Daniel Holland, M.D., was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, in 1801. His family had migrated from Maryland to North Carolina, then to Tennessee; and finally, in 1831, Daniel moved further on to Calloway County, Kentucky.
Wiley Holland, Daniel's son, moved to Madison County, Mississippi, where in 1852 a severe smallpox epidemic occurred. Wiley sent his father a telegraph to come help, so Dr. Holland made his will in May of the same year stating:
"In the name of God, Amen. I Daniel Holland, Sr., of the County of Calloway and State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and disposing memory, expecting to take a journey into a new Country of some considerable length and, calling to mind, the uncertainty of human life, and being desirous should I not be permitted to return, to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with."
A couple of months went by, and Dr. Holland returned home in the horse drawn buggy in which he departed on the trip, but not alive. He had contracted the disease and died on the way home, his faithful horse finding its own way, brought his body back home. Daniel Holland (age 51) was buried among family and friends July 20, 1852 in the small family cemetery on his farm which still exists.
Wiley Holland, Daniel's son, moved to Madison County, Mississippi, where in 1852 a severe smallpox epidemic occurred. Wiley sent his father a telegraph to come help, so Dr. Holland made his will in May of the same year stating:
"In the name of God, Amen. I Daniel Holland, Sr., of the County of Calloway and State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and disposing memory, expecting to take a journey into a new Country of some considerable length and, calling to mind, the uncertainty of human life, and being desirous should I not be permitted to return, to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with."
A couple of months went by, and Dr. Holland returned home in the horse drawn buggy in which he departed on the trip, but not alive. He had contracted the disease and died on the way home, his faithful horse finding its own way, brought his body back home. Daniel Holland (age 51) was buried among family and friends July 20, 1852 in the small family cemetery on his farm which still exists.
Daniel Holland, M.D., was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, in 1801. His family had migrated from Maryland to North Carolina, then to Tennessee; and finally, in 1831, Daniel moved further on to Calloway County, Kentucky.
Wiley Holland, Daniel's son, moved to Madison County, Mississippi, where in 1852 a severe smallpox epidemic occurred. Wiley sent his father a telegraph to come help, so Dr. Holland made his will in May of the same year stating:
"In the name of God, Amen. I Daniel Holland, Sr., of the County of Calloway and State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and disposing memory, expecting to take a journey into a new Country of some considerable length and, calling to mind, the uncertainty of human life, and being desirous should I not be permitted to return, to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with."
A couple of months went by, and Dr. Holland returned home in the horse drawn buggy in which he departed on the trip, but not alive. He had contracted the disease and died on the way home, his faithful horse finding its own way, brought his body back home. Daniel Holland (age 51) was buried among family and friends July 20, 1852 in the small family cemetery on his farm which still exists.
Wiley Holland, Daniel's son, moved to Madison County, Mississippi, where in 1852 a severe smallpox epidemic occurred. Wiley sent his father a telegraph to come help, so Dr. Holland made his will in May of the same year stating:
"In the name of God, Amen. I Daniel Holland, Sr., of the County of Calloway and State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and disposing memory, expecting to take a journey into a new Country of some considerable length and, calling to mind, the uncertainty of human life, and being desirous should I not be permitted to return, to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with."
A couple of months went by, and Dr. Holland returned home in the horse drawn buggy in which he departed on the trip, but not alive. He had contracted the disease and died on the way home, his faithful horse finding its own way, brought his body back home. Daniel Holland (age 51) was buried among family and friends July 20, 1852 in the small family cemetery on his farm which still exists.
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