Robert Hollaway Family
South Carolina, Mississippi Territory, and Louisiana, Robert Hollaway
b. 1774-75 probably in South Carolina
d. c1833 Franklin Co., Miss
m. Rebecca Wells 22 Nov 1796
b. ? Natchez Territory, Miss / LA
d. c Oct 1834, Franklin Co., Miss.
her father: John Wells
her mother: Joanne Dewitt
Robert and Rebecca raised a large family in E. Feliciana Parish, Louisiana near Clinton. He seems to be involved in agriculture of some sort. He apparently moves to Adams Co./Franklin Co. Miss. in the early 1800's where he and his wife both die.
He is the son of John Holloway of Virginia who comes to the Natchez district of the Mississippi Territory in the late 1700's with his wife, Elizabeth White and their children. Her brothers and their families come down shortly afterward and help raise the family after John is killed by the Indians.
Rebecca is the daughter to John Wells and Joanne Dewitt, whose relatives probably came across from settlements in Georgia in the late 1700's to settle in the Natchez Territory. Along with Absolom Wells, and Rice Wells, two of John's brothers, there were several Wells in this area who may be related. Samuel had a no-holds-bar duel to the death in 1827 with James Bowie of Texas fame. [Davis, William C., A Way Through the Wilderness, Harper Collins, 1995]
Children | |||
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Mary Hollaway | b. 17 Aug 1797* | . | m. Joseph George, 8 Sep 1814 St Helene, LA father
possibly John George mother Frances Freeman |
John Hollaway | b. 5 Jul 1799* | d c1851 | m. Martha Glasscock 28 Sep 1834 - no children |
George Hollaway | b. 5 Dec 1801* | d. 25 Dec 1845 DeBastrop Township, Ark , | 1m. ? but will indicates two children m. Jane Porter 23 May 1833 Miss. father Joseph Porter |
Mary Jane Hollaway | b. 10 Aug 1805 * Clinton, LA# | d. 1872 Miss# | 1m A. B. Graham 30 May 1827 2m Absolom Ford# 3m Joseph Lord 1837# |
Esther "Hetty" Hollaway | b. 20 Nov 1803* | . | m. Simeon J. Broadway of Caldwell Par. LA 14 Oct 1833. wit: Wile Wells |
Susan Hollaway | b. 1 Jun 1807* | d. c1851 | m. David Hinson 1832 |
Elizabeth Hollaway | b. 20 Mar 1809* | d. bef 1850 | ?m.? Steedley |
William Hollaway | b. 10 Dec 1811* St Helena Parish, LA | d. Mar 1870 | m. |
James L. Hollaway | b. 1 Dec 1813* St Helena Parish, LA | d. Mar 1870 | 1m. Caroline Beck 4 Jan 1838 @ 2m. Imogene Clyde 23 May 1859 |
Rebecca Hollaway | b. 22 Jan 1816* | d. 1 Oct 1852* | m. Dempsey B. Cain 27
May 1835 (blacksmith Miss, 1850 ) his 2nd mar. of five total |
Robert S. Hollaway | b.1 Aug 1818* | d. probably 1846 |
?1m. Narcessa Beaver 6 Jul 1834 @ 2m. Sarah Porter 13 Dec 1837@ father: Joseph Porter 3m. Mariah McFate 13 Oct 1845* |
Permelia K. Hollaway | b. 22 Feb 1820* | d. | m. Wm. M. Ducker 21 Jan 1839 Miss. (sheriff, @ 1855 AshleyCo, AK) |
Cader R. Hollaway | b. 24 Dec 1822* | d. | m. |
Gabriel Hollaway -- Catahoula Parish, LA
This child is identified only in the LaCroix records,
unverified.
Hollaway, Gabrie L. Catahoula
056 m 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 none
f
0
0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1840census of Louisiana , Quac. Par. 056
c1774 - Robert Hollaway is born as the fifth child to John Holloway and Elizabeth (White)Holloway. He was probably born in Craven Co., South Carolina according to marriage dates of Robert projected to be after he is 18 to 20 years old when he marries.
1781- John Holloway, Robert Holloway's
father, is killed by Indians.
