May 13

 Wilma Vernice Arnold Reed died 13 May 1984, age 68

Wilma was one of "Uncle George's girls" -- the daughter of George Ned Arnold.

George was a brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

PHOTO: George and Jessie Tamsett Arnold with their first 5 children - Amos, Arbie, Wilma, and twins Opie and Obie. (Wilma is standing next to Jessie.) Wilma was born in 1915.

George had 13 children, 11 of whom were girls. He had 8 children with his first wife Jessie Tamsett, and 5 children with his 2nd wife Eula Mae Burnett.  

PHOTO: George and Eula Mae with 'Bud', Clora, Ruby, Delena, and Bertha Lee

PHOTO: Arbie, Wilma, Amos

PHOTO: Uncle George's girls: Arbie, Wilma, Opie, Obie, Mildred, Verlie, and Joan. (Amos died at age 7 from typhoid fever.)

PHOTO: Wilma Arnold and Doyne Sharp

(Doyne became related to our family by marriage -- He married the sister of Ben Jackson, husband of Etta Arnold. Etta was a sister of George Arnold...)

PHOTO: Ben and Etta Arnold Jackson

Wilma Arnold married Elvin Reed in 1930. (She was 14, he was 16.)

Wilma and Elvin had only one child, that I'm aware of -- a daughter, Stella.

PHOTO: Stella Marqueta Reed

Wilma and Elvin were divorced in 1944. 

Elvin married Imogene Qualls. 

Imogene was the twin sister of Maxine Qualls, who married Wilma's cousin Ned Carter. 

PHOTOS: Maxine Qualls, Ned Carter

So, are you beginning to see why my mom said the Arnold and Carter families were so intertwined that she couldn't separate them?