Aunt Tot and Uncle Albert

PHOTO: Uncle Albert standing on the porch, with Carol Jackson (from yesterday's post). 

"Aunt Tot and Uncle Albert's house near Big Four. They ran a little store in the front part of it." (Cleffie's handwriting)

PHOTO: Albert and Charlotte "Tot" Williams

Aunt Tot was a sister of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks

PHOTO: Ulysses Hicks and Charlotte Hicks Williams

Here is a picture of Aunt Tot when she was young:

PHOTO L-R: Cleffie standing behind Evalee, Annie Hicks holding Vernell, Aunt Tot.

(Cleffie, Evalee, and Vernell were Annie's daughters. Annie was my great-grandmother, Cleffie was my grandmother.)

Aunt Tot and Uncle Albert had 5 children: Earl was the oldest, then Tom. Then they had three daughters -- Dona, Charlene, and Dorothy. I don't know anything about Dona and Charlene, except that they were born and died between the 1910 and 1920 US Census. Dorothy was born in 1917. When she was 4 years old, Dorothy was struck by lightning and died.

Here is what Annie Hicks wrote about Aunt Tot --

The most of Charlotte’s (Tot - Ulys’ sister) children died in babyhood, but two of them lived to be grown.  But one (Tom) died at the age of about 30 years.  He lost his mind, I suppose from a lick on the head.  He fell from upstairs straight down and hit the floor with his head in babyhood.  Then after he was 25 years old someone hit him on the head and left him for dead and someone else found him in a corn field, unconscious.  So all that, I guess, injured his mind and caused a blood clot on his brain or something, maybe a tumor.  Anyway, he died in the asylum in Little Rock, Arkansas in about the year 1947.  His older brother (Earl) is still living now, 1957, in Ohio.    

PHOTO: Tom Williams

I don't have a picture of Earl. He died in Ohio in 1962. He was married, and his wife died in 1969. I don't have any records of them having any children.