1796, Aug 27- Robert Hollaway is witness to the sale of land of James Kelly to John Mitchell. Claim #360 on Sandy Cr. in Adams Co. Miss. Terr. Natchez records, Book B, p.197 [McBee, May Wilson, Natchez Court Records, Geneological Pub. 1953]
1796 - 22 Nov.- marriage of "Robert Holloway son of Holloway and Isabelle ________ to Rebecca Wells daughter of John Wells and Jeanne Duett (transcribed incorrectly, should be Dewitt- EC)... witness Jesse Ratliff and Cato Raby of N. C. " [New Orleans Genesis Vol. 6 Jan 1967 no. 21, p 84, Marriages of Early Natchez Settlers. ]
1800- Robert Holloway settles on a land claim in St Helena Parish, Louisiana [Am. State Papers, Class 8, vol 3, p 70]
1804- #1234.Claimant: Francis Ballard, 26
Mar. 1804. Witness: John Wells, 31 Aug. 1804. Certificate D-154,
issued Dec. 16, 1806. Miss. Ter. Adams Co. Francis Ballard
claims right to become the purchaser from the United States of
102 acres in said county on the waters of Sandy Creek, by virtue
of this having been inhabited and cultivated in 1801 by Robert
Hollaway , who sold it unto Daniel McNeeley and Daniel McNeelely
sold it to said Francis Ballard. The said tract was also
inhabited and cultivated by this claimant on 3 Mar. 1803. At
this time he was the head of a family. [McBee, May Wilson, The
Natchez Court Records 1767-1805, Abstract of Early Records, v.
2, 1953]
1810 - 1812 Here are
several miscellaneous records related to Robert Holloway,
Elizabeth Stilly(his mother), and John Wells, his wife's
father.
1813- 21-24: Oct. 4, 1813 - Michael
SMELSER, Admr. of the estate of Charles STEWART, a free man of
color, sold a negro slave named MOSES, for $676, to Lewis DUNN,
acting on behalf of John WELLS. Secured by a 12-month note
endorsed by Robert HOLLOWAY. Rec. Dec. 13, 1813. Wits.: D. WRIGHT
& Jacob HUBER.
[ St.
Helena Parish, Louisiana, Conveyance Book A, page 21-24]
1813, Aug 16-19 - St. Helena Parish,
Minutes for the Parish Sessions. The committee for "the laying
off and continuing of roads and bridges Causewary beg leave to
report and recommend the addoption of the following
resolutions..."
1814, Dec. 28 - 1815, Mar 9 - Robert Holloway serves with a Detachment of Mounted Gun Men commanded by Lt. A. Kirkland for 2 months, 13 days with the 12 and 13th Consolidated Regiment of the Louisiana Militia (the War of 1812). He receives a total of $48.15 which included 40 cents a day for the use of his horse. [US military records of the War of 1812]
1815-18 May - Robert Holloway is appointed to make an inventory of the estate of Elizabeth Starnes dec'd wife of Jacob Starnes deceased. [records of St. Helena Parish, LA]
1815, Dec. 9th - "Robert Holloway bought Negro boy named Sip." [Greensburg Conveyance Book A. p. 107-108.]
26 Jun- Robert Holloway is appointed to make an inventory of the estate of Elizabeth Starns widow of Jacob Starns both deceased. [records of St. Helena Parish, LA]
1816- Robert Holloway makes a land claim in St Helena Parish, Louisiana in 1816 for land that he says he settled on in 1800. His name shows up on "a list of actual settlers on land in that part of Louisiana, which lies east of the Mississippi river and island of New Orleans, and west of Pearl river, who have no claims thereto, derived from the French, British, or Spanish Governments." [Am. State Papers, Class 8, vol 3, p 70.]
1820 -
Holoway, Robert | [St Helena 077] | 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 13 |
(James Lee should be 6 years old) | slaves | 1 - 1 - 1 1 - 1- 1 |
Wells, John | [Feliciana 053] | 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 |
|
slaves | - 1 - (14-26yrs) |
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 (son of Robert) |
[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 | ||
1827 - 30 May - A license is issued for Jane Holloway daughter of Robert Holloway to marry Archibald B. Graham of the part of E. Feliciana.[records of St. Helena Par. LA]
May 24 - License is issued for Susan Holloway to marry David Hinkson [St. Helena Par., LA]
Oct 4 - He asks for "tutorship for his minor children, James L., Rebecca and Permelia Holloway." James L. should be 17 years old. [Succession Records of St. Helena Parish, LA 1804-1854, abstracted by Clyde Purser Young, edited by E. Russ Williams Jr., 1866, book located in the Ouachita Parish Public library, Monroe, LA ]
c 1834 Oct -Rebecca (Wells)Hollaway dies in
Mississippi.
