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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 areas of Brodhead and Crab Orchard, Kentucky, which are on the border of three Kentucky counties: Lincoln, Garrard, and Rockcastle.

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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The results of the DNA tests show that the descendant of James Holeman, b. 1814 is:

"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Daniel Holman who was born about 1787 in North Carolina, had children in Tennessee, and homesteaded in Douglas, Missouri;

"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Kenneth Holeman who died in 1871 in Upperfreehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey who is thought to be a descendant of Robert Holeman, died 1709 in New Jersey;

"related" to a descendant of the Elias Holeman (1759 - 1827, Burlington County, New Jersey); and

"related" to the descendants of Thomas Holeman, who was born about 1723 in Kent County, Maryland and who moved from Shenandoah Valley Virginia to North Carolina about 1750.

[Note: Prior to Tennessee statehood in 1796, East Tennessee was part of North Carolina. Therefore, without physically relocating, a person could be born in North Carolina and later marry and have children born in Tennessee.]

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Notes from
Old Tenth Legion Marriages
Marriages in Rockingham County, Virginia from 1778-1816
taken from the marriage bonds
compiled by Harry M Strickler
1928

page 39
Date 1808
Groom: Campbell, Jno H
Bride: Darcus Holman
Father: David or Dan.
Surety: David Holman

Page 65
Date 1780
Groom: Holeman, Wm.
Bride: Agnes Shepherd
Father
Surety: Rich. Madison

Page 65
Date 1805
Groom: Holeman, Jacob
Bride: Phebe Dunkerson
Father: Tom.
Surety: same

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Note:

The Jacob Holman, who married Phebe Dunkerson, and the Dorcus Holman, who married John H Campbell, are the children of Daniel Holeman (1766-1784), the grandchildren of Jacob Holeman, and the great grandchildren of "Old Daniel Holman" of Shenandoah Valley. After Daniel Holeman (1766-1784) died, his widow Mary Robinson (1759-1825) married John Homan (Hohman, Hamen), born 1755 in Germany. Mary Robinson (1759-1825) was the daughter of David Robinson and Dorcus Moore, and the grand daughter of Riley Moore (1703-1765) and Sarah Holland.

Phebe Dunkerson is the daughter of Thomas Dunkerson and Lucretia Moore [daughter of Thomas Moore (1732-1797) and granddaughter of Riley Moore (1703-1765)]. Thomas Dunkerson is in the Christian County, Kentucky census for 1810. Jacob Holeman is in Rockingham County, Virginia census for 1810 (on the same page are Andrew Campbell and Abraham Paine). Jacob Holeman is in the Christian County, Kentucky census for 1820 and 1830. Christian County was created December 13, 1796 from Logan County, Kentucky.

John H Campbell, born 1779 in Virginia, was in the 1810 census for Shenandoah County (on same page: Walter Newman, Benjamin Newman, and Reuben Newman) and the 1820, 1830, 1840 (on same page Jacob Holdeman), and 1850 census for Rockingham County, Virginia.

Jno H Campbell in the Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983
Name: Jno H Campbell
Probate Place: Rockingham, Virginia, USA
Inferred Death Place: Virginia, USA
Item Description: Will Book, Vol A, 1803-1862
Notes from the Original (Partial writing)
pg 175-176
wife Dorcas Campbell
four daughters
daughter (or granddaughter?) Lavinia R Hopkins
grandson Wm. C. Hopkins
daughter Margaret Erwins (her sons: John H and Andrew)
daughter Elizabeth Shumate
daughter Nancy Bare
June 1850
Source Citation
Will Book, 1803-1862; Author: Rockingham County (Virginia). Clerk of the Circuit Court; Probate Place: Rockingham, Virginia

Dorcas Campbell in the Rockingham County, Virginia, Death Index, 1862-1877
Name: Dorcas Campbell
Race: W
Sex: F (Female)
Death Date: 12 Sep 1865
Cause of Death: HEART DISEASE
Age: Years: 80
Months: 7
Days: 5
Father's name: Daniel Holman
Mother's name: Mary
Birthplace: Rockingham
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Rockingham County, Virginia, Death Index, 1862-1877 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

John Hamilton Campbell died in June 1850 and Dorcus Holeman in 1865. Both are buried in the Cooks Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rockingham County, Virginia

John Hamilton Campbell was the son of Charles Campbell (c1740-c1800) and his wife Agnes.

