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| Thomas Holloway m. 1810? ?Rapides Parish LA b. 1793? Natchez Miss. Terr. d. by 1850? |
daughter b. aft 1810 Rapides Parish LA d. after 1860 ?Rapides Parish |
Sarah b. by 1820? Rapides Parish LA |
Thomas (Jr.) b. 1820? Rapides Parish LA d. after 1860 ?Rapides Parish LA |
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The Jannot family name is sometimes found written as Johnette or Jeanot. |
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Cecilia was the granddaughter of Louis LaPrairie (1735?-1789?) born in New Orleans.
His daughter was her mother Cecile (1766?-1798?). Her sister Marie Jeanne Jannot
(1782-1808) married Jacob Paul (1770-1830) and had son Michael who married
Mary Anne, daughter of James Holloway. About 1787,
Jacob Paul's sister Mary Paul married James T. White,
son of James "Tiago" White, brother of
Elizabeth White. |
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Rapides Parish was formed in 1807 by the Territory of Orleans government.
(see present day map
for location). |
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In the 1820 Census for Rapides Parish LA, on the 4th line of
page 134,
there is a "Thomas Hollaway" household with: 2 males aged under 10 [Thomas Jr.,?], 1 male aged 26-45 [Thomas b. before 1795], 3 females aged under 10 (3 daughters, 2 orphans), 1 female aged 16-26 [Cecile b. between 1794 and 1804], |
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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. |
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Before 1820, Cecilia married Thomas Holloway. In 1850, there is a Lewis Holloway
household and, next to it, a Thomas Holloway household still in the Holloway
Prairie area of Rapides Parish, probably son Thomas Jr. (age 29). |
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Husband 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-in-law Sarah Cooper or second wife?). |
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In the 1850 U.S. Census dated Nov 15 of that year,
page 1,
page 2,
a "Thomas Hollaway" [her son] is listed on line 21 as a farmer, aged 29, in
Rapides Parish LA next to "Lewis Holloway",
likely his uncle. Also in the household were a Sarah [?wife] aged 25, and two children: Augustus, age 10; and John, age 8. |
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SOURCES: Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, 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, page 209a, page 209b. U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1810, 1820 and Nov 15, 1850 page 1, page 2 . "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website. 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. |
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