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Robert Holiday (William, Jane) was born on July 24, 1779 in
Chatham County, North Carolina, according
to records of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting and the Spring Monthly Meeting,
both in Orange County (now Alamance County), North Carolina HI4, US11. The Cane Creek Monthly Meeting records stated that Robert, the
son of William (who was the son of Henry and Mary Holladay) and Jane Holladay
(who was the daughter of Robert and Sarah Andrew), was born in Chatham County,
North Carolina on July 24, 1779 US11. According
to the records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North
Carolina, Robert Holliday, the son of William and Jane, married Edith Davis,
the daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Davis, on March 5, 1801 US11, HI4 in Orange County, North Carolina HI4. The
Center Monthly Meeting was located about ten miles south of Greensboro in
Guilford County, North Carolina HI4. Their marriage record stated US11:
Whereas
Robert Holaday Son of William H and Jane Holady of the County of orange and State of North Carolina
and Edith Davis of the County of Randolph and State aforsd having
declard their intentions of mariage
with each other before several Monthly meetings of the
people Called Quakers at Center meeting house according to the good order used
amongst them and having Consent of parents and parties Concernd their
proposals of Mariage was allowd of by
said meeting
Now
these are to Certify to all whom it may Concern that for the full accomplishing
their said intentions this fifth day of the third month in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and one, they the sd Robert
Holady and Edith Davis appeard
in a publick meeting of sd people
at Malborough Meeting House in the County of Randolph
aforesd and solemnized their mariage
according to the good order used amongst Friends and moreover they the sd
Robert Holady and Edith Davis she according to the
Custom of mariage Assuming the Name of her husband
did then and there to these presents set their hands In the presence of the
under Named witnesses and others
Robert
Holady
Edith
Holady
The witnesses were: James
Newlin, Mathew Symons, Robert McCracken, Joseph Holady,
Mary Benbow, Robert Andrew, William Holaday, Henry
Andrew, Nornen Jewell (this first name is uncertain),
Lydia Wilson, Jane Holaday, Joel Davis, Elizabeth
Symons, Ruth Tearlew (her surname, and the surname of
Mary, who is listed later, is uncertain), Adam Davis, Hannah Holaday, Mary Tearlaw, Wm McCracken, and Thomas Morris US11.
There were at least two men named Robert Holliday/Holaday in Orange County, Indiana. According
to the Lick Creek Monthly Meeting records, on October 28, 1815, “Robert
Holladay produced a certificate for himself and sons; namely, Jacob, Henry and Robert,
they being all adults from Monthly Meeting, North
Carolina, Orange County, held the 26th of
the 8th month 1814, which was accepted” US11. This was not the
Robert Holiday who was the husband of Edith and the father of Jesse. This second Robert of Orange County wrote his will on
February 13, 1816, which named his wife, Hannah, and his children, who were
Abigail, Mary, Jacob, Henry, Robert, Deborah, Hannah, Rebecca, and John; this
will was probated November 28, 1816 MA35,
indicating that this particular Robert Holliday died between February and
November of 1816.
William Holaday and Robert Holaday were early settlers in Paoli Township in 1812 HI9. Robert
was the father of Jesse Holiday MA34 and Robert Holiday OS1. A White Water Monthly Meeting (located in
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana) record dated June 27, 1812 stated that Robert
Holaday and his sons, William, Jesse, and Aron, were received on a certificate
dated August 17, 1811 from Center Monthly Meeting in North Carolina US21. He was probably the “Robert Holyday of Knox County I.T.
[Indiana Territory]” who was granted an unspecified quantity of land on April
12, 1816, which was in the southwest quarter of Section 35 in Township 2 North,
in what was then probably Knox County, but is now in Orange County GE4. His
land was in or near Paoli, Orange County GE4. Robert Holaday, along with
Abraham, Henry, Jacob, Samuel, and William Holaday,
voted in Paoli in an election for a Representative on November 18, 1816 HI9. In 1819
or 1820, Robert paid the sum of $4 to the County Treasury because he was
opposed to the use of weapons HI9.
