On This Day in Family History - November 30

Bertha Mae Smith Reed died 30 November 1974 age 79

Elvin Reed married Wilma Arnold (one of "Uncle George's girls")

Elmer Reed married Ruby Foust, and then in later years married my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford

Elmer and Cleffie

Bessie Arabella Hicks married Record George Wheetley 30 November 1927

 

Bess is on the left. Record is the boy standing behind the baby.

Bess was the daughter of Pinkney Hicks (brother of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks)

Elmer Lee Owen was born 30 November 1891

Elmer was the son of Paralee Carter and David Owen. In this photo Elmer is standing behind David.

Sisters Adaline, Ellen, Paralee Carter

Adaline, Ellen, Paralee

Herbert Hicks married Pearl Roaseau 30 November 1919

Felix Hicks' blacksmith shop 1909, top Marlie Arnold, John Arnold, Herbert Hicks, bottom John Henry Arnold, unknown, Felix Hicks, George Carter, George Arnold, David Hicks, children: Odice and Rosie Hicks (Felix's), Ettie Arnold (John Henry's)

Marlie, John, Herbert

Herbert was the son of Pinkney Hicks (Herbert and Bess were siblings)

Herbert (center), Ulysses (right), the man on the left is Mr. Moore (don't know who he is)

Herbert Hicks' garage 1924 Bald Knob, Arkansas

Raymond Minter Burford died 30 November 1958 age 71

Alexander Burford with first wife Helen Virginia and children Raymond, Edith, and Hazel

Raymond Burford (left), Juanita, Jim, Ella Irby, Florence

Louise Lyon Burford Bergman died 30 November 1994 age 81

This is the only picture I have of Louise. She was the wife of Killough Burford.

Killough is on the right, in Alexander's lap (George, Lora, Deb, Helen, Ishmael, Killough, Alexander)

Louise and Killough had one child, Teddy. Killough died at age 35. After his death Louise married James Bergman, and they had a daughter Rita. They lived in California, where Louise died in 1994.

 

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There's a longstanding tradition in our family -- If you can't decide which one you want, buy one of every color. (Or just buy them all.) That's kind of the principle I used for this post. I couldn't decide which pictures to post, so I just posted all of them.

On This Day in Family History - November 29

Annetta Jerline Jackson was born 29 November 1947

Photo: Calvin and Jerline Jackson with their children Johnny and Annetta

Annetta is the daughter of Calvin Jackson and his wife Jerline

Photo: Jerline and Calvin Jackson 1986

Calvin was the son of Etta Arnold and Ben Jackson

Etta was the sister of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks

John Henry 'Jack' Hicks died 29 November 1986 age 77

Photo: Bess Hicks Wheetley, Jack Hicks, Jack's wife Floy Castleberry Hicks

Jack and Bess were children of Pinkney Hicks

Pinkney Hicks was the brother of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks

Samantha Jo Treat was born 29 November 1994

Photo: Andrew Adels and Samantha Jo Treat

They are the children of Terry and Wendy Treat 

Terry is the son of Jack and Joanie Colman Treat

Jack was the son of John and Mabel Treat (John was brother of my grandmother Christie Treat Thomas)

Photo L-R: John and Mabel Treat, Jack and Joanie Treat, Christie and Bill Thomas

On This Day in Family History - November 28

Ethelyn Hurlbut married Lorn Woods 28 November 1912

Photo: Etta Thomas and Myrick Henry Hurlbut with their children Ethelyn and Cecil

(I don't have a picture of Lorn Wood, and I don't have an adult picture of Ethelyn)

Etta Thomas was a sister of my great-grandfather Charles Thomas

Jackson Tamsett was born 28 November 1847

Jackson was the husband of Sarah Tamsett They were the parents of Amy, who married John Martin Carter, and Jessie, who married George Arnold. Sarah Tamsett was the midwife who attended the birth of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford. Jackson Tamsett's sister Josie married George Bullard. George and his sister Peggy raised their nephew, my great-great-grandfather John Henry Arnold. (So the Tamsetts and Bullards have multiple connections to the Carter and Arnold branches of our family tree.)

