John Holliday

3D corp co 1 13 Ky Cav Arm Confederate States Army* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 15 2023, 18:23:35 UTC

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SOME ON THE LAND GRANTS LISTED UNDER COUNTY COURT ORDERS COULD BE HIS <p>ESPECIALLY THE JOHN HOLLIDAY JR.LAND GRAND, MAYBE THE THE JOHN HOLLIDAY</p> <p>SR, MAY BE HIS IF HE DAD A SON NAMED JOHN HOLLIDAY. THERE IS SEVERAL </p> <p>JOHN HOLLIDAY'S IN PERRY CO NOW.</p> <p></p> <p>JOHN AND UNCLE WALTER WERE BORN SEVERAL HOURS APART ACCORDING TO A ARTICLE WRITTEN IN HAZARD KY DAILY TIMES ON FRIDAY MAY 26, 1944</p> <p>JOHN WAS BORN APRIL 12 AND UNCLE WALTER WAS BORN 2 HOURS LATER</p> <p></p> <p>CLIPPING FROM THE HAZARD KY DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1944</p> <p></p> <p>BORN TWO HOURS APART BY SE TAYLOR</p> <p>MR. H.K.HOLLIDAY, WHOSE HOME IS ONE TROUBLESOME, CAME IN THURSDAY AND GAVE THE TIMES AN INTERESTING STORY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCE ATTENDING THE BIRTH OF HIS FATHER, JOHN HOLLLIDAY, 101 YEARS AGO LAST APRIL 12. <p>JOHN WAS THE ELDEST OF THE FAMILY OF TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, A PRIMITIVE BAPTIST PREACHER WHO LIVED AT THE MOUTH OF MCNELLE CREEK ON TROUBLESOME </p> <p>JOHNS GRANDMOTHER HOLLIDAY, WAS CALLED IN TO ASSIST AS MIDWIFE IN THE CASE. IT WAS A ONE ROOM LOG CABIN AND THE MOTHER OCCUPIED THE ONLY BED IN THAT ONE ROOM. BABY JOHN WAS NO MORE THAN USHERED INTO THE NEW AND STAINING WORLD WHEN HIS GRANDMOTHER WAS SEIZED WITH THE PAINS OF TRAVAIL <p>BUT THERE WAS NO BED ON WHICH SHE MIGHT LIE. SO A NEIGHBOR BORROWED A HORSE AND RODE TEN MILES DOWN THE CREEK, BORROWED A FEATHERBED FROM ANOTHER NEIGHBOR AND HURRIED BACK THOUGHT THE DARK. THE FEATHERBED WAS MADE UP ON THE FLOOR OF THE ONE ROOM CABIN AND THEN WALTER HOLLIDAY WAS BORN JUST TWO HOURS AFTER HIS UNCLE JOHN. NOTE JOHN WAS WALTERS NEPHEW. <p></p> <p>THE ABOVE INFORMATION CAME FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY GD HOLLIDAY</p> <p>516 MCALPIN CIN, OHIO, IN THE SUMMER OF 1943</p> <p></p> <p>A John Holliday in Company I 13th Ky Cav CSA. with Capt William Smith Company. He was between 18 and 35 and was from Perry Co. Ky. Enlisted Oct 8, 1862 at Whitesburg. Was conscripted from CaptB E. Caudill Company. May have been in 5 th before the 13th. was a Corpsman. No 46455483 <p></p> <p>also a John Holliday in Harlan Three Forks battalion</p> <p></p> <p>John Holliday company D. 032 pvt, 1864-10-07 1867-10-07</p> <p>at Per padi y months, mustered out 07-17-1862 at Irvin</p> <p></p> <p>This John Holliday was in 14th Ky cav with Green Holliday I know. He has a plaque at his grave in Holliday cem. His wife was a courier for the union also.</p> <p></p> <p>He was also a County Judge of Perry Co. in 1880 but termseemed to be cut short for some reason. </p> <p></p> <p>In 1890 Census of Vets etc was listed as suffering from T. B.</p> <p></p> <p>In Perry Co. Ky School his children was listed as parent being Arch Holliday</p> <p></p> <p> </p>

3D corp co 1 13 Ky Cav Arm Confederate States Army* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 15 2023, 18:30:25 UTC