Jane Honeycutt and her family
After wasting twelve weeks and ending up with a rejection letter from the Social Security Administration about revealing the parents listed on dad’s application back in 1939 I went back to trying to track down what had happened to Jane (his mother) online.
On a whim I started working on some searches outside of ancestry.com for Jane Honeycutt and stumbled across a website at http://webpages.charter.net/wepollard/d2145.html that had genealogy for the Honeycutt family and listed Jane’s birth family along with some pictures.
The picture below shows Ida Belle and her children.
Back Row left to right : Hiram & George. Front Row: Jane, Ida Belle (Holding Jonah), Elvin, and Mary Ann. Ida Belle looks forbidding, the boys in the back row look a little scary, and Jane looks a little bit like me. The picture looks to be circa 1910.
Honeycutt children: Hiram and George in back, Liza Jane, John (little boy), Mary Ann holding Daisy, and Floria. Picture makes me wonder whose child Daisy since Mary Ann was holding her. If this was taken around 1920 that was the year Jane gave birth to my dad.
James and Ida Belle Honeycutt. Ida Bell still looks scary.
I have to admit it was kind of a weird feeling to see pictures for the first time of people I am related to but never met while they were living. The entire family is dead now. Even Clay’s wife, who I hoped would have some information, was in a psychiatric ward in La Follette because her Alzheimer’s was so progressed. I spoke to her guardian and he said she had deteriorated rapidly after Clay died and no longer remembered anyone.
Since I waited so long to do this search the chances there are people still living who knew anything about dad are slim, so anything I find out will most likely come from records. But maybe that’s what dad would have wanted — no chance I would come in contact with the people he regarded as only capable of inflicting pain.