Child of Charles Daniel Lucas & Mary Hastens/Hastings Lucas. Wife of Uriah H. Holliman whom is burried in Mississippi in the Oklalona Confederate Cem.
Mary's siblings are as follows:
J. Thomas Lucas b.Oct.11,1803
Elizabeth Lucas b.Oct.27,1806
Dorcas Lucas b.Nov.14,1810
John Hasten Lucas b.Feb.20,1812 d.Sept.27,1894 m.Jane Walters Aug.10,1835 M.Betsy Comfort
William Lucas b.April 22,1814 d.1908 m.Holley Guin Jly,29,1841
Uriah Lucas b.Sept.17,1816 d.1912 m.Sarah McCoy April 19,1838
Jane Caroline Lucas b.Sept.20,1823
Lorenza Lucas b.Mar.18,1821 died at young age.
Nancy B. Lucas b.April 18,1826 d.Jan.19,1853
Mary was seventeen when she married Uriah H. Holliman on Aug.31,1836 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama. Performing the ceremony was the Rev. John Walters. The couple later settled southwest of Bluff in Fayette Co., She was a midwife and herb doctor in northern Fayette County for most of her life. Mary and Uriah had 13 children.
Uriah and Mary Polly Lucas Holliman are my maternal great-great-great grandparents.
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Dr. Rhodes B. Holliman a great-great grandson of Mary Polly Lucas Holliman shared with me a biographical sketch he prepared for her.
Mary Polly Lucas and Uriah Holliman had 13 children (7 boys and 6 girls). all reached adult life except the first, Mary, who lived 4 years. Mary Polly delivered all of her own children which gave her valuable experience for the events to come. As the clouds of the Civil War appeared, five of her family joined the Confederate Army, her husband, Uriah, at the age of 46; sons, James Franklin, Charles Daniel, John Thomas and Elijah. Her daughter, Sarah Jane, (my great-great grandmother) was married to a Confederate soldier, Charles Stephen Copprell (my great great grandfather). Only 2 of Mary polly's family would survive the War: Lt. James Franklin Holliman, Company B, 58th Ala. Infantry Regt., and Pvt John Thomas Holliman, Company H, 41st Ala. Infantry Regt. James Franklin is buried in the Holliman-Stewart Cemetery just south of Bluff, AL., and John Thomas (great grandfather of RBH)is buried at Caines Ridge Cemetery just south of Fayette, AL.
In May of 1862, Mary Polly heard from some source that Uriah and a son, Charles Daniel,were sick in Okolona,Mississippi, after the battle at Corinth. They had measles and pneumonia. She hitched up the mule to a wagon and went to Oklona to tend to her sick husband and son. Uriah died on May 8th,1862, and Charles Daniel died on May 12th,1862. She stayed to bury her husband and son and then drove the wagon back to the home place near Bluff. Their graves are amoung the many "Unknowns" in the Okolona Confederate Cemetery. She contracted measles while exposed to them and drove home in desperate condition. She survived to become one of the great, compassionate, pioneer ladies of northwestern Fayette County Alabama. She became the herb doctor and midwife to many during the Civil War and thereafter.
She would charge five dollars for midwife services which included checkups,moving into the mother's home and performing the delivery,staying for a week for the care of mother and infant, plus cooking for the family and doing the washing and cleaning house. If ever a grave stone spoke the truth to the memory of the one interred, it is her stone:"Pioneer Strength, Integrity, Human Kindness". Take a sobering look in Springhill Cemetery, Bluff,AL. One of God's great compassionate mothers is there.
Mary Polly finished her days at the home of her youngest son, Joshua Warren Holliman at Vernon AL, Lamar County. One of the last recollections that her son had of her comes from our family archives. She was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of an old dog-trot house, smoking a corn cob pipe and nipping from a quart of whisky that was sitting on the floor beside her chair"!!
There are many tales to tell about Mary Polly Lucas Holliman and her large family. There is a separate, exciting tale about each one of them. There are very few cemeteries in Fayette County where you can't find one or more Hollimans descended from Mary Polly. Her descendants spread out over Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama.
