The Carson Family
From Washington County,
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To Rockcastle County, Kentucky
To Jellico, Tennessee
To Davie, Broward County, Florida
James Holman (Holdman, Holeman)
Born: about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky
Died: about 1886 in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky
James Holman (Holdman,
Holeman) was born about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky. He lived in the area of Brodhead
and Crab Orchard, Kentucky, which are on the border of three Kentucky counties: Lincoln, Garrard, and
Rockcastle. (At one time part of Garrard County was the western part of Madison County.)
On June 4, 1835 in Garrard County, Kentucky, James Holman was married to Martha
Ramsey, the daughter of Alexander Ramsey, by Baptist minister Benjamin Polston.
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See Holmans in North Carolina
See Holman Descendants in North Carolina
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Excerpts from HOLEMAN/HOLMAN NEWSLETTER, Roger and Merry Ann Malcolm, Editors
Descendants of Thomas Holeman (d. ca 1798)
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Children of Thomas Holeman & Mary ? (see Note #3)
1-2-2 Joseph Holeman, b. ca 1746; m. 1) Elizabeth Wilson 12 Apr 1768, Rowan Co., NC; m. 2)
Catherine (Livingston) Wilson, 8 Apr 1790, Madison Co., KY (see Notes #4 and #5); d. ca 1819,
Madison County, Kentucky.
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PROBABLE children of Joseph Holeman & Elizabeth Wilson (see Note #7)
1-2-2-1 James Holman, b. ca 1770; m. Sarah Wilson (dau. of Catherine (Livingston-Wilson)
Holeman), 9 Feb 1790, Madison Co., KY; lived in Campbell Co., KY in 1818.
1-2-2-2 Mary "Polly" Holman, b. ca 1772; m. Edward Hockersmith, 27 Aug 1793, Madison Co., KY (see Note #8).
1-2-2-3 Joseph Holman, Jr., b. ca 1775, NC; m. Rebecca Barnes, 15 Dec 1797, Madison Co., KY; d. Nov 1836, Marion Co., MO.
1-2-2-4 William C Holman, b. 7 Jan 1778, NC; m. Elearnor Barnes, 16 Nov 1802, Madison Co., KY; d. 26 Feb 1834, Randolph Co., MO; bur. Pleasant Grove cem., Randolph Co., MO.
1-2-2-5 John Holman, b. ca 1780; m. Nancy Martin, 18 Mar 1817, Madison Co., KY; d. before 2 May 1836, Madison Co., KY (see Note #9).
1-2-2-6 Daniel Holman, b. ca 1782; m. Rebecca (Johnson?) Elkins, 15 June 1809, Madison Co., KY; d. 1840-1850.
1-2-2-7 Elizabeth "Betsy" Holman, m. Joshua Moran, 1 Sep 1808, Madison Co., KY.
Note #3 The order of children in the will of Thomas Holeman is as follows: Absalom, Reuben, Susannah, Rachel,
Joseph, Daniel, Rebecca, Isaac, Thomas, Grace, Elizabeth, Jacob, Margaret, James.
Absalom, Reuben, and Susannah were singled out to receive two-thirds of his estate while each of the other children was given 1 shilling. Probably these three had not yet married.
Note #4 In August 1818 Catherine (Livingston-Wilson) Holeman gave slaves to her children by a former marriage, i.e., William Wilson, Hannah Wilson (now married to
Alexander Hosich), and
Sarah Wilson (now married to James Holeman, probably 1-2-2-1). A William Holeman also purchased a slave, George.
Note #5 Cathy Holman sold her dower rights to her husband Joseph's land for $14 to his son, John
Note #7 This family has been created from census, marriage and tax records. Only John has been documented as a child of Joseph (but it is not certain that Joseph's son, John, was the John who m. Nancy Martin).
Note #8 Records in Madison Co., KY list Edward Hockersmith's marriage on 27 Aug 1793 twice -- once with Polly Holdman and once with Mary Wilson. Polly was often used as a nickname for Mary. Could Mary/Polly have been the daughter of
Catherine (Livingston) Wilson who married Joseph Holeman (1-2-2) in 1790? Edward Hockersmith seems to have married again in 1807, so Mary/Polly was deceased and thus would not have been listed by Catherine in 1818 (see Note #4).
Note #9 Although no John Holeman has been found on the 1840 or 1850 census for Madison Co., KY (a Nancy Holeman does appear in 1840), land records seem to indicate that a John Holeman with heirs Richard, Elizabeth, Nancy and William died ca
1850. (The heirs sold about 500 acres on Tates Creek in 1852.) Are there two John Holemans?
