Co. I, 2nd Georgia State Line, CSA
Benjamin Franklin Holland, father of Spessard, was born December 15, 1846, Carroll County, Georgia. Benjamin was the son of Lindsey and Elizabeth (Lassetter) Holland. During the Civil War, he served as a recruit in Company I, 2nd Regt., Georgia State Line, in which his father was orderly sergeant, from January 1864 to May 1864, when Benjamin was brigaded with regular troops in Cummings Brigade, Stephenson Division, Hood's Corps, and, along with his father, was wounded on June 22, 1864 while making a charge on the federal line at Kulp's Farm. His company was disbanded in March 1865. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he in 1882 moved to Florida and settled at Bartow where he founded Polk County's first abstract company. Benjamin F. Holland died January 5, 1925. At Monroe County, West Virginia on September 7, 1890, he married Fannie Virginia Spessard, a native of Craig County, Virginia. Fannie, who prior to her marriage, was a schoolteacher, had come to Florida in 1889 and died in 1930. The Hollands helped organize the First Methodist Church of Bartow. They had three children: Spessard Lindsey, Frank L. (1895-1966), Virginia 1898-1986, Mrs. Roy Trent Gallemore).
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crackerbarrel/Holland.html]
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Benjamin Franklin Holland, father of Spessard, was born December 15, 1846, Carroll County, Georgia. Benjamin was the son of Lindsey and Elizabeth (Lassetter) Holland. During the Civil War, he served as a recruit in Company I, 2nd Regt., Georgia State Line, in which his father was orderly sergeant, from January 1864 to May 1864, when Benjamin was brigaded with regular troops in Cummings Brigade, Stephenson Division, Hood's Corps, and, along with his father, was wounded on June 22, 1864 while making a charge on the federal line at Kulp's Farm. His company was disbanded in March 1865. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he in 1882 moved to Florida and settled at Bartow where he founded Polk County's first abstract company. Benjamin F. Holland died January 5, 1925. At Monroe County, West Virginia on September 7, 1890, he married Fannie Virginia Spessard, a native of Craig County, Virginia. Fannie, who prior to her marriage, was a schoolteacher, had come to Florida in 1889 and died in 1930. The Hollands helped organize the First Methodist Church of Bartow. They had three children: Spessard Lindsey, Frank L. (1895-1966), Virginia 1898-1986, Mrs. Roy Trent Gallemore).
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crackerbarrel/Holland.html]
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Co. I, 2nd Georgia State Line, CSA
Benjamin Franklin Holland, father of Spessard, was born December 15, 1846, Carroll County, Georgia. Benjamin was the son of Lindsey and Elizabeth (Lassetter) Holland. During the Civil War, he served as a recruit in Company I, 2nd Regt., Georgia State Line, in which his father was orderly sergeant, from January 1864 to May 1864, when Benjamin was brigaded with regular troops in Cummings Brigade, Stephenson Division, Hood's Corps, and, along with his father, was wounded on June 22, 1864 while making a charge on the federal line at Kulp's Farm. His company was disbanded in March 1865. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he in 1882 moved to Florida and settled at Bartow where he founded Polk County's first abstract company. Benjamin F. Holland died January 5, 1925. At Monroe County, West Virginia on September 7, 1890, he married Fannie Virginia Spessard, a native of Craig County, Virginia. Fannie, who prior to her marriage, was a schoolteacher, had come to Florida in 1889 and died in 1930. The Hollands helped organize the First Methodist Church of Bartow. They had three children: Spessard Lindsey, Frank L. (1895-1966), Virginia 1898-1986, Mrs. Roy Trent Gallemore).
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crackerbarrel/Holland.html]
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Benjamin Franklin Holland, father of Spessard, was born December 15, 1846, Carroll County, Georgia. Benjamin was the son of Lindsey and Elizabeth (Lassetter) Holland. During the Civil War, he served as a recruit in Company I, 2nd Regt., Georgia State Line, in which his father was orderly sergeant, from January 1864 to May 1864, when Benjamin was brigaded with regular troops in Cummings Brigade, Stephenson Division, Hood's Corps, and, along with his father, was wounded on June 22, 1864 while making a charge on the federal line at Kulp's Farm. His company was disbanded in March 1865. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he in 1882 moved to Florida and settled at Bartow where he founded Polk County's first abstract company. Benjamin F. Holland died January 5, 1925. At Monroe County, West Virginia on September 7, 1890, he married Fannie Virginia Spessard, a native of Craig County, Virginia. Fannie, who prior to her marriage, was a schoolteacher, had come to Florida in 1889 and died in 1930. The Hollands helped organize the First Methodist Church of Bartow. They had three children: Spessard Lindsey, Frank L. (1895-1966), Virginia 1898-1986, Mrs. Roy Trent Gallemore).
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crackerbarrel/Holland.html]
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