will be remembered by all for years and years to come.

Here is a Christmas Letter he wrote and sent out to his and Bettie’s friends.

Christmas Letter

by

Fred

I will try to cover some of the things that have happened to me and some of my thinking during the year of 1997 in the lines that follow.

The first part of the year I was inclined to brag about myself. I was bragging about being 80 years of age and how strong I was in old age. I had been telling people that I intended to start bragging upon reaching 80, so I was fulfilling my dream. I entered a “run for Wendy Home for Unfortunate Youth” in January. It was a five mile run, but I walked four miles at a brisk pace and won first place trophy in the above 65 group. That was the first trophy I had ever won in athletics. Got cheering at the end of the run and all that delightful stuff, so that made me feel good abouit myself.

The rest of the winter was sort of uneventful except for going to church at Winfield for most of the Sundays. On the way back from church on pretty days I would walk the last two and a half miles. Some of the ones along the way thought that was unusual for a man 80 years young, since many of the ones 50 and above couldn’t walk a quarter of a mile. So all that made me feel good.

In the last week of May 1997 Bettie and I went to the work program at Berry College in Rome, Ga. I had graduated from there 56 years ago, so felt at home around that place. We helped with the chair bottoming program where we have learned a large amount about doing that in the last two years. We were kept full of good food and drink and plenty of things to attend while there. Our coworkers were old and many hard of hearing, but my hearing and understanding seemed good, or at least better than some much younger. I was interviewed and recorded on tape by an attractive young college student and later received a copy of the tape. I told her what Berry was like when I was there.
On leaving Berry College we went to Johnson Bible College near Knoxville,Tn.
There we attended what sessions we wanted to and went on a trip to the mountains and on a trip to the Museum of Appalachia northwest of Knoxville. There was a walk up a mountain, a walk along the Holston river and a walk through the Museum. The Museum had how the pioneers had lived. We have lived in the greatest era the U.S. has ever had. May this be a crude age to the future generations.

Back home it poured rain all during June. I lost what was planted late in the garden. About the last week in June I had a light stroke. This took the bragging and optimism out of me. I had about 4 weeks of physical therapy in learning to walk again. I was hoping to get back strong in my walking again, but this hasn’t happened yet. I can walk and stagger along slowly. For this I am thankful as many people are left completely handicapped. I am not supposed to talk about being old, but there is a constant reminder that not too many days to be around these parts are left for me. I can still use the computer for genealogy and to write letters. In this I am only a youngster of 81 years. Enough of all my problems.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Fred McCaleb
Christmas Letter 1998