And I (Linda Joyce) am very proud to be one
Mary's siblings are as follows:
J. Thomas Lucas b.Oct.11,1803
Elizabeth Lucas b.Oct.27,1806
Dorcas Lucas b.Nov.14,1810
John Hasten Lucas b.Feb.20,1812 d.Sept.27,1894 m.Jane Walters Aug.10,1835 M.Betsy Comfort
William Lucas b.April 22,1814 d.1908 m.Holley Guin Jly,29,1841
Uriah Lucas b.Sept.17,1816 d.1912 m.Sarah McCoy April 19,1838
Jane Caroline Lucas b.Sept.20,1823
Lorenza Lucas b.Mar.18,1821 died at young age.
Nancy B. Lucas b.April 18,1826 d.Jan.19,1853
Mary was seventeen when she married Uriah H. Holliman on Aug.31,1836 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama. Performing the ceremony was the Rev. John Walters. The couple later settled southwest of Bluff in Fayette Co., She was a midwife and herb doctor in northern Fayette County for most of her life. Mary and Uriah had 13 children.
Uriah and Mary Polly Lucas Holliman are my maternal great-great-great grandparents.
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Dr. Rhodes B. Holliman a great-great grandson of Mary Polly Lucas Holliman shared with me a biographical sketch he prepared for her.
Mary Polly Lucas and Uriah Holliman had 13 children (7 boys and 6 girls). all reached adult life except the first, Mary, who lived 4 years. Mary Polly delivered all of her own children which gave her valuable experience for the events to come. As the clouds of the Civil War appeared, five of her family joined the Confederate Army, her husband, Uriah, at the age of 46; sons, James Franklin, Charles Daniel, John Thomas and Elijah. Her daughter, Sarah Jane, (my great-great grandmother) was married to a Confederate soldier, Charles Stephen Copprell (my great great grandfather). Only 2 of Mary polly's family would survive the War: Lt. James Franklin Holliman, Company B, 58th Ala. Infantry Regt., and Pvt John Thomas Holliman, Company H, 41st Ala. Infantry Regt. James Franklin is buried in the Holliman-Stewart Cemetery just south of Bluff, AL., and John Thomas (great grandfather of RBH)is buried at Caines Ridge Cemetery just south of Fayette, AL.
In May of 1862, Mary Polly heard from some source that Uriah and a son, Charles Daniel,were sick in Okolona,Mississippi, after the battle at Corinth. They had measles and pneumonia. She hitched up the mule to a wagon and went to Oklona to tend to her sick husband and son. Uriah died on May 8th,1862, and Charles Daniel died on May 12th,1862. She stayed to bury her husband and son and then drove the wagon back to the home place near Bluff. Their graves are amoung the many "Unknowns" in the Okolona Confederate Cemetery. She contracted measles while exposed to them and drove home in desperate condition. She survived to become one of the great, compassionate, pioneer ladies of northwestern Fayette County Alabama. She became the herb doctor and midwife to many during the Civil War and thereafter.
She would charge five dollars for midwife services which included checkups,moving into the mother's home and performing the delivery,staying for a week for the care of mother and infant, plus cooking for the family and doing the washing and cleaning house. If ever a grave stone spoke the truth to the memory of the one interred, it is her stone:"Pioneer Strength, Integrity, Human Kindness". Take a sobering look in Springhill Cemetery, Bluff,AL. One of God's great compassionate mothers is there.
Mary Polly finished her days at the home of her youngest son, Joshua Warren Holliman at Vernon AL, Lamar County. One of the last recollections that her son had of her comes from our family archives. She was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of an old dog-trot house, smoking a corn cob pipe and nipping from a quart of whisky that was sitting on the floor beside her chair"!!
There are many tales to tell about Mary Polly Lucas Holliman and her large family. There is a separate, exciting tale about each one of them. There are very few cemeteries in Fayette County where you can't find one or more Hollimans descended from Mary Polly. Her descendants spread out over Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama.
And I (Linda Joyce) am very proud to be one
Child of Charles Daniel Lucas & Mary Hastens/Hastings Lucas. Wife of Uriah H. Holliman whom is burried in Mississippi in the Oklalona Confederate Cem.
