Carson in Florida

The Carson Family

From Washington County, Virginia
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 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. (Garrard at one time 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. A receipt for “James Hollman and Daniel Hollman” is in the estate papers for Alexander Ramsey.

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If Kenneth Holman is a direct descendant of the Robert Holman who left a Will in 1709 in New Jersey, then the other two “very tightly related” Holmans must also be direct descendants. The question is how did one get to be born in Kentucky and the other in North Carolina? The father of the James Holman who was born about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky, was probably born after 1745 and died after 1815. The father of the Daniel Holman who was born about 1787 in North Carolina, had children in Tennessee, and homesteaded in Douglas County, Missouri was probably born after 1725 and died after 1785.

The Holeman/Holman Newsletter edited by Roger and Mary Malcolm did a great job of identifying and documenting the descendants of the various Holman "Patriarchs". However, they did not speculate on how these Holman "Patriarchs" fit together. Other Holman family researchers have attempted to do so.

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Notes from
The ancestry of Grafton Johnson : with its four branches, the Johnson, the Holman, the Keen, the Morris
by Damaris Knobe

pages 76 - 77
Isaac Holeman, died 1808, moved about 1752 from Virginia to North Carolina. (undoubtedly associated with the Holeman settlement in the Shenandoah Valley)
* brought with him his parents, who are buried on his own land.
* after he moved, two of his younger brothers followed him to NC: William Holeman and James Holeman
* the three brothers had land grants in the part of Rowan County that became Davie County (adjoining plantations)
* granddaughter of William Holeman said that William's father and brother came to this country from England, before the Rev War. They separated and info on one brother unknown.

Pages 77
In addition to the three brothers above, a fourth brother - Thomas Holeman - who lived in the part of Rowan County, NC that became Surry and then Wilkes County.

Two other Holemans, if not brothers, closely related:
* Henry Holeman who migrated through NC to Kentucky (grandfather of William Steele Holman of Indiana).
* Richard Holeman who resided in Orange County, NC

Page 78
Prior to arrival of Williams grandfather and unknown brother, other Holmans:
* Thomas Holman in James City county, Va             1635
* William Holloman in Isle of Wright county, Va      1685
* Thomas Holdeman in Surry county, Va                 1714
* James Holoman in Henrico county, Va                  1722
* John Hollyman in Surry county, Va                       1724
* James Holeman in Goochland county                   1730

Pages 78 - 83
Isaac Holeman
* oldest of the three sons who went with parents from Virginia to part of Rowan County that became Davie County (adjoining plantations).
* wife: Mary
* married prior to NC
* birth estimated to be 1725
* belonged to Bear Creek Baptist Church
* Will probated May 1808
* ten years before death transferred all property to youngest sons: Jacob and David

Pages 84 - 88
William Holeman
* next to oldest of the three sons who went with parents from Virginia to part of Rowan County that became Davie County (adjoining plantations).
* first land grant in 1786. On dividing line between Davie and Yadkin counties (and previously Rowan and Surry counties)
* served in Rev War.
* married twice: Elizabeth Johnson, Sarah Whitlock
* his sons (David Holeman and Samuel Holeman) relocated to Preble county, Ohio.

Pages 88 - 89
James Holeman
* youngest of the three sons who went with parents from Virginia to part of Rowan County that became Davie County (adjoining plantations).
* land grant 1798
* married Lucy Cook, daughter of William Cook, after he settled in NC
* was a Tory

Pages 89 - 93
Thomas Holeman
* in addition to the three brothers above, a fourth brother - Thomas- who relocated from Virginia to the part of Rowan County that became Surry and then Wilkes County.
* thought to have relocated at same time as brother Isaac - 1752.
* Holman's Ford
* neighbor of Daniel Boone
* Will probated in 1798. Mentions wife Susannah and 14 children (eight of them had same names as children of Isaac). Absolom, Reuben, Susannah, Rachel, Joseph, Daniel, Rebecca,
Isaac, Thomas (Feb 4, 1756 - April 3, 1833. Married ___ Hawkins, Elsa ___ 1766 - abt 1873), Grace, Elizabeth, Jacob, Margaret, and James.
* widow Susannah bought property in Watauga county, NC in 1799 and sold it in 1802
* son Thomas 1756 - 1833
* son Thomas and his first wife had:
** daughter Nancy Holeman who married a St Clair.
** daughter Margaret Holeman who was blinded in one eye by lightening strike that killed her mother.
* son Thomas' second wife was Elsa. Diana Holeman, child of Thomas and Elsa, married William Triplett.