Kirkland Community

by

Fred McCaleb

Following are a few of the old families of the Kirkland community recalled from
older people. Sometimes memories are not incorrect. Many mistakes may have been
made. Most of the older ones have deceased and their children are old or passed
away by 1998. Even some of children of children may be dead. This is an effort
to recollect who the old in community were.
The Fred Hocutt and Hattie Prater family were Kermit, Travis and Joe Ed. Kermit
and Travis were basket ball players for Kirkland in the 1930’s.
Jonas and Lea Byars family were Ola, Bradley,Elise, Thurman, John, Marie,
Wilkie, J.D. Arlington and Erdil. Jonas measured farm crops to plow up during
Roosevelt New Deal.
Huse Woods and Lola Miles family were Geneva White, Vera Simms, Trezzie,
Desaree Nichols, and Marshall. Huse was a song leader at Shady Grove Church
during his time.
Dawson White and wife Jessie family were Allison, Roy, Edna, William, Orice
Estes, Lawson, Hubert, Ivis, J.D. and Foy. Dawson’s brother Terry and wife
Abbie Ward children were Vandiver, Conley, Alton, Anna Smith, Autie Lee, and
Robby Nell.
Stryder Bynum and wife Arvezenia family was Florence, Lealer, Chester; Chesley,
Mervin, Cora, Vaudine, Essie, William and Austin. Chester may have been Kirkland
bus driver in 1930’s.
Albert Estes and wife Emma had Herman, Lyman, Morris, John R., Barney Ray,
Albert Jr., Ludell, Kitty Nell, and Connie B.
Aubrine Nichols and Desaree Woods family were Glenette Taylor, Wilton,
Meredith Newton, Julious Jeffery and Jerome. Aubrine was Fayette County Tax
Assessor during working life.
Paul Colburn and wife Corrie Lee, teachers, had son Fred. Paul became county
Sup. Ed.
L.D. Johnson and wife had Lonnie Max, Minnie Bell, and L.A.
Tommy Jones and wife Alma family were Eulene, Jimmy Ray, Gladys and Eugene.
Tommy ran a store and cotton gin at Bluff and a sawmill in neighborhood. An
unforgettable character.
Lewis Dubose and wife had Mavis Barns, Loyce Kirkley, Annie Lee Estes, Johnny
(married Willie G. Northam), Willie Grey Kirkland, Gaylon (maarried to
Corbett), Dixie Hollingsworth, Bobby and Dale. Lewis ran a local sawmill. Lewis
dad William and wife Frances Corbett family was Jennie Bell Langston, Essie
Bynum, Marion, Zella Dub Fowler and Lewis.
Thomas Dodson and Etta Barnes family were Eulas and Eulabell Lucas. The Eulas
and Velma Dodson family were Joe Ruben and Billy. Joe Ruben married Elose
Haney. Eulabell married Ecter Lucas. Their daughter was Clara Bell.
Bert Barnes family by first wife were Thomas and Curry. Thomas and wife’s
family were Austin, Floyd, Eulabell, and Eddiebell. Floyd was a Kirkland basket
ball player in 1930s. Austin maarried Ruth McCarver. Curry Barnes and Leona
White’s offspring were Flavel, Festus, Etta, Rubydell, Murry(another Kirkland
B.ball player), Willie Nell, and Mary Sue. The Bert Barnes and 2nd wife Lue
Bynum children were Virgil, William, Jessee, Raburn and Raymond. Bert was a big
Church of Christ man in early 1900s and helped start Mt. Olive.
Baily Humbers and wife Betty Ballinger children were Raburn, Minnie Hocutt,
Myrtie, Loyd and Carey. Raburn Humbers and wife family were Hamilton, Johnney,
Robert, Charley, Caroline and Helen.
The Ellis Black and Cora Geneva Bynum wife children were Grady, James
Theron(killed at Pearl Harbor), Robert, Roy, Orville, Lula Mae, Arlene and
others. The William Buster Black and Malissa Jane Northam kids were Ellis,
Carlols, Raymond, Jaley and Lucille. Children by his second wife Lizzie Nelson
were Albert and Lester Black.
Balford Roberts and wife Lillian Cargile had no Children. Balford’s brother
Wilson Robeerts and wife Addie Ward family were Harold, Belford, and Woodrow.
Bluff merchantgs.?
Alfred McCarver and wife Mertie family were Ruth Barnes, Delmas, Coy, Orman,
Ruby Lee, Willie and Woodrow.
Bura D. Kirkland (for whom Kirkland is named) had a son Luther that remained in
the Kirkland community. Luther married Clementine Porter and had sons Louie and
Howard. Louie married Willie Grey Dubose and had children James, Garland and
