Louisiana and Arkansas
1st m.
Caroline Beck 4 Jan 1838 Franklin Co, Miss
[Miss. Mar.
1776 -1935]
b. 1824 Frank. Co.Miss. d. 1857 Ashley Co, Ark.
dau of James and Letha (Porter) Beck,
[Tillet
Porter vs Sutton Byrd]
2nd m. Imogene
Clyde May 23, 1859 Ashley Co, Ark [Ark. Co.
Marr. Index,
1837-1957]
b. 1837 Portland, Ark. d. 1878 Ashley Co., Ark
her father: W. W. Clyde (NY)
her mother: Teresa Catherine
Clark (AL)
her 2m to J. H. Winningham Oct 7, 1875 [Ashley Co, Marriage Records, v. AA, A 1848-1883]
father - Robert Hollaway (born
probably
in Adams Co. LA c1774
mother - Rebecca Wells (born
LA/Miss)
children with Caroline Beck | |||
---|---|---|---|
?son | b. 1838 -1840 Miss | d. by 1850 census | shows in 1840 census only |
Martha J, Hollaway | b. 1845 Miss | d. | m. Frank Hazzard, February 15, 1865 Ashley Co., AR |
Robert Hollaway | b. 1849 Miss. | d. as a child | m. |
John D. Hollaway | b. 7 July 1851 Ark | d. 11 Jan 1918 Ashley Co., Ark# |
1m. 11/2/1873 Lissie Whitsides (d April 1879) 2nd m. 2/6/1889 Sallie Eda Austin (b. 1870) (dau. of Allen Wesley Austin) her 2nd m.Willie L. Hollaway |
Albert P. Hollaway | b. 19 May 1853 Ark. | d. 30 Mar 1905 Portland, AR | m. Sonella Lou "Ella" Austin 30 Nov 1887 (dau. of Allen Wesley Austin) no issue, adopted Glennie Lloyd |
Alice C. Hollaway | b. Sept 1855 Ark. | d. 30 Mar 1905 | m. Willie A. Cain,
21 Nov
1875 Ashley Co., AR (sheriff, lived Lake Village, Ark.
c1928)[Arkansas
Marriages,
1779-1992] his 2m. - Anna Cain, widow of Septimus Lysurgus Allen, son of Allen Wesley Austin |
Dewitt C. Hollaway | b. ?1857 Ark. | d. young | see the notes of 1857 below. |
child with Imogene Clyde | |||
---|---|---|---|
William "Willie" L. Hollaway | b. Mar. 6, 1860 Ashley Co., Ark. | d. April 23, 1933 in Dallas, TX buried: Portland Cem., Portland, AR |
1m. Margaret
Eugenia
Machen , 17 April, 1884 Ashley Co., Ark (b. 16
May 1859
d. 23 Mar 1904 Ashley Co. AR - buried; Portland Cem, AR 2m Lou Ella Austin 15 Oct 1907 (her1m. A. P. Hollaway) (1861- 1928) |
James Lee is guardian to this
child
of Robert Hollaway, brother who died about 1846 |
|||
---|---|---|---|
Amanda Jane Hollaway* | b. 1837 Miss. -Ark.) | d. shows on the 1850 Census w/ James L. | m . Nicholas H. Trammell 12 Dec. 1852 Ashley Co., Ark [Ark.
Co.
Mar.