Pages 93 - 98
Henry Holeman
* relative of four brothers mentioned above.
* lived in North Carolina, Virginia, or Maryland?
* migrated in 1776 to part of Fayette County, Kentucky that became Woodford County, Ky. (Same neighborhood as Daniel Holeman, oldest son of Isaac Holeman, died 1808.)
* killed by Indians in 1789.
* Fourteen children
* son Edward Holeman
* nephew George Holeman. Born in Maryland in 1762, moved as youth with his father to Pennsylvania, mother died, and his father placed him with his uncle Henry.
When age 16, went with uncle Henry to Kentucky, captured by the Indians. About 1804 relocated to Indiana Territory. Died 1854
* son Jesse Lynch Holman
* sons-in-law: David Darst, Richard La Rue.
* family tradition: three brothers. One stayed in Virginia, one went north, and one went south.
* David Darst sued Col Thomas Marshal and lost over Holman land claims in Kentucky.

Pages 98 - 101
Richard Holeman (See North Carolina Descendants)
* related to four brothers above.
* "Pioneer of North Carolina"
* relocated from "banks of the Rappahannock" in Virginia to Timberlake in the part of Orange county that became Person county, North Carolina.
* married Jean Carlisle, "full-blooded Scotch"
* son Richard. Married Margaret Daniel, granddaughter of James Daniel, one of first settlers at Jamestown. Richard died before Rev war. His widow acted as a spy for patriots.
* son Charles.
* daughter Jean. Married Isham Cates
* daughter Elizabeth (1763 - 1813). Married William Person of Warren county. His uncle was General Thomas Person.
* portrait of a great-grandson of Richard Holeman bears "striking resemblance" to a photograph of great-grandson of Isaac Holeman, and two men said they were "about third cousins".

Pages 101 - 104
Daniel Holeman
* how to connect four above brothers with Daniel Holeman of Shenandoah valley, Virginia
* as early as 1745, Daniel was on Daniel Holeman's Creek in Shenandoah county, Virginia. (appointed overseer of road)
* Daniel Holeman: three tracts, total of 945 acres, August 2, 1750
* Thomas Holeman: 428 acres, Feb 3, 1749
* Jacob Holeman: 420 acres, Feb 3, 1749
* son Jacob applied for administration of Daniel's estate in 1770. (considerable amount of personal property)
* wife Elizabeth
* daughter Rebecca Holeman, first wife of William Cathay.
* son Jacob. In 1786, disposed of the 395 acres of the 945 acres (originally granted by Thomas Lord Fairfax to Daniel Holeman who was father of Jacob).
* son Jacob's Will probated 1784. (impressive personal property)
* son Jacob's widow, Margaret, married William Cathay (widower of Daniel's daughter Rebecca).
* son Jacob's widow, Margaret sold to her son Andrew Holeman 550 acres of the 945 acres belonging to Daniel Holeman and his wife Elizabeth.
* son Jacob's Will mentions nine children: Andrew, Daniel, Jacob, Herod, Rebecca, Rachel, Mary, Ann, and Elizabeth Dobkins.
* son Jacob. sheriff, constable, tax commissioner, Justice of the Peace
* Rowan county, North Carolina and Shenandoah County, Virginia connection:
** Isaac Holeman of North Carolina called his first son Daniel and his first daughter Elizabeth.
** Isaac Holeman of North Carolina took his aged father and mother with him when he migrated from Virginia to North Carolina.
** North Carolina Holemans and Daniel's son Jacob Holeman used same names for children, except for Herod.

Pages 013 - 022
Isaac Johnson, born about 1722 (the first)
* Parents and siblings unknown.
* Started a frontier settlement in the Shenandoah valley of western Virginia about 1745.
* Established a plantation at the head of Holman Creek (north fork of Shenandoah River) in part of Augusta County that became Rockingham County.
** Surveyed Oct 26, 1749 220 acres "at the foot of North mountain on the head of Holeman's Creek" adjoining "Fairfax line".
** Surveyed Dec 9, 1754 170 acres "on the North River of the Shanando".
** Surveyed Mar 26, 1755 200 acres "on the waters of Smith Creek".
* Witness to Will of William Hill, 1748, Augusta County, Virginia
* Living nearby was a David Johnson, assumed to be a relative, who in 1751 relocated to the part of Rowan County that became Davie County, North Carolina

