13 October 1822 - 4 September 1886

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15.  Green H. Holland's line is followed in this section.  He was Elisha Holland's 15th child:

15. Green H. Holland was born 13 October 1822, died 4 September 1886, and was buried in Elisha Holland Cemetery.  In the  1850 census of Wayne County, Green was listed single and a school teacher, living in the household of his mother.  He married Elizabeth Barnes 14 October 1852 in Wayne County, North Carolina.   Elizabeth was born 12 October 1833 and died 2 June 1895.  Pictures of their gravestones are in the Album section of this web site.  

In the 1860 census of Wayne County, Nahunta District, Green is listed as 37 years old, a surveyor, and born in North  Carolina.  Elizabeth is 26, George W. is 6, Joseph B. is 4, Kenneth R. is 2,  and Patience is 1.     
Children of Green H. Holland and Elizabeth Barnes:

1. George W. Holland was born 24 August 1853.   He appears in the 1860 census for Wayne County, North Carolina at six years old.  He died 2 January 1902.  He was buried in the Elisha Holland cemetery in Wayne County, North Carolina.  There is a picture of his grave in the Album section of this web site.  He did not marry that we know of. 

2. Joseph Brown (Pone) Holland was born 14 August 1855.  He married Charity Carter.  Joseph died 24 August 1882 at age 27 and was buried in the Elisha Holland Cemetery .  There is a picture of his gravestone in the Album section of this web site. 

1.  Infant, buried in Elisha Holland Cemetery, presumably an infant of this family.

2.  Alexander "Alex" A. Holland was born 13 October 1882.  He married Pearl Pearce, born 14 April 1884, around 1904.  He later married Carrie B. Howard.  Alex and his second wife are buried in the northwest segment of Maplewood Cemetery, in Mount Olive, North Carolina. .The inscriptions on their graves read, "Alex A. Holland, 10-13-1882; 2-18-1961 and next to him, Carrie B. Holland, 12-7-1897 -  "  There is a picture of Alexander A. Holland in the Album section of this web site.  
Children of Alex Holland and Pearl Pearce:

1.  Gladys Holland, was born 4 July 1905.  She married 23 November 1927 William Hooks Pierce, born 26 August 1897, son of Joseph B. Pierce and Josephine Hooks. There is a picture of her in the Album section of this web site. 
Children of Gladys Holland and William Hooks:

1.  William Robert Pierce was born 26 November 1928;  married Mary Joyce Sugg, born 4 September 1933.
Children of William Pierce and Mary Joyce Sugg:

1.  Marsha Sue Pierce was born 28 February 1959.

2.  William Robert Pierce, Jr. was born 23 April 1963.

3.  James Edward Pierce was born 18 December 1965.

4.  Mary Lynn Pierce was born 13 November 1970.  Married a Mr. Byrd. ²⁴

2.  Hayden Pearce (Pierce?) Holland was born 29 July 1912 and died in May 1958. 

3.  Mattie Lee Holland was born 29 August 1918.  She married R. T. Capps in June 1939.
Children of Mattie Holland and R. T. Capps:

1.  Bobby Gene Capps was born in October 1942.

2.  Charles Richard Capps was born in March  1945.

3.  Jerry Micheal (Michael?) Capps was born in April 1954.

3. Kenneth Raynor (Crick) Holland was born 15 May 1858.  He died 19 May 1923, unmarried, as far as we know.  He is buried in the Elisha Holland Cemetery in Wayne County, North Carolina.  There is a picture of his grave in the Album section of this web site. 

4. Patience Holland was born in 1859. She died young.  A tombstone in the Elisha Holland Cemetery has - Patia Holland, born 18 May 1860 - died 6 June 1860.  That grave is possibly this child's.  There is a picture of this grave in the Album section of this web site. 

5. Celia (Seeley) Holland was born 15 May 1861, probably in Wayne County, North Carolina.  She did not marry.  She died 4 September 1913, and was buried in the Elisha Holland Cemetery in Wayne County, North Carolina.   On her tombstone is engraved, "She shall wake on the resurrection morn."  There is a picture of her gravestone in the Album section of this web site.  