Index -1837-1957] |
James Lee is guardian to the
children of George Hollaway, brother who died 1846 |
|||
---|---|---|---|
Burlin Virgil Hollaway@ | b. 1838 Miss | d. | lived with Wm & Permelia (Hollaway) McDucker, 1850 Ashley Co., AR census |
George W. Hollaway@ | b. 1839 LA | d. | lived with Wm & Permelia (Hollaway) McDucker, 1850
Ashley
Co., AR census m. Sarah E. Scoggins 6 Apr 1859 Ashley Co., AR |
James M. Hollaway@ | b. 1841 Frank. Co,Miss. | d 10 Jul 1861 near Richmond, VA, | enlisted CSA May 20, 1861 |
"Porter M. L." Marcus Lafayette Hollaway@ | b. 1844 Miss. | d. probably Civil War | shows in the 1850 Census -Ark. w. James L. Hollaway /
enlisted CSA May 20, 1861 alive in June 1863 |
1781 - John is killed by Indians in Louisiana. His wife Elizabeth (White) Hollaway requests the custody of her children. [Natchez Court Records 1767-1805, Book A, page 48, Oct 1781] Elizabeth Hollaway remains in Louisiana where she quickly remarries. Her oldest son George Hollaway returns to North Carolina and stays with his uncle, William White, where he raises his family. The rest of the children stay with her. [Gibbons]
1794 - March - Robert Holloway attests to the sale of land to the estate of John Hartly to Christian Harmon. Cady Raby is one executor. Cady Raby is the older brother-in-law to Robert. [Natchez Court Records, Book E, p. 320]
1796- 27 Aug. Robert Hollaway is witness to the sale of land of James Kelly to John Mitchell on Sandy Creek in Adams Co., Miss. Terr. [Natchez Court Records, Book B, p. 197]
1798- James and John Hollaway, John's sons, give an oath of loyalty in the Natchez Dist. on 30 Oct. 1798 to the United States as the Mississippi Territory becomes the United States territory. [Nat. Gen. Soc Qt, v42, p116] Nelson White, Thomas White and Denny White show up on the same list, relatives of Elizabeth Hollaway. [Nat. Gen. Soc. Qt. v42, Sept 1954, p108-116]
1814- James L. is
born
in Louisiana(St Helena parish), of Robert Hollaway, son of
John
Hollaway b1737 above.
1820- census records of St. Helena parish
Robert Hollaway (James Lee should be 6 years old) |
(m)1, 0, 1, 1 , 0, 1 (f) 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 13 |
slaves | (m)1, -, 1, - , 1, 0 (f) 1, -, 1, -, 1, -, |
John Wells in E. Feliciana parish | (m)1, 0, 0, 1 ,1 , 0 (f) 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3 |
slaves | (m)0,- , 1, , 0 (f) none |
1830- Robert Hollaway is still in St Helena Parish along with John Holloway (James Lee is 16 years old, Permelia is 10) [Louisiana M19, St Helena 047 No Twp]
Robert Holloway (Helen 047) farmer | m 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 |
|
f 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 |
John Holloway (Helen 048) farmer | m 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
|
f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
1837- economic depression of "The Panic of 1837" begins and continues its effects on Franklin Co. until 1841.
1838, 4 Jan - James L. Hollaway marries Caroline Beck, [Book 1 & 2, p 194, Franklin Co., Miss Marriages]
1840- Miss.- - James L. Hollaway is 26 years old in Miss. with a wife 15-20 years, with one son under 5 and one aged 10-15. Another white male is here 30-40 years old who may be a brother. They also have four slaves, probably a married couple with a teenage daughter and a boy under 10 years. [M704-213 Franklin p.155]
-July 14- James Hollaway and Caroline (Beck) Hollaway are involved in a lawsuit supporting the efforts of, Tillet Porter vs Sutton Byrd, administrator of the Est. of Nancy Porter, Dec'd.
Tillet Porter, although born illegitimately, is fighting for the right to be considered an heir to the estate of Nancy Porter, even though he was the acknowledged legitimate son of Joseph (deceased) and Nancy Porter (deceased). He wants his portion ($8,501.84) of the estate. Also included in this suit, the other heirs: Ferdinand Porter, Abednago Porter (now dec'd), Elan - wife of Abednago- now married to John Miley, Samuel and Harriet Porter, children of Abednago and Elan Porter, Sarah Hollaway, nee Porter, wife of Robert Hollaway, Jane Holloway, nee Porter, wife of George Hollaway, Caroline Hollaway, nee Beck wife of James Hollaway, daughter of Letha Beck, a daughter of Nancy Porter (Dec'd), David Porter and Tillet Porter.
(Franklin Co., Drawer 73, Case #412, Miss. High Court of Errors and Appeals , Dept. of Archives and Hist., Jackson, Miss.) George Hollaway is here. [Franklin Co. Miss p163] along with Robert Hollaway [Franklin Co, p 166]
1842-44 - James L. Hollaway is listed as a tavern owner in Meadville, Franklin Co., Miss. perhaps in partnership with his sister Permelia's husband, William M. Ducker. [Hadsky p.76]
1844- James L.'s
family,
along with James brother, George, leaves Mississippi for
Portland, Ark
[Biog & Hist.of Ark]
1845- The above
record
must have been relying on memory because James L. Hollaway is
listed in
the Franklin Co., Miss. state census. The family
therefore has to
have emigrated to Arkansas in 1845-46. [Mississippi Census,
1805-90,
ancestry.com]
1846- Jan. 26- George
Hollaway, James's brother, dies in De Bastrop, Ark. James
given legal
guardianship of Georges children, George Jr. Burlin [Marriages
and
Deaths from Miss. Newspaper] I
believe these deaths were part of a Yellow fever epidemics
that seems
to have erupted every year from about 1842 through 1854 with
devastating consequences. Dr. Dowler of New Orleans in 1853
says:"The
maximum mortality of the yellow fever of 1853 arrived sooner
in the
season than usual, and is more truly represented by that of
the plague
in London, in 1665, namely, June, 590 deaths; July, 4,129;
August,
20,046; September, 26, 230; October, 14, 373; November,
3,449; total,
68,817." The epidemic spread to various counties in
Louisiana, Arkansas
and Tennessee by imigrants from the affected areas who fled
the
disease. Some counties lost as much as one fourth of
the
population in a single season. This may have percipitated
the movement
of the Hollaways out of Mississippi and Louisiana.
