A note about the Woodard D. Hollands in this family. There
are three generations of Woodard D. Holland, beginning with this one, Elisha's son born
in 1794. Since we do not know what the D. stands for, we cannot assume
that the second Woodard D. was a Junior, or that his son was the 3rd; their
middle names could have all been different. So, for the sake of
referencing them in this family history, I am going to refer to the
second-generation Woodard D. Holland, born in 1834, as Woodard D. 2, and to his son,
born in 1868, as
Woodard D. 3. This is not to be taken as repeated names in subsequent
generations which we would distinguish as Junior and III, but merely as a
convenience of reference.
Woodard (also known as Buck and Woodrow)
D. Holland,
third child of Elisha Holland and Patience Watkins, was born 6 November 1794 in North Carolina. He died in Wayne County, North
Carolina, in 1853; his will was filed in Wayne County in the August term in
1853. He is listed in the 1850 census of Wayne County, North Carolina at age
54, born North Carolina; his wife Celia age 50, dependents Rochie age 22, Exum age 19,
John Campbell age 17, Woodard age 15, Patience age 14, Elizabeth age 10. He married
Celia (or Seley) who was born 15 March 1800. The 1850 census and the 1860 census of
Wayne County show her being born in South Carolina; the 1870 and 1880 census show her as
being born in North Carolina. She was married and living in North Carolina,
at the age of 16, when her
first child was born.
Darren Niven is gratefully acknowledged as the contributor
of much of the information on this branch of the family.27Contributors of individual lines are noted throughout.
Woodard D. Holland and Celia had the following children:
[1. Milley Holland was born 16 October 1816,
probably in Wayne County, North CarolinaWoodard Holland.
She is included here in brackets as a possible but unsubstantiated daughter of Woodard
and Celia. Her name and birth date are in the family Bible, listing her as a child of
Woodard and Celia Holland. It would seem that she died young because she is the only
child, besides Bing who died at age 2, who is not mentioned in her father's will and no
marriage record has been found for her in North Carolina. No mention of her death is
found in the family Bible. Woodard Holland researcher Darren Niven notes that no
entries were made in the Bible after 1853, the year that Woodard died.]
2. James Holland, a son, was
born 19 February 1819, probably in Wayne County, North Carolina. He married Nancy who was born in 1829. Presumably,
Nancy died sometime between 1854 when her last child was born, and 1860, when she does not
appear on the census. Darren Niven notes that although James is listed in several
deeds and probate records with his father, he has never seen a middle name for him listed
-- an oddity since all the other sons have middle names.
James is listed in the 1850 census for Wayne County, North Carolina, with
his wife Nancy. James is also listed in the 1860 census for Wayne County with his
children John William, Mary Eliza, and Frances L. James married 2nd Elizabeth V.,
presumably after 1860 since she is not listed in the census with him. He died in 1862
and his will was probated in North Carolina 24 April 1862.
There is a marriage
bond record in Johnston County, North Carolina, for a James Holland to
Mary Carter for 27 Jan 1847. I don't know if it is for this James Holland or not
although the date fits. This James Holland would be 27 years, 11 months old, at the
time of that marriage. Bondsman was listed as Bryant
Holland. There were two Bryant Hollands in this family that that could
have been: Bryant, son of Elisha Holland and Patience Watkins, would
have been James Holland's uncle and 50 years old at the time; and Bryant, son
of Curtis Holland and Nancy Holland, would have been James Holland's first
cousin and would have been 17 years old at the time.
Children of James Holland and Nancy:
1. John William Holland was born around 1849.
2. Mary Eliza Holland was born about 1851; she married Gerald.
3. Francis L. Holland was born about 1854.
3. Bing Holland, a son, born 30 March 1821; died
10 February 1824 at age 2 years, 10 months, 11 days.
4. Unicey (Eunice) Selah (probably Celia) Holland was born 24 December 1822,
probably in Wayne County, North Carolina.
She was called Nicey. She married David Oliver Smith who was born in 1821
and died in 1853 at around the age of 35. They appear in the Wayne County census of 1850
as Nancy age 26 and Oliver age 29 with three children: Simon age 4, Celia age 2 and
Woodard age 11 months. After Oliver's death, Nicey Holland married Nathan R. Pike on
30 November 1858. They appear in the 1860 census with other
children. The other children could have been Oliver's children born between the 1850
census and his death in about 1854.
Children of Unicey Selah Holland and David Oliver Smith:
1. Edward Sion Smith
was born 30 September 1846.
He enlisted in the War Between the States when he was 16 but was sent home
because of being under-aged. He reenlisted in 1864 when he turned 18.
He was captured by the Union army and sent to a prison in Maryland where he
remained until the end of the war. Upon his release from the Maryland
prison, he walked home. See more about his military service in the
Public Records
section of this web site.
He married Louisa Jane Holland who was born
in 1844 and died in 1906 at age 62. Sion Smith died 31 July 1894.
They are both buried in the Patrick Holland Cemetery near Micro in Johnston
County, North Carolina. A picture of their graves is in the Album
section of this web site. Jane Holland was the 6th child of
Exum Holland. See her in Exum's branch for a listing of
their
children. Edward Sion Smith and Louisa Jane Holland are first
cousins once removed (see Notes
section10).
