| Mary Ann Holloman |
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| Written by Lynn Fusinato | |||
| Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:47 | |||
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Mary Ann Holloman, born about 1820 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO, was the second daughter of Mary Barrett and Edmund Holloman. She probably enjoyed a happy and carefree childhood until her youngest sibling Edmund Wesley (E. W.) Holloman was born when she was about five. By the time she was six, her mother would have expected her to care for and entertain her baby brother so that her mother and older sister Elizabeth could get all of the cooking, washing, spinning, weaving and sewing done for their busy household. When her brother Allen's daughter Rachel was born a few years later and his wife died, Mary Ann would likely have been given responsibility for watching and entertaining Rachel when Rachel began crawling. By 1831 when Mary Ann was eleven, her brother Allen had remarried and moved with Rachel into the home of his new father-in-law. Her youngest brother E. W. was about six and likely wanted to hang out with his older brothers. So, undoubtedly during her preteen and teenage years, much of Mary Ann's time was spent with her mother and sister Elizabeth learning how to perform the domestic duties of running their household. When her sister Elizabeth Aikman died in 1845, Mary Ann probably took over the care of Elizabeth's three children and new born infant. Mary Ann would have been their mother figure between 1846 and 1852 when those four Aikman children moved from Missouri to Mississippi with their grandmother Mary B. Holloman, uncle John B. Holloman and his wife and children. It is not known whether Mary Ann moved to Mississippi with that group or remained in Missouri. What is known is that between 1851 and 1854 Mary Ann married Joseph Carter Hawkins, a widower who also became the father-in-law of Mary Ann's niece Rachel. Joseph Carter was a farmer in the Crawford-Phelps County area of Missouri when Rachel married his son James Marion Hawkins in 1853 and the young couple quickly moved to Yazoo Co. Mississippi where James Marion worked for the next few years as an overseer at Eagle Bend Plantation. Joseph Carter may have met and married Mary Ann in MO before Rachel and his son married or the older couple may have met at Rachel's wedding festivities or possibly afterwards in MS. Once married, Mary Ann and Joseph Carter settled down on his Missouri farm. Some people claim the couple had a son Allen Meville Hawkins who was born in early 1853 and had died by 1860. If so, then Mary Ann and Joseph Carter had met and married before Rachel and James Marion Hawkins married. Census data shows that their first daughter Mary Elizabeth Hawkins was born in 1855 in MO and their son Samuel was born in 1860 in Phelps Co. By the time Mary Ann's 63-year-old husband Joseph Carter died in August of 1860, his son James Marion and Rachel had returned to Missouri with their children to help Mary Ann care for her ailing husband and young children and farm her husband's land. Four years later Mary Ann's young son Samuel died and was buried near his father in a cemetery in St. James, MO. In 1866 Mary Ann married farmer Lea Miller, a widower who lived in Phelps Co. She and her daughter moved into his home where Mary Ann became the step-mother of his daughter and son. A year later in 1867 a new son Lea Edmund Miller joined their blended family group. Mary Ann and Lea apparently had a strong, loving marriage. Their daughters Mary Elizabeth Hawkins and Letitia Miller grew up, married brothers James B. and John C. Welch and setup housekeeping near the Millers. Mary Ann and Lea lived comfortably in Phelps Co. until Lea died in 1892. Soon after Lea's death, Mary and her son Lea Edmund Miller decided to travel to MS to visit her brothers John B. and Thomas R. Holloman in Yazoo Co. There her son Lea Edmund met and fell in love with a local girl, Sally Lumley. They soon married and settled down near the Lumley family. Mary Ann moved in with the young couple and was living with them when she died in 1896. According to family stories, she was buried in the Wesley Chapel Methodist Cemetery in Yazoo Co. MS where her mother and brothers Abner, John and Thomas are buried. However, her name is not listed along with theirs in a list of persons interred at that cemetery. MARY ANN HOLLOMAN FAMILY GENEALOGY CHART 01 Mary Ann HOLLOMAN, b. bet. 1820-1822 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO, d. 1896 in Yazoo Co. MS + m1. Joseph Carter HAWKINS, b. 1797 in Greenville Co., SC; d. 08-12-1860 in St. James, MO; m. abt. 1854 02 Mary Elizabeth HAWKINS, b. 08-22-1855 MO; d. 10-18-1910 in Dixon, MO + James Buchanan WELCH, b. 08-26-1856 in IN; d. d. 06-15-1931 Maries Co. MO; m. 10-03-1875 in home of Millers 03 Jacob C. WELCH, b. 10-30-1876 in Phelps Co. MO + Alice EMERY of Meta, MO; m. 12-14-1904 03 Winnie A. WELCH, b. 07-16-1879 in Phelps Co. MO 03 Charles W. WELCH, b. 11-12-1880 MO + Emma WOODY, b. abt 1881 MO; m. abt 1904 MO 04 Evelyn WELCH, b. 12-29-1904 MO; d. Nov. 25, 1910 04 Fredy WELCH, b. abt 1907 MO 04 Edwin WELCH, b. abt 1910 Jackson, Osage, Missouri 04 Edith WELCH, b. abt 1913 MO 04 Lula WELCH, b. abt 1915 MO 04 Mary WELCH, b. abt 1918 MO 04 Florrie Mary WELCH, b. abt 1921 MO 04 Marcella WELCH, b. abt 1924 MO 03 Minnie M. WELCH, b. 07-27-1884 MO; d. bef. 1900? 03 Mamie/Minnie Ella WELCH, b. 10-23-1887 Rolla, MO; d. aft 1930 + John SCHROEDER Jr, b. Oct 1879 MO; m. 06-26-1906 MO 04 William SCHROEDER/Schweder, b. abt 1907 Osage Co. MO 04 Walter SCHROEDER, b. abt 1909 Osage Co. MO 04 Dora SCHROEDER, b. abt 1912 Osage Co. MO 04 Edwin SCHROEDER, b. abt 1915 Osage Co. MO 04 Otto SCHROEDER, b. abt 1917 Osage Co. MO 04 Edna SCHROEDER, b. abt 1919 Osage Co. MO 04 Roy A. SCHROEDER, b. abt 1923 Osage Co. MO 04 Olivia S. SCHROEDER, b. abt 1925 Osage Co. MO 03 Edward W. WELCH, b. 08-12-1890 MO; d. bef 1900 02 Samuel C. HAWKINS, b. abt. 1860; d. 05-13-1865 + m2. Lea H. MILLER, b. 1826 in TN; d. 09-03-1892 MO; father of Lutitia (b. 1857) & Thomas (b. 1859) m. 04-19-1866 MO -2nd wife Mary Ann Holloman Hawkins 02 Lea Edmund MILLER, b. 04/29/1867 in Phelps Co. MO + Sally LUMLEY, m. 1895 in Yazoo Co. MS 03 John Andrew MILLER, b. 02/07/1897, Phoenix, MS; + Mary Belle HORNSBY 03 Jennie Lea MILLER, b. 03/15/1898 + J. Malcom BANKSTON 03 Carrie Belle MILLER, b. 03/25/1900 + Mr. NOBEL 03 William Lumbley MILLER, b. 04/22/1903 03 Ida Joyce MILLER, b. 05/10/19 03 Lea Edmund MILLER, Jr., b. 01/13/1913 MS; d. 11/13/1913 MS
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