On This Day in Family History - December 27

Minerva Evalee Hicks Jones died 27 December 1995 age 73

Evalee was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford. In this picture, Evalee is on the left, Cleffie is on the right. This picture was taken in Cleffie's apartment in Watervliet, Michigan. Evalee lived in another apartment in the same building the last several months before she died. The apartment building was rent-controlled for senior citizens, and was in the building that was previously Watervliet Community Hospital -- where I and both of my brothers were born.

The hospital (This would have been in the 1960s. The side wing had not been built yet when I was born in 1954, but it was built by the time my brother John was born in 1964.

The apartment building was next door to the grocery store. The residents could call in their order and Harding's Friendly Market stock boys would deliver their groceries to them. (One of the perks of small town life. This was long before Amazon and online shopping came into existence.)

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Minnie Fuller Davis was born 27 December 1865 in New York

This photo is presumably Minnie and her husband Frank with their first child, Edna.

This is another unlabeled picture from her FindAGrave memorial. This is probably Minnie and Frank with their second child, Chase. Minnie was 42 years old when Chase was born. Their daughter Edna died at age 12 when Chase was 1 year old. 

Minnie and Frank Davis were somehow related to the Thomas/Ford families. 

This picture is from our family photo archives. It is labeled "Nancy Thomas, cousin Minnie from New York, Charles Ford, Hattie Girard, Kate Ford" -- Kate and Nancy and Charles were Ford siblings. Their father, William Ford, came from New York and still had relatives living there. (Nancy Ford Thomas was my great-grandmother.)

In this picture, the man on the right is Minnie's husband Frank M Davis