2. Selah Nicey ("Celia" or Nicey Selah)
Smith was born 19 December 1847. She married Troy Eason. She is listed in the
1850 Wayne County census as Celia, age 2. 26
3. Woodard Smith was born 10 August 1849.
4. Polly Ann (Mary Anne?) Smith was born 25 April
1851. She married Exum (Irvin?) Redford.
5. Sally Smith was born 12 April 1853. She married Henley
Lancaster.
6. David Oliver Smith, Jr. was born 7 February
1855. He married Arabella Sasser. David
died 4 December 1927. 25
Children of David Oliver Smith, Jr. and Arabella Sasser:
1. Matilda Epinetas Smith was born November 1879
and died in 1956. She married Matthew Marcus Johnson on 5 August 1896;
he was
born November 1878 and died 1918.
2. Laura Nicey Smith was born about 1882. She
married Steven H. Pate.
3. Mittie Smith was born 19 March 1884. She
married Elizah Best. She died 25 October 1973.
4. John Oliver Smith was born in September 1888. He married
Maud Tyndall and Eda Howell. He died 15 October 1967.
5. Sally Smith was born in 1890. Her death certificate
states she was born in September 1892 but the 1900 census lists her as being born in 1890
and 9 years old. She married Berry Ham. She died 6 August 1915.
6. Ada Smith was born in October 1894. She
married Bryant Forehand.
7. Thomas Monroe Smith was born in April 1899.
He married Obella Bedford and Estel Ham. He died 26 August 1954.
5. Mack Camel (called "John") Holland was born
28 April 1825 in Wayne County, North Carolina. He died in December 1857;
his will was probated 28 December 1857 in Wayne County, North Carolina. He left a widow
named Martha.
Children of Mack Campbell Holland and Martha:
1. Bing (or King) Holland was born in 1851. He married Martha
Batting on 18 January 1872 in Wayne County, North Carolina.
Children of Bing (or King) Holland and Martha Batting:
1. Cora Holland was born in 1874.
2. F. Stella Holland was born in 1876.
3. Mack Holland was born in 1879..
2. Trenida Holland
3. Eliza Holland married a Flowers.
4. Mack Ellen Holland was born in 1854.
6. Rual Anderson (called "Rochie") Holland,
was born 27 December 1827, probably in Wayne County,
North Carolina. While his name has been variously represented as 'Rural,'
'Rual,' Raul' 'Rauel,' 'Ruel,' and 'Paul,' it is worth noting that his father wrote it several
times in his will as 'Rural' but I am
not assuming his father knew that to be the correct spelling of his son's name.
I have seen names
misspelled in family Bibles and in wills many times, even by parents. I was just typing
a will from a hand-written copy the other day in which a father called his son 'Issac' twice
and 'Isaac' the third time. It happens all the time, so with Rual Anderson Holland's name
being spelled differently in the family Bible and the will, I can't take
either to
be the final say. On a marriage license his son Perry applied for, his
father's name was written Ruel. But you do get to the point where mis-writing it enough times re-defines it.
Perry H. Holland, below, who must have known his father's name, named his own son Rual Holland.
Rual married Amanda Holland on 13 April 1854. She was the daughter of
Jinnett Holland and Elizabeth Low, and was born 5 June 1838. She and her husband Rural were
first cousins; her father, Jinnett, and Rural's father, Woodard D., were
brothers, both sons of Elisha Holland.1
Rural Holland and Amanda Holland had two children together, Perry Henry
Holland and Lawrence H. Holland.
Rual Anderson Holland died about February 1859 at about age
32. His will was probated in North Carolina in February 1859, listing a
wife Amanda but not his children. After Rural died, Amanda married Larry Waddell on 4 March
1859. The 1860 census for Wayne County lists a Larry and Amanda Waddell with children
Perry, Lawrence, and John W. Perry and Lawrence are Rural's children and John W. is
Amanda's first child with her
husband Larry Waddell. I am showing the children of Rual and
Amanda Holland here, in Woodard's section, because they are Woodard D. Holland's
grandchildren, but I am presenting Amanda Holland's children with her second
husband Larry Waddell in Jinnett Holland's
section.
Larry Waddell died in the Battle of Globe Tavern south of Petersburg, Virginia,
in August 1864.223
Amanda Holland died 27 July 1914; she was 76. She is buried in the Elisha
Holland Cemetery. There is a picture of her gravestone in the
Album section of this
web site.54
Children of Rural Anderson Holland and Amanda Holland:
The section that follows on Perry Holland was furnished by his
great-granddaughter Faye Holland Keen of Turkey, North Carolina.
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1. Perry Henry Holland was born 19 February 1856, and died 10 January 1925,
of apoplexy. He was not quite three years old when his father Rual
Holland died and his mother Amanda Holland married Larry Waddell within
months. It was turbulent times with the Civil War starting in 1861.
Perry Holland is listed in the 1860 census for Wayne County, North Carolina,
with his mother Amanda, her new husband Larry Waddell, his brother Lawrence
Holland, and Amanda and Larry Waddell's new baby John Waddell.