Second Generation

Pages 105 - 107
Daniel Holeman (b. June 20, 1750) first son of Isaac, died 1808.
* Grew up in part of Rowan County that became Davie County.
* Land Grant: Oct 25, 1786, 520 acres, next to William Cook, part of Rowan County that became northeastern section of Iredell County.
* Married first Nancy Saunders (daughter of James and Sarah Saunders).
* Slave owner
* Relocated in 1786 to section of Virginia/Kentucky that became Woodford County, Kentucky
* Relocated in 1817 to Lincoln County, Tennessee.
* Will probated 1838. Six Children:
** Hardy Holeman, born 1774, married Elizabeth Wilson. (deceased)
** Isaac Holeman, born 1775, died abt 1835
** James Holeman, born 1777
** Sarah Holman, born 1784, married Henry Hazzard, (deceased)
** John Holman, born 1787, married Elizabeth Duval in Woodford County, Kentucky, and went to Oregon, died 1864.
** Polly Holeman, born 1789, married John Hughes.

Pages 107 - 108
Elizabeth Holeman, born about 1751 (daughter of Isaac)
* Married Isaac Johnson of Virginia.

Pages 021 - 035
Isaac Johnson (1745 - 1814), son of Isaac Johnson, the first
* born in part of Augusta County that became Rockingham County, Virginia
* Relocated to North Carolina about 1765
* Married Elizabeth Holeman (about 1751 - 1840), oldest daughter of Isaac Holeman
* Isaac and Elizabeth relocated to Rockingham county, Virginia around 1768
* From Virginia, enrolled in Rev War
* Returned in 1783 to part of Rowan County that became Davie County, NC
* Relocated in 1790 to part of Fayette County that became Jessamine County, Kentucky. [Note: Jessamine County was created December 19, 1798 from Fayette County. It is surrounded by Woodford County, Fayette County, Madison County, Garrard County, and Mercer County.]
* His brother-in-law, Daniel Holeman (son of Isaac) was already living in part of Fayette County that became Woodford County, Kentucky.
* Will probated in Jessamine County, Kentucky in 1814.
* Son David Johnson married Polly Burch in 1792 and relocated to part of Franklin County that became Anderson County, Kentucky.
* Johnsons and Holemans living in Anderson Co., Ky claim to be related, and to descend from the Thomas Holeman who married Mary Graham.
* Living near this Thomas Holeman was a Richard Holeman who denied being a "brother".

Pages 108 - 111
Isaac Holeman, born 1757 (son of Isaac, died 1808)
* Fought in Rev War (Cowan's Ford and Guilford Courthouse)
* Married first in NC and had ten children:
** Rachael married Prather
** Elizabeth married Rowland
** Eda married Prather
** Isaac
** William
** Polly married Jacobs
** Aaron
** Moses (1794 - 1875) married first Rebecca Pactrick, second Mary Ann Veatch
** Catherine married Jerry Patrick
** Mahala married Jacob Lentz
* Married second Lillas Mitchell in 1804 in Rowan County, North Carolina and had two children:
** Andrew Mitchell Holeman (1809 - 1863) married Levina Bowman
** Matilda Holeman married John Patrick
* Relocated in 1799 to Woodford County, Kentucky and 1800 to Clark County, Indiana.
* Son: Andrew Mitchell Holeman. Grandson: Andrew Jackson Holeman

Pages 111 - 112
Patience Holeman (daughter of Isaac)
* Married James Dean
* Relocated to Jessamine County, Kentucky to be near sister Elizabeth (Holeman) Johnson. [Note: Jessamine County was created December 19, 1798 from Fayette County. It is surrounded by Woodford County, Fayette County, Madison County, Garrard County, and Mercer County.]
** Isaac Johnson relocated in 1803.
** James Dean relocated three months later.