1834 , 25 0ct - John Holloway is administrator of the estate of
Rebecca Holloway (this is Rebecca Wells Holloway, his mother).
the acct. of John Holloway, administrator of the estate lists
the heirs as : Robert Hollaway, Mary George, Esther Broadaway,
George Holloway, James Holloway, Jane Graham. Later documents
prove that there were other heirs. [Succession Records of St.
Helena Parish, LA 1804-1854, abstracted by Clyde Purser Young,
edited by E. Russ Williams Jr., 1866, book located in the
Ouachita Parish Public library, Monroe< LA ]
1837, Oct. 9 - Notice of letters remaining at the Post Office, Clinton, Ms. list letters addressed to Rebecca F. Wells and Wm. Porter. [Miss. Newspaper Abstracts by Jackie Ratcliffe, ]
1846, June 17 - a Robert Hollaway dies at
this time "at age 69" according to the copy by Tempe Crosby's
mother. I thought that this record was for Robert sr. but
his mother gives his age as "seven years of age" in 1781.
He can't have died in 1846 and be 69 years old. It is very
likely that Robert Sr. dies by 1833 or 34 because the oldest
son, John. is being made administrator of his mother Rebecca's
estate. According to his mother's list he would have to
be 72 in 1846. I'm having a hard justifying this
difference but it could be simply a problem in misreading the
birth date for him. The first page seems to be the wife
and children of Robert Jr., page 2 lists the children of Robert
Sr. and page 3 is in a different hand writing which is a
partial list of Robert Srs children. The abstract taken by
Tempe Crosby's mother from the bible is very clearly written
and seems to confuse Robert, Sr and Robert Jr. and gives the
birth and death date to the wrong Robert but the other
information is straight forward and I believe is very
accurate. Below you will see a transcription from the
handwritten transcription made according to a margin note in
"August 1863 copied" for an illegible person.
[Bible
record
of
Virginia Cain Gammill Byrd, photocopy w/ EC]
page 2
John Hollaway was borned July 5th 1799
George Hollaway was borned December the 6th AD 1801
Esther Hollaway was borned November 20th AD 1803
Jane Hollaway was borned August the 10th 1805
Susane Hollaway was borned June the 1st 18??
Elizabeth Hollaway was borned Mardh 20th 1809
William Hollaway was borned December 20th 18111
James Hollaway was borned December 1th 1813
Rebecca Hollaway was borned January 22th 1816
Robert S. Hollaway was borned August 1th 1818
Permelia K. Hollaway was borned February 22th 1820
Cader R Hollaway was borned December 24th A. D. 1822
This lists are Robert Hollaways Children.
1849- A cholorea epidemic hit Franklin co.,
Miss. It killed 162 people.
1848-54- W. M. Ducker was sheriff in Ashley
Co., Arkansas. [Goodspeed. p. 19]
1850 - US Census, Mississippi, Franklin
Co., p. 17. (It looks like
Joseph George may have died by this census. There must have
been a major illness hit this area a few years prior.)
Arkansas, Ashley Co., Union. p. 41James Steadly may be
the child of Elizabeth Hollaway Steadley, 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 Dec. 1845
[M432-25 Ashley Co 41 Union]
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
"
I believe the deaths of several
of the Robert's children were part of a cholera or 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 fled the disease. Some
counties lost as much as one fourth of the population in a
single season. It tended to start in the late summer
and stop with the first frost sometime about October or
November. This may have percipitated the movement of the
Hollaways out of Mississippi and Louisiana. [Keating
p. 89]
1852, July 27 -
Jerry 25, belongs to Simeon Broadway, 12 miles from Waterloo,
LA. [Weise. The Woodville Republican, p. 128]
1860-64 - J. D. Holloway was sheriff
in Union Co., Arkansas. [Goodspeed. p. 155]
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