There is an unused marriage record for Perry Holland and Zilpha Scott,
applied for in Wayne County on 18 February 1882. This is the marriage
license referred to above on which Perry's father's name was spelled Ruel.
An image of the license is in the
Public Records
section of this website. We don't know why that marriage license was
not used, but Perry Holland did marry Fannie Jazabel Woodard on 22 October 1883, in Wayne County,
when she was 15 years old. She was born 1 May 1868, and died 22 August
1960, at the age of 92. Perry was 68 when he died. Perry Holland and Fannie were buried together in the Micro Cemetery in Micro,
Johnston County, North Carolina. There is a picture and article on Fannie
Woodard in the Stories
section of this web site. An image of Perry Holland's death certificate is
in the Public Records, Death
section of this website and a picture of Perry and Fannie's gravestone is in the
Album Cemetery section.
Children of Perry Holland and Fannie Woodard:
1. Albert Holland was born a triple est. 1884.
2. Alma Holland was born a triple est. 1884.
3. Alvester Holland was born a triple est. 1884.
4. Evelyn Holland, was born est. 1885; she married Troy Peacock.
5. Malasie Holland was born est. 1886; she married Gray Waddell.
Malasie was killed by a train, perhaps in Fremont, North Carolina, shortly
after her marriage. Gray Waddell married second, Florence [last name
unknown].
6. Orenza Holland was born est. 1886. He died
young.
7. Mary Holland was born about
1887; she married Arthur Frank
Bowen.
8. Rual Ethelred (or Etheldred) Holland was born 20 June 1888, and died 1 August 1958. He was buried in Pinecrest
Cemetery in Warsaw, Duplin County, North Carolina. He married Mattie Pierce. She was born 8
February 1895, and died 31 March 1981. She was buried next to her husband in Pinecrest Cemetery in Warsaw, North Carolina.
Children of Rural Holland and Mattie Pierce:
1. Anne Battle Holland was born 30 November 1928 in Wayne County,
North Carolina. She died 25 April 1991, in Hubert, Onslow County, North Carolina,
and was buried at the Piney Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.. Anne married Paul Thomas
Mull on her 25th birthday, 30 November 1953, in Warsaw, Duplin County, North Carolina, at
the Johnson Baptist Church. Paul Mull was born 17 September 1927, in Buncombe
County, North Carolina. He died on 14 September 1998, in Swansboro, North Carolina.
Children of Ann Battle Holland and Paul T. Mull:
1. Paul Thomas Mull, Jr.
was born 11 November 1956. He married Sandra ("Sandi") Marie
Norris on 12 December 1975 at Piney Grove Baptist Church in Swansboro,
Carteret County, North Carolina. She was the oldest daughter of
Walter Woodrow Norris, Jr. and Sylvia I. Reeves, born 3 March 1957 in
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.67
Children of Paul Thomas Mull, Jr. and Sandra Norris:
1. Miranda Ann Mull, called Mandi, was born 9 April 1978 in New Bern, Craven
County, North Carolina. Mandi married Brian Mark Gillis on 3 October
2009, at Jones Masonic Campus in Swansboro, North Carolina. Brian
Gillis was born 24 July 1974, in Pinehurst, Moore County, North
Carolina, the son of Mary and John W. Gillis, Jr..
2. Walter Grayson Mull, called Grayson, was born 27 December 1985 in Morehead City,
Carteret County, North Carolina.
2. David Rual Mull was born 17
January 1961 in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina. He married Karin Lyons who
was born 22 March 1962 in Orleans, France. She was the daughter of Charles I. Lyons
and Ann Marie McDowell. David and Karin were married on 26 September 1981 at St.
Peter's Episcopal Church in Swansboro, Onslow County, North Carolina by David's father,
Paul Thomas Mull, a Southern Baptist minister.
3. Mark Holland Mull was
born 14 March 1964 in Sampson County, North Carolina. He married
Jamie S. Smith on 21 December 1985 at the Cedar Fork Baptist Church
parsonage in Beulaville, Duplin County, North Carolina. Jamie,
born 24 January 1961 in Lenoir County, North Carolina, is the daughter
of W. G. (Tommie) Smith and Julia Dean.55
Children of Mark Holland Mull and Jamie S. Smith:
1. Courtney Lynn Mull was born 19 January 1987 in Kinston, Lenoir
County, North Carolina.
2. Ethan Smith Mull was born 28 March 1990 in Kinston, Lenoir
County, North Carolina.
2. Gene Coleman Holland was born 30 June
1933 in Kenly, Johnston County, North Carolina. He died 26 December 1993 in
Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina, and was laid to rest in the Veteran's
cemetery in Burlington. Gene married Lewellyn Langston on 27 September 1958.
Lewellyn was born 27 February 1938 in Warsaw, Duplin County, North Carolina, the daughter
of Oscar Langston (1906-2001) and Edna Earle Grady (1909-1997).
Children of Gene Holland and Lewellyn Langston:
1. Gene Coleman Holland, Jr. was born 30 April 1959 in Warsaw,
Duplin County, North Carolina.
2. Rose Marie Holland was born 17 April 1960 in Clinton, Sampson
County, North Carolina. She married Charles Jordan on 19 April 1997.
