RILLA MAYE (FOWLER) RICKS

Thank you for the visit, and let me introduce my mother.

My maternal lineage is as follows:

Donald Milton⁵ Ricks (Rilla Maye⁴ Fowler, William David³, Francis Marion², Samuel¹).

Rilla Maye Fowler 24 December 1912 -13 April 1961

Photographed in 1950



Maye's Attitude Poem

Rilla Maye Fowler was born 24 December 1912 in Wedowee, Randolph County, Alabama; died 13 April 1961 at Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, Georgia; married William Roscoe Ricks 3 April 1941 at Fort Benning, Chattahoochee County, Georgia. She was the daughter of William David Fowler and Mary Carolina Vaughan, of Randolph County. Her grandparents were Francis Marion Fowler and Mary McKilvery Halpin, of Randolph County; Stephen Thomas Vaughan, of South Carolina, and Sophrona Doss, of Troupe County (?), Georgia. Her great grandfathers were Samuel Fowler, of Georgia, and his wife Eunice (Nicey) Pope, of South Carolina; James Halpin, of Monahan County, Ireland, and his wife Matilda Wilson, of Cherokee County, Georgia; Richard Doss, of South Carolina and his wife -?- Talbert, of Georgia. Samuel, a Revolutionary War veteran, had previously lived in Dekalb County, Georgia, and James Halpin had previously lived in Cherokee County, Georgia. Both died during the Civil War but were not in the conflict.

Rilla Maye Fowler and her husband William Roscoe Ricks (with baby Douglas), 1942