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Eli "Herring" m. 1851? Franklin Co. MS b. 1830? Franklin Co. MS d. Apr 1863 Natchez MS |
? "Holloway" b. 1852? Franklin Co. MS d. ?Ashley Co. AR |
? "Holloway" b. 1854? Franklin Co. MS d. Ashley Co. AR |
? "Holloway" b. 1856? Franklin Co. MS d. |
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Franklin Co. MS was founded in 1809
(see present day map
for location). |
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Owner William Lee Holloway's sister Jane Holloway
married John Wesley Herring (1825-1899) on Nov 12, 1849. They had two
children before she died in 1855. She is buried in Herring Cemetery in Franklin
Co. MS. Her
grave marker
lists her birth Feb 16, 1833 and parents as "George and Jane Hollaway",
who were married about three months after she was born. |
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Annis was owned by William Lee Holloway
and his wife, formerly Sarah Herring. They had six children aged 3 months
to 9 years old living in their household in Franklin Co. MS when the census was
taken in 1860. William Lee Holloway also owned
23 slaves then. Shortly after he married Sarah, Annis married a slave at the
Herring farm named Eli. Eli and Annis lived on the separate farms and had
three children. |
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In 1863, husband Eli joined the U.S. Colored Infantry after Natchez became a
Union-occupied town. He died of disease in Apr 1865 at a Natchez hospital. |
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In the 1860 U.S. Census for Franklin Co. MS, enumerated on Sep 29, 1870, listed
as house # 520, on lines 4-11 of
page 311: "Holloway W L", age 29, Farmer, he and his family all born in Miss., Sarah, age 26, Domestic, George, age 9, Ritchard, age 8, Alice, age 6, William, age 3, John, age 2, Mary, age 3 mos. Nearby is the Thomas Herring, age 23, household. The family of brother-in-law and widower, John W. Herring, aged 35, born in Ala., is listed on page 321, house # 592, next to a farmer and landowner Mary Herring [Sarah Jane's mother], aged 60, born in SC (1800) with Sarah Jane's brother, a 24 year old male named David born in Miss. This farm, # 591, would be where Eli was a slave before his civil war service [USGenWeb Archives, Franklin Co. MS 1860 Census]. |
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By 1870, owner William Lee Holloway's
family was living in Ashley Co. AR. Since his parents died,
William stayed close to the families of his father's siblings,
James Lee Holloway and
Robert S. Holloway (Jr.). James' son
William Lee Holloway was probably named after him
when born in 1860. Since James died 10 years later, William may have been sent
to his namesake uncle. |
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Owner William Lee Holloway's father George
published his will in Franklin Co. MS in Jan 1845 but
moved later in the year to Arkansas where he died in Dec. In the will,
William amd Jane were named separately from his children of his second marriage,
with no mention of their mother. |
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Ashley Co. AR was founded in 1848
(see present day map
for location), and borders Louisiana. |
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SOURCES: Keating, John McLeod, The History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee, The Howard Assoc. of Memphis 1879, reprinted Heritage Books , 2008, p. 89. "Sarah Jane Hollaway",Find a Grave, memorial # 129860762, website. USGenWeb Archives Franklin Co. MS 1860 Census, trans. by Ann A. Geoghegan, 2002. U.S. Census, Franklin Co. MS, 1860. U.S. 1870 Census, Portland Twp., Ashley Co. AR, enum. Jul 1, 1870, p. 45, lines 14-16 and 21-26, from FamilySearch website. Veach, Damon, "Louisiana Ancestors", article in Sunday Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge LA, Feb 21, 1982. Will of George Holloway, Franklin Co. MS, Jan 24, 1845, probated Feb 18, 1846. |
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