Robert
Holladay was enumerated in the 1820 US Census in Northeast Township, Orange
County, Indiana with two boys under the age of ten, two boys and three girls
between ten and fifteen, two young women between sixteen and twenty-five, one
man between twenty-six and forty-four, and one man and one woman who were
forty-five or older UN7. On
May 27, 1822, the Lick Creek Preparative Meeting of Paoli in Orange County,
Indiana made a complaint about Robert Holiday “for being guilty of deformation
and detraction”, and as a result, Robert Hollowell and William Lindley were
“appointed to visit and labor with him” and were instructed to report the
results of their efforts during the next meeting US11. Another Lick Creek Monthly Meeting, held on June 29, 1822,
documented that while Friends met with Robert, he was “not appearing in a
disposition to make any satisfaction… and unless contrition appear”, William
Trueblood and Lewis Thomas would testify against him US11. On March 29, 1823, the Lick Creek committee which had formed
to deliberate the case of Robert Holiday reported that they heard “allegations
on both sides [and] are of the opinion that it will be best to reinstate him,
in consequence of the Monthly Meetings too hastily disowning him, we thought
extending the necessary labor or giving him a fair hearing in his case, which
we submit to the Quarterly Meeting” US11.
“Robert Holladay of Orange County” was granted eighty
acres of land on July 15, 1823, which was the east half of the southwest
quarter of Section 8, Township 6 North, in Lawrence County; this was in Perry
Township GE4. Two
months later, on September 29, 1823, “Robert Holladay of Orange County Indiana”
was granted an additional eighty acres of land, the west half of the southwest
quarter of Section 8, Township 6 North, Lawrence County, Indiana GE4.
A
Lick Creek Monthly Meeting held on November 19, 1825 reported that Robert
Holiday had been provided a copy of the “testification against him”, and he
subsequently “informed this meeting that he appeals from the judgment of this
to the Quarterly Meeting, for his right of membership” US11. Robert “produced an offering to this meeting condemning the
misconduct for which he was disowned, which was satisfaction
and this meeting receives him into membership again” at a Lick Creek Monthly
Meeting on October 18, 1828 US11. The same meeting records indicated that Robert requested
a certificate of removal for himself and his family to the “Vermillion” Monthly
Meeting US11. This certificate was approved at the Lick Creek Monthly
Meeting on November 15, 1828 US11. Robert Holladay and his sons, Samuel and Robert, were
mentioned on November 3, 1829 in the Vermilion Monthly Meeting records; they
were received on certificate dated November 15, 1828 from Lick Creek Monthly
Meeting in Indiana US11.
Robert
Holliday was enumerated next to the household of Jesse Holliday in Vermilion
County, Illinois in the 1830 US Census UN8. The Vermilion County, Illinois probate record for
Robert Holaday of Vermilion County stated that he died intestate on or about
February 10, 1837 IL11. On March 15, 1837, William Holaday of Vermilion County was
appointed as the administrator of his estate who was obligated to conduct an
inventory IL11.
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1830 US Census: lived in Vermilion County, Illinois with two girls
under the age of five, one girl who was between five and nine, one girl and two
boys who were ten through fourteen, two young women who were between the ages
of fifteen and nineteen, one woman and one man who were twenty through
twenty-nine, one woman who was between forty and forty-nine, himself, who was
age fifty through fifty-nine, and one woman who was between seventy and
seventy-nine.
Edith Davis (Jessee,
Elizabeth) was the daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Davis, and her birth was
recorded among the records of the Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County,
North Carolina; she was the second child of Jesse and Elizabeth and was born on
May 22, 1782 US11. She was probably the Edith Holaday who was mentioned
in the records of the White Water Monthly Meeting of Women Friends, held in
Wayne County, Indiana on June 27, 1812, which stated that she and her daughters,
Jane and Elizabeth, produced a certificate from the Center Monthly Meeting in
North Carolina with a date of August 17, 1811 US11, US21. If
she was the Edith mentioned in that record, the identity of her daughter,
Elizabeth is ambiguous, for her birth supposedly occurred in 1812 US21. Edith Holaday, Ruth Dixion, Morning Hill, and Sarah Maris were appointed “to
propose a friend for overseer in the place of Rachel Doon who requests to be
released from that service” in a Lick Creek Monthly Meeting in Orange County,
Indiana held on March 19, 1825; the following month, on April 16, the women who
were proposed for the service role of overseer, namely Edith Holladay, Mornin Hill, and Deborah Jones, were appointed to that role
US11. On February 2, 1827,
Edith Holladay requested to be released from her role as overseer, and on March
17, 1827, the Lick Creek Monthly Meeting appointed a different woman to replace
her US11.
