Tolbert Holliday

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Tolbert was a forefather of some of the Perry County Hollidays. Most of us Perry Co. Hollidays are descendants of Tolbert and his children. Just a few of the Hollidays now living in Perry Co have descended from John H. D. 's other children. Tolbert was a Primitive Baptist Minister. He may have got this from his mother as Allie Justice had a brother Simeon Justice who help found many churches in this area including Indian Bottom Church at Blackey, Ky. No doubt this was a great influence on him and as he got older, he to became a minister. I do not know his role if any in founding thechurch at the Holliday Cemetery at Ary, Ky. He reportedly became a minister around the year 1860 and was involved mostly with the church in Lotts Creek. <p> Tolbert was called Sol in one Ky census. Why I do not know. There was a Sol Holliday in an Owen County, Ky census so we may be related to the Owen Holliday that lived there. I do not know where this name came from or who he may have been named after. I have noticed a lot of names similar in the Adams and Justices names in Tolbert and John's families. In a Va census we have found a Colbert, that a cenus taker could have misspelled. Tolbert may have named his children after his aunts and uncles in Virginia or neighbors to his dad while living on R. Beaver.. In 1850 there was a Elijah Holliday, hatter, that lived in Hazard age 65. This may have been one of Tolbert's uncles as Tolbert had a son by the same name. <p> Tolbert also was a land baron often trading land with his own father. He owned land at one time on 10 mile of Lost Creek near the present Airport. Fred Holliday lives on a portion of this property today. I do not know if he ever lived on Ten Mile or not but John his father lived on Lost Creek somewhere and later moved to Troublesome. I know Tolbert lived on Troublesome at some point in his life also. Tolbert purchased land from a Newman on Clear Creek on L Beaver in 1886 and may have went to live there later. His daughter Polly lived there also. I have a picture of Tolbert and knowof several more in existence. Tolbert had one son John who served in the Civil War in the 14 th Ky Cavalry Co. L Union <p> Tolbert's wife, Rachael Napier was the daughter of McCager Napier. This is where the Mack comes from in the Holliday line. Tolbert had a son named McCager Holliday who also became a minister. My dad was named after his uncle Mack (McCager Holliday) and I was named after my dad. My dad's birth record has M C Holliday as his name but everyone always called him Mack. <p> It has been told to me that Tolbert late in life remarried and this was greatly disapproved of by his family. It has been reported that he left Perry Co. to escape their wrath. Maybe this is why he purchased land in Floyd Co. on Clear Creek and maybe went to live there. I have found a marriage record in Perry Co. of a Tolbert marrying a Peggy Combs about this time also. The woman he married was supposed to be very young. I will be researching this more to see if we have some cousins we may have missed. <p> </p> <p> The following land grants was issued to a Tolbert Holliday under the County Court Orders. Some may have been issued to another Tolbert Holliday as there are other Tolberts in Perry Co. Ky,even Today. <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 100 ACRES, BOOK 12, P189, 2/11/1843,PERRY, LOST CR</p> <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 400 ACRES, BOOK 21, P144, 9/6/1846, PERRY, LOST CR</p> <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 300 ACRES, BOOK 22, P501, 8/21/1847,PERRY, LOST BR</p> <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 200 ACRES, BOOK 29, P198, 6/9/1848, PERRY, TOMS</p> <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 50 ACRES, BOOK 76, P145, 2/8/1869,BREATHITT, QUICKSAND</p> <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 200 ACRES, BOOK 76, P146, 2/8/1869,BREATHITT,QUICKSAND</p> <p>TOLBERT HOLLIDAY, 100 ACRES, BOOK 76, P147, 2/8/1869,BREATHITT,QUICKSA</p> <p> </p> <p>A total of 1350 acres besides what he may have acquired trading and purchasing from indivuals. 1. </p> <p>Notes</p> <p></p> <p> The old school house was located where the log cabin is on the hill. The lady that build build the log cabin is a Holliday, daugher of Elson Holliday. She married a Couch. That is the second School as the first was taken when the new road was build back in the early 1900's where the present highway now runs. <p>Chester Holliday remembers attending this school while growing up.</p> <p> He was a Hardshell Bapist Minister, and performed many marriages in Perry co when reared during civil war he had no opportunity to go to school so when he acquired a mountain farm, he and his wife donated ground for a school, built the school and boarded the teacher. who taught Elisha Holliday to read and write. This school would now be located at mouth of Tom's branch. the original school was taken by the highway but replaced on the hill where Peggy (Holliday) Couch's log cabin is now build. The log cabin was build on the supports of the old school. <p> I would like to have a picture of this old school if anyone should have one. I am also trying to locate the board minutes books. We believe this old school was the forerunner of the Hindman Settlement School as some that were on its board were also later on the board at the Hindman Settlement School. I have a copy of a letter from a Mr. Adams who wrote to his mother in Letcher co. about getting a job teaching there. <p>Tolbert was a Primitive Baptist Minister and lived when first married at the mou th of McGuildon somewhere around where the new bridge in now located on Troublesome Creek in Perry Co. Ky</p> <p></p> <p> A souce indiciates he became a minister around the year 1860 at Lotts creek Church. A souce say in his old days he married again to a woman very young and his family disappoved of it. The woman name was Peggy Combs and I have found a marriage record of this marriage to support the above information. <p></p> <p> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>I</p>

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