A pml file > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 16, 2004, 1:08 am > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > REDIN HOLLOWAY, planter of Beat No. 9, Coffee county, Ala., was born in > Houston county, Ga., in 1833. He is the son of Charles and Mary J. (Sanderson) > Holloway, the former a native of Georgia, the latter a native of North Carolina. > Mrs. Holloway came to Georgia with her parents, where she and Mr. Holloway > received a common school education. They married there, and in 1840 removed to > Coffee county; Ala., settling in the woods near Elba, and there Mr. Holloway > spent the rest of his life, dying in 1862. Mrs. Holloway is still living at the > age of seventy-five years. Mr. Holloway was a well-to-do farmer, and a > hard-working and industrious man. He was one of twelve children born to Jeremiah > Holloway, an Englishman, who came to Coffee county in 1841, and both he and wife > died there before the war. Both were members of the Primitive Baptist church. > One son, Griffin Holloway, was killed at Harper's Ferry, in Virginia. Dr. John > Anderson, the maternal grandfather of Redin Holloway, was probably a South > Carolinian by birth, whence he removed to Georgia, and in 1842 to Coffee county, > where he and his wife both died. He was a physician and surgeon for many years, > and raised three sons and three daughters, two of the sons serving in the late > war. Shepherd and Benjamin F. Redin Holloway is the eldest of ten sons and one > daughter, viz.: Redin, John, who served in the Virginia army all through the > war, now deceased; Thomas, who served in the western army from the first until > in 1862, when he was discharged on account of disability, and died at home; > William, who served in an Alabama regiment all through the war in Virginia, and > who was captured at Gettysburg, but who was not imprisoned, now deceased; > Benjamin, deceased; David, who was in the western army all through the war, was > wounded in his last fight in North Carolina, now living in Texas; Charles, of > Texas; Jeremiah, of Texas; Joseph and Solomon, twins, both deceased; Abigail, > died when young. Redin Holloway began life on the farm, with a good English > education. At the age of twenty one he began life on his own account as a hand > in the logging business in Florida, worked thus a short time. and then returned > to Coffee county and engaged in farming and teaming, hauling from Montgomery, > Eufaula, Columbia, Milton, Fla., etc., to Elba for several years. In 1859 he was > married, in Covington county, to Amanda, daughter of William and Mahala Jones, > natives of Georgia, whence they removed to Coffee county, Ala., where they both > died. He was a prosperous farmer, raised a large family, and had four sons in > the late war, all of whom survive. Mrs. Holloway was born in Georgia, and is the > mother of seven children, three of whom are living. Those who are living are a > follows: Mary E., wife of Alfred Seay; Nina Texarkana, wife of Augustus Wise, > and Ida, wife of James Killcrease. Those who are deceased were: Charles F., > Abigail and William, died in Morgan county, Ala., and Louler, died in > Mississippi, all dying when young. In March, 1862, Mr. Holloway joined company > A, Thirty-third Alabama infantry, fighting first in Perryville, Ky. He then > fought at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and all > the way down to Atlanta, and was captured July 22, 1864, and was imprisoned at > Camp Chase from August 2, 1864, to March 4, 1865, during which time he was ward > master of the sick and fared well. He reached home April 2, and has followed > farming ever since. From 1865 to 1877 he lived in Morgan county, Ala., and then > in Tate county, Miss., four years. He then traveled in Florida for one year, > when he returned to Coffee county, six miles east of Elba, where he has 400 > acres of land, all of which he has acquired by his own efforts since the war. He > has been a Mason many years, and is a member of the Central alliance. Both he > and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 669-670 > > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 4.4 Kb > >