3. Anthony Earle Holland was
born 10 November 1961in Kenansville, Duplin County, North Carolina. He married
Darlene Carol Stosel on 8 April 1995 at Christ Community Church in Greensboro, Guilford
County, North Carolina. Darlene was born 11 December 1964 in Cleveland Heights,
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the daughter of Dennis Edward Stosel and Carol Jean Fox.
Children of Anthony Earle Holland and Darlene Stosel:
1. Danielle Carol Holland was born 8 August 1997 in Raleigh,
North Carolina. She was baptized 5 April 1998.
2. David Anthony Holland was born 8 June 2001 in Raleigh,
North Carolina. He was baptized 30 December 2001.
9. Richard Hodge Holland was born 20 June 1890,
in Johnston County, North Carolina. He died in
Sampson County 30 July 1978. He married Martha Elizabeth Hinnant on 6 November 1910,
in Wayne County, North Carolina. She was born 29 May 1893, in Wayne
County, and died 3 October 1990, in
Sampson County, North Carolina. She was 97. Richard Holland
was a farmer 5 miles north of Turkey, North Carolina. Richard and Martha Holland were
buried at Turkey Baptist Church Cemetery in Turkey, Sampson County, North Carolina.
There is a picture of Richard Hodge Holland in the
Family Album section of this
website.
Children of Richard Holland and Martha Hinnant:
1. Martha Olivia Hollandwas born
1 September 1911, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and died 27 November 1988, in
Orange County, North Carolina. She married Alphonso E. Ellis on 1 January 1929, in
Dillon, South Carolina. He was born 24 January 1898, in Onslow County, North Carolina,
the son of Joseph Ellis and Mary Clontz (or Klontz). Alphonso Ellis died 29 April 1978, in Hoke
County, North Carolina. Martha and Alphonso Ellis were buried at
Turkey Cemetery, Turkey, Sampson County, North Carolina.
Children of Martha Holland and Alphonso Ellis:
1. Richard Preston Ellis was born 22 January 1931 in Camden, South
Carolina and died 30 September 1993 in Springfield, Missouri. He married first
Kathleen Beard on 29 October 1952. She was born 29 July 1932 in Texas. He
married second Lettie Ruth Osborne on 28 April 1960 in Hawaii. Lettie was born 22
March 1914 in Missouri.
Children of Richard Ellis and Kathleen Beard:
1. Claudia Faye Ellis was born 11 February 1953.
2. Aldine Alphonso Ellis was born 3 June 1956.
2. Lena Faye Ellis was born 6 December
1934 in Sampson County, North Carolina. She married Douglas Chance Keen 30 August
1970, in Dillon, South Carolina. He was born 11 November 1936 in Kirkwood, Delaware.
Faye Ellis Keen died 29 April 2009, in Clinton, Sampson County, North
Carolina, at age 74. During her working years she was a bookkeeper
for Lloyd Bradford Builders. She was a member of Daughters of the
Confederacy, Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 7547, and Turkey Baptist
Church. She was buried in Turkey Baptist Church Cemetery on 2 May
2009 Faye and Douglas Keen did not have children.202
3. Myrtle Eileen Ellis was born 19 April 1945, in Sampson County,
North Carolina. She married John Sanford Knowles on 18 February 1967, in Dillon,
South Carolina. He was born 21 April 1945, in Cumberland County, North Carolina,
and died 10 March 2004. Myrtle Ellis died 23 March 2003.
Children of Myrtle Ellis and John Knowles:
1. Shannon Le'Nae Knowles was born
25 May 1970.
2. Tracy Johnette Knowles was born 19 September 1973.
3. John Sanford Knowles, Jr. was born 26 August 1975.
2. Joseph Aldine Holland, called Tom, was born 17 July 1913, in Johnston County,
North Carolina, and died 10 October 1993, in Wayne County, North Carolina.
His father Richard Hodge Holland nicknamed his sons Joseph Aldine Holland
and Richard Turner Holland "Tom" and "Bill" for two old men who lived in the
neighborhood.
Joseph Holland married
Cora Matilda Smith, daughter of W. R. Smith, on 20 December 1941, in North
Carolina. She was born 24 August 1909. He was a farmer
and also worked as a surveyor. Cora Smith Holland was an English
teacher at Turkey High School in Turkey, North Carolina, and later became
the Principal there. Cora Smith died 2 November 2000. Joseph Aldine Holland and Cora
Holland were buried at Turkey Cemetery, Turkey, Sampson County, North
Carolina. There are pictures of them in the
Family Album section of this
website.53214
3. Louise Holland was born 12 May 1915, and
died 6 December 1968 in Florida. She married Durwood Hobby Johnson on 20 December
1935. He was the son of George Johnson and Angeline Hobby.
Durwood Johnson was born 24 April
1903, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and died 14 October 1979, in Florida. Louise
and Durwood Johnson were buried at Turkey Cemetery, Turkey, Sampson County,
North Carolina.
Child of Louise Holland and Durwood Johnson:
1. Martha Durlene Johnson was born 27 October 1936 in Cumberland
County, North Carolina. She married George McKay Drake on 20 December 1958 in
Clearwater, Florida. He was born 21 September 1943 in Ocala, Florida.