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Thomas Holeman of Wilkes County, North Carolina
Because Thomas Holeman of Wilkes County, North Carolina lived near Daniel Boone in Wilkes County, North Carolina, it is assumed that his children and grandchildren would follow the same path to Kentucky that Boone followed in 1775 (north to
Abingdon, Virginia, through the Cumberland Gap, and following the "Wilderness Trail" to Boonsboro, Kentucky).
The families of two sons and a daughter of Thomas Holeman (1723-1798) and
Mary Thompson were in Middle/Western Tennessee:
* Daniel Holeman (1750-1820) of Robertson County, Tennessee
* Isaac Holeman of Lincoln County, Tennessee
* Henry Johnson of Davidson County, Tennessee and Rachel Holeman (1743-1815)
Did these families go directly into Eastern Tennessee, or did they go by way of Kentucky into Middle Tennessee? If by way of Kentucky, did they spend time with the family of Joseph Holeman (1746-1819) and first wife Elizabeth Wilson and second wife
Catherine Livingston (widow of Mr. Wilson) in Madison
County, Kentucky? Records show that descendants of Thomas Holeman of Wilkes County, North Carolina were in the Kentucky counties (Laurel,
Knox, and Whitley) located between Madison County
and the Tennessee border.
Children of Thomas Holeman (1723-1798) and his first wife Mary Ann Thompson
* RACHEL HOLMAN. The Holeman/Holman Newsletter: "Rachel Holeman, b. ca 1744; m. Henry Johnson, Mar 1763; d. 10 Mar 1815, Robertson Co., TN; bur. "John Durham farm", Robertson Co., TN."
Henry Johnson (born 1738 in Maryland):
* Served as a Private in Captain Ingle's Company, 2nd N. C. Regiment. Enlisted May 1777 to serve three years.
* March 7, 1786, North Carolina land grant for 640 acres of land in Davidson County on the north side of Tennessee River on Blount's Creek
* The Times, Springfield, TN, June 1, 1972 article regarding DAR dedication of a headstone at the grave of Henry Johnson.
** born in Ireland in 1738.
** Older brother, Isaac Johnson, born in 1722
** Isaac and Henry migrated to Maryland
** Rachel Holman, born 1743 in Massachusetts. (I believe this is wrong. It may be that someone read "MA" as the birth state and assumed Massachusetts, not Maryland.)
** Marriage in March 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (on the border with
Maryland)
** Relocated to North Carolina near the Yadkin River.
** Their son, Thomas Johnson, migrated to Springfield, Tennessee in 1789.
** Later Henry and Rachel followed their sons (Thomas and Henry, Jr.) to Springfield, Tennessee (One half mile east, and 3 miles south of Springfield).
Isaac Johnson (died 1838), the son of Henry and Rachel (Holeman) Johnson, married
Amelia Holeman about 1805 in North Carolina. Amelia Holeman was the daughter of
Reuben Holeman (abt 1759-abt 1829) and Mary Cook; and the granddaughter of
Isaac Holeman, died 1808, and Mary Benton Hardy.
Two of the children of Isaac and Amelia (Holeman) Johnson married Holemans:
* William Cook Johnson (born 1823 in Tennessee) married his first cousin,
Mary "Polly" Holeman, the daughter of William Holeman (1779 - 1857) and Martha Pinchback, and the granddaughter of Reuben Holeman (abt 1759 - abt 1829) and Mary Cook.
* Lillis Houston Johnson (born abt 1817) married her second cousin William Holeman (died 1900 in Barry Co., Missouri), the son of Hudspeath and Justine Holeman and the grandson of Isaac Holeman and Mary Benton Hardy.
[Note: Some Johnson researchers believe that Rachel was the daughter of Isaac Holeman, died 1808, not Thomas Holeman,
died1798.]
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* JOSEPH HOLMAN.
FAYETTE COUNTY TAX LIST 1788 (Kentucky not yet a state; still part of Virginia)
HOLEMAN, Daniel Son of Isaac Holeman, died 1808
HOLEMAN, Joseph Son of Thomas Holeman, died 1798
HOLEMAN, Edward Edward Holman (1741-1818), son of Edward and Rosata (VanSant) Holman
HOLEMAN, Henry Henry Holman (1735-1789), son of Edward and Rosata (VanSant) Holman
HOLEMAN, Edward Jr. Son of Henry Holman (1735-1789) and first wife Mary Elizabeth Remick
HOLEMAN, Nicholas Son of Henry Holman (1735-1789) and first wife Mary Elizabeth Remick
HOLEMAN, George George Holman, nephew of Edward Holman (1741-1818) and Henry Holman (1735-1789)
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* REBECCA HOLMAN. Born ca 1748.
