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Lewis Holloway
Born 1813? Rapides Parish LA
Died after 1850

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SPOUSE	CHILDREN
Susanna ?Lamontagne [widow?] m. by 1838? ?Rapides Parish LA b. 1810? LA d. after 1850 ?Rapides Parish LA	Thomas b. 1838? Rapides Parish LA	Lewis (Jr.) b. 1840? Rapides Parish LA	George b. 1843? Rapides Parish LA
	Jeannot (male) b. 1846? Rapides Parish LA
The names John and James Holloway appear in several 1790's Spanish Colonial documents and militia lists. On Oct 30, 1798 John and James give an oath of loyalty to the United States as the Mississippi Territory becomes a US Territory (Mississippi was not admitted to the Union of States until 1817).
In the mid-1790's, father John and brother James, along with their uncle Reuben White (1765?-1835) and his family, moved into what became known as Holloway Prairie, This is where they obtained Spanish land grants and engaged in the cattle business. Many of the Anglo families of the area came there from Natchez. Holloway Prairie was located between the present town of Deville and the parish seat of Alexandria, which was laid out in 1807.
Rapides Parish was formed in 1807 by the Territory of Orleans government. (see present day map for location).
In or after 1813, father 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 1810 Census, father John Holloway had three minor male children and four minor females in his home. By the 1820 Census, John had eight males and two females, besides his wife. John increased his number of slaves from three in 1810, to five by 1820. It is likely, therefore, that John Holloway had more children than the three that are known (John Jr., Thomas and Mary Julia).
Before 1820, brother Thomas married Cecil Jannot or Jeannot, and sister Mary Julia married Henry Harmon (1790?-1867?) in Rapides Parish about 1820. By about 1840, Mary and Henry were in Catahoula Parish. In 1850, there is this Lewis Holloway household and, next to it, a Thomas Holloway household still in the Holloway Prairie area of Rapides Parish, probably brother Thomas' son, Thomas Jr. (age 29).
Catahoula Parish was formed in 1808 and originally bordered Rapides Parish. (see present day map for location).
In the 1830 Rapides Parish LA Census, page 92a, page 92b, line 12, father John Holloway had four males and one young adult female, but his wife is gone. 1 male aged 60-70 (the father John), 2 males aged 10-15, 1 male aged 15-20 (Lewis), 1 male 30-40 (maybe John, a nephew and son of brother Robert Holloway, who married Martha Glasscock in 1834), and one female aged 20-30 and 3 female slaves.
In the 1850 U.S. Census dated Nov 15 of that year, the last family on page 89a, continued on page 89b, Lewis was listed as a farmer, aged 37, in Rapides Parish LA, along with: Susanna, aged 40, and children: 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.
Alexander Lamontagne married a Sarah Holloway by 1854 when they had daughters Jane and Caroline born in Rapides Parish. Sarah (aged 26 in 1860) was likely a granddaughter of Lewis' father, John Holloway. Lewis' older brother, Thomas Holloway had a daughter named Sarah but she was still living at home in 1860. Alexander died "in New Orleans" on Aug 18, 1864 aged about 36 [his age was 22 in the 1850 Census] and was buried in the Chalmette National Cemetery which is next to the site of the War of 1812 battlefield, but has 4 Civil War soldiers buried there [genealogy.com post, Oct 14, 2001].
In the 1860 U.S. Census for Rapides Parish, dated Nov 9 of that year, on line 9 of page 234, A "Sarah Lamontagne" is listed with no occupation, aged 26, born in La. In her household were no males, only her two daughters: Jane, aged 6 [born in 1854?]; Caroline, aged 4.
On Aug 18, 1864 [the exact date of Alexander's death] began the 3-day Battle of Globe Tavern at the railroad near Petersbug VA began in which 211 Confederates and 251 Union soldiers were killed. Alexander may have been away from home in 1860 because of the Civil War which started about 6 months later [photograph by Matthew Brady between 1860-64, wikipedia.org website].
At present, Holloway is a community in Rapides Parish LA. It's 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 W 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.
SOURCES: 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, 1820 and Nov 15, 1850 page 89a, page 89b. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1860, Nov 9, 1860. Documents ... , US Congress, 1815-24] Imbert, J. Leopold, map maker, Carte des Possessions Angloises... 1777, reprinted by the Museum of the American Revolution from map image at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website. John Stillee Bible. Unknown author, "...to John ..." [illegible], correspondence detailing discovery of baptismal records of Stillee children in Cathedral Archives, no date but possibly mid 1900's. 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.