[Keating p.
89]
"We return to the epidemic in
the South
and West. It has been shown that Cholera was epidemic
in New
Orleans in December, 1848, and in January, February and the
succeeding
months of 1849.
Early in the epidemic the disease
spread to
the plantations of Louisiana, in the majorty of which the
conveyance of
the infection could be distinctly traced. A plantation
in the
Bayou Téche became infected in January, the disease spread
to
the adjoining localities. Saint Mary's and La Fourche
Suffered
severly. "
To give some idea of how quickly this infection can spread a
case is
given of a "A lady died during this epidemic at Quebec from
cholera;
the bed upon which she died, with its clothing, and the
clothing that
had been upon her perons, were thrown into an unoccupied
lot, and
number of children belonging to poor persons were seen
playing upon and
with the articles, when they were driven away: with thirty
hours four
of these children were dead of cholera."
[Barnes. p. 615]
1849, April 30 James
L.
Hollaway is part of a Grand Jury formed after the Ashley Co,
Ark is
created in Nov. 30, 1848. Began serving on Wed. April 18.
[Ashley
County Eagle.]
The trial is commanding William Douglas to appear "then and
there to
show cause, if any, why he should not be dealt with according
as the
law directs, for allowing his negroes to live without some
free white
person with them, to the annoyance of the neighborhood." no
outcome
given.
[Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Ark. 1890
,Ashley Co,
p. 874-875]
Arkansas,
Ashley
Co., Union. p. 41 (this census shows the children of both James
sister, Elizabeth Steadley, and probably is brother Robert.
James L. Hollaway
36
m
farmer
$1300
LA
Caroline
"
26
f
Miss
Martha
"
6
f
"
Robert
"
1
f
"
James P.
Steedley
3
m
"
Amanda
Hollaway
13
f
"
Porter M. L.
"
7
m
"
James Steadly may be the child of Elizabeth Hollaway, James L.'s sister / Amanda Jane is the child of Robert who may have died in 1845 and Porter is the child of George who died in 1846 [M432-25 Ashley Co 41 Union]
George Hollaway(21)
is
here, a probable nephew. [Ashley Co, 25 White]
George Hollaway (11), Burlin Hollaway (13), and James
Hollaway, all
born in Miss. are living with Wm McDucker (35), a sheriff, and
Permelia
(30) his wife of Miss. [Ashley 25 white] George, Burlin and
James are
the orphaned children of George Hollaway Hollaway of
Mississippi who
died about 1845 in Franklin Co., Permelia is the sister,
b.1820 , of
both George, Sr. and James L.
1849, Dec. 1-
Certificate No. 6132 in Franklin Co., Mississippi. James Lee
Hollaway
files for one hundred and twenty-one acres of land in Franklin
Co.,
Miss. James has to be going back and forth between
Arkansas and
Mississippi.
1850 - US Census,
Arkansas, Asley Co., White twp. p. 25
1857- Caroline (Beck) Hollaway, James' 1st wife dies, possibly in child birth of Dewitt C. who does not survive to the 1870 census, after giving him nine children. The name of this child indicates the connection to the Dewitt family to me. I believe that James' grandmother was a Dewitt rather than the Duhart/Deuart as written in some records.