Mary Elizabeth Carter married Lewis Calvin Dunn 28 November 1875

Photo: Mary Elizabeth Carter Dunn. I don't have a picture of Lewis Calvin Dunn.

Photo: Mary Elizabeth Carter Dunn with her youngest daughter Lillie.

Paul Rhoades was born 28 November 1918 

I don't have a picture of Paul Rhoades. Well, maybe I do. I'm not sure. The photo below is Abner Rhoades, the father of Paul Rhoades. Abner had six sons - Noah, Silas, Naaman, Paul, Hosea, and John.

Here is a picture that is labeled "Abner Rhoades' boys"

I don't know if either of these would be Paul.

Here is a photo labeled "Aunt Margaret Rhoades and some of hers" 

These would undoubtedly be grandsons, but I have no idea which of her 17 grandsons they would be.

(Margaret Carter Rhoades was the mother of Abner Rhoades. She was a sister of Mary Elizabeth Carter Dunn in the previous photo. They were half-sisters of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold. The person who wrote "Aunt Margaret Rhoades and some of hers" on the back of the photo was my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.)

On This Day in Family History - November 27

Delbert Dye died 27 November 1974 age 64

Delbert was the husband of Sylvia Arnold. Sylvia was the daughter of Marley and Birdie Arnold. Marley was the brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

Moses Joseph Parker married Sarah 'Sally' Davis 27 November 1834

Moses was my great-great-great-grandfather. He was the father of Moses Parker II, who was the father of my great-grandmother Massie Parker Treat. Massie was the mother of my grandmother Christie Treat Thomas.

Tobin Richard 'Toby' Thomas was born 27 November 1973

Photo: Toby and his sister Jenny. 

Toby is the son of Greg Thomas. Greg is the son of Bernarde and Eileen Thomas. Bernarde was my dad's brother.

Velda Lynn Leatherwood was born 27 November 1947

Velda is the daughter of Vernell Hicks Leatherwood. Vernell was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford.

William Thompson Herdman died 27 November 1884 age 43

The Herdmans are related to the Treat family by the marriage of Belle Treat (my great-great-aunt) and Ulysses Grant Herdman. Belle was the sister of my great-grandfather Marcus Treat.

On This Day in Family History - November 26

Casey Thomas Carrigan (my son) was born 26 November 1982 in Searcy, Arkansas

David Eugene Hawley was born 26 November 1960

David is the son of Donald and Oma Dell Barnett Hawley. Oma Dell was the daughter of Ruby Hicks Barnett (sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford)

Jessie Frances Tamsett Arnold died 26 November 1923

Jessie was the first wife of George Ned Arnold (brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks)

In this photo, George and Jessie are with their first 5 children - Amos, twins Obie and Opie, Wilma, and Arbie. They had 3 more children (Mildred, Verlie, and Joan) before Jessie died at age 28. 

George had 5 more children with his second wife Eula Mae. Of George's 13 children, only 2 were boys -- one of whom (Amos) died at age 8. All the rest were girls.

Ned Jackson Carter was born 26 November 1909 in Arkansas

Ned was the son of John Martin Carter 

John was the brother of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold (mother of Annie Arnold Hicks)

Ruby Irene Till was born 26 November 1913 in Michigan

Ruby was the sister of Leonard Till

Leonard was the husband of Madge Treat Till (sister to my grandmother Christie Treat Thomas)

On This Day in Family History - November 25

Earl Dallas Parker died 25 November 1973 age 81

Earl Parker was the brother of my great-grandmother Massie Parker. He was an attorney and a judge in Ohio, and also served in the Ohio legislature.

Judith Michele Dial was born 25 November 1963

Michele is the baby in this picture. Standing behind her is Anne Frazier (Frances' daughter). Back row L-R: Frances Walters Frazier (Helen's daughter), Louise Lyon Burford (wife of Killough Burford), Judy Burford White, Helen Burford Walters (Helen and Judy are sisters, Killough was their brother). Michele is Judy's granddaughter, the daughter of Suellen White and Bert Dial.