They later divorced. There is a picture of Durlene Johnson in the
Family Album
section of this website.
Children of Martha Johnson and George Drake:
1. Ann Louise Drake was born 22 September 1961.
2. Trusten Holland Drake was born 16 July 1965 in Ocala, Florida.
He married Barbara Newman who was born 11 July 1965 in Miami, Florida.
Children of Trusten Drake and Barbara Newman:
3. George McKay Drake, Jr. was born 15 December 1969.
4. Richard Turner Holland was born
23 February 1917, in Kenly, North Carolina. He was named for a
neighbor, Turner Bailey, who promised Richard Hodge Holland a new suit of
clothes for his son at age 21 if he would name the boy after him. It
is not known if the suit of clothes was received.
Richard Turner Holland married first Myrtle Letitia Bland
2 August 1941, in Dillon, South Carolina. She was born 23 February
1920, in Sampson County, North Carolina, the daughter of James Thomas Bland
and Jane Colwell. The marriage ended in divorce on 28 May 1964.
She currently lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is called Myrt
Holland and Tish Holland.
Richard T. Holland was a platoon sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps
from 1941-1943, and
served in the South Pacific during World War II. He participated in the
Battle of Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands, which began on August 7,
1942. He was a pitcher for a Minor League Professional baseball team
in Wilson, North Carolina. He also drove an oil fuel delivery truck in
Kenly.
Richard Turner Holland married second Ruby Roberts Beasley
on 10 September 1965 in Warsaw, North Carolina. She was born 26 May
1916, daughter of William Nathan Roberts and Effie Blanch Best. .
He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Warsaw, Duplin
County, North Carolina. He was also a member and past President of the
Lions Club in Warsaw, member and past Commander of American Legion Post
127 in Warsaw, and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Clinton, North
Carolina. He died 1 September 1991, in Clinton, North Carolina. His obituary is in the
Public
Records section of this website. There are pictures of Richard and
Myrtle Holland in the Family Album
section of this website. .214
Children of Richard Holland and Myrtle Bland:
1. Richard Turner Holland, Jr.,
called Jim, was born 20 August 1942, in Sampson County, North Carolina.
He graduated from Clinton High Scholl in 1960 and from technical college
in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1965. He worked for IBM,
retiring after 30 years. He married Emma May Johnson, daughter of
Samuel Morris Johnson and Roberta Faye Posey, on 24 May 1969, in
Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina. Emma Johnson was born
on 9 March 1949, in Louisburg. Emma was employed by Fulton Federal
Savings and Loan in Atlanta, Georgia, where she served as Vice President
and Loan Officer until 1987. The marriage ended in divorce in
1987, at which time Emma Johnson relocated to Wendell, North Carolina,
where she was employed by American Airlines.
Richard "Jim" Holland currently owns a horse farm in
Blue Ridge, Georgia, and manages his own website,
Three Creeks Farm.
There are pictures of him in the
Family Album section of this
website.
2. Jane Letitia Holland was born 10 July 1944, in
Smithfield, North Carolina. She
married Douglas Hudson, son of Lucien Hudson and Virginia Anderson. and has two daughters, Kim and Dawn Hudson. There
is a picture of Jane Holland in the
Family Album section of this
website.
Children of Jane Letitia Holland and Douglas Hudson:
1. Kimberly Hudson was born 15 February 1966.
2. Dawn Hudson was born 15 November 1970.
5. Agnes Lee Holland
was born 23
October 1918, in Turkey, Sampson County, North Carolina, and died 9 January 2000 in
Dunn, Harnett County,
North Carolina. She married first William Adolphus Matthis on 15 November 1942.
He was born 4 December 1916, in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, and died 27 January 1945,
in Brocheon, Belgium, while serving in the U. S. Army during World War
II. He was buried in the Matthis Cemetery in Sampson County, North
Carolina. Agnes married second Luby Warren on 24 November
1946. He was born 14 May 1915.
Child of Agnes Holland and William Matthis:
1. June Lee Matthis was born 1 June 1944, in Sampson County, North
Carolina. She married John William Pearson on 22 December 1967, in
the First Baptist Church in Dunn, North
Carolina. He was born 21 September 1943 in Apex, North Carolina, the
son of James Roy Pearson (born 19 March 1898 Wake County, North
Carolina; died 3 May 1966 Apex, North Carolina) and Jane Kennon Avera
(born 14 July 1907 Smithfield, North Carolina; died 24 August 1994 Apex,
North Carolina). There is a picture of June Lee
Matthis in the
Family Album
section of this website.123
Children of June Matthis and John Pearson:
1. William Kent Pearson was born 22 January 1969,
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He married Martha Ann Trotter on
24 September 1995 in Wake County, North Carolina. She was born 5
December 1963 in North Carolina.
Children of William Kent Pearson and Martha Ann Trotter:
1. Benjamin River Pearson was born 27 November
1997 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
2. William Forest Pearson was born 20 August
2002 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
2. Warren Bradley Pearson was born 7 January 1971.
He married Sherri Lynn Saunders 22 April 1995. She was born 22
June 1970, in Virginia.