Charles Campball in the Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983
Name: Charles Campball
Probate Date: Apr 1806
Probate Place: Shenandoah, Virginia, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1806
Inferred Death Place: Virginia, USA
Item Description: Will Book, Vol E, 1800-1802; Will Book, Vol F, 1802-1807
Table of Contents 3 images
Cover Page 1
Will Papers 2–3
Source Citation
Will Books (Loose Documents), 1772-1811; Author: Virginia. County Court (Shenandoah County); Probate Place: Shenandoah, Virginia
notes from the original:
wife: Agnes
Two sons: Andrew Campbell and John Hamilton Campbell
oldest daughter: Elizabeth and her husband John Campbell
daughter Janet
daughter Agnes
daughter Margaret
Oct 27, 1798
Witness
Walter Newman
James Lokay
David Strickler
Recorded April Court 1806

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Who was the William Holman who married Agnes Shepherd? I believe there were two William Holmans, father and son, in Shenandoah Valley. My assumptions (No Documentation):

William Holman, the father, is the one that was one of the earliest settlers (1746) in the part of Augusta County that became Highland County, Virginia. At some point (before 1753) he moved from the Bullpasture River down to the Buffalo Creek in the "Forks of the James," the district between the north branch of the James River now called Maury River and the main stream (part of Augusta County that became Rockbridge County, Virginia). (See Other Holmans in the Shenandoah Valley)

William Holman, the father, married Jean Beggs, the oldest daughter of his neighbor on Buffalo Creek, Alexander Beggs (Baggs). William Holman, the father, died, and his widow, Jean (Beggs) Holman in 1808 married John Leech in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

William Holman, the son, is the one that married Agnes Shepherd in 1780 in Rockingham County, Virginia. He then relocated to Green County, Tennessee (formerly Washington County, North Carolina) and died. John Newman (b.1742) in 1797 was appointed guardian for three boys, orphans of William Holeman, decd. (See State of Frankland)

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Does this William Holman connect with any of the other Holman lines?

To be one of the earliest settlers (1746) in the part of Augusta County that became Highland County, Virginia, William Holman must have been born 1725 or earlier. I have not found a Holman man who meets all the specifications.

New Jersey Holmans

Robert Holman Will
Date: 8 Jun 1709
Location: Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey
Description
Inv. 18 Jul 1709, £109.5.3; proved 10 Aug 1709; Lib. 2, p. 72; wife Sarah, sons Joseph, Thomas, Robert, & Daniel; daughters, but names not given; son Joseph, executor
Will Source Citations
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. (Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey)
Detail: Vol 1, 1670-1730, p. 234

Robert Holman, died 1709, had four sons: Joseph, Thomas, Robert, and Daniel.

* Robert's son Joseph Holman (1685-1741) was the oldest and inherited his father's estate in New Jersey. He had no sons or grandsons named William. However, he did have a son, Robert (c1712-c1786) who married Margaret Jemson and had sons: Jacob and Joseph. [Jacob was the father of Kenneth Holman (1783-1871), one of the three three "very tightly related" Holman men.] Could the William Holman who was one of the
earliest settlers (1746) in the part of Augusta County that became Highland County, Virginia be another son of the Robert (c1712-c1786) Holman who married Margaret Jemson?

* I believe that Robert's son Daniel Holman is the one who around 1735 settled on the Holman Creek in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Along with him was Jacob Holman (died 1784), his son from his first marriage. In this line, there is a William Bird Holman (1797-1880), a grandson of Jacob Holman (died 1784). However, this William Holman (1797-1880) was the son of Andrew Holman (born 1785) and his wife, Elizabeth "Betsey"
Rader (1771-1795). I do not believe that Daniel Holman of Holman Creek is the father of the William Holman who was one of the earliest settlers (1746) in the part of Augusta County that became Highland County, Virginia.

* I believe Robert's son Thomas Holman may be the one who settled on the headwaters of Holman Creek, and is the father or uncle of the Thomas Holman (born 1723 in Kent County, Maryland) who relocated to North Carolina around 1752. I have very little information on the older Thomas Holman. It may be that the older Thomas Holman never made it to the Shenandoah Valley. The Thomas Holman who settled on the headwaters of
Holman Creek may be the younger Thomas Holman who may have arrived later than 1735. It is possible that the younger Thomas Holman and William Holman arrived in the Shenandoah Valley at the same time.

* I have no information on Robert's son Robert Holman.

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Robert Holman, died 1709, in his Will mentions an Elias, but does not identify him as a "son".