Mary's siblings are as follows:
J. Thomas Lucas b.Oct.11,1803
Elizabeth Lucas b.Oct.27,1806
Dorcas Lucas b.Nov.14,1810
John Hasten Lucas b.Feb.20,1812 d.Sept.27,1894 m.Jane Walters Aug.10,1835 M.Betsy Comfort
William Lucas b.April 22,1814 d.1908 m.Holley Guin Jly,29,1841
Uriah Lucas b.Sept.17,1816 d.1912 m.Sarah McCoy April 19,1838
Jane Caroline Lucas b.Sept.20,1823
Lorenza Lucas b.Mar.18,1821 died at young age.
Nancy B. Lucas b.April 18,1826 d.Jan.19,1853
Mary was seventeen when she married Uriah H. Holliman on Aug.31,1836 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama. Performing the ceremony was the Rev. John Walters. The couple later settled southwest of Bluff in Fayette Co., She was a midwife and herb doctor in northern Fayette County for most of her life. Mary and Uriah had 13 children.
Uriah and Mary Polly Lucas Holliman are my maternal great-great-great grandparents.
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Dr. Rhodes B. Holliman a great-great grandson of Mary Polly Lucas Holliman shared with me a biographical sketch he prepared for her.
Mary Polly Lucas and Uriah Holliman had 13 children (7 boys and 6 girls). all reached adult life except the first, Mary, who lived 4 years. Mary Polly delivered all of her own children which gave her valuable experience for the events to come. As the clouds of the Civil War appeared, five of her family joined the Confederate Army, her husband, Uriah, at the age of 46; sons, James Franklin, Charles Daniel, John Thomas and Elijah. Her daughter, Sarah Jane, (my great-great grandmother) was married to a Confederate soldier, Charles Stephen Copprell (my great great grandfather). Only 2 of Mary polly's family would survive the War: Lt. James Franklin Holliman, Company B, 58th Ala. Infantry Regt., and Pvt John Thomas Holliman, Company H, 41st Ala. Infantry Regt. James Franklin is buried in the Holliman-Stewart Cemetery just south of Bluff, AL., and John Thomas (great grandfather of RBH)is buried at Caines Ridge Cemetery just south of Fayette, AL.
In May of 1862, Mary Polly heard from some source that Uriah and a son, Charles Daniel,were sick in Okolona,Mississippi, after the battle at Corinth. They had measles and pneumonia. She hitched up the mule to a wagon and went to Oklona to tend to her sick husband and son. Uriah died on May 8th,1862, and Charles Daniel died on May 12th,1862. She stayed to bury her husband and son and then drove the wagon back to the home place near Bluff. Their graves are amoung the many "Unknowns" in the Okolona Confederate Cemetery. She contracted measles while exposed to them and drove home in desperate condition. She survived to become one of the great, compassionate, pioneer ladies of northwestern Fayette County Alabama. She became the herb doctor and midwife to many during the Civil War and thereafter.
She would charge five dollars for midwife services which included checkups,moving into the mother's home and performing the delivery,staying for a week for the care of mother and infant, plus cooking for the family and doing the washing and cleaning house. If ever a grave stone spoke the truth to the memory of the one interred, it is her stone:"Pioneer Strength, Integrity, Human Kindness". Take a sobering look in Springhill Cemetery, Bluff,AL. One of God's great compassionate mothers is there.
Mary Polly finished her days at the home of her youngest son, Joshua Warren Holliman at Vernon AL, Lamar County. One of the last recollections that her son had of her comes from our family archives. She was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of an old dog-trot house, smoking a corn cob pipe and nipping from a quart of whisky that was sitting on the floor beside her chair"!!
There are many tales to tell about Mary Polly Lucas Holliman and her large family. There is a separate, exciting tale about each one of them. There are very few cemeteries in Fayette County where you can't find one or more Hollimans descended from Mary Polly. Her descendants spread out over Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama.
And I (Linda Joyce) am very proud to be one
Mary's siblings are as follows:
J. Thomas Lucas b.Oct.11,1803
Elizabeth Lucas b.Oct.27,1806
Dorcas Lucas b.Nov.14,1810
John Hasten Lucas b.Feb.20,1812 d.Sept.27,1894 m.Jane Walters Aug.10,1835 M.Betsy Comfort
William Lucas b.April 22,1814 d.1908 m.Holley Guin Jly,29,1841
Uriah Lucas b.Sept.17,1816 d.1912 m.Sarah McCoy April 19,1838
Jane Caroline Lucas b.Sept.20,1823
Lorenza Lucas b.Mar.18,1821 died at young age.