Children of Warren Pearson and Sherri Saunders:
1. Avera Elizabeth Pearson was born 14 April
2000 in Richmond, Virginia.
2. William Bradley Pearson was born 28 June
2003, in Richmond, Virginia.
3. John Michael Lee Pearson was born 29 September 1972,
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He married Stacy Ann Williams.
She was born 13 November 1972 in Booneville, New York. They were
married in Benson, North Carolina, on 13 May 2000.
Child of John Michael Pearson and Stacy Williams:
1. Owen Daniel Pearson was born 15 January 2005,
in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1. Luby Ray Warren was born 7 July 1948 in Dunn, North Carolina.
He married Dorothy Janice Camp on 26 June 1971 in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
She was born 27 March 1952 in Holly Springs, Georgia.
6. Myrtle Odell Holland was born 8
February 1922, in Turkey, Sampson County, North Carolina. She married Anthony Neil Smerda on 18
December 1948. He was born 28 April 1915 in Richmond, Virginia and died 6 January 1999
in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Child of Myrtle Holland and Anthony Smerda:
1. Martha Neil Smerda was born 30 November 1957, in
Lexington, Kentucky. She married Christopher Morrow Justis on 4 August
1979, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Christopher was born in Charlotte on
July 19, 1955. They divorced. 160
Children of Martha Smerda and Christopher Justis:
1. Lara Elizabeth Justis was born 17 October 1987,
in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.
2. Grant Morrow Justis was born 25 November 1991, in
Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina.
10. Sarah Holland was born 15 October
1892. She married Eddie Waddell.
11. Fred Douglas Holland was born 16 May, 1900. He married
Emmer Watson. He died 15 January 1928 at age 27. He was buried in Micro Memorial
Garden cemetery in Micro, Johnston County, North Carolina. There is
a picture of his gravestone in the Album section
of this web site.
12. Walter Andrews Holland was born
13 September 1902, and died 6 January 1953. He married Grace Ansley Crowe.
Children of Walter Holland and Grace Crowe:
1. Rose Mae Holland was born 7 December 1932. She married Al
Dupree Brown who was born 22 March 1928.
Children of Rose Holland and Al Brown:
2. Mary Elizabeth Holland was born
12 February 1943. She married Frank Dow Layne who was born 16 May 1940.
Children of Mary Elizabeth Holland and Frank Layne:
1. Frank Broadhurst Layne was born 16 June 1965.
2. Ashley Elizabeth Layne was born 30 January 1968.
13. Preston Woodard Holland
was
born 8 September 1907, and died 22 March 1923. He was buried in Micro Memorial
Garden cemetery in Micro, Johnston County, North Carolina. There is a picture
of his gravestone in the Album section of this
web site. He was 15 years old.
The section that follows on Lawrence H. Holland was provided
primarily by Vickie Holland of LaGrange, North Carolina.183
2. Lawrence H. Holland was born 6 January 1858. He was only 13
months old when his father Rual (Rural) Holland died around February 1859.
Within a month he had a new step-father when his mother Amanda Holland married
Larry Waddell but that didn't last long, either as Larry Waddell joined the
North Carolina Confederate forces in July 1862 and died in battle in December
1862. Lawrence Holland is listed in the 1860 census for Wayne County, North
Carolina, with his mother Amanda, her new husband Larry Waddell, his brother
Perry Henry Holland, along with Amanda and Larry Waddell's new baby John
Waddell.
He married Dary Ann Rose,
daughter of Hardy H. Rose and Nisa [last name unknown]. She was born
in January 1861, in North Carolina. She was first married to William T.
Baker in Johnston County, North Carolina. Dary and William Baker were married
on 31 December 1882 and had a daughter Minnie Baker, born 14 February 1882,
in North Carolina. Minnie Baker married Charlie Creech on 15 May 1910, in
Johnston County, North Carolina. She died 5 October 1950, in Wilson
County, North Carolina, and was buried in family cemetery in Johnston
County.
Children of Lawrence H. Holland and Dary Ann Rose:
1. Henry Milton Holland was born 8 March 1889, in
Johnston County, North Carolina. In 1900 he was living with his uncle
Perry Holland in the East Beulah prescient of Johnston County. In 1910, he
was living as a boarder in the R. Davis family in Spring Hill District 109
of Wilson County, North Carolina. Woodard D. Holland's family was
living next door.
Henry Holland married 1st Bessie Williford on 25
March 1911, in Johnston County. Bessie was born about 1887, the
daughter of M. Williford, born 1862, and Sarah Mitchell, born 1861.
Bessie Williford Holland died 24 July 1939, and was buried in Johnston
County. After Bessie's death, Henry Milton Holland married Fannie Mavis Grady, on
17 February 1941, in Wayne County, North Carolina. Fannie Grady was
born 12 December 1919, in Duplin County, North Carolina, the daughter of
Lloyd Grady and Lula Whitman. She had a relationship with Will Lane
(don't know dates), and after Henry Holland's death, married Charles William
Barley. Images of Henry Milton Holland's marriage
certificates to Bessie Williford and Fannie Grady are in the
Public Records, Marriages
section of this web site.