Frances. Howard married Dessa Lee (Dessie) Fowler and adapted a.son Ralph and
then had daughter Janie.
The H McCaleb and Eza Hallmark family were Fred, Hubert, Clancy, Jean & Leroy.
Preacher Cary Nichols and Vera Hollingsworth family were Aubrine, Jesse, Mary
Marie, Leslie L., Franklin F.and Daniel D. Carey was Church of Christ preacher
at Mt. Olive.
Henry Hollingsworth and Delia Ann Hargrove family were Charlie, John, Vera,
Dewey and Howard.
The Lou Allen Fowler and Zella Dubose family were Vistus May, Orman, Huey,
L.A., Dessa Lee (Dessie)Kirkland, Joe, Adelle Hollingsworth, Nell, John, Huey,
Hulan and Vertis Hubbert The Walker Fowler family were Marvin, Mae, Linnie,
Odell and Johnnie M.
The Hobert Duckworth and Jewel Gilpin children are Ronald, Donald, Leon,
Dwayne, Annette Moore, Kathleen Sprinkle, Linda Jordan, Genette Mauldin, Willie
Mae Taylor, Angie Rainey, Doris Johnson and Laeuna McCaleb.
Leroy D. McCaleb and wife Laeuna Duckworth children were Shelia Long, Michael,
Gregory and Darryl.
The Oscar Woods and Eula Fowler children were Bernice McCluskey, Opal, Adey,
Martha Deen Herren, and Jerry.
Will Black and Perkins? wife had children Edward, Marvina, Virgie Lane,
Fletcher, Mertie Whitehead and probably others.
The Reuben Trimm and wife Minnie children were Iler, Ellis, Wyman, Juaneta,Mary
Nell, and Leland. Leland Trimm and wife Bessie Strickland children were Jerry,
Gary and Judy.
The Jim Sims and Ollie South family were Marie, Edril, Lonell and Frances.
The Fred Sims and Vera Woods children were John T., Ward, Hebbert and Rex.
Fred and Vera and family were at many of the events at Kirkland as long as they
lived.
The Pearl Hocutt family consisted of Gertrude Moore, Stacy and Victor. The
Victor Hocutt and Ruby Hush family included Harold and Hubert. Hubert named for
Hubert McCaleb.
The Thorton White and Carrie Ballinger family were Franklin, Freddie, and
Lenora.
Winston White and Lucy Ballinger kids were Clara, Roston, Thurston and Jennie
Lee.
Mose Washington Dillard and Julia Ann Miles children were Ross and Will. The
Will Dillard and Mildred Tucker kids were Terry, Jerry and Mary Ann.
Raburn Barnes and wife Mavis Dubose kids were James, Laverne, Noel and Joel.
Virgil Barnes and wife Willie children were Leborn (singer), Reble and
Cathleen.
John Hollingsworth and Dixie Dubose children were John Ricky (lawyer) and
Linda.
Howard Hollingsworth and Adelle Fowler family were Glenn and Clyde Ray.
The Whit Dillard and wife Sally kids were Floyd, Eugene, Eunice, and John. Whit
was one in the community that could come up with laughable remarks.
The Arlie May and Vistus Fowler family were Paul and Timm. Vistus and Arlie
taught school at Kirkland for many years. Vistus furnished much of this old
family information.
Elbert Turner and Carrie Corbett? Had at least one child, Junior Turner.
Pervy Cunningham and wife also had a Junior Cunningham.
General Ponds and wife Cermie were parents of Faustine, Willodean, Gracie Lee
and Derwood.
Henry Miles and Lessie Duckworth children were Willie Grey, Helen, Dorothy,
Mary, James and Danny.
Haney (name unknown) and wife’s children were Inez and Elois.
Holliman children at Kirkland 1940s were Maxine and Kenneth.
Huston South children were Helen, Maxine, Bessie, Exie, James, Clifton &
Melvin. ?
Joe Johnson and wife kids were Marilyn, Bernard, Evon, Edith, Nadine and Hazel.
Audd Moore and wife Veloa Trimm children were Marvelene, J.C., Lunell, &
Parale, ?
Bruce Corbett & Vena Howton children were A.B., John and Bernice.
John and Ida Sanders girls were Opal and Elowise.
The Aubrey Davis and wife Lilla Children were Cohen, Verdeen, and Norma.
There is no guarantee of accurate listing, spelling, accuracy of parents,
listing under wrong parent or anything. This listing was picked up from
recollections of other people, and sometimes recollections are not right. By my
recollection there would be no list at all. Am certainly glad that some people
can remember a few things in their old age. Please forgive mistakes. Fred
McCaleb