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11. Exum Holland's line is followed in this section. He was Elisha Holland's 11th child:
| Elisha Holland's children with wife Patience Watkins: | Elisha Holland's children with wife Patience Peacock: |
| 1.
Enos
Holland 2. Eli Holland 3. Woodard D. Holland 4. Jesse-Betsy Holland 5. Bryant Holland 6. Curtis Holland 7. Absalom Holland 8. Elisha Holland |
9.
Warren
Holland 10. Ave (Nancy) Holland 11. Exum Holland (this page) 12. Jinnett Holland 13. Ginsey Holland 14. West Holland 15. Green Holland 16. Candace Holland 17. Needham Gray Holland |
| Exum Holland's children by Penniah Boswell: (this page) | Exum Holland's children by Martha Parks: |
2. Jency Holland 3. Jinnett Caswell Holland 4. Elisha Holland 5. West Pratt Holland 6. Louisa Jane Holland 7. Addison Pearson Holland 8. Calvin C. Holland |
9.
Patrick Holland 10 Sarah Jane Holland 11. Annie B. Holland 12. Catherine [Isibell F.] Holland 13. Martha M. Holland |
11. Exum (also variously spelled Axon, Axum, Exom) was born about 1811. He died 10 October 1880. He was buried at Elisha Holland Cemetery near Pinkney, Wayne County, North Carolina. He married 1st Penniah (Penny) Boswell on 18 September 1831. She was born 18 April 1811. She is buried at Elisha Holland Cemetery, Pinkney, North Carolina, and has a wood head marker which gives her birth date and marriage date, but not her death date. Exum married 2nd
Martha Parks. His children with her are on a separate page.
1. Gaston Holland was born in 1832 in North Carolina. He appears on the 1860 census for Johnston County, North Carolina in the district east of the Neuse River, Boon Hill Post Office. He was 28 years old at the time, a physician by occupation, born in North Carolina. Gaston Holland did not marry, as far as we know.
A William Gaston Holland enlisted
in the Civil War as a Private on 16 July 1862 in Wake County, North Carolina, at
the age of 30, under the name William M. G. Holland. He mustered into
"D" Co., NC 5th Infantry. He was in Early's and Garland's Brigade,
Early's and D. H. Hill's Division of the Army of Northern Virginia. He died of disease eight months after enlisting, on 12 March 1863, at Guinea Station, Virginia.
69 2. Jency Holland was born about 1834. Her
family is covered in a
separate section.
3. Jinnett Caswell (called Cattie) Holland was born 21 March 1836, in Wayne County, North Carolina. He died 31 August 1898. He married Marie (or Mary Ann) Worley who was born 26 September 1840, in Wayne County, North Carolina, and died on 19 May 1908. Her gravestone has the year of her birth as 1846, which differs with other information. They are both buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery in Wayne County on North Carolina state road 1837 near the Johnston County line, referred to as cemetery number 111 in the Wayne County Historical Association book, Gravestone Inscriptions. There is a picture of his gravestone in the Album's Cemetery Photo
section of this web site; and there are three pictures of Jinnett Caswell Holland in the Album's Family Photo section, one in Elisha's section and two in Exum's.1. Charity Penniah Holland, born 27 November 1862; died 2 (per M. K. D. Holland) or 6 (per Nellie Holland Russell) January 1924. She married John B. Cuddington in 1883 in Johnston County, North Carolina. He was born in Wayne County, North Carolina 22 March 1862. They had no descendants.
2. Alabama Martie Holland, born 18 May 1865, died 24 September 1929 (or 1919 according to M. K. D. Holland), buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery; married Henry Bass (no descendants);
3. Fannie Catherine Holland was born 30 May 1868 and died 12 September 1917. She married John W. Gurley and had 2 boys. She was buried in the Jinnett Caswell Holland Cemetery. There is a picture of her gravestone in the
1. Lacy Gurley
2. Linwood Gurley; married 1st Wirrih Hand; married 2nd Letha Holland.
4. Henrietta (Etta) Holland was born 5 October 1871.
She died 22 April 1938 and was buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery.
She married Grant Holland who was born 2 (per Nellie H. Russell) or 12 (per M. K. D. Holland)
November 1875, the son of Exum Longwood Holland and Sarah Sasser and who was her 2nd cousin.
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Children of Etta Holland and Grant Holland:
(1.) Infant. Tombstone in Caswell Holland
Cemetery reads, Infant son of Grant and Etta Holland, born & died June 14, 1898.
1. Clyde Holland was born July 2, 1900. She married Arthur
Stancil and moved moved to Washington, North Carolina.
Children of Clyde Holland and Arthur Stancil:
1. Margret Stancil was born about 1919.
2. William Arthur Stancil was born about 1921.
3. Worth Hayes Stancil was born 16 May 1923 and died in December 1985. He lived in Wilson,
NC.
2. Carrie Holland was born 5 July 1902. She married Dr. Earl Pope and resided in
Kinston, North Carolina.