Here is a grown-up picture of Michele, with her son Weston. To the left of Michele is her great-aunt Juanita Burford Hombs. (Juanita is sister to Helen and Judy in the previous photo.) On the left is Juanita's son Jerry. On the right is Aaron White, the son of Judy Burford White (in the previous photo).

Scott Charles Radde married Camille Vitale 25 November 1985

Thanks to Facebook, I just happen to have a picture of Scott and Camille on their wedding day!

Scott is the son of Beverly Jones Radde. Beverly is the daughter of Evalee Hicks and Charles Jones.

Vernell Hicks married Ray Leatherwood 25 November 1945

Photo: Vernell and Ray Leatherwood

Vernell was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford (also a sister of Evalee Hicks Jones, mentioned in the previous photo)

Day After Thanksgiving

Casey Thomas Carrigan was born the day after Thanksgiving 1982. In that year, the date was November 26th, but in my mind Casey's birthday must always be the day after Thanksgiving, and here's why --

SPOILER ALERT: If you don't like to hear women tell about their birth stories (which we all love to do), go ahead and skip the rest of this post.

I had been having mild contractions on and off for a couple weeks, but no real labor. At my doctor's appointment the day before Thanksgiving, he told me I was 4 cm dilated! My water hadn't broken and I still wasn't in active labor, so the doctor gave me a choice -- to go ahead and induce labor that day, or to wait until my body decided to do it on its own, which would probably happen within 24 hours. I decided to wait. (Not the choice I would make now, but ...) He said if I didn't go into labor by Friday morning, to come on into the hospital and they would induce labor.

Thanksgiving day went on as usual, and even though we all assumed I'd go into labor, I didn't. My birth "coach" went out hunting that day. He called me when they came in for dinner, to see if it was time yet. It wasn't. (That's a whole 'nother story. I was planning to use hypnosis for pain control, which was actually my therapist's idea, since he used hypnosis as part of his psychology practice. So he was going to be with me during my labor.) 

So, Friday morning came and I went to the hospital. The doctor met me there and broke the water. I was pretty big through my whole pregnancy -- people kept asking me if I was having twins. Well, during labor we found out why I was so big: There must have been 2 or 3 gallons of amniotic fluid in there! That baby was swimming! When the doctor ruptured the membrane, water gushed out and got him soaking wet! Then later on in the day, a whole bunch of water gushed out again, soaked the bed and ran over onto the floor. I had to sit in a chair while they mopped it up. (Not only that, but it was pouring down rain outside all day long. Casey just hydroplaned into this world.)

Okay, to make a long story even longer... Casey was finally born a little after 5:00 in the afternoon.

Isn't he just the cutest thing?

Thanksgiving memories

 Not all of these were taken at Thanksgiving, but just for today we're going to pretend that they were.

Wathada and Eileen, at our house on Haver Street, Hartford MI, about 1972

Morris, Annie, Lester, at Lester and Cleffie's house, Watervliet MI, about 1967

Cleffie about 1976, Watervliet MI

Cleffie and Wathada, about 1967, Watervliet MI

Thanksgiving dinner at our house in Searcy AR, 1982

Christopher, me, and Keith, Thanksgiving 1982. Casey was born the next day.

Sue Burford, Lester, Bernice, Dorothy, David 1959

Lowell, Lester, Annie, Ronnie, Cleffie, Olan, Ulys, Bernice, Barbara

Not sure who the two babies are - maybe Clint and Chuck, or Russell...

This would have been at Ulys & Annie's farm, 1950

Not sure when this was taken. Pretty sure it was at Helen and Sherman's house in Hunter, Arkansas.

Front: Cleffie and Lester. Back: Karen, me, John, Leslie. At Red and Wathada's house in Downey, California, 1985.

Chris and Bill Thomas, Wathada, Eileen and Bernarde. John checking out the food. About 1966.