Elias Holeman [This appears to be the "Elias" mentioned in Robert's 1709 Will]
Will
Date: 24 Dec 1747
Location: Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey
Description: Inv. 22 Jan 1748, £489.18.3; proved 27 Jan 1748; Lib. E, p. 122; wife Mary, ch. Robert, William, Mary, Zilpha; execs: son Robert, Elisha Lawrence, John Anderson
Will Source Citations
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. (Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey)
Detail: Vol 2, 1730-1750, p. 242

Elias Holeman b: Abt. 1690 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, d: Jan 1748 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey
..... + Mary m: 1724 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey (She married second to Daniel Perrine)
..........2 William Holeman b: Abt. 1740 in Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, d: Abt. 1820 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey
.......... + Uphamea Reynolds b: Abt. 1740, m: Sep 14, 1761 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey, d: 1820 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey
...............3 William Holeman b: 29 Apr 1764 in Holmanville, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, d: June 4, 1835 in Jackson, Ocean Co., New Jersey
............... + Sarah Perrine b: Sept 4, 1780 in Holmansville, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, m: 1801 in Holmansville, Monmouth, New Jersey, d: April 28, 1851 in Holmansville, Monmouth Co., New Jersey
....................4 James William Holeman b: Abt. 1798 in Holmansville, Ocean Co., New Jersey, d: Nov 20, 1883 in New Salem, Rush County, Indiana
.................... + Nancy b: 1803 in New Jersey
....................4 William Holeman b: July 4, 1812 in Jackson, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, d: Dec 26 1904 in Jackson, Ocean Co., New Jersey
.................... + Mary Hannah Wells b: Jan 29, 1817 in Cassville, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, m: Abt. 1835, d: Jun 21, 1902 in Jackson Township, Ocean Co., New Jersey

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North Carolina Holmans.

The descendants of Thomas and Isaac Holeman did migrate from North Carolina to Kentucky and Tennessee. Until the 1794 defeat of the Shawnee Indians, settlers from North Carolina, for reasons of safety, would have followed Daniel Boone's "Wilderness Road" to reach Kentucky and East and Middle Tennessee. The "Wilderness Road" followed the Virginia-Tennessee border to the Cumberland Gap, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Madison County, Kentucky. Other settlers used the road before it passed through the Cumberland Gap to reach East and Middle Tennessee.

* Five sons of Isaac Holeman (died 1808) and Mary Hardy had sons named William:

** William Holeman (born 1753 in Rowan County, North Carolina) first married Elizabeth Johnson in 1774 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
*** William Holeman (born 1753 in Rowan County, North Carolina) had a son William Holeman (born 1787 in Rowan County, North Carolina) who married Mary Sams.

** Isaac Hardy Holeman (born 1757 in Rowan County, North Carolina) first married Catherine Wilcox(son) (born 1762 in Rowan County, North Carolina) in Rowan County, North Carolina.
*** Isaac Hardy Holeman (born 1757 in Rowan County, North Carolina) had a son William Holeman (born 1789) who married Elizabeth _____.

** Reuben Holeman (born about 1759 in Rowan County, North Carolina) married Mary Cook (born 1762 in North Carolina) daughter of the Rev William Cook.
*** Reuben Holeman (born about 1759 in Rowan County, North Carolina) had a son, William Cook Holeman (born 1779 in Rowan County, North Carolina) who married Martha Pinchback in 1799 in Rowan County, North Carolina.

** James Holeman (born 1761 in Rowan County, North Carolina) married Lucy Cook (born 1768 in North Carolina) daughter of the Rev William Cook. [Their son, John, married Frances Southerland.]
*** The John Holeman who married Frances Southerland had a brother William Robert Holeman (born 1791 in Rowan County, North Carolina) who married his first cousin, Mary Elizabeth Holeman (born 1798 in Rowan County, North Carolina) in 1815 in Rowan County, North Carolina.

** John Holeman (born 1770 in Rowan County, North Carolina) married Margaret "Peggy" Sigler (born 1773 Loudoun County, Virginia) in 1787 in Iredell County, North Carolina.
*** John Holeman (born 1770 in Rowan County, North Carolina) had a son William Holeman (born 1810 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky).

* Three sons of Thomas Holeman (born about 1723 in Kent County, Maryland) and his first wife, Mary Ann Thompson had sons named William:

** Joseph Holeman (1746 - 1819) first married Elizabeth Wilson in 1768 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
*** Joseph Holeman (1746 - 1819) had a son William Holeman (born 1778 in North Carolina and died 1834 in Randolph Co., Missouri) married Eleanor Barnes in 1802 in Madison Co., Kentucky.

** Daniel Holeman (b. 1750 in Rowan County, North Carolina - d. 1820 in Robertson Co., Tennessee).
*** Daniel Holeman (b. 1750 in Rowan County, North Carolina) had a son named William Holeman (1784-1828)

** Thomas Holeman (b. 1756 in North Carolina - d. 1833 in Wilkes Co., North Carolina) married Margaret Southerland in 1778 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
*** Thomas Holeman (1756 in North Carolina) had a son named William Holeman who married Charity Ferguson in 1806 in Wilkes Co., North Carolina.