Child of Carrie Holland and Earl Pope:
1. Madaline Pope, born in Kenly, North Carolina
3. Roland Holland, called "Buddie", born 4 January 1904
, died 17 June 1971 and buried at Caswell Holland cemetery; married Lillian
Valentine.
Children of Roland Holland and Lillian Valentine:
1. Edith Catherine Holland was born 3 February 1939.
2. Billy Rose Holland was born 6 August 1941.
3. Bonnie Fay Holland was born 4 April 1944.
4. Estelle Holland was born October 1905. She married Clarence Allen
and moved to Ashboro, North Carolina.
Child of Estelle Holland and Clarence Allen:
1 child: Albert Allen, born 13 January 1948.
5. Leither (or Letha) Holland was born 11 July 1909. She married Miller Dickerson
and resided at Hickory Cross, North Carolina.
Children of Leither Holland and Miller Dickerson:
1. Mildred Dickerson
2. Eleanor Dickerson
5. Prince Albert Holland was born 15 April 1876. He died in 1942 and was buried in the Caswell Holland cemetery in Wayne County, North Carolina. He married Dora Godwin. Their children all died young. There is a picture of his gravestone in the Album section of this web site. An inscription of it reads, "A friend of humanity."
6. Cora Holland was born 30 September 1877. She died 19 January 1959
and was buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery near Pinkney, North Carolina. She
married W. Hackney Pierce who was born 28 October 1867, died 2 May 1936, and
was buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery.
Children of Cora Holland and Hackney Pierce:
1. Ester Pierce was born 18 July 1899, died 26 October 1903 at age 4 years, 3 months, 8 days. She was buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery.
2. Hazel Pierce was born 18 June 1902, died 30 November 1911 at age 9 years, 5 months, 12 days. She was buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery.
3. Wayne H. Pierce was born 24 December 1905, 1 August 1936 at age 30, and was buried in the Caswell Holland Cemetery. This is just a guess, but possibly Cora Holland's husband was named Wayne Hackney Pierce and this son is named after him, thus his full name would be Wayne Hackney Pierce.
7.
Gilbert Marion Holland (or
Marion Gilbert Holland) was born born 3 March 1880
in Wayne County, North Carolina. He married Patsy Edwards who was born 2 November
1888, also in Wayne County, North Carolina, daughter of John D. Edwards.
As to the confusion about his name, he is named on his infant son
John Albert Holland's gravestone in the Jinnett Caswell Cemetery as
"Infant of M.G. & P. Holland." His
death certificate has is
name as Gilbert Marion Holland. He died 12 July 1952, in Wayne County
and was buried at Raines Church Cemetery, Raines Crossroads, North
Carolina.
Children of Marion Gilbert Holland and Patsy Edwards:
8. Mary Bettie Holland was born 8 October 1883. She
married Adron Thompson.
Children of Mary Bettie Holland and Adron Thompson:
1. Kermit Adron Thompson was born 2 September 1908
in Wayne County, North Carolina. He married Willie Mae White, 9 July 1932, in Dillon, South Carolina. They resided in Goldsboro, North Carolina; they had a drugstore. Kermit Thompson
died in November 1968.96
Children of Kermit Thompson and Millie Willie Mae White:
1. Betty Ruth Thompson was born 29 April 1935.
2. Kermit Adron Thompson, Jr. was born 27 November 1937. He died in July 1992.
[3. Kay Thompson - possible child]
2. Mary Lee Thompson was born about 1909. She married Thel Smith.
4. Elisha G. Holland was born in 1838. He died in
1884 and was buried in the Elisha Holland cemetery, referred to as cemetery number 242 in the Wayne County
Historical Association book, Gravestone Inscriptions, referred to here as the
Elisha Holland II Cemetery. [I am not absolutely sure it is his grave that is there with these dates.] He married Sarah Hill, daughter of Will Hill and his wife Mariah.63
Children of Elisha Holland and Sarah Hill:
1. William Gaston Holland was born in 1870. He died in 1924 at age 54. He married Mattie Barnes.
Children of William Gaston Holland and Mattie Barnes:
1. Gurney Allen Holland was born 25 December 1899. He married Ellen Irene Sasser.
Children of Gurney Allen Holland and Ellen Sasser:
1. Lewis Darius Holland was born about 1920. On 19 September 1946,
he married Hazel Ernestine Overman in Wayne County, North Carolina. Hazel Overman was born
8 December 1927, the daughter of Jasper Frank Overman and Alice Howell.17
Children of Lewis Holland and Hazel Overman:
1. George Anthony Holland was born 24 August 1950. He married Sherril Davis.
2. William ("Bill") Lewis Holland was born 29 September 1953.
3. Clyde Kimberly Holland was born 1 June 1963.
2. Pearl Holland was born 1897 (est.). She married Daniel Lewis.
2. Alma Holland was born 1872 (est.); she married Richard Rhodes.
3. Fannie Holland was born 1874 (est.); she married Pivette Pate.
4. Joseph Holland was
born 1877 (est.); he married Madeline Peterson.
[?5. Minnie Holland - possible child; married Mr.
Starling.]
5. West Pratt (called P.) Holland was born in 1844; he died in 1906.
6. Louisa Jane Holland was born in 1844. She died in 1906 at age 62. Her family is covered in detail in a separate section.
