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Catherine Hood m. Feb 8, 1830 Burke Co. NC b. Oct 15, 1807 Burke Co. NC d. Sep 28, 1902 Little Mulberry, Caldwell Co. NC |
Mary Isabella b. Aug 19, 1831 Burke Co. NC d. Feb 10, 1916 Caldwell Co. NC |
Martha E b. Apr 13, 1833 Burke Co. NC d. Nov 10, 1892 Petterson, Caldwell Co. NC |
John Burton b. Jan 12, 1835 Burke Co. NC d. Jul 1, 1863 Killed at Gettysburg PA |
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George Washington b. May 9, 1838 Burke Co. NC d. Jan 12, 1918 Lenoir, Caldwell Co. NC |
Catherine Loretta b. Mar 30, 1840 Burke Co. NC d. Sep 10, 1894 NC |
James P. b. 1842? Caldwell Co NC d. Jul 5, 1862 Richmond VA of disease |
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?Nancy Ann b. Caldwell Co. NC |
Sarah Ann b. Dec 1844? Caldwell Co. NC d. Oct 25, 1928 NC? |
Nancy Caroline b. May 1847 Caldwell Co. NC d. Nov 21, 1928 NC? |
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On Jan 27, 1847, Robert was appointed guardian of the two young daughters of his
brother James Taylor Holloway, according to Caldwell Co. Court minutes. James was named
for James Taylor White, who is the grandfather of
both brothers' parents. James Taylor Holloway died only a few years after his marriage
on Apr 15, 1841, leaving daughter Carolina (born Feb 4, 1842) and Elizabeth Jean
(born Jan 20, 1844). However, the daughters subsequently moved with their mother,
born Delphia A. Estes, to Wisconsin. She married Oliver Lyon from Dunkirk WI in
1854. |
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The 1850 Census for Caldwell Co. NC lists all of the children except the eldest
Mary Isabella, and Sarah Ann. Martha is listed as attending school. Nancy Ann,
age 6, is listed with name Ann. |
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Caldwell County was formed in 1841 from northern Burke Co. NC
Compare present day map
with map of North Carolina Counties
in 1840. |
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Three of Robert's sons fought in the Civil War. John B. was a Lt., and James P.
and George W. were privates in Company F, North Carolina 26th Regiment. John Burton enlisted Jun or Jul 15, 1861 and died on the first day of the Battle at Gettysburg, at the age of 28. George W., previously wounded at Malvern Hill, was severely wounded at Gettysburg the same day his brother died; was captured at Hatch Run Apr 2, 1965 and held prisoner for three months in Hart's Island NY, and released Jun 18, 1865; he was called "Big Johnny Reb" by Union troops since he was "tall (6'4") and fat". He was elected colonel of the Caldwell Co. militia after the war. James was 6'2", enlisted in Mar 1860? in Tuttle's Company, and died Jul 5, 1862 of disease at Richmond. |
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Robert was a farmer. His property was valued at $600 at death.
He was also an active Methodist layman, and a Magistrate in Patterson Twp
(Population 150) in 1880. |
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Son George Washington Holloway married Mary Ann Collett (1843-1893) on Apr 20,
1859 in Caldwell Co. NC. After she died, and before Jan 1, 1880, he married
Clara Hood (1852-1927), a daughter of James Hood, the son of
John Hood. She claimed his pension on Jul 6,
1825 when she was 73 years old.
Clara is buried in Bellview Cemetery in Lenoir, Caldwell Co. NC.
Photo of grave marker of
Clara Hood Holloway. George W. was buried at Fairfield Cemetery in Lenoir. |
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Son George W. and Mary Collett had 5 sons. One of them, Columbus "Lum", was
born in 1872 and about 1915, bought the land along Little Mulberry Creek originally
owned by his great-grandfather George Holloway. He sold
it to the Rader family sometime before the crash of 1929. |
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Robert, his wife Catherine Hood, daughter "C. Loretto", and son George's wife
Mary Ann Collett (1842-1893), are buried in a
family plot (flat headstones, left to right,
C.Loretto,
Robert,
Catherine,
Mary),
at the Confidence Church Cemetery on Abington Road near Collettsville, NC.
There is also a grave for the infant son of G. W. & Clara Hood born Aug 14, 1896. This church was then known as Hood's Chapel, founded by brothers of Robert's wife, David and James Hood. |
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Daughter Martha married Charles Wesley Laney on Aug 5, 1855 in Caldwell Co. He
died of Typhoid in 1861. Her grave
is in the Harpers Chapel Cemetery in Lenoir, Caldwell Co. NC. |
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Eldest daughter Isabella married John Hight Lindsay, C.S.A., and then a widower
James McMillan in 1867. Her grave
is also in the Confidence Church Cemetery. Her first husband was born in Burke
Co. in 1830 and died Apr 18, 1863 at Big Creek Gap TN. |
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Daughters Caroline (Nancy), Ann (Sarah Ann) and Loretta never married
[I.W. Thomas, 1918]. |
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Grandfather Mountain |
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View of Grandfather Mountain from the present end of Holloway Mountain Road,
The crooked unpaved road
may have originally extended all the way to Little Mulberry Creek in the
vicinity of Collettsville and Holloway Mountain.
Present day map
shows towns Collettsville and Olivette and Holloway Mountain along Route 90 west
of Lenoir NC. |
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According to Robert's will, daughters Caroline, Nancy, and Sarah were required
to remain with parents and take care of them or else forfeit their inheritance. |
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John C. Rader's father bought the land on
Holloway Mountain sometime after 1915 from Robert's grandson, Columbus "Lum"
Holloway (1872-1929). John Rader told Lisabeth Holloway in 1978 that Lum Holloway
owned a sawmill and was killed in an accident there [Dec 5, 1929 according to the
death certificate].
John's father Edgar Rader lost the
land the same year in the 1929 crash. John described the land as "twenty-five
acres either side of the river [Little Mulberry Creek] that’s good for cultivation,
and about fifty for pasturage; the rest was mountain land” [Holloway, Lisabeth M.,
journal]. |
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Sources: Caldwell Co. NC, Standard Certificate of Death, Columbus H. Holloway, Dec 5, 1929. Census 1850, Caldwell Co. NC. Gibbons, Michael F., descendant, Lenoir, NC, information given to L.M.Holloway in letters dated Mar 6, 1987 and Jun 28, 1994. Ingmire, Frances T., Marriage Records of Burke County, NC, 1781-1868, p. 14. Thomas, I. W., "A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY", Newspaper Clipping, Caldwell Co., ca. 1918. "Mr. G.W. Holloway of Gamewell Dies Here", Lenoir News, Friday, Jan 18, 1918. Staley, Linda M., comp., Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Caldwell County, North Carolina, The first Six Years 1841-1847, 2nd Ed., publ. by author, p. 85. Taggart, Nita L.H., Clarinda, IA, "Descendancy Chart", at Morganton NC Library. Tombstones, Confidence Church Cemetery, Abington Road near Collettsville, NC. Tombstones, Fairfield and Bellview Cemeteries, Lenoir, NC, Findagrave, website. U.S. Federal Archives, Compiled Service Records of Confederate War Soldiers who served in Organizations from NC; 26th Infantry, micr. M-270, roll 327. Will, proved Mar 12, 1891, Bk B:199-200, Caldwell Co. Court House, Lenoir NC. WPA pre-1914 graves card file, NC State Archives, Raleigh. |
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