Foy K. Johnson (son of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson),
Marilyn (Johnson) (daughter of Gene Johnson),
Lavona (__) Silvis (wife of Eddie Silvis)

Fonda (Johnson) Calloway (daughter of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson) (pictured at right) and various Silvis cousins in background preparing dinner.

Fonda is the 1st cousin of my husband Donny's father,
Roy Yvonne Smith.

Fonda (Johnson) Calloway
daughter of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson

LtoR:  Larry Joe Johnson (son of Gene Johnson),
Foy K. Johnson (son of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson),
Roy Don (Donny) Smith--son of Roy Yvonne Smith,
and grandson of Pheobe Dawn (Pheba Don) (Silvis) Smith.
Donny is Robin's husband.

LtoR:  Shirley (daughter of Gene Johnson), Fern (daughter of June & granddaughter of Ruby Silvis), Janice (sister to Fern), Joann (sister in law to Janice, wife of Glenn Bennett)

LoR:  Melvin Maggard and wife (no relation to Silvis),
Wiley Fowler (son of Nellavee Fowler), Gene Johnson (son of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson), Nellavee (Silvis) Fowler
(daughter of Everett Silvis)

These are all first cousins to each other:

LtoR:  Victoria (Tori) Hammonds (daughter of Vernie Silvis),
Ronnie Young (son of Opal Silvis),
Foy K. Johnson (son of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson),
Fonda (Johnson) Calloway (daughter of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson),
Gene Johnson (son of Ruby (Silvis) Johnson,
Nellavee (Silvis) Fowler (seated)

And they are the 1st cousins of my husband Donny's father,
Roy Yvonne Smith.

2002 Silvis Reunion

Where these cousins fit in ...

Phoeba Don and some of her siblings ...

1.         Henry

2.         William

3.   Conrad

4.   John Sr

41. John 

42. Leonard

        211. Anna Elisabeth

        212. Catherine 

        213. Christine 

        214. David

                661. David

                662. John

                663. Solomon

                664. George

                665. Anthony

                        a. Mary Alice

                        b. William

                                (1) Stella M

                                (2) Everet W

                                (3) Ethel C

                                (4) Roy E

                                (5) Pheobe Don

                                (6) Fay M

                                (7) Charles H

                                (8) Ruby A

                                (9) Vernie

                                (10) Opal Viola

                                (11) Eddie

                        c. David

                        d. John G

                        e. Walter Adelbert

                        f. Charles

                        g. Harley

                666. Christopher

        215. Anne

        216. Sarah

44. Peter 

45. Maria Susanna

46. Maria Barbara

47. Maria Elisabeth

48. Mary Magdalene

49. Anna Sara

Here is a picture of my husbands grandmother, Pheobe Dawn, and some of her siblings in or before August 1968.  Neither Vernie, Charlie nor Everett are in this picture.

LtoR:  Eddie, Ruby, Pheobe Dawn, Opal, Cleo, Faye, Roy, Stella.

This is a copy of a photo in a book that featured a story about Pheobe and husband Charlie...they are sitting on their front porch. The book is called "Ozark Elders" and tells the story of several older folk in the rural Arkansas Ozarks.  Their story tells about how they met, etc.

Vernie (Silvis), mother Victoria Silvis,
and Opal (Silvis) with kitten.

Vernie and Opal are sisters to
Pheobe Dawn/Pheba Don (Silvis) Smith
and Ruby (Silvis) Johnson,
and Victoria Silvis is their mother.

Roy Yvonne Smith as a young man
Son of Phoeba Don (Silvis) Smith
Donny Smith's father