1858, 01 Feb. -
Holloway, James L. files four land claims in Arkansas, one for
40
acres, one for 80 acres, one for 55.1 acres and another for
156.46
acres for a total of 331.56 acres. [Doc. #6342, #6259, #6277
and #6279,
with the Land Office Helena, ,Vol. AR1750.420,]
[p. 474 BLM land records,
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/convertedimage/AK]
To all to whom
these
presents shall come, Greeting: WHEREAS James L. Holloway of
Ashley County
Arkansas has deposited in the GENERAL LAND
OFFICE of the
United States, a Certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND
OFFICE at Helena whereby it
appears that full payment has
been made by the said
James L Holloway according to
the
provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April,
1820, entitled
"An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public
Lands," for
the South East quarter of the South East
quarter
of Section Four in Township Seventeen South of Range
Four West in the
District of Lands subject to Sale at Helena Arkansas
containing Forty
Acres
according to the
offical plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to
the General
Land office by the Surveyor General, which said tract has
been
purchased by the said James L Holloway
NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in
consideration of the
Premises and in conformity with the several acts of
Congress, in such
case made and provided, Have Given and Granted, and by these
presents
Do Give and Grant, unto the saidJames L.
Holloway
and to his heirs, the said tract above described: TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD
the same, together with all the rights, privileges,
immunities, and
appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging,
unto the saidJames L Holloway
and his heirs and assigns
forever
In Testimoney Whereof, I James Buchanan President of
the United
STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these Letters to made PATENT,
and the
SEAL of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.
GIVEN under my hand
at
the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the first day of February
in the
Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
eight, and
of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES THE eighty second
BY THE
PRESIDENT: James Buchanan
by Thomas Albright Sec'y
T. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office.
Certificate no.
6279
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To all to whom
these
presents shall come, Greeting: WHEREAS James L. Holloway of
Ashley County
Arkansas has deposited in the GENERAL LAND
OFFICE of the
United States, a Certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND
OFFICE at Helena whereby it
appears that full payment has
been made by the said
James L Hollowayaccording to
the
provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April,
1820, entitled
"An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public
Lands," for
the West half of the South East quarter
and South
half of the North West quarter of Section Four in
Township Seventeen
South of Range Four West in the District of Lands
subject to Sale at
Helena Arkansas containing One Hundred and Fifty Six
Acres and Forty
Six Hundreds of an acre
according to the
offical plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to
the General
Land office by the Surveyor General, which said tract has
been
purchased by the said James L Holloway
NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in
consideration of the
Premises and in conformity with the several acts of
Congress, in such
case made and provided, Have Given and Granted, and by these
presents
Do Give and Grant, unto the said James L.
Holloway
and to his heirs, the said tract above described: TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD
the same, together with all the rights, privileges,
immunities, and
appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging,
unto the saidJames L Holloway
and his heirs and assigns
forever
In Testimoney Whereof, I James Buchanan President of the
United STATES
OF AMERICA, have caused these Letters to made PATENT, and
the SEAL of
the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.
GIVEN under my hand at the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the first
day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and
fifty eight, and of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED
STATES THE
eighty second BY THE PRESIDENT: James Buchanan
by Thomas Albright Sec'y
T. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office.
His relative, George Hollaway, already had filed for land ten years earlier in 1848.
1859 - April 11, 1859
James L. Hollaway marries Imogene Clyde (22 of Ark) in Ashley
Co. Ark.
[Ashley
Co,
Index of Marriages , v. AA - A 1848 - 1883 1290835]
1860- US Census,
Ashley
Co., Union Twp. Hamburg P. O. page 134 [M653-37]
For some
reason James L. Hollaway is living at the same location as
Sampson
Harris. I'm assumming the location is a plantation with
several
homes owned by James Lee Hollaway.
Sampson L. Harris
31
m
farmer
$9000
$19000
Alabama
Caroline
Harris
30 f
"
Georgia
William
Harris
8
m
Louisiana
Mary S
Harris
7
f
Louisiana
Misvini Harris
2 f
Arkansas
James L. Hollaway
46
m
$29360
$42117
Louisiana
Imogene Hollaway 23 f
Alabama
Martha I Hollaway 15 f
Mississippi
John C
Hollaway
9
m
Arkansas
Albert T Hollaway 7
m
Arkansas
Alice C
Hollaway 4 m
Arkansas
Dewitt C
Hollaway 2 m
Arkansas
William L Hollaway 4/12 m
Arkansas
James M
Hollaway 19
m
Clerk
Mississippi
Porter M L Hollaway 16
m
"
Mississippi
Enoch
Gardiner
30
m
Merchant
$2325
Maryland
Josephine D Gardiner 25
f
"
Louisiana
Samuel W
Gardiner 6 m
Louisiana
George Hollaway(31),
a
probable nephew to James, is in the area with his 16 year old
wife,
Sara Scoggins, and 11 year old James Steadley. James Steadly
is the
same person who had previously lived with James L. at age 3mo.
in 1850.