Pages 112 - 114
Mary Holeman, born 1770 and died 1828 (daughter of Isaac)
* Married Francis Neely in 1793. Nine children.
* Neely became very wealthy. (during Rev War delivered Army horses to General Nathaniel Greene in Crab Orchard on the "Old Wilderness Road" in Kentucky)
* Daughter Mary Neely married Isaac Holeman (1800 - 1868)

Pages 114 - 116
Jacob Holeman, born 1776 and died 1842 (son of Isaac)
* Jacob and brother David acquired fathers plantation in part of Rowan County that became Davie County, NC
* Married in 1795 to Lydia Pinchbeck, daughter of John Pinchbeck and Isabella, eight children:
** John, born 1796, married Catherine Crenshaw (cousin of Mary and Nancy)
** David, born 1798 married first Nancy Crenshaw (sister of Mary) and second McGee
** Isaac, born 1800, died 1868, married first Mary Neely, second Mary Crenshaw (sister of Nancy)
** Mary, born 1802 married Ashley Dwiggens
** Andrew, born 1804, married Sarah Booe
** Lydia, born 1806 married Thomas Ratledge
** Elizabeth, born 1808, married Thomas Smoot
** Sarah, born 1812, unmarried

Pages 114 - 120
David Holeman, born 1777, died 1851 (son of Isaac, died 1808)
* David and brother Jacob acquired fathers plantation in part of Rowan County that became Davie County, NC
* Married in 1798 Rachel Frost, daughter of Ebenezer Frost.
* Son: Ebenezer, Grandson: John Barton Holman of Roxboro, NC (shared ancestors in Maryland with William Steele Holman of Indiana?)
* David and Rachel children (12):
** Ebenezer (1805 - 1879) married Elizabeth Roby
** Lazarus
** Mary married Lispon Tuck
** Nancy married Swan
** Rachel married Solomon Stimson
** Sarah married Lovelace
** James Holeman (Sept 27, 1813 - Oct 10, 1854) unmarried
** Wilson Holeman married Elizabeth Turner
** Elizabeth married Carson Bell
** Sabre married Iva Gaither
** David
** Isaac

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The Holmans in America
concerning the descendants of Solaman Holman
Volume One
by David Emory Holman, M.D.

page xliii
Early Holmans in Virginia

* The earliest records found yet are a 1635 land grant to Thomas Holeman of James City County, Virginia.

* Unproven family tradition. Four Holman Brothers:
** sailed from England in 1607 (fleet of nine vessels with 500 people. Sea Venture got separated from others)
** spent one year in Bermuda Islands with Sir Thomas Gates who was to be Lieut. Gov. of Virginia.
** landed at Jamestown in 1610.

* James Holman of Goochland County [known as Captain James Holeman]
** married Mrs or Miss Sarah Woodward.
** land grant Feb 18, 1722
** granted state land patents (1722 - 1746) 2841 acres in Goochland County
** member of House of Burgesses (1736 - 1740)
** paid two tithables in 1835 [1735?]
** deeds 75 acres to wife Sarah (and Sarah, "his wife's eldest daughter") on June 4, 1742
** deeds 200 acres in Mannikintown on south side of James River to only son, James, in 1745
** funeral was preached June 12, 1759. (Planter and Gentleman)
** only son, James, married Jane and had seven children. James, Jr died before 1761.

* Henry Holman (brother of James) was in Goochland County in 1739.
Will probated Aug 19, 1740. Wife named Mourning. Children: William and Sarah

* William Woodward of James City County bought 100 acres near Sarah (Woodward) Holman in 1755

* Tandy Holman was in Goochland County in 1756. Will filed 1760 in Albemarle County, Virginia.

(See Holmans in Hardin County, Kentucky)

Page xxxvi
Thomas of Surrey County, NC 1730

Letter from Elizabeth (Holeman) Smith, written in 1887
* great-grandfather and his brother came to this country from England long years before Rev War.
* do not know names or where they landed.
* brothers separated. all trace of other lost.
* Number of children of great-grandfather unknown.
* Her grandfather was William Holeman
** married twice
** second wife was Sarah Johnson, relative of Col. Dick Johnson.
** lived in Surrey Co, NC and had nine children.
** better class. Lived on farm and had slaves.
* Her father was David Holeman
** Married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Chloe Welch, a niece of Daniel Webster.
** married Sept 27, 1814 in NC.
** after marriage moved to Ohio.
** then moved to Prebble Co., Ohio
* Samuel Holeman, her father's youngest brother, moved from NC to be near them.
* Her father David Holeman then moved to Tippecanoe, Indiana.
** Was visited by a cousin from southern Indiana - Ruben Holeman, who had been captured by Indians.
* Her father David Holeman made several visits to his old NC home.
* Her father David Holeman then moved to Peru, Illinois and then to Carthage, Missouri. Died Nov 19, 1874.

[Note: William Holeman (born about 1753 in Rowan County, North Carolina) was the son of Isaac Holeman (died 1808).]

