David Brown [email protected] wrote: > My ggggg grandfather William Holman and wife Eleanor > Barnes moved from Madison Co., KY to present-day > Randolph Co., MO around 1817/1818. ------------------------------------- Good Morning David and All, My husband's GGGgrandparents were also Wm HOLMAN and Eleanor BARNES. He is descended through their son, Squire HOLMAN (b 1807, Madison County, KY). Leslie Kohler =============

Hi Leslie, Great to hear from you again. My connection to William Holman and Eleanor Barnes is through their daughter Frances Holman who married Samuel Boone Bradley (my ggg grandparents) on June 23, 1835. Interestingly, a description of their wedding was related by Rev. S.Y. Pitts in the July 9, 1909 Huntsville Herald as shown below: From the July 9, 1909 Huntsville Herald, an article entitled "In Ye Olden Times - Some Early Courtships and Marriages in Randolph County," and is written/recollected by Rev. S.Y. Pitts. The article is transcribed as follows: "Among the earliest and most lasting impressions is a wedding scene. Late in the thirtys, the pretty Fannie Holman married the sturdy blacksmith, Samuel Bradley. My mother took a special interest in the preparations. For a whole week things had been moving with wedding haste. It was a mile and a half from our clearing down through the dense forest to the Holman Cabin. The dogs greeted every comer with a welcome bark. The whole settlement was then on the same footing - no cards or invitations had been sent out. The yard was full of men and boys, a well lighted log heap made everything radient to the tree tops. The cabin was birght and cherry. The walls had received a coating of white clay, from the Bonnell bank, little inferior to paint. The touch of an artists hand had left its impress on decorations of room and table. A crackling fire, some smaller than the one out of doors, with a back-log, it took two men to roll in, with dry wood and scaly-bark-hickory accompaniments shamed modest daylight. A table full length the room, just near enough the wall to pass 'round, groaned under substantials and delicacies of the season. The center piece was a half grown dressed pig, natural as life with a red apple in his mouth awaiting its fate. Behind a KY, log-cabin quilt, draped for the occasion, was an unseen ladder, down which Miss Fannie might have tripped, any day, without touching a hand, but now, was lovingly assisted to the floor, where the groom, with thumping heart was awaiting her. Four young girls, whose natural olive and ruby no cosmetic had ever marred, with white dresses, decoliette, and short sleeves, each bearing a lighted candle preceded them to the middle of the room. I had heard my mother tell many a fairy tale, but here was one, enacted, whose beauty and pleasure the mists of 70 years have failed to dim. I cannot now recall a person living, mother, bride and groom all gone. "Unlce Sam" Bradley, I have known and loved so well passed away, last year at 93." ~~ Leslie Kohler ~~ <[email protected]> wrote: David Brown [email protected] wrote: > My ggggg grandfather William Holman and wife Eleanor > Barnes moved from Madison Co., KY to present-day > Randolph Co., MO around 1817/1818. ------------------------------------- Good Morning David and All, My husband's GGGgrandparents were also Wm HOLMAN and Eleanor BARNES. He is descended through their son, Squire HOLMAN (b 1807, Madison County, KY). Leslie Kohler ============= ==== MORANDOL Mailing List ==== Questions for the List Administrator? Send them to Leslie at [email protected]