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Friday, February 1, 2013

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. 3rd 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.






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