Henry Milton Holland died June 11 1953, in Wilson County,
and was buried in the Peacock Cemetery in Kenly, Johnston County. An
image of his death certificate is in the
Public Records, Deaths
section of this web site. After Henry Milton Holland's death, the four
children of Henry and Fannie Holland -- Bonnie, Elizabeth, Maybell, and
Charles Ray -- went to live in an orphanage. Charles Ray was adopted
from there.
Children of Henry M. Holland and Bessie Williford:
1. Dolly Christine
Holland was born 20 April 1912, in Johnston County, North Carolina.
She married Mayon Edward Young on 6 January 1934, in Johnston County.
Mayon Edward Young was born est. 1912, the son of Fred Young and Minnie
[last name unknown]. She died 2 February 1997, in Wayne County, North
Carolina.
Children of Dolly Christine Holland and Mayon Edward Young:
1. Vernon Lee Young was born 26 September 1935, in
Johnston County, North Carolina.
2. Mildred Agnes Young was born 1 November 1937, in
Johnston County, North Carolina.
3. Connie Young was born 13 July 1943, in Virginia.
She died 1 October 1955, in Wayne County, North Carolina, and was buried in
Willowdale Cemetery in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
4. Maynor Mae Young was born 16 January 1945, in
Portsmouth, Virginia. She married a Whaley. She died 11 May
1996, in Wayne County, North Carolina.
5. Vivian Young was born est. 1948. She
married a Capps.
2. Alice Holland was
born 26 May 1915, in North Carolina. She died 26 November 1915, in
Johnston County, North Carolina.
3. Alma Arlisa Holland was born 21 May 1918, in
Johnston County, North Carolina. She married Almond Allen Westbrook on
10 November 1934, in Johnston County. Alma Holland died 29 May 2007,
in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, and was buried in Crescent
Hill Memorial Gardens in Columbia.
Children of Alma Arlisa Holland and Almond Allen Westbrook:
4. Emma Mae Holland was born 25 March 1921, in
Johnston County, North Carolina. She married Ivey H. Shallington on 14
November 1936, in Johnston County. Emma Holland died 14 April 1946, in
Wayne County, North Carolina, and was buried in Bailey Cemetery in
Pikeville, North Carolina.
Children of Emma Holland and Ivey Shallington:
1. James H. Shallington was born 24 November 1937.
2. Braxton Shallington was born est. 1939, and died
20 February 1981.
3. Billy Shallington was born est. 1942.
5. Minnie Holland was born 24 August 1923, in
Johnston County, North Carolina. She married Roy Jernigan, son of
William K. Jernigan and Susan Raynor. Roy Jernigan died 30 March
1957, in Wayne County, North Carolina.
Children of Minnie Holland and Roy Jernigan:
1. Minnie Sudie Jernigan was born in 1949, in Wayne
County, North Carolina.
2. Judy Carol Jernigan was born est. 1952.
6. Bessie Holland was born 10 October 1925, in Wayne
County, North Carolina, a twin to Lessie Holland. She died before
1930.
7. Lessie Holland was
born 10 October 1925, in Wayne County, North Carolina, a twin to Bessie
Holland.
8. Ruby Holland was born about 1927, in North
Carolina.
9. William Henry Holland was born 20 March 1937, in
Johnston County, North Carolina.
Children of Henry M. Holland and Fannie Mavis Grady:
1. Bonnie Estelle Holland was born in Wayne County,
North Carolina. She married William Lewis Glisson.
2. Elizabeth Holland was born in Wayne County, North
Carolina.
3. Maybell Holland was born in Wayne County, North
Carolina.
4. Charles Ray Holland was born in
Wayne County, North Carolina.
2. Bettie Holland was
born in February 1890, in North Carolina. She is on the 1900 census
for Wayne County, North Carolina.
3. Polly Holland was born in January 1893, in
North Carolina. She is on the 1900 census for Wayne County, North Carolina.
4. Nicie Holland was born 2 March 1894, in North
Carolina, and died 1 March 1978, in Wilson County, North Carolina. She
is on the 1900 census for Wayne County, North Carolina.
7. Exum Haywood Holland was born
15 June 1803. He died 28 February 1905. His family information is displayed in a
separate section.
8. Woodard D. Holland was born 24
June 1834. He died 17 March 1908. His family information is displayed in a separate
section.
9. Patience Katherine Holland was born
4 March 1837, probably in Wayne County, North Carolina. On 23 March 1857 at her
mother's house, she married Uriah Holland who was born 9 July 1831. Uriah was her
first cousin, being the first son of her father's brother Warren Holland and Winifred
Skipper. See note 6. Patience
and Uriah are listed in the 1860 census along with their
first three children. Uriah Holland died 18 October 1901 and Patience
Katherine Holland died 26 January 1910. They are buried beside each
other in the Mercer Cemetery in Spring Hill Township in Wilson County, North
Carolina.27
Children of Patience Katherine Holland and Uriah Holland:
see their family where it occurs in Warren's branch
10. Elizabeth Holland was born 8 December 1839,
in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 20 February 1882. On 4 May 1858,
in Wayne County, she married Exum Pike Edgerton, son of Nathan Edgerton of
Wayne County. He was born 25 December 1839 in Wayne County, North
Carolina. He died 5 April 1906 in Wayne County.