6.  Francis Marion Holland was born 6 December 1863.  He died 14 May 1928, and was buried in the Elisha Holland Cemetery in Wayne County, North Carolina.  He married Rebecca (Becky) Hales, daughter of Guilford Hales.   She was born 23 September 1877.  She died 22 March 1948 and was buried in Willowdale Cemetery in Goldsboro, North Carolina.  Francis Marion Holland, called Frank, once owned the farm where the Elisha Holland Cemetery is located.  There is a picture of his grave in the Album section of this web site.  There is also a picture in the Album section of Frank and Becky's home which is the original Elisha Holland homeplace.  It is still standing in Wayne County, North Carolina, on Highway 581 just north of Pinkney, next to the Elisha Holland Cemetery.

Francis Marion Holland was named for South Carolina-born American Revolutionary War General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox".  The "Swamp Fox," nicknamed by British soldiers because of his natural talent for strategy and tactics and his personal bravery, became a hero second only to George Washington.  For many years after the war, thousands of parents named sons Francis Marion, and scattered over the present United States, there are over 29 cities and towns and 17 counties named after him ¹⁹.

Most of the information in this section on Francis Marion Holland was furnished by his great-grandson David Thomas Holland of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 1997.
Children of Francis Marion Holland and Rebecca Hales:

1.  Guilford Holland was born 12 September 1900, and died in March 1966. He married Alma Rose.  No descendants.

2.  George Franklin Holland was born 13 April 1903;  he died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 9 May 1979 and was buried in Greenmount Cemetery in Philadelphia.  He was married in 1934 to Kathryn Anna Brown, born 31 August 1916, daughter of James S. Brown and Anna M. Brunner.  Frank left Wayne County in 1929 after the death of his father, and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Children of George Franklin Holland and Kathryn Anna Brown:

1.  Patricia Ann Holland was born 24 December 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She was married in 1954 to George Alexander Hannah, born 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  George died 21 April 2000 in Philadelphia and was buried in Beverly National Cemetery, Beverly, New Jersey as a veteran of the Korean War.    
Children of Patricia Ann Holland and George Hannah:

1.  Patricia Ann Hannah was born in 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   She was married 25 August 1975 to Michael Peter Alt, born 1953.  
Child of Patricia Hannah and Michael Alt:

1.  Dustin Michael Alt, born 14 June 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2.  George Alexander Hannah, Jr. was born in 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He died 28 March 1993, unmarried, and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia. 
Children with Sharlene Mansfield who was born in 1961:

1.  Lindsay Nicole Hannah, born 14 November 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2.  Kenneth George Hannah, born 13 November 1984 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3.  Glenn Andrew Hannah was born in 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was married 12 October 1991 to Susan Kubic, born 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

4.  Gary Alan Hannah was born 14 April 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He died 21 March 1998 at age 28.   He was buried at Forrest Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania next to his brother George.  He was not married and had no children.

2. George Franklin Holland, Jr. was born 27 January 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He did not marry;  no descendants.

3.  David B. Holland was born 9 December 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was married 4 November 1961 to Helen Miller, born 20 August 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of Thomas James Miller of Philadelphia and Helen Josephine Tushup of Philadelphia.
Children of David B. Holland and Helen Miller:

1.  Kathryn Anne Holland was born 31 August 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was married 25 July 1987 to Cloyd Edward Sementelli, born 10 August 1960, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, son of John Sementelli (born 21 September 1923) and Lois Jeane Broberg (born 8 September 1928).  Cloyd is a pharmacist in Philadelphia.¹¹⁷
Child of Kathryn Holland and Cloyd Sementelli:

1.  Lindsay Michelle Sementelli, born 28 September 1990 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2.  David Thomas Holland was born 27 October 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was  married 26 November 1994 to Susan Marie Rowand, born 23 March 1969 in Stratford, New Jersey, daughter of Robert E. Rowand and Josephine M. Boyer.  Pictures of this family are in the Album section of this web site.  
Children of David Thomas Holland and Susan Rowand:

