UlysAnnie album, page 8

Boyle Lake Fish Fry, summer 1950

BACK: Barbara holding Chuckie, Ulys, Annie, Jay? behind Bernice?, Evalee, Cleffie, Olan, Vernell, Lester, Ray behind Wathada, Charles, Lowell, Elaine (and Russell). MIDDLE: Carl Ray, Jeannie, Shelby?, Velda. FRONT: Ronnie, Bobby, Mary Gail, Beverly, Morris, Buck

Burfords' & Jones'

LEFT: Evalee, Wathada, Beverly. CENTER: Lester. RIGHT: Cleffie, Ronnie, Buck, Morris

(Looks like they were at a cemetery.)

Evalee. (This picture is out of sequence in the timeline -- because of the constraints of trying to coordinate vertical vs horizontal photos/slots in the photo album.)

Here's what Annie wrote:

  When we came to Michigan, we worked on a farm in 1941 and 1942.  In the fall of ’42 we got jobs in the shops and the children went to school at Bridgman, and we drove to Benton Harbor to work.   In the summer of 1943, we rented an apartment at 120 Sixth Street in Benton Harbor and stayed there six years.  In the meantime, in 1945 we bought a 20 acre farm about 20 miles south of Benton Harbor.  We rented the farm out for three years, then we moved on it and Ulys quit working in the shop but I kept working till 1953.  Ulys worked in the shop till 1948.  He got so disabled that we sold the farm and bought a house in Benton Harbor at 602 Empire.  He didn’t work any more, but I worked about two years more.  We bought the house in Benton Harbor the fall of 1951.

Wathada wrote:

  Grandpa and Grandma Hicks had bought a little fruit farm (just 20 acres) between Buchanan and Baroda, Michigan. They both worked in factories in Benton Harbor and they wanted Daddy to run the farm for them.  Daddy also got a job in a factory in Benton Harbor, and did the farming too.  He took a one month leave of absence from the factory every summer during harvest time.  

["Daddy" being Lester Burford]