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George Washington Holland

George Washington Holland, the son of Archibald Holland and Elizabeth Hagin was born 7-15-1839 on High Shoals Road, near Dallas, Paulding Co., Ga., d. 6/10/1896. He m. 1/18/1866 in Paulding Co., Ga., Lydia A.Camp (12/26/1849-8/27/1883), the daughter of Rev. Burrell Marion Camp and his wife, Mary E. Stegall.When already a grown man, Wash declared that he would wait for the lovely Lydia Camp to grow up and marry her. It was said that she had auburn hair and "was a pretty little thing. " As Lydia was dying in 1853, two years after the birth of their last child, she selected her husband's second wife. After the death of Lydia, Wash Holland m. 2nd, 12/20/1883 Paulding Co., Ga., Mary Jane Henderson Elsberry (buried Friendship Cemetery, Paulding Co., Ga.), the daughter of Robert Mitchell Henderson and Louise Goode. Her brothers and sisters were: W. C. Henderson of Villa Rice, Ga., James ThomasHenderson of Villa Rica, Ga., Noah Jeff Henderson of Villa Rice, Ga., and J. H. Henderson of Dallas, Ga., Louise Mitchell Henderson (4/14/1852-11/9/1943 m. Floyd Madison McClung, lived at Dallas, Ga., buried at Mt. Zion. Mary Jane Henderson Elsberry (later Holland) m. 1st, 9/11/1859 Paulding Co., Ga., M. M.Elsberry, and she was the mother of two children by her first husband, M. M. Elsberry, viz:(1) Walton L. Elsberry 11/21/1862-5/29/1950, buried Cullman, Alabama, m. 11/15/1887 Paulding Co.,Ga., Fannie Hagan; (2) Lou Elizabeth Elsberry 7/20/1860-9/29/1938 m. 12/21/1881 Patrick Henry Winn (2/1/1859-6/17/1901), both buried at Friendship Cemetery, Paulding Co., Ga.

Wash Holland was approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing over 250 pounds, blue-eyed, black-haired man who lived at High Shoals on a farm. Jesse Lee Holland, grandson of Henry Holland, told me (Jeannette Holland Austin) that Wash Holland weighted about 270 pounds.He served in the Confederate Army in Virginia under General Lee, and was at the second Battle of Manassas (8/29-30/1862) where he was wounded on the last day. Surgeons probed for the ball imbeded in his hip, but were unable to remove it. He was captured at the Battle of South Mountain and Antietam, later paroled 9/29/1862 at Warrenton, Va.Because of wounds received, Wash Holland was sent home where he remained from October 11, 1862 to March 1863 when he returned to the Army of General Lee in Virginia and fought in the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 1, 1863 where he was wounded again. He also fought at Gettysburg. He later received the meager pension of $50.00 per month, having achieved the tank of Sergeant and receiving shell wounds in his tight arm and a ball in his leg. Because of war wounds Wash Holland could only plow for short intervals, and sent his sons toplow. He spent much time reading the Bible, local newspaper and a Republican newspaper, The Cincinnati News. Hollands were Republicans.

The heavily-woodded farm of his father-in-law (Burrell Camp) was located one mile southeast of McPherson. Burrell Camp, having no sons to clear the land, swapped farms with Wash Holland. Thechildren attended High Shoals and Mt. Olivet schools, a walk of about three miles. Wash solved this problem by donating land at Candy Ridge for a school, helping build it, and by boarding the teachers.Wash's daughter, Lula Holland Keaton who lived in Atlanta. I (Jeannette Holland Austin) met her for the first time when I went to visit her in Atlanta before Uncle Alton died. Aunt Lula told me what she knew about the family, but did not know the name of her great-grandfather (William). Her grandfather, Archibald, was the first Holland to Paulding County, and sincehis father, William, died before 1840, his children could not have remembered much about him. Aunt Lula did say that she had an Uncle William who travelled a great deal and sometimes visited them on the farm.Children of Wash and Lydia Holland:

• Johnny Holland born and died 1866.
• Silas Casey Holland 1/13/1868-7/15/1933 m. 1st, Vicki Moon, and 2nd, Susie Elizabeth Keaten. Issue:

  1. Lydia Holland, daughter of Silas Casey Holland, m. John Lang. Children: Barbara Lang who m. Bill McCollum and Ruth Lang who m. Jack Sanders.
  2. Hettie Holland b. 1882 m. Jim Estes. Children: Herbert Estes m. Louise Brown of New Mexico; Ima Estes a. Ist Cecil Otwell, 2nd, Vernon Brooks; Inez Estes a. Ist J. T. Norton, 2nd,Julius Cangelosi of New Jersey (children, Everett Norton, Janet Cangslosi, Laarie Cangelosi);and Reba Holland Estes m. Ben Hill (children, Ramona, Susan and Vicki Hill).
  3. Mary Holland m. Shirley Adams. Children: Floy, Leslie, Dewey and i. J. Adams.
  4. Emery Holland b. 1900 m. Hattie Waite. Son, Jack Holland.
  5. Louella Holland b. 1904 m. Ed Hill. Son, Jerry Hill b, 1930 a. Mary Morcock.
  6. Mary Elizabeth Holland, was born 12/26/1871, died Gadsden,Ala. 5/20/1928 m. Thomas Walton Durham 4/27/1876-5/24/1946. After the death of Mary Elizabeth, Tom Durham m. Lillie Baxter. Children:

  1. Lillie Mae Durham b. 8/2/1901 m. Frank Cochran
  2. Ben Young Durham b. 2/16/1904 m. Lola Ledbetter.
  3. Tommie Irene Durhaa 3/28/1907-10/ 14/1962 m. Java Mitchell.
  4. Vera Durham 3/6/1909-6/611966, unmarried.
  5. Willie Ora Durham b. 1/20/1913 m. Frank Curruth.