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* DANIEL HOLEMAN (1749-1820) wife unknown. 1796: Relocated from North Carolina to Robertson County,
Tennessee. The History of Robertson County, Reprinted from GOODSPEED’S HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, Originally Published 1886:
"One of the first distilleries in the county was erected by Daniel Holman, near Cross Plains, about 1798." Robertson Co., TN County Court Minutes, Book 1, 1796 - 1807, pg 366: Nov 1805, "Ordered that James CRABTREE Esqr & Daniel HOLMAN
designate the hands which is to work under Nathaniel SIMMONS Overseer of a road." 1820 Census: Springfield, Robertson Co., Tennessee (Males - Under 10: one; Males - 16 thru 25: one; Males - 45 and over: one; Females - Under 10: one; Females -
16 thru 25: one; slaves: eight). Where was he in 1810?
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* ISAAC HOLEMAN. Born 1752 in Rowan County, North Carolina; enlisted in Surry Co., North Carolina; married
first to Elizabeth Johnson, ca. 1774, and second to "Hannah" by 1789. After the Rev. war, he lived in South Carolina for 14 years, then he moved to
Georgia for 10 years, then to Robertson Co., Tennessee (where his brother Daniel
Holeman was), then, he went to Lincoln County, Tennessee where he died in 1834.
** Isaac Holeman (1752-1834) and his son (by his second wife) Isaac Holeman (1786-1877) were both in the Lincoln County, Tennessee census for 1820 and 1830. "Hannah" and her daughter-in-law, Rachel, (widow of
William Holeman) were in the 1840 census for Lincoln County, Tennessee.
** Two children of Isaac Holeman (1752-1834) and his first wife, Elizabeth
Johnson, have been identified: Enoch Holeman, born 1780, and James
Holeman. Court records show that Enoch Holeman was in Robertson County, Tennessee in 1803. Enoch's son Gideon D
Holman (born about 1813 in Tennessee) was Sumner County, Tennessee in the 1840 census. I have not yet found information of James, but there was an unidentified James Holeman in the 1810
Logan County, Kentucky census.
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* GRACE HOLEMAN (1754-1810). In 1790 in Wilkes County, North Carolina she became the third wife of
Daniel Southerland (1753-1843)
Daniel Southerland (1753-1843) of Wilkes County, North Carolina served in the Rev. war. After the war (about 1805) he moved to Cumberland County, Kentucky for about a year. (Some of his family may have migrated to Adair County, Kentucky.) Daniel
Southerland (1753-1843) then moved down to Bledsoe County in eastern Tennessee, where he stayed for about twenty-five years. He is in the 1830 Bledsoe County, Tennessee census, living with his son Daniel Southerland, b. 1784. In 1836 he moved to
Madison County, Arkansas to be near his daughter Frances who married John Holeman. Daniel Sutherland (1753-1843) was living at the home of John
Holman on the 1840 Madison
County, Arkansas census. [Note: John Holeman (b. 1786) is the son of James Holeman
(1761-1835) and Lucy Cook, and the grandson of Isaac Holeman, died
1808.] Daniel Southerland and his first wife Ann Renshaw had daughter named Elizabeth who married a William Holeman (parents unknown).
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* THOMAS HOLEMAN (1756-1833). Married first Margaret Southerland on May 16, 1778 in Rowan County, North Carolina. [Margaret was the sister of the Daniel Southerland (1753-1843) who married Thomas' sister, Grace Holeman (1754-1810).]
Married second Elsa Tugman on March 21, 1791 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Died 1833 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
Two of the children of Thomas Holeman (1756-1833) married a person named "Stanberry" and lived in Kentucky:
** Rachel Holeman [daughter of Thomas (1756-1833) and his first wife, Margaret Southerland] was born May 4, 1787 in Wilkes County North Carolina and died August 6, 1856 in Whitley County, Kentucky. Rachel Holeman and her husband
David Stanberry [son of Nathan Stanberry, born 1735 in Middlesex County, New Jersey, married
Julia Harrison, lived in Wilkes County, North Carolina and died Feb 15, 1819 in Wayne County, Indiana] were in the 1810 census for Wilkesborough, Wilkes
County, North Carolina; in the 1820 census for Wayne County, Indiana; in the 1830 census for Whitley County, Kentucky; in the 1840 and 1850 census for
Laurel County, Kentucky.
** James Holeman [son of Thomas (1756-1833) and his second wife, Ailsey "Elsa" (Tugman) Holeman] was born June 23, 1799 in Wilkes County, North Carolina and died Nov 21, 1886 in Knox County, Kentucky. James and his wife
Susannah Stanberry [daughter of Solomon Stanberry (b. 1755 in Baltimore County, Maryland; d. 1842 in Laurel County, Kentucky) and
Jane (Lewing) Stanberry] were in the 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 census for Laurel County, Kentucky.
[Note: Sally (Stanberry) Watkins, age 71, born in North Carolina, (the sister of Susannah Stanberry) was living with James and Susannah (Stanberry) Holeman in the 1870 census for Laurel County, Kentucky.]