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James River Holmans

Did any of the descendants of the Holmans of Henrico County, Virginia go up the James River, cross the Blue Ridge Mountains, and settle in the Shenandoah Valley?

Captain James Holman (born 1667 near the James River in Henrico County, Virginia) married Sarah Woodward in 1699 in the St James Parrish in Goochland County, Virginia and they had one son, James Holman (1715-1761). James Holman (1715-1761) and his wife, Frances Jane Bondurant, had a son, William Holman was born in 1742 in Goochland County, Virginia; married twice; and died in Goochland County, Virginia.

James Holman (1715-1761) and his wife, Frances Jane Bondurant, also had a son, James Holman (born about 1748 in Goochland County, Virginia). James Holman (born about 1748) and his wife, Sarah Ann Miller, had a son, William Miller Holman, who was born and died in Goochland County, Virginia.

Notes from:
The Holmans in America, concerning the descendants of Solaman Holman, Volume One, by David Emory Holman, M.D.
Henry Holman (brother of Captain James Holman) was in Goochland County in 1739. His Will probated Aug 19, 1740. Wife named Mourning. Children: William Holman and Sarah Holman. [No information on this William Holman, however, his parents were married in 1735.]

The Holman family below was also in Goochland County, Virginia. See Virginia for possible connections between these Holmans and Capt James Holman and his brother, Henry.

Tandy H Holeman; b: 1695 in York County, Virginia; d: Feb 1735 in Caroline County, Virginia
+ Mary Wagstaff b: Abt. 1705 in York Co., Va; m: 1719 in York Co., Va; d: 1731 in Stafford County, Virginia
.....2 William Holman b: 1725 in York Co., Va, d: Dec 1796 in Goochland County, Virginia; St. James Parish (Sheriff of Goochland County)
+ Susannah Thompson b: 1727 in York County, Virginia, d: 1817 in Goochland County, Virginia
..........3 William Holman b: 1751 in Caroline County, Virginia

Tandy H Holeman and Mary Wagstaff also had a son, John Holeman (b: Jul 14, 1731 in Stafford Co., Virginia; d: 1818 in Cumberland County, Virginia) who married Susannah Yancey (b: 1736 in Virginia, m: 1756).

Notes from the Shapard History blog by Nathan Shapard:

* Samuel Shapard (c. 1700-1752), a planter from King and Queen County, Virginia, who had acquired wealth, land and slaves, married Mildred Crockford (c. 1712-1781) about the year 1735. Samuel and Mildred had a son, William Shapard (c. 1741-1807).

* William Shapard (c. 1741-1807) married Mary Booker (1746-1804) in 1762. Shortly after their marriage, William and Mary Shapard migrated from Essex County, Virginia to Cumberland County, Virginia residing on a 300 acre plantation near the present-day town of Raines Tavern. William was a planter; established an “ordinary” (tavern); and created a shipping business.

* William Shapard (c. 1741-1807) became friends with his nearby neighbor, John Holman (1731-1818). Beginning in the 1780s, John Holman (born 1731) became a Judge for Cumberland County. John Holman, like William Shapard, was a slave owner. (In 1785, the Shapard family left Virginia and migrated to Granville County, North Carolina.)

* Susanna Holman, daughter of Judge John Holman (born 1731), was born about 1767 and in 1788 in Cumberland County, Virginia married Samuel Booker Shapard, son of William Shapard (c. 1741-1807).

* Under Judge John Holman’s guidance, Samuel Booker Shapard learned the law, eventually becoming a lawyer, circa 1795. (In 1810 the first formal law school was established in Virginia; however, prior to this, law students learned their profession through apprenticeships.) Over the next few years, Samuel was active in numerous real estate legal transactions, especially dealing with land bounties assigned to colonial soldiers. In one instance, veteran soldier Francis Ramsey, assigned (sold) his land warrant, being one hundred acres, to Samuel Shapard. [I believe this is Francis Alexander Ramsey (born 1764 in Powhatan County, Virginia; died 1842 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky), the brother of Thomas Ramsey (died Jun 06, 1843 in Garrard County, Kentucky). Thomas Ramsey was the grandfather of the Martha Ramsey who married James Holman (born about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky) one of the three "very tightly related" Holmans.]

* In 1811, Samuel Shapard was listed as having “no fixed residence,” implying that he traveled frequently and for extended periods of time.

* In 1814, Samuel Shapard is residing in Buckingham County, Virginia, where he and his brother-in-law, John Holman, Jr., sell some jointly owned land in Cumberland County, Virginia.

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