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?Sarah Ford
Born 1775? SC
Died by 1830? ?Rapides Parish LA

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SPOUSE	CHILDREN
?John Holloway m. after 1792 Natchez Dist. b. 1769 Craven? Co. SC d. 1844? Rapides? Parish LA	Thomas b. 1793? ?Natchez Dist. d. by 1850?	Mary Julia "Juliet" b. 1796? ?Spanish Louisiana d. 1844/50 Catahoula Parish LA	John Jr. b. after 1796 ?Spanish Louisiana d. after 1830? ?Rapides Parish LA
	female b. 1800-10 LA	female b. 1800-10 LA	female b. 1800-10 LA
	male b. by 1810 Rapides Parish LA	Lewis b. 1813? Rapides Parish LA d. aft 1850	Gabriel Loving b. after 1810 Rapides Parish LA d. by 1850? ?Catahoula Parish LA
	female b. after 1810 Rapides Parish LA d. young?	male b. after 1810 Rapides Parish LA	male b. by 1820 Rapides Parish LA
According to Robert Holloway, the son of Sarah's husband's brother George Holloway, the Holloways moved from the Carolinas to Natchez, then in the Louisiana French-Spanish territory, "in order to escape the Revolution".
Head of Household Index in the Natchez District in 1792. The census placed each household in one of nine areas within the district. Included in the SS = Second & Sandy Creek area: Juan Holladay; John would be about age 23. Joshua Howard; he had returned by then to his plantation where John Holloway was killed 11 years earlier. Juan and Thomas Foard households; Sarah may have married John Holloway.
In 1791, "John Holloday" was in the "State of Georgia when James Stewart came in from the Creek Nation" according to the deposition on Jun 22, 1795. The Natchez court record, translated from Spanish, has "Sig. John Holliday, 22 Jun, 1795" [McBee, Book F, p. 288].
In the mid-1790's, husband John Holloway and his brother James, along with nephews of their mother, James T. White (1770?-1843?), and Reuben White (1765?-1835) and his family, moved into what became known as Holloway Prairie. This was where they obtained Spanish land grants and engaged in the cattle business. Many of the Anglo families of the area came there from Natchez. John is recorded in the mid 1790's as being in Post du Rapid, a Spanish post that became Rapides Parish, LA. Holloway Prairie was located between the present town of Deville and the parish seat, Alexandria, which was laid out in 1807. Presently, there is a small town named Holloway there.
The Census of the Natchez District in 1792. The census is translated from the Spanish handwritten records. The following were all located in the "Second Y Sandy Creek" subdivision: Juan (John) Holladay; 0 arpents, 1 White [himself], no Blacks. Tonio (Tony) Howard; 400 arpents [336 acres], 6 Whites , 5 Blacks. [translated differently as "Joshua" in the Head of Household Index]. Juan and Thomas Foard households [possibly including Sarah before marrying John]: Juan (John) Foard; 800 arpents [672 acres], 6 Whites, 2 Blacks. Tomas (Thomas) Foard; 0 arpents, 3 Whites, 0 Blacks.
On Oct 30, 1798 brothers John and James Holloway gave an oath of loyalty to the United States as the Natchez district became part of a US Territory (Mississippi was not admitted to the Union of States until 1817).
The Adams Co. MS will of Joseph Ford, dated Nov 6, 1804, probate date unknown, named wife Rebecca, children John (executor), Thomas, Joseph (Jr.), Robert, George, Esther Strawder, & Elizabeth, and grandchildren "Elizabeth, & George Holliway". The son Robert Ford was a witness along with John Spires and Jacob Guice. If one of Joseph Ford's daughters did marry John Holloway, there would be Holloway grandchildren born by 1804, but it is not clear who Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ford, married unless she was called Sarah [ACMGHN, website].
Franklin Co. MS was formed in 1809 from Adams Co. (see present day map for location).