The Vermilion Monthly Meeting in Indiana stated that on
January 3, 1829, Edith Holladay and her daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah, Maryann,
Edith, and Ruth, were received on certificate dated November 15, 1828 from the
Lick Creek Monthly Meeting in Indiana US21. Edith Holaday was mentioned at the Vermilion Monthly
Meeting of Women Friends which was held in February 1841; the record stated
that Mary Brown, Anna Lewis, Edith Holaday, and another woman (whose first name
may have been “Abigail”) had been appointed to attend the upcoming Quarterly
Meeting “and return what may be given them in charge to next meeting” US11. She was
mentioned in her father’s will which was dated February 23, 1829 NO16:
I
give unto my Daughter Edith Davis her heirs & assigns for Ever one feather
bed & firnature Some upwards of thirty dollars in
Money two Cows & Calvs & a Small Stock of
Sheep three pots one dutch oven one Scillet one table six puter plats
Six Chairs one large walnut Chest and Six Silver tea Spoons
which She has Received… I give
unto my Daughter Edith Hollidy one hundred dollars in
Money
Edith was the mother of Mary US21, Jesse MA34, US21, Aaron US21, Jane US21, Eliza US21, Elizabeth US21, Sarah US21, Samuel US21, Robert US21, Maryann US21, Edith US21, Ruth US21, and Deborah US21. She may have been the mother William Holaday, who was
called a son of Robert Holaday in 1812 US21. He may have been the William Holladay who married Elizabeth
J. Haworth in Vermilion County, Illinois on April 14, 1839 VE10. At least
three of her children, Aaron, Jane, and Deborah, as well as Edith herself, died
in April 1849. Their cause of death is unknown, but they likely died of a
highly infectious disease. Cholera affected many
in Illinois in 1849, but the epidemic first affected New York City on December
1, 1848, and then New Orleans on December 11 PY1. It traveled from person to person along the interior river
systems of America, reaching Quincy, Illinois (which is on the east side of the
Mississippi River) in March 1849, then Cairo, Illinois (where the Mississippi
meets the Ohio River) on April 14, 1849, and Chicago on April 29 PY1.
Mary Holaday was born on January 26, 1804 and died on April 5, 1804 US21. Jesse Holaday was born on March 8, 1805
US21. Aaron Holaday was born on September 14,
1806 and married Mary Brown, the daughter of Mercer and Mary Brown on January
8, 1840 US21. They were
the parents of Eliza Jane, Hannah, Sarah, and Matilda US21. Aaron
died on March 31, 1849, or (as Aaron Holloday of Vermilion County, Illinois) he
died intestate on or about April 1, 1849 IL11.
Jane Holaday was born on April 26, 1808 US21. She may
have married someone with the surname “Dillon”, as a Vermilion Monthly Meeting
record indicated that Jane Dillon, formerly Holaday, was disowned by the
Friends on January 5, 1833 because she married contrary to discipline US21. She may
have been the Jane Holliday who married Laban Dillon on May 13, 1832 in
Vermilion County, Illinois VE10. If so, she was the mother of Edith Dillon, who was born on
January 1, 1837 and married Uriah Folger US21. Jane Dillon died on April 26, 1849 US21. Eliza Holaday was born on December 17,
1810 US21. Elizabeth Holaday was born on February
14, 1812 US21. She may
have married somone with the surname “Buckner”, for a Vermilion Monthly Meeting
record dated January 10, 1831 stated that Elizabeth Buckner, formerly Holladay,
married contrary to discipline US21. If so, she was probably the Eliza Holaday who married James
Buckner in Vermillion County, Indiana on January 2, 1830 IN21. Sarah Holaday was born on November 26,
1813 US21.
Samuel Holaday was born on December 3, 1815 US21. On
November 10, 1841 he married Peggy Brown, the daughter of Mercer and Mary Brown
and the sister of Mary Brown (who married Samuel’s brother, Aaron), and they
were the parents of William and Joseph US21. According to the probate record for Vermilion County,
Illinois, Samuel Holloday died intestate on or about January 13, 1844 IL11. Robert Holaday was born
on March 25, 1818 US21. On January 6, 1846 he married Luzena Cook, the daughter of
Isaac and Charity Cook, and with Luzena he was the father of William, Mary,
Eber, and Lewis US21. Robert and Luzena Holliday lived in
Vermilion County, Illinois in 1850 with William, age two, and Mary, who was two
months old; Robert was born about 1818 in Indiana and Luzena
about 1824 UN10. Robert died on December 13,
1856 US21. His widow, “Lewzena”, married Jesse Holliday on January 24,
1858 in Vermilion County, Illinois VE10.
