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Thomas Holloway
Born 1793? Natchez Miss. Terr.
Died by 1850?

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SPOUSE	CHILDREN
Cecilia Jeannot or Jannot m. 1810? ?Rapides Parish LA b. after 1794 New Orleans? d. by 1830 Rapides Parish LA	daughter b. after 1810? Rapides Parish LA	Sarah? b. by 1820 Rapides Parish LA	Thomas (Jr.) b. 1820? Rapides Parish LA d. after 1850 ?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 gave 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 his brother James, along with two White cousins, Reuben and James, sons of their deceased uncle James White (1736?-1783?), 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).
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.
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).
In the 1820 U.S. Census for Rapides Parish LA, on line 4 of page 134, there was a 7-person household headed by "Thomas Holloway" with: 2 males aged under 10 (Thomas Jr.,orphan), 1 male aged 26-45 (Thomas); 3 females under age 10 (daughter, orphans), 1 female aged 16-26 (Cecile b. after 1794); and no slaves.
After 1810, Thomas married Cecilia Jannot or Jeannot, and Sister Mary Julia married Henry Harmon (1790?-1867?) in Rapides Parish about 1820. In the 1830 U.S. Census for Rapides Parish, page 91a, page 91b, there is a 7-person household headed by "Thomas Holloway", aged 30-40, and next to it a 2 person household headed by "Henry Harmon", also aged 30-40. Both of the eldest females in the two households were under twenty years of age. In the Thomas household: 1 male aged 30-40 (Thomas); 1 male child aged 5-10 (Thomas Jr.); 1 male aged 10-15 (possibly an orphaned sibling); 2 female children aged 10-15 (orphans); 1 female aged 15-20; (not Cecilia). By about 1840, Mary and Henry Harmon were in Catahoula Parish. In 1850, there is a Lewis Holloway household and, next to it, a Thomas Holloway, age 29, household, still in the Holloway Prairie area of Rapides Parish, probably Thomas Jr.
Catahoula Parish was formed in 1808 and originally bordered Rapides Parish. (see present day map for location). About 1910 a western part of the parish became La Salle Parish which contained Catahoula Lake (2007 map of LaSalle Parish.
Thomas may have died between 1840 and 1850. In the 1840 U.S. Census, page 209a, page 209b, there is an 8-person household on line 21 headed by "Thom. Holloway", aged 40-50, with: 1 male child under 5 years old (Augustus); 1 male child aged 15-20 (Thomas Jr.); 2 males aged 20-30 (possibly added one more of father's children);. 1 female under 5 years old (Sarah); 1 female aged 15-20 (daughter born 1825-30); 1 female aged 20-30 (daughter or second wife?).
In the 1850 U.S. Census dated Nov 15 of that year, page 1, page 2, a "Thomas Hollaway" [son] is listed on line 21 as a farmer, aged 29, in Rapides Parish LA next to "Lewis Holloway", likely his uncle. Also in his household were children: Sarah, aged 13; Augustus, aged 10; and John, aged 8.
SOURCES: Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, internet website, Dec 1999. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1820, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 134. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1830, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 91. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1840, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 209. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1810, 1820 and Nov 15, 1850 page 1, page 2 . 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.