In 1810, there are no Ford households in Claiborne Co. which was the new county that included the Second and Sandy Creek areas. There are six Ford households that year in the Franklin Co. 1810 Census including: John Ford: 3 males over 21, 4 males under 21, 1 female over 21, 5 females under 21, no free Negroes, and 6 Slaves. Thomas Ford: 1 male over 21, 6 males under 21, 1 female over 21, 2 females under 21, no free Negroes, and 2 Slaves. Joseph Ford (Sarah's brother, Jr.?): 2 males over 21, 1 male under 21, no female over 21, 3 females under 21, no free Negroes or Slaves. Also the William Graves household: 1 male over 21 (William), 1 male under 21, 1 female over 21 (Sarah Ford), and 7 Slaves. There is a "Bartlitt Ford" household, which may include the future parents of Thomas Bartlett Ford, 1827-1858, who married Rebecca Ann Cain Seale. She had five children and remarried after 1858. These Fords were originally from SC and came down the Mississippi on a barge and settled in counties south of Claiborne.
Rapides Parish was formed in 1807 by the Territory of Orleans government. (see present day map for location).
At present, Holloway is a community in Rapides Parish LA. Its center is located at the intersection of Hickory Grove Road, State Route 1207 and Route 28, about 14 miles NE of the parish seat of Alexandria, and 50 miles west of Natchez MS. Holloway Methodist Cemetery is located just off of Hickory Grove Road at the end of Slay Cemetery Road (see present day map for location). There is also a Hickory Grove Cemetery also known as Holloway Baptist Cemetery.
In the 1810 Census for Louisiana, John Hollaway [sic] of Rapides Parish had three minor male children and four minor females in his home as follows: 1 male under age 10 (George?), 2 males between age 10-16 (John Jr., Thomas), 1 male 26-45 (himself), 4 females under age 10, and 1 female between age 26-45 (Sarah born between 1765 and 1784). He was also listed as having 2 free persons (except Indians not taxed), and 3 slaves.
Husband John and his brother James belonged to the Louisiana State Militia, and John Jr. may have served in the War of 1812.
In or after 1813, husband John Hollaway filed a land claim to 600 "superficial arpents of Land" on middle fork bayou creek in Rapides Co., Territory of Orleans [now Louisiana], bounded by land of James Hollaway. [Documents ... US Congress. 1815-24]
In the 1816 Franklin Co. MS Census, on page 9, there are 2 large Ford households [Sarah's brothers]: John Ford (line 2) and Thomas Ford (line 3).
Before 1820, son Thomas married Cecilia Jannot or Jeannot.
In the 1820 Wilkinson Co. MS Census, a George Holloway is listed as involved in agriculture, at least 26 years old, with wife and a son and daughter under 10 years old [USGENWEB, Wilkinson Census 1820, page 365, line 13]. Wilkinson County was founded in 1802 and is just South of Adams and Franklin Counties.
By the 1820 Rapides Parish LA Census, on the last line of page 136, John's household had eight males and three females: 4 males under age 10, 4 males aged 16-26 (John, Thomas, son, ?son), 1 male 45 or older (John born about 1769), 1 female 10-16 (dtr?), 1 female 16-26 (dtr?), 1 female 26-45 (wife Sarah born 1775 or later), and 5 slaves (the number of slaves increased from three in 1810, to five in 1820) [1820 Rapides Parish Census, pp. 133, 136].
Daughter Mary Julia married Henry Harmon (1797?-1867?) in Rapides Parish before 1820. In 1820 Henry had just him and her in a household in Rapides Parish, both aged 16-26. By 1840, Henry Harmon aged 40-50, was in Catahoula Parish living with five females, 5 under age 10, and one aged 20-30 (wife Mary hads died?).
In the 1820 Rapides Parish Louisiana Census, page 133, line 15, near brother-in-law James Holloway's Lacroix in-lawss, there is a "Gabriel Loving" with 1 female child aged 10-16 and both adults at least age 45. This is the family that was in the 1800 Burke Co. NC Census but not in the 1820 Census there. Gabriel Loving was a brother-in-law of John's brother, George Holloway, as well as his neighbor in Burke Co. NC at least though 1800. There were no Lovings in the 1810 or 1830 Rapides Parish LA census or in the 1792 Natchez District Census. The "Gabral L. Holloway" found in the 1840 Catahoula Parish Census and born after 1810 was therefore likely a son of John and Sarah named after this Gabriel Loving.