Imogene Clyde Hollaway 's parents, W. W. Clyde and C. T., are
living in
the area. He is listed as an "artist". [Ashley p213 Carter]
March 6, 1860-Willie Lee Hollaway, the only son of Imogene, is born.
1861-May 20- His two
guardianed boys, James M. and Porter M. L., enlist in the
Confederate
Army,
Jul. 10- James M. is killed near Bull Run, Richmond, VA. in
one of the
first battles of the war. [Arkansas Confederate Service
Records], .
Porter M. L. is alive as of June 1863 but is supposed to have
died in
the mid-west as prisoner of war according to family legend. No
record
has been found to date.
John D., his next oldest son, assumed the running of the
plantation
along with his father. [see the history of John D. Hollaway]
Hazzard, Frank
Private - Enlisted in Co. A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at
Portland,
Arkansas, May 20, 1861; dropped from the rolls for absence
without
leave, August 31, 1864; born in Alabama, c1829; married
Martha Jane
Holloway in Ashley county, February 15, 1865; married Hattie
Yount in
Ashley county, February 16, 1901; listed in Ashley county
1860 census;
occupation merchant.
[Company A Arkansas
Travelers
records of Bryan R. Howerton]
Holloway, James M
Private - Enlisted in Co. A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at
Portland,
Arkansas, May 20, 1861; died of disease at Richmond,
Virginia, July 10,
1861; born in Mississippi, c1841; listed in Ashley county
1860 census;
occupation clerk; brother of Private Porter M. L. Holloway.
[Company A Arkansas
Travelers
records of Bryan R. Howerton]
1870- March -dies at
age
57 of bronchitis,[Ashley Co. Mortality Schedule 1870] He is
said to
have been a "Royal Arch Mason"
[Biog
&
Hist.of Ark]
US Census, Arkansas,
Ashley Co., Portland Twp. p. 198
on
the
same page
Holaway Rosen
33 f w keeping
house $2000.00
$12000 Arkansas
' ,
John
17
m
w farmer
Arkansas
" ,
Albert
14
m
w farmer
Arkansas
" ,
Alex
10
m
w at school
Arkansas
" ,
William
17
m
w attending school
Tennessee
Clid,
Elly
56
m
w at school
Georgia
The children are
still
together in the 1870 census in Hamburg, Ashley Co. but under
the record
of "Rosen Holaway" (32f). This record is very messed up with
no listing
for Imogene Hollaway who should be 32 and the ages of the
children off
by one person. Elle Clyde, Imogene's sister, is also here and
perhaps
her mother. [Ashley Co. 198 Hamburg]
US Census, Texas, Tyler Co., Woodville, p, 52
Hollaway,
P.
28
m
w
farmer
$144
Louisiana
"
,
Harriett
20
f w
keeping
house
Georgia
"
,
Robert
B.
5 m
w
Texas
"
,
Wm
G.
2
m
w
Texas
1875, Oct 7 - Imogene Hollaway(age 36), James L.'s widow, marries J. H. Winningham(45), witnessed by Jesse Sanford, who married Ella Clyde, Imogene's sister. [Ashley Co, Marriage Records, v. AA, A 1848-1883]
1878- Imogene (Clyde)
dies 1878 only three years after remarrying J. H. Winningham.
[Biographical
and
Historical Memoirs of Southern Ark. 1890 , John
Hollaway story]
1880- John D.
Hollaway
is here (29) widowed with 1 year old Alice M. He has inherited
the
plantation.
Willie L. Hollaway
(20)
is single and a boarder in a rooming house in Portland Dist.
and is
intending to marry within the year.
[Living
w/ Joseph and Mary Miller USC Ashley p. 151]
Albert(27) is single, teaching school and listed as "lame".
[USC Ashley
p. 152]
1897- April 1 - "Little Clarence, four-year -old son of John D. Holloway of Portland, died Friday night last. [Lee. p 45]
1905, April 6 - "Mr.
A.
P. Holloway of Portland, died on Friday morning last. Mason.
[Lee.
p101]
May 18 - "Albert Porter Holloway, Portland, died March 30th,
1905. He
was born here on May 19th, 1853; Married Miss Ella Austin in
1887. No
children."
[Lee, Ashley County Eagle, p102]
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