Category: Mom and Dad

The two people in the picture above with my dad are Hulbert Durham and Mabel Huston. As I was growing up, I don’t remember seeing them at our reunions at all, but they were fond of their Uncle Marvice. They were the children of Dad’s oldest half sister, Elgie Durham (1874-1934), daughter of Dad’s mother, Quintilda Durham. Hulbert and Mabel had the same mother, but not the same father. Aunt Elgie married George Durham and had six children. One child a little girl died very young. Hulbert Durham (the man in the picture) was Aunt Elgie’s youngest of her and George Durham’s children.

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The photo above is my mom, Zettie Williams in her apron and blue sweater, on the front row.  I love it that Mom usually had her apron on when pictures were taken.  Mom made her own aprons of flour sack or she used her egg money to buy material. Mostly she used her egg money to buy baking soda or salt or baking powder. Nancy told me that Dad had said to her that he could not have paid off the farm if “Zettie” had not helped him with the money she got from selling eggs. 

I don’t know the lady to Mom’s left, but the tall woman behind Mom in glasses and a dark dress is Pauline Milburn Martin, my Aunt Lola’s daughter.  Aunt Lola Durham Milburn was Dad’s older half sister via their mother.  Pauline’s younger sister Enza Milburn is the heavy woman in glasses and a light blue dress on the front row.  Uncle Wallace Williams back row beside Dad with Uncle Ebolee barely visible on the very back.  The dark haired woman next to Dad is his niece Mabel Huston, daughter of Dad’s half sister, my Aunt Elgie Durham.

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