7. Addison Pearson (called Doc or A. P.) Holland was born
in 1846 and died in 1897. He was buried in Willow Dale Cemetery in Goldsboro,
Wayne County, North Carolina. He married Belle Franklin, daughter of Calvin Franklin and
his wife Cela. She was born in 1847 and died 19 January 1925. She was buried in
Willow Dale Cemetery in Goldsboro, North Carolina next to her husband. Buried with
them are Add B. (presumably Addison P.) Holland (1873-1924), David G. Holland (1882-1918), Dock Holland, Jr. (1884-1905), and Halle Jayne Holland.
Children of Addison Pearson Holland and Belle Franklin:
1. Addison Pearson Holland, Jr. was born 18 March 1872. He died 19 February 1924 and was buried at Willow Dale Cemetery in Goldsboro, North Carolina with his parents on 21 February 1924. He was 51 years and 11 months when he died, and he was single. There is a picture in the Album's Family Photo section, Exum's branch, of Addison Pearson Holland when he was a boy, called Pete, and as a grown man.
2. Bella Holland was born in 1874, probably in Wayne County, North Carolina. She died 23 September 1901 in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina at age 27. On 19 April 1893 at age 19, she married John Ollen Royall in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina. John Royall was the son of William B. Royall (born 26 December 1841, likely in North Carolina; died 15 June 1907 in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina) and Elizabeth A. McLamb (born 1850, married 12 January 1866 at the age of 16). There is a picture in the Album's Family Photo section, Exum's branch, of Bella Holland and also a picture of John Royal in front of their home.
After Bella Holland's death in 1901, John Ollen Royall married second Mollie Barnes,
daughter of S. Barnes and Clarkie Davis. Mollie was born 26 October 1869
in Wayne County, North Carolina. She married John Royall in 1905 at the
age of 36. He died 6 December 1929 in Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, Maryland. Mollie Barnes died 11 November 1942 in Wayne
County, North Carolina.64
Children of Bella Holland and John Ollen Royall:
1. Willie Spicer Royall was born about 1896, likely in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina.
2. John Ollen Royall II was born 3 August, likely in Wayne County, North Carolina. He died 19 June 1964 in Wayne County, North Carolina.
Children of John Ollen Royall and Mollie Barnes:
1. Barnes Feter Royall was born around 1907, probably in North Carolina.
3. David G. Holland was born 6 June 1882 and died 22 September 1918 at age 36. He was buried in Willow Dale Cemetery in Goldsboro, North Carolina with his parents. He was not married.
4. Dock Holland, Jr. was born in 1884 and died in 1905.
Does anybody know who Halle Jayne Holland, Alice J. Holland, or Walter C. Holland are? They are associated with this family but I am not sure how. Alice J. Holland and Walter C. Holland are listed in the 1906-1907 Goldsboro Directory in the household with Belle Holland, widow of Addison Pearson Holland, living at 604 William Street, Goldsboro. Are they children of Addison Pearson Holland and Belle Franklin or are they grandchildren? Halle Jayne Holland, as stated above, is buried with this family.
8. Calvin C. Holland was born 7 March 1848. His family is covered in a separate section.
Exum's children by Martha Parks are continued on another page.
| Exum Holland's children by Penniah Boswell: (this page) | Exum Holland's children by Martha Parks: |
2. Jency Holland 3. Jinnett Caswell Holland 4. Elisha Holland 5. West Pratt Holland 6. Jane Holland 7. Addison Pearson Holland 8. Calvin C. Holland |
9.
Patrick Holland 10 Sarah Jane Holland 11. Annie B. Holland 12. Catherine [Isibell F.] Holland 13. Martha M. Holland |
Use this table to get to Exum's siblings.
| Elisha Holland's children with wife Patience Watkins: | Elisha Holland's children with wife Patience Peacock: |
|
1.
Enos Holland 2. Eli Holland 3. Woodard D. Holland 4. Jesse-Betsy Holland 5. Bryant Holland 6. Curtis Holland 7. Absalom Holland 8. Elisha Holland |
9. Warren Holland 10. Ave (Nancy) Holland 11. Exum Holland (this page) 12. Jinnett Holland 13. Ginsey Holland 14. West Holland 15. Green Holland 16. Candace Holland 17. Needham Gray Holland |
About this History
My father's people came from Wayne County, North Carolina. Although I live in Alabama now, I inherited his love of our heritage. So it is with love for him and admiration for his strong desire to preserve our history that I dedicate my part in compiling and maintaining this Holland Family History and Tree to my father, Louis Lea Holland
17 February 1917 - 8 January 1976
There are errors in this work; some dates could not logically work. If you see a mistake or can add to the information here, please contact me. The information is from family historians Nellie Holland Russell and Mary Ketus Deen Holland, information of which I have personal knowledge or have gathered from family members, and contributions sent to me through this web site. Though imperfect, it is a good start. Enjoy and please let me know if you have questions or corrections. This work will be updated on a regular basis so check the revision date below to see when additions or changes were last made.
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