January 14

George Record Wheetley died 14 January 1967, age 63

PHOTO: Pearl, Record, Kenneth, and Dorissy Wheetley

Record was the husband of Bessie Arabella Hicks

PHOTO: Bess, her brother Jack, Jack's wife "Bill"

I think this picture was taken in 1976 at the Hicks family reunion

Bess was the daughter of Joseph Pinkney Hicks

"Uncle Pink" (the only thing I ever heard him called) was a brother of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks

PHOTO: Hicks brothers (they also had a sister, Nancy)

They were sons of John Henry and Malisa Burns Hicks

Bess and Record were the parents of Billy Wayne Wheetley

PHOTO: Wayne Wheetley family

Wayne and Joann Wheetley were members of the church I attended all the years I lived in Arkansas (Bethel Grove Church of Christ in Judsonia, Arkansas). Bess was a member of that church, too. I had been going to that church for several years before I found out they were related to our family.