Children of Elizabeth Holland and Exum Pike Edgerton:
1. James Monroe
Edgerton was born 5 June 1859 in Wayne County, North Carolina. He
married Mary Florence Godwin on 16 December 1880 in the Union Grove Baptist
church of Wayne County, North Carolina. She was born 26 October 1861
in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 2 November 1924 in Raleigh, Wake
County, North Carolina.
Children of James Monroe Edgerton and Mary Florence Godwin:
1. Helen Edgerton was
born 19 May 1882 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 1 September
1916. She married Arthur Bradford Boyette on 15 November 1905 in
Johnston County, North Carolina. >
2. Elmer Otis
Edgerton was born 10 November 1883 in Wayne
County, North Carolina and died 5 March 1940. He married Susie Lee
Ives.
3. Ramie Luther Edgerton was born 16 November 1885 in Wayne County,
North Carolina and died in April 1969 in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina.
He married Lela Eliza Peterson 12 December 1910 in Johnston County, North Carolina.
2. Arcada Edgerton was
born 19 August 1860 in Wayne County, North Carolina. She died 27 March
1862 in Wayne County.
3. Demetrius Woodard
Edgerton was born 12 March 1863, in Fremont,
Wayne County, North Carolina; and died 18 February 1911. in Wayne
County. He married Martha Jean Dixon 5 December 1883, in Kenly,
Johnston County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Elizabeth
Virginia Edgerton and Joshua Dixon, and sister of William Joseph Dixon who
married Sally Holland.
Children of Demetrius Woodard Edgerton and Martha Jane Dixon:
1. Flora Charlotte Edgerton was born 24 August 1884 in North
Carolina. She died 8 May 1960.
2. Nona Elizabeth Edgerton was born 12 March 1890 in North Carolina.
3. Milton Edgerton was born 8 December 1892 in Kenly, Johnston County,
North Carolina. He died 14 September 1899.
4. Harvey Earl Edgerton was born 1 May 1894 in Kenly, Johnston County,
North Carolina.
5. Gurney Edgerton was born 13 September 1896 in North Carolina.
He died 5 March 1947.
6. Bettie Edgerton was born 9 January 1901 in North Carolina and died
13 October 1902, also in North Carolina.
7. Demetrius Woodard Edgerton, Jr. was born 14 April 1905, in North
Carolina and died 28 July 1935, also in North Carolina.
8. Frances Edgerton was born 9 July 1910, in North Carolina and died
19 August 1915, also in North Carolina.
4. Addison Perkin Edgerton was born
26 July 1866 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 3 November 1925 in Chipley,
Washington County, Florida. He married Rosanda Elizabeth McCloskey 12 November
1887 in Hoppe, Ware County, Georgia.
Children of Addison Edgerton and Rosanda McCloskey:
1. Robert Exum Edgerton was born 29 August 1888 in Ware County,
Georgia and died 3 October 1894 in Ware County, Georgia.
2. Daniel Clarence
Edgerton was born 24 March 1891 in Alachua County, Florida and died 12
December 1917.
3. Kathleen Edgerton
was born 29 July 1894 in Alachua County, Florida and died 2 August 1894.
4. Althea Edgerton
was born 25 august 1895 in Alachua County, Florida.
5. James Alexander Edgerton was born 18 October 1906 in Alachua
County, Florida and died 16 October 1906 in Chipley, Washington County, Florida.
5. Baran Vedell Edgerton was born 26 October 1867 in Wayne County,
North Carolina. He died 20 February 1872 in Wayne County.
6. Albert D. Edgerton was born 10 February 1870 in Wayne County,
North Carolina and died 14 March 1872.
7. Ivey Edgerton was born
27 May 1872 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 2 August 1935 in Wayne
County, North Carolina. He married Sallie Lorrena Shallington sometime
between 1889 and 1919.
1. Alva Dixon
Edgerton was born 26 September 1901 in Wayne County, North Carolina and
died 13 December 1913, also in Wayne County, North Carolina.
2. Bayarde Exum
Edgerton was born 15 July 1905 and died 23 October 1905 in Wayne County,
North Carolina.
8. Ida Edgerton was born 13 August 1874 in Wayne County, North
Carolina and died 28 September 1886 in Wayne County.
9. Bettie Ellen
Edgerton was born 5 November 1876 in
Wayne County, North Carolina and died 9 April 1901 in Wayne County.
She married Murray Manning Holland 22 December 1897 in Wayne County, North
Carolina. They were 2nd cousins. See Notes
for further information on their relationship.
Child of Bettie Ellen Edgerton and Murray Manning Holland:
See this family where it
occurs in Absalom/Richard/Murray
Manning's section.
10. Fred Exum Edgerton was born 19 May 1879 in Wayne County, North
Carolina and died 10 June 1934 in Fremont, Wayne County. He marred Bessie Naomi
Worrell between 1896 and 1924, and married 2nd Geneva Jane Davis.
This is the end of Woodard's branch. Elisha's children continue with Betsy Holland.
Use this table of links to get to Woodard's siblings and children:
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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