Maryann Holaday,
the daughter of Robert and Edith, was born on
February 12, 1820 or February 20, 1820 US21. She married Anthony Pugh, the son of Enoch and Elizabeth Pugh,
on December 10, 1845, and they were the parents of Samuel Pugh, who was born in
1846 US21. Mary A. Pugh was the head of the household in 1850, when she
was enumerated in District 19, Edgar County, Illinois with Samuel, age three,
Ruth Holaday, age twenty-five, and Caroline Dillon,
age thirteen UN10. Mary A. Pugh was
born about 1819 in Orange County, Indiana UN10.
Mary A. Pew, born about 1820 in Indiana, lived with Samuel R. Pew, age
thirteen, in the household of Robert C. Dilling, age
twenty-three, in Prairie Township, Edgar County, Illinois in 1860 UN11. She remained in Prairie Township, Edgar County in 1870, when
at that time, Mary A. Pugh, born about 1823 in Indiana, was enumerated with
Samuel, age twenty-three, Henry Patterson, age twenty-two, Chester C. Lewis,
age eleven, and Cerra E. Reynolds, age ten UN12.
Edith Holaday was born about 1822 in Indiana UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13 or on April 5, 1822 US21. A Vermilion Monthly Meeting record indicated that Edith
Patterson, formerly Holladay, was disowned by the Friends on August 2, 1845
because she married contrary to discipline US21. Edith Holliday married Arter Patterson in Vermilion County,
Illinois on August 29, 1844 VE10. Edith was born. Edith lived in Elwood Township, Vermilion
County, Illinois during the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 US censuses. In 1850,
she lived with Arthur Patterson, who was born about 1822 in Tennessee, as well
as James, age five, Susanna, age three, Henry, age two, Sarah, who was eight
months old, and Edmund Dillon, who was thirteen years old UN10. Thenceforth, Edith was the head of the household, and was not
listed with Arter/Arthur on the census records. In 1860, she lived with James,
age fifteen, Susannah, age thirteen, Henry, age twelve, Sarah, who was ten,
Mary, age eight, William, age seven, and Eliza, who was four UN11; Arter probably died around the year 1856. In 1870, she lived
with Susana, Henry, Sarah, Mary, William, and Eliza UN12, and in 1880, she lived with her daughters, Sarah
and Mary UN13. A gravestone at Yankee Point Cemetery at Ridge farm in
Vermilion County, Illinois stated that Edith, the wife of Arter Patterson, died
at age seventy-two years, two months, and eight days on June 13, 1884 (a photo
can be found on the Find a Grave
website). This age does not match Edith’s birthday; had she died on June 13,
1884, she would have been sixty-two. Ruth Holaday
was born on November 26, 1825 US21. Ruth Holaday was born about 1825 in
Orange County, Indiana; she lived with Mary A. Pugh in Edgar County, Illinois
in 1850 UN10. Deborah Holaday was born on June
26, 1829 and died on April 11, 1849 US21.
Edith Holiday was between fifty and fifty-nine and was the
head of the household when she was enumerated in the 1840 US Census in
Vermilion County, Indiana UN9. Edith Holaday died on April 4, 1849 according to the
Vermilion Monthly Meeting records US21. Edith Holloday died intestate on April 4, 1849, and the
administration of her estate was granted to Robert Holloday in a Vermilion
County, Illinois probate record dated April 9, 1949 IL11.
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1840 US Census: lived in Vermilion County, Indiana with one boy
and one girl under age five, two girls between ten and fourteen, two young
women between fifteen and nineteen, and one woman and two men between twenty
and twenty-nine; she was between fifty and fifty-nine.