Narratives

About The Flukers

I have no pictures of my great-great-grandad. I have always had this sort of romantic vision of him riding the farm, herding cattle or picking cotton.	John Fluker was my great-great-grandfather. Click the photograph for a little historical perspective of this my earliest known Fluker ancestor.
Mamma Jones with my son Solomon and another great-great-grandchild circa 1975. Back to top	Mamma Jones in front of her daughter's old Chevy Sarah Elizabeth Fluker (Mamma Jones) was my great-grandmother. She married Frank a/k/a Batiste, Johnson, at the age of 18, and had a daughter - Octavia. She later married Haywood Jones, and had three more children - Johnny Jones, twins, Eddie Clark and Edna Lou. Mamma Jones died in July 1976, the year my first grandchild was born. She left a long line of relatives including my grandmother and seven generations of grandchildren and one great-great-great grandson: Charles E. Taylor. Family names now are many and varied. The surnames file gives a list of these. I do not know. The latest additions to this line as of this writing (July 2005) are my three great-granddaughters: Shidae (California), Jaidah (Illinois), and Felicity (Germany).
Mother Dear She was born 'Octavia Johnson", in 1903 to Frank and Elizabeth Fluker Johnson. Most people called her Miss Octavia or Miss Octavy. But her brother affectionatley called his big sister "Light'nin". All other family members called her M'dear (It is pronounced 'mudear"). It's really short for 'Mother Dear'. Read more about "Light'nin"	Back to top
	M'Dear outside an apartment building in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, circa 1960.
M'Dear, me, Mamma Jones, and my 1st cousin, Eddie McCombs, circa 1974. Back to top