(See Shenandoah Valley, Virginia)

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SUTHERLAND'S AND THEIR TANGLED BRANCHES by Robert J. Walsh

84. ELIZABETH SUTHERIAND
b. ea 1783
d- -------
m. ea 1800 WILLIAM HOLEMAN This couple probably lived in or around Wilkes County, N. C. before their migration with her father to Tennessee, via, Kentucky in 1811. While in Kentucky they decided to purchase 82 acres of land on Otter Creek, and settle in Cumberland County. After a brief sojourn, it is evident they were not satisfied with either their property or surroundings which caused them to post their farm for sale and move to Bledsoe County, Tennessee. The year of this move is unknown. On August 5, 1818 a deed was issued naming WILLIAM and ELIZABETH HOLFMAN, residence Bledsoe County, Tennessee as grantors on the sale of their property in Cumberland County, Kentucky. (Cumberland County Deed Book C, page 421)

89. FRANCES SUTHERLAND
b. ca 1796 in North Carolina
d. After 1850 in Arkansas
m. ca 1821 JOHN HOLEMAN in Tennessee
b. ca 1789 in North Carolina
d. After 1850 in Arkansas
Shortly after their first son was born, this couple migrated to the Arkansas Indian Territory where they settled in the northwestern part of Washington County, which was created from the territory of Missouri i n 1819. When the Territory was admitted to the Union in 1836, that part of Washington County where they lived was set aside and formed into Madison County, Ark. in 1836.
JOHN HOLEMAN, with 249 acres was shown on the tax list of that county 1837- 1845. Within the next five years they moved and are shown in the 1850 federal census of Carroll County, Arkansas.

ISAAC SUTHERLAND (sic) [HOLEMAN] and his wife MARY (HARDY) HOLEMAN were the parents of fourteen children. One son JERAMIAH, died prior to 1807, his wife was SARAH PINCHBECK. The thirteen surviving are as follows.
93. DANIEL HOLEMAN, 1750-1838 m. NANCY SAUNDERS, 1758-1832.
94. ELIZABETH HOLEMAN, 1751-1840 m. ISAAC JOHNSON, 1754-1814.
95. WILLIAM HOLEMAN, m. MARTHA PINCHBECK, 5-16-1778
96. ISAAC HOLEMAN, 1757-1843 m. 2nd wife LILLIE MITCHELL, 1776-1867.
97. REUBEN HOLEMAN.
98. JAMES HOLEMAN, m. LUCY COOK, daughter of Rev. WILLIAM COOK, founder or the Bear Creek Baptist Church. In 1836 both JAMES and his wife LUCY expired after a sudden illness while passing through Tennessee on their way to Missouri, they were buried in an unmarked grave which their decendants have never been able to locate.
99. PATIENCE HOLEMAN, m. JAMES DEAN
100. THOMAS HOLEMAN, unmarried.
101. JOHN HOLEMAN, m. MARGARET SIGLER
102. ABSOLEM HOLEMAN
103. MARY HOLEMAN, 1770-1828 m. FRANCIS NEELY.
104. JACOB HOLEMAN, 1776-1842 m. LIDDY PINCHBECK 1776-1860.
105. DAVID HOLEMAN, 1777-1851 m. RACHEL FROST.

98. JAMES HOLEMAN, m. LUCY COOK, daughter of Rev. WILLIAM COOK, founder or the Bear Creek Baptist Church. In 1836 both JAMES and his wife LUCY expired after a sudden illness while passing through Tennessee on their way to Missouri, they were buried in an unmarked grave which their decendants have never been able to locate.
JAMES and his wife LUCY (COOK) HOLEMAN, (98) were the parents of nine children.
106. JAMES HOLEMAN, b. 1799 m. REBECCA BEAMAN
107. NANCY HOLEMAN, m. ARCHIBOLD LOVELACE.
108. SARAH HOLEMAN, b. July 11, 1801 d. Aug. 6, 1894, m. HENRY THOMAS.
109. W. C. HOLEMAN
110. ELIZABETH HOLEMAN, m. THOMAS SWAN.
111. LUCY HOLEMAN, m. JOSEPH BEAMAN
112. JOHN HOLEMAN, m. FRANCES SUTHERLAND, (89)
113. PATSEY HOLEMAN, m. WILLIAM BEAMAN.
114. MARY HOLEMAN, m. JAMES JOSHUA STEELMAN.