UlysAnnie album, page 16

 

Lowell and Olan

Olan and Lowell slopping the hogs

Charles Jones and Lester Burford

Chuckie Hicks (Olan's) and Evalee

Evalee and Elvin

Olan

Cleffie and Irene Barnett (Earl & Luvena's daughter)

Vernell and Lowell

UlysAnnie album, page 15

 

Ulys and Annie

Annie, Ulys holding Irene, Ruby

This was cropped from a larger group photo, that's why it's shaped so oddly.

Here's the group photo:

“Primary Department” (probably at church) – tagged Lula Fletcher's girl, Clo Fletcher, Willa Bell Binker, Lula Fletcher, Buck, Irene Yingling, Irene Yingling's boy, Irene Yingling's baby boy, Jimmy Jones, Beverly, Mona Waller's kids

Oma Dell and Wathada

Ruby and Cleffie

(That's beautiful downtown Judsonia in the background)

Irene and Cleffie

BACK: Aunt Luvena, Wathada, Cleffie, Ruby. 

FRONT: Dianne, Donna Kay and Mike Hawley

(This picture was taken in Missouri, at Oma Dell and Donald's house, 1959 or 1960.)

Annie and Ulys with Jeannie and Clint Hicks (Olan's)

UlysAnnie album, page 14

 

Beverly, Lowell, Annie and Ulys

I don't know where this was taken -- or where this "Town... Variety Store" is. Looks like Judsonia, Arkansas, but I can't be sure.

Elvin Hicks and Charles Jones

Five of the six Hicks sisters, in order of birth. Irene was missing.

Ulysses and Annie Hicks

Evalee and Elvin Hicks, Verlie Arnold

Verlie was a daughter of Annie's brother George

Wathada and Vernell

Ruby and Cleffie

Oma Dell, Ruby, Bernice

(Ruby looks so YOUNG in this picture!)

BACK: "Ma" Arnold (Annie's mother), Annie and Ulys

FRONT: Bernice, Norma Jean, Lowell

I still haven't figured out who Norma Jean is. I have quite a few pictures of her, as a child and an adult, with the family. Don't know if she's a cousin or just a friend.

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I don't know who wrote on the fronts of so many of the pictures. It seems so taboo to me, that I can't bring myself to do it. On the other hand, I'm so THANKFUL to the person(s) who did! Especially when the pictures are in albums, so you can't see what's written on the back of the photo. I have it in my head that it was Irene who did most of these. She's not the only one, though, because sometimes it's different handwriting. These Hicks siblings were not strictly bound by tradition or the unwritten rules that other people live by. They were highly intelligent and creative thinkers (and talkers). I'm glad to have had their influence in my life when I was growing up. 

UlysAnnie album, page 13

L-R: Charles, Betty, Ruby, Buck, Evalee, June, Jack, Velma Lee, Oma Dell, Bobbie, Beverly, Irene

Xmas 1948

Cleffie holding Morris, Wathada (front), Oma Dell, Ruby

1939

Back to front: Oma Dell, Vernell, Wathada (with doll)

Evalee and Mildred (Elvin's wife)

Buck Jones and Bob Burford

(I think Aunt Irene was the main one who called him Bobby Neil. She loved double names.)

Ulys and Annie

I haven't quite figured out yet who everyone is in this picture. I think the back row is Lester, Annie, Cleffie, Olan, and Ulys. (I wouldn't recognize Cleffie from this photo -- but I know she was sickly for a few years, so if that is her, it would have been during that time period.) Front left is Lowell. Seated at the table are Bernice and Barbara, I'm pretty sure. Ronnie is standing next to Bernice. I really can't figure out who the two babies are -- maybe Clint and Chuck? Or some of Lowell's? There's another child standing in front of Lester (hidden by Lowell's head.) Could be Bob. Not sure what year this would be -- some time around 1950? Maybe earlier. Looks like Thanksgiving or Xmas dinner, maybe. 

UlysAnnie album, page 12

Ruby, Donald Hawley, Jack, Ulys, Annie

(that shadow is probably Oma Dell taking the picture)

Cleffie, Evalee, Annie holding Vernell, Aunt Tot (Ulys' sister Charlotte)

Evalee, Wathada, Cleffie

Annie (center) with all six daughters: Ruby, Irene, Cleffie, Evalee, Vernell, Bernice

(in order of birth)

Barbara (Olan's wife), Elaine (Lowell's wife)

Barbara (Olan's wife), Charles (Evalee's husband), Elaine (Lowell's wife)

Velma Lee is Irene's, Wathada is Cleffie's, Noma is Sylvia's (Marlie's granddaughter), June is Irene's

UlysAnnie album, page 11

Bernice & Jay, Vernell & Ray

Oma Dell and Wathada

Ronnie and Beverly

Jay, Charles, Vernell, and Wathada

Wathada and Velma Lee

Elvin, Lowell, Olan

1960

(All together -- a rare occurrence -- on the occasion of Ulys & Annie's golden wedding anniversary)

Ron, Annie, Beverly. Buck Wathada and Bob hiding in the bushes...

(This was the picture on the cover of my book "The Woods is Full of 'Em" -- it seemed appropriate)

Bernice, Olan, Oma Dell