In the 1830 Rapides Parish Census, on line 12, page 92a, page 92b, John Holloway's household had four males and one young adult female, but the wife is gone. 1 male aged 60-70 (John Holloway), 2 males aged 10-15, 1 male aged 15-20 (Lewis), 1 male 30-40 (probably John Jr.), and just one female aged 20-30 and 3 female slaves. It seems that at least three of the children under 10 in 1820, being without a mother, moved in with John's son Thomas.
Next oldest brother John S. Ford, who executed his father's will in 1804, was one party and husband John's nephew George Holloway was the other party in a Franklin Co. MS deed transaction dated Apr 5, 1844 involving a 22 year old slave named Aleck and a promissory note to be paid to George (before he died). On Dec 21, 1846, the executor of George's will, Hiram Cassidy, acknowledged full payment of the note [McBee, p. 21].
In the 1840 Catahoula Parish census, there is a single male household of "George Holoway", aged 40-50, possibly a nephew, son of John's brother William Holloway. His household is next to a family headed by "S. R. Ford" aged 30-40, with one female aged 20-30, a male 20-30, and 2 children under age 5. A Samuel R. Ford appeared in land cases from 1838 to 1841 in the parish [USGenWeb, First Settlers of Catahoula Pairsh...]. Elsewhere in the same census is a "Gabral L. Holloway" aged 20-30 with a female aged 15-20 and one child under 5 [usgwarchives.net website].
The family of daughter Mary Julia is listed under "Henry Harmon" age 53, planter, born in "Penn." and head of a household of 6 members in the 1850 Catahoula Parish LA Census, having moved there before 1840. Mary Julia is not listed and the youngest child Thomas was age 6, so she probaby died between 1844 and 1850. The age of the oldest child in the household, Elizabeth [named for grandmother Elizabeth White Holloway] was given as 19 so she and Henry were married by 1830 [familysearch,org, p. 37].
In 1850, there is a Lewis Holloway (aged 37) household and, next to it, a Thomas Holloway household, still in the Holloway Prairie area of Rapides Parish; probably John's son Lewis and grandson Thomas Jr. (age 29), respectively.
Son Lewis is listed as a farmer in Rapides Parish LA, aged 37, in the 1850 U.S. Census dated Nov 15 of that year, page 1, page 2. In his household also were: Susanna (wife?), aged 40; and children: Alexandra, aged 13; Thomas, aged 12; Lewis, Jr. aged 10; George, aged 7; and Jeannot, male, aged 4; Also in Lewis' home were Alexander Lamontagne, aged 22, and Anthony Lamontagne, aged 21.
SOURCES: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "Adams County, Mississippi Wills", will of Joseph Ford dated Nov 6, 1804, website. Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, internet website, Dec 1999. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1830, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 91-92. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1810, p. 281; p. 398. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1820, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 136. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, Nov 15, 1850 page 1, page 2. "Franklin County, MS 1810 Census", abstract from Gillis book, rootsweb website. Documents ... , US Congress, 1815-24] "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website. John Stillee Bible. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, p. 21, Book F, pp. 287-8. MS Dept. of Arch. & Hist., 1816 Franklin Co. Census in "Territorial Censuses", website. USGenWeb, Early Southwest Miss. Territory, "Natchez District 1792 Spanish Census Index", website. Veach, Damon, "Louisiana Ancestors", article in Sunday Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge LA, Feb 21, 1982. White, Gifford, "James White and John White", Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2 by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC,1997, p. 111. White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982. Unknown author, "...to John ..." [illegible], correspondence detailing discovery of baptismal records of Stillee children in Cathedral Archives, no date but possibly mid 1900's.