Waller Holladay

Son of Major Lewis Holladay and Elizabeth 'Betty' Lewis.

Mr. Waller Holladay studied law, was admitted to the Bar on January 12, 1801, and practiced his profession until a large estate left him by his half-brother, General Lewis Littlepage (Find A Grave Memorial# 5004843), demanded his full time, when he retired from practice.

He was a man of scholarly tastes, and a poet of considerable merit. Though not personally attracted to public life he was very intimate with some of the foremost men of that day, and counted among his regular correspondents Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Randolph, John Randolph, of Roanoke, James Madison and other statesmen of the time. Like most of the prominent Virginians of that day, he served as a magistrate and as overseer of the poor.

He was a member of the Virginia Senate in 1829 and 1830, and a Democratic presidential elector in 1836 and 1840. He declined to be a candidate to the State Senate in 1839 because of illness. He permitted his name to be used as a candidate to the House of Delegates, and was beaten by Major Oscar M. Crutchfleld, who jocosely said that he had beaten "the old wheel horse of Democracy in his county." He was a half-brother of General Littlepage, who made him his heir.

Waller Holladay was an excellent man of business and no man of his generation stood higher in his community.

His children were: Dr. Lewis Littlepage Holladay, born August 16, 1803, who married November 8, 1827, Jean Thompson. His second wife, whom he married in 1804, was Mary Elizabeth (Willis) Garnett.

The second son, Reverend Albert Lewis Holladay, was born April 17, 1805, and married October 30, 1830, Anne Yancey Minor. He died October 18, 1856.

The third son, John Zachary Holladay, born December 13, 1806, married on May 19, 1836, Julia Anne Minor. He died October 12, 1842.

The fourth child was a daughter, Anne Elizabeth, born February 25, 1808, who married, on May 23, 1833, Dr. W. Q. Poindexter, of Mississippi, a nephew of Governor Poindexter. She died in December, 1853.

The next child, Waller Lewis Holladay, was born on October 22, 1809, married, June 14, 1849, Emily Mansfield, and died December 11, 1873.

The next child was Alexander Richmond Holladay, twin with Henry Addison Holladay. These two were born September 18, 1811. Alexander Richmond married, on September 7, 1837, Patsy Q. Poindexter, and died January 29, 1877. His twin brother, Henry Addison, married, May 14, 1846, Mary F. (Jenkins) Calvert.

The eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh children were daughters: Huldah Lewis, Eliza Lewis, Mary Waller and Frances Anne, none of whom ever married.

The twelfth child, James Minor, was born May 9, 1823, and married June 22, 1861, Lucy D. Lewis.

The thirteenth and youngest child was Virginia Watson, born August 29, 1829, who died on the 2nd of May, 1888.

Extracted from:

MAKERS OF AMERICA BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MEN OF THOUGHT AND ACTION

THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THE BONE AND SINEW OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND LIFE

VOLUME II

By LEONARD WILSON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ASSISTED BY PROMINENT HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WRITERS Illustrated with many full page engravings B. F. JOHNSON, INC. CITY OF WASHINGTON, U. S. A. 1916

Copyright, 1916 by B. F. Johnson, Inc.

References

• Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly ..., Volume 1 By Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneological Magazine. GoogleBooks