Nancy B. Lucas b.April 18,1826 d.Jan.19,1853
Mary was seventeen when she married Uriah H. Holliman on Aug.31,1836 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama. Performing the ceremony was the Rev. John Walters. The couple later settled southwest of Bluff in Fayette Co., She was a midwife and herb doctor in northern Fayette County for most of her life. Mary and Uriah had 13 children.
Uriah and Mary Polly Lucas Holliman are my maternal great-great-great grandparents.
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Dr. Rhodes B. Holliman a great-great grandson of Mary Polly Lucas Holliman shared with me a biographical sketch he prepared for her.
Mary Polly Lucas and Uriah Holliman had 13 children (7 boys and 6 girls). all reached adult life except the first, Mary, who lived 4 years. Mary Polly delivered all of her own children which gave her valuable experience for the events to come. As the clouds of the Civil War appeared, five of her family joined the Confederate Army, her husband, Uriah, at the age of 46; sons, James Franklin, Charles Daniel, John Thomas and Elijah. Her daughter, Sarah Jane, (my great-great grandmother) was married to a Confederate soldier, Charles Stephen Copprell (my great great grandfather). Only 2 of Mary polly's family would survive the War: Lt. James Franklin Holliman, Company B, 58th Ala. Infantry Regt., and Pvt John Thomas Holliman, Company H, 41st Ala. Infantry Regt. James Franklin is buried in the Holliman-Stewart Cemetery just south of Bluff, AL., and John Thomas (great grandfather of RBH)is buried at Caines Ridge Cemetery just south of Fayette, AL.
In May of 1862, Mary Polly heard from some source that Uriah and a son, Charles Daniel,were sick in Okolona,Mississippi, after the battle at Corinth. They had measles and pneumonia. She hitched up the mule to a wagon and went to Oklona to tend to her sick husband and son. Uriah died on May 8th,1862, and Charles Daniel died on May 12th,1862. She stayed to bury her husband and son and then drove the wagon back to the home place near Bluff. Their graves are amoung the many "Unknowns" in the Okolona Confederate Cemetery. She contracted measles while exposed to them and drove home in desperate condition. She survived to become one of the great, compassionate, pioneer ladies of northwestern Fayette County Alabama. She became the herb doctor and midwife to many during the Civil War and thereafter.
She would charge five dollars for midwife services which included checkups,moving into the mother's home and performing the delivery,staying for a week for the care of mother and infant, plus cooking for the family and doing the washing and cleaning house. If ever a grave stone spoke the truth to the memory of the one interred, it is her stone:"Pioneer Strength, Integrity, Human Kindness". Take a sobering look in Springhill Cemetery, Bluff,AL. One of God's great compassionate mothers is there.
Mary Polly finished her days at the home of her youngest son, Joshua Warren Holliman at Vernon AL, Lamar County. One of the last recollections that her son had of her comes from our family archives. She was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of an old dog-trot house, smoking a corn cob pipe and nipping from a quart of whisky that was sitting on the floor beside her chair"!!
There are many tales to tell about Mary Polly Lucas Holliman and her large family. There is a separate, exciting tale about each one of them. There are very few cemeteries in Fayette County where you can't find one or more Hollimans descended from Mary Polly. Her descendants spread out over Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama.
And I (Linda Joyce) am very proud to be one
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Pioneer Strength, Integrity, Human Kindness
Family Members
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Mary Elizabeth Holliman
1837–1841
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Lieut James Franklin Holliman
1839–1911
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Sarah Jane Holliman Copprell
1840–1915
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Pvt Charles Daniel Holliman
1842–1862
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Pvt John Thomas Holliman
1844–1930
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Pvt Elijah Holliman
1846–1864
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Nancy Palestine Holliman Pinion
1848–1923
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Cornelius Holliman
1849–1924
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William Perry Holliman
1852–1913
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Martha Ann "Mary" Holliman Buckner
1854–1929
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Rebecca Drucilla Holliman Holliman
1856–1937
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Emily Francis Holliman McClung Reynolds
1858–1908
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Joshua Warren Holliman
1860–1944