In the 1880 census for Brush Creek, Knox County,
Kentucky, James and Susannah (Stanberry) Holeman were living with their daughter, Elizabeth "Eliza" Jane Holeman, and her husband, John Stanberry, son of David and Rachel (Holeman) Stanberry.
[Question: His parents born in Ireland? "Holman Jas. White Male 81 1799 Father-in-law Married North Carolina Ireland
Ireland." "Holman Susan White Female 74 1806 Mother-in-law Married Kentucky Pennsylvania Pennsylvania"]
[Question: Living with James and Susannah (Stansberry) Holeman in the 1850 census for Laurel County, Kentucky was a James Holdman, age 63, born in North Carolina.
Who is this?]
Notes on Stanberry:
There were two Stanberry Lines in Kentucky. Are they related?
* Nathan Stanberry: b. 1735 in Middlesex County, New Jersey; lived in Wilkes County, North Carolina; d. 1819 in Wayne County, Indiana.
* Solomon Stanberry: b. 1755 in Baltimore, Maryland; married 1791 in Lincoln County, North Carolina; d. Laurel County, Kentucky.
James Holeman (b. 1799 in Wilkes County, North Carolina; d. 1886 in Knox County, Kentucky) married Susanna Stanberry (b. 1804 in Knox County, Kentucky; d. 1886 in Knox County, Kentucky), daughter of Solomon Stanberry (b. 1755 in Baltimore
County, Maryland; d. 1842 in Laurel County, Kentucky) and Janet Lewing. William I Stanberry (b. 1808 in Laurel County, Kentucky; d. 1870 in Douglas County, Missouri) is the brother of Susanna Stanberry (1804-1886). William I Stanberry (1808-1870)
in 1828 in Laurel County, Kentucky married Malinda Jane Stanberry (b. 1807 in Wilkes County, North Carolina; died 1876 in Missouri). William I Stanberry (1808-1870) and Malinda Jane Stanberry (1807-1876) had two children born in
Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Malinda Jane Stanberry (1807-1876) is a daughter of David Stanberry and Rachel Holeman, daughter of Thomas Holeman (1756 - 1833) and his first wife Margaret Sutherland (1758 - 1791).
Eli Standerry (1815-1896), son of David Stanberry and Rachel Holeman, married America Amanda Watkins [daughter of Luke W. Watkins (1801-1872) and Sarah S Stanberry (1803-1865) and granddaughter of Solomon Stanberry (1755-1842) and Janet
Lewing.]
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Children of Thomas Holeman (1723-1798) and his second wife Susannah York
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* SUSANNAH HOLEMAN, born about 1760. Married William Owens. [Is he related to the William Owen, who was born about 1725 in Prince George County, Virginia and died about 1788 in Wilkes County, North Carolina?]
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* JAMES HOLEMAN, born about 1762. Could this be the James Holeman who married Sarah Wilson, daughter of
Catherine (Livingston) Wilson, and relocated to Campbell County,
Kentucky? [Note: some Holman researchers believe that Daniel Holeman (son of Thomas Holeman, died 1798) and Henry Johnson (who married Rachael Holeman, daughter of Thomas Holeman, died 1798) descended down the Ohio River in the late
1700s. Did James Holeman follow the same path?
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* ELIZABETH HOLEMAN, born about 1765. Married Ephraim Davis. Died before 1845 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
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* JACOB HOLEMAN, born about 1766. Died before 1808.
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* ABSALOM HOLEMAN, born about 1766.
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* REUBEN HOLEMAN, born about 1772.
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* MARGARET "PEGGY" HOLEMAN, born 1778 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Married
William Clawson in 1794 in Wilkes County, North
Carolina. In the 1800 census for Morgan, Wilkes County, North Carolina. In the 1810, 1820, 1830 census
for Ashe County, North Carolina. In the 1840 census for Johnson County, Eastern Tennessee. Living with her son-in-law and daughter (George and Helen Rowland) in the 1850 census for Subdivision 15, Knox County, Eastern Tennessee.
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Any discussion of the Holmans in Kentucky must include the role the
Boone family played in the early settlement of Kentucky.
Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, in 1775 established Fort Boonesborough (originally known as "Boone's Station") in the part of Virginia that became Madison County, Kentucky. The settlement was chartered Boonesborough in
October 1779 and served as a way-station for pioneers venturing further into Kentucky during the 1780s and 1790s.
Daniel's son Israel Boone in 1776 established "New Boone Station" in the part of Virginia that became present-day Athens in Fayette County, Kentucky.
Daniel's brother Squire Boone in 1779 established Squire Boone's Station in the part of Virginia that became Shelby County, Kentucky. (In 1786, Squire Boone's Station was turned over to a Colonel Lynch, and its name was changed to "Lynch’s Station".)
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