• Samuel Marion Holland, son of Wash Holland, was b. 1872, d. abt 1908, unmarried.
• Charles Hartwell Holland, son of Wash Holland, 5/22/1874-7/1/1934 m. 10/17/1900 Alice V. Howell (3/27/1881-11/6/1925).Children of Hart and Alice Holland:

  1. Thelmer Holland 6/1/1907-2/28/1948 m. Elsie Lee Johnson who was b. 9/29/1913. Thelmer worked for the railroad. When he was fired from his job, he came home and shot himself. Buried Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Cemetery, Dallas, Ga.
  2. Clarence D. Holland 1901-1965 m. Irene Bullock. Had a store in Dallas, Ga. during the 1920s. Children of Clarence and Irene Holland:

  1. Clarence D. Holland, Jr. b. 1921 m. Gloria Burnet (children: Jack, Steve, Mike and Gloria Jean Holland).
  2. Josephine Holland b. 10/22/1927 m. William Daniel Crawford in 1948. Her children: William Daniel Crawford, Jr. b. 1953; Jeffry Crawford b. 1955.

  Virginia Holland b. 1916 m. Lake Sisson. Children: Alice Louise Sisson b. 1942;Virginia Elizabeth Sisson b. 1944 m. William Harrison, Jr.; Cindy Lake Sisson; and Dorotheanna Sisson b. 1951.

  Louise Holland b. 1913 Paulding Co., Ga. m. Roger Nixon Reynolds, Jr., (b. 1918 Atlanta, Georgia), resides near Winston Salem, N. C.Children of Louise Holland Reynolds:

  1. Linda Reynolds b. 1941 Miami, Florida m. Dr. Robert D. Fox
  2. Dr. Roger Nixon Reynolds III, b. 2/1947 Winston Salem, N. C.
  3. Susan Nixon b. 1955 Winston-Salem, N. C., (divorced)

• James Tom Holland, son of George Washington Holland, was b. Paulding Co., Ga.10/11/1876 died Paulding Co., Ga., 2/26/1939, buried Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Cemetery. Descendants of James Tom Holland
• William Holland, son of George Washington Holland, 1879-1886.
• Lula Ann Holland, daughter of George Washington Holland, was b. 3/31/1881 m. 5/8/1898 William Robert Keaten (10/31/1876-1962) of Carroll Co., Ga. She d. 1967 or 1968, Atlanta, Ga. Before her father's death (George Washington Holland), he told her to go with her grandpaBurrell Marion Camp who swapped farms with her father. She was fifteen years old at the time and recalled her father's tales about the Civil War. Two years later, she married and moved to Douglasville, Ga, where all her children were born. Genealogy of Keaten Family Children of Lula and William RobertKeaten:

1. Willie Aubrey Keaten 5/18/1899-2/11/1904,
2. Lorraine Keaten 6/15/1901-1/31/1904,
3. Clarence Aubrey Keaten b. 1/5/1906 m. 10/8/1927 Nettie Winn.Issue:

1. Robert Winn Keaten b. 3/20/1935 m. Sheila Bruening. Lives New Jersey, a nuclear scientist. Children: Robert Thomas Keaten b. 7/19/1962 and James Andrew Keaten b. 9/9/1963.
2. James Holland Keaten b. 5/10/1940, attorney in Atlanta, m. Helen Harbin, dau. of Dr.Harbin of Rome, Ga. Children: James Holland Keaten Jr. b. 12/11/1968; William Cader Keaten b. 8/14/1970; and Ellen Winn Keaten b. 8/7/1973.

John Coburn Keaten b. 12/17/1906 m. 2/9/1929 Elon McCullough. Children:

1. Robert Parks Keaten b. 1/5/1933 m. Ist, Jim Craig, 2nd, Margery Fish. Children by first wife: Rendy Keaten m. Michael Fekkers of Oregon (one child, Brandon Fekkers, b. 1985); Cary Keaten; Julia Keaten unmd.
2. Anthony Wayne Keaten b. 4/12/1940 m. Gay Hackney. Child: Alyssa Keaten m. Terrence Younce.
3. Elizabeth Osburne Keaten b. 3/25/1944 m. Ist, Kenneth Czarnecki., 2nd, Robert Britt (no issue), 3rd, Douglas Moore. Children: Deborah Lynn Czarnecki, Cary Moore.
4. Mary Ann Keaten b. 1/19/1950 m. Foster (Skip) Herbert. Issue: Michael Wayne Herbert.

Lottie Kathryn Keaten b. 4/10/1912 m. 11/17/1931 Fred E. Rowden. She d. about 1984 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Keader Carlton Keaten b. 1/10/1917 m. 1st Margaret Hudson, 2nd, 3/9/1946 Kathryn Griffin.Lives in California.

Wayne Holland Keaten b. 4/29/1909 m. 1st, Ruby Jenkins, 2nd, Edna Wiley. Lives in California.