1.  Stephanie Rose Holland was born 6 April 1998 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2.  Kaitlyn Elizabeth Holland was born 21 February 2001 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

3.  Thomas James Holland was born 28 March 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was  married 28 April 1990 to Donna Marie Scherle, born 11 October 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Scherle and Margaret Dunleavy.  
Children of Thomas Holland and Donna Marie Scherle:

1.  Amanda Marie Holland, born 12 December 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2.  Thomas James Holland, Jr., born 20 May 1997 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

3.  Nathan Holland (twin to Needham) was born 18 January 1906.  He died 25 September 1979, and was buried in Wayne Memorial Park in Goldsboro, North Carolina along with his brother Needham and his brother-in-law Claude Warrick.   Nathan did not marry and had no descendants.  A picture of his grave is in the Album section of this web site.   

4.  Needham Holland (twin to Nathan) was born 18 January 1906.  He died 26 April 1965, and was buried in Wayne Memorial Park in Goldsboro, North Carolina along with his brother Nathan and his brother-in-law Claude Warrick.   Needham did not marry and had no descendants.  A picture of his grave is in the Album section of this web site.

5.  Mary Rachael Holland was born 1920.   In 1942 she married Claudie Columbus Warrick who was born 10 June 1917 in Wayne County, North Carolina, and died 26 May 1997 in Wayne County, North Carolina. Claudie was buried in Wayne Memorial Park in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina.^{13 19}
Children of Mary Rachael Holland and Claudie Warrick:

1.  Claude Marion Warrick was born in 1943.  He married Armen Cordelle Bush in 1969 and adopted her daughter, Channing.  He and Armen divorced in 1970.  He married 2nd Carolyn Bosta in 1974.  They live in Newport News, Virginia.   
Child of Armen Cordelle Bush, adopted by Marion Warrick:

1.  Channing Guvernator was born 1965.

Child of Claude Marion Warrick and Armen Cordelle Bush:

1.  Harry Lee Warrick was born 13 October 1970.

2.  Carol Warrick was born est. 1945.  She married Marvin Williams. 
Child of Carol Warrick and Marvin Williams:

1.  Jeff Williams was born in 1972.

7.Diana Holland was born 29 May 1866 in Wayne County, North Carolina.  She died in 4 September 1936 at age 70, based on the tombstone in the Elisha Holland Cemetery in Wayne County, North Carolina.  Nellie Russell had her date of death as 10 July 1926, and M. D. K. Holland had it as or 4 September 1918; I do not know where they got their dates.  Diana was called Kid; she did not marry.  There is a picture of her in the Album section of this web site and also a picture of her gravestone in the Album Cemetery section.  Her obituary is in the Public Records section of this web site.   

8. Sarah ("Sally") Holland was born 13 September 1868, and died 20 May 1924. She married William J. Dixon.  Their family is covered in a separate section.  

9. Zilphia Holland was born 14 January 1871, probably in Wayne County, North Carolina.  She did not marry and lived on in her father's house after his death, along with her sisters Celia and Diana, and her brother Kenneth Raynor (called Crick).   After Celia Holland died in 1913, Diana and Zilphia continued living together in the home until they died. These sisters raised Zeno Dixon, the son of their sister Sally Holland Dixon.

Zilphia died 25 November 1930 and was buried in the Elisha Holland Cemetery.  There is a picture of her in the Album section of this web site and a picture of her grave also in the Album Cemetery section.  

The information on Green Holland is from a Bible that was in the possession of  Bettie Dixon Bass in 1948, in Kenly, North Carolina. Darren Niven also contributed information on the Green Holland family.  Mrs. Gladys Holland Pierce of Kenly, North Carolina, contributed the information on the Alex Holland family.  Mr. Gilford Holland of Wilson, North Carolina, contributed the information on the Frank Holland family which was added to and extended in June 1997 by David Thomas Holland of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, great-grandson of Francis Marion Holland.  The information on Sally Holland's family was contributed by Beth Speight.

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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.