June 22

Evan Royce Hicks married Susan Diane Patzer 22 June 1985

 

Evan is the son of Lowell and Elaine Hicks (Lowell was a brother of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford)

James Franklin 'Frank' Carter was born 22 June 1904.

Frank was the son of George Carter. 

George Carter was a brother of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold.

PHOTO: George and Laura Carter and their children Frank, Lena, and Etta

Melba June Barnett was born 22 June 1938.

June was the 2nd of four daughters of Doc and Irene Hicks Barnett.

Irene was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford.

PHOTO L-R: June, Doc holding Betty, Irene holding Bobbie, Velma Lee.

Beverly Jean Jones was born 22 June 1944

Beverly was the daughter of Charles and Evalee Hicks Jones.

Evalee was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford.

Here is an anecdote about Beverly from our family history:

Evalee Hicks  married Charles Fletcher Jones, Jr. on June 5, 1940.  Charles was from Bald Knob, Arkansas, just 5 or 6 miles from Judsonia.  After they married, they lived in Bald Knob.  They had two children, a boy and a girl.  Charles was in the army and he was in World War Two.  He was in a lot of the bad fighting and it was a bad time.  He and Evalee had a little boy (Charles  Fletcher Jones III, called Buck) and their daughter, Beverly was born while Charles was in  the war.  He didn't see Beverly until she was two years old. She was a pretty little girl with lots of blond curls.  She thought her daddy was a picture of Charles because while Charles was gone Evalee would show her that picture and tell her that was her daddy.  When Charles came home and they told her he was her daddy, she didn't take it very well and she would run and get that picture which she thought was her daddy.  But she warmed up to Charles gradually.  He had a shoe repair shop and he would make leather strap sandals too.  He would take her to the shop with with him and let her play around the shop while he worked. Beverly  liked that, and they formed a bond between them that way and she soon learned to love him very much.  Charles loved children all of his life.  Even in his last years, he loved to have the grand-children in the house all the time as much as he could manage to have it that way. 

(written by Evalee's sister, Bernice Hicks Rogers)

PHOTO: Evalee, Beverly, Buck, Charles