Edmund Holloman and Mary Barrett named their third son for Mary’s
younger brother John S. Barrett who had migrated from east Tennessee
to Missouri along with the Holloman family.  Young John B. Holloman
was born in late 1812 soon after the Holloman family moved from the
earthquake devastated area in the Cape Girardeau district to the New
Tennessee Settlement in Ste. Genevieve County.  John B. grew up to be a
serious and ambitious young man.  In 1839 he married Nancy H. Bruffey,
a daughter of Dr. Robert Bruffey of Washington Co. MO, and they
homesteaded lands in Jasper and Ste. Genevieve Counties in MO.  In
1849 the couple, their three children and a large group of Holloman
relatives moved to Arcadia, MO, where John and his brother Allen
planned to make their living in Arcadia Valley as mill owners.  

In Arcadia, John, his wife and children, his mother Mary B., his sister
Mary Ann Holloman and his deceased sister Elizabeth Aikman’s four
children all settled into a two-story house about a third of a mile south
of Rev. Jerome C. Barryman’s newly opened Academy where the
schoolage children were soon enrolled.  The remaining members of that
Holloman clan (John’s older brothers Allen W. and Abner S. with their
wives, children and grandchildren) lived in a second larger house almost
a quarter of a mile south of John and his family.  The dining room of
this second home was built at the time the Hollomans moved to Arcadia
and was designed to seat at least thirty people.  Thus, it is very likely
that the thirty member Holloman clan that lived in Arcadia Valley often
gathered for meals together in that large dining room.  

One of John’s younger brothers, Thomas Right Holloman, had married
the daughter of a large plantation owner in Mississippi back in 1846
and took over running that plantation in 1848 when his father-in-law
died.  Thomas wanted his mother Mary B. and his siblings to move to
Mississippi and and live near him and his young family.   In 1850, an
older brother Abner brought his wife and children down to Yazoo Co.
MS for a visit and they decided they liked the Southern life enough to
move there.  Just a couple of years later in 1852 Thomas and Abner
finally succeeded in convincing John and his mother to move down to
MS and settle on or near the Eagle Bend Plantation which was owned by
Thomas’ wife.  It is very likely that either Thomas or Abner or both came
up to Missouri to help John move his wife and four children, matriarch
Mary B. Holloman and the four children of their dead sister Elizabeth
Aikman down to Mississippi in a group.  

Once in Mississippi John began to buy land to farm and other land for
speculation.  It was also in Mississippi that John was influenced by his
mother’s strong faith to became an Episcopal Methodist preacher.  John
and his wife Nancy settled in Yazoo Co. and had four more children.  
When they died around the turn of the century, they were buried in a
family plot in the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery in Yazoo
Co. situated fairly close to the family plot of his brother Thomas R.
Holloman in the same cemetery.

          JOHN BARRETT HOLLOMAN FAMILY GENEALOGY CHART

01 John Barrett HOLLOMAN, b. 11-26-1812 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                         d. 01-25-1895 in MS
  + Nancy Helen BRUFFEY, b.12-17-1818 Potosi, MO;
                         d. 04-11-1904 Yazoo, MS;  
                         m. 09-26-1839/1837, Caledonia, MO
     02 Edmund W. HOLLOMAN, b. 08-24-1840 in MO; d. 12-22-1840        
     02 William Emory HOLLOMAN, b. 05-16-1842 in MO; d. 10-21-1875
        +  Ada B. WILDY, m. 04-19-1874 in MS
           03 Helen L. HOLLOMAN  
     02 Elizabeth M. HOLLOMAN, b. 01-16-1844 in MO; d. 07-29-1844
     02 Ellen A. HOLLOMAN, b. 11-17-1845 in MO; d. 02-05-1876
        +  Rev. Andrew B. STEWART, m. 11-26-1868
           03 Mary Helen STEWART, b. 01-14-1870; d. 04-01-1947
           03 John Edwin STEWART, b. 10-27-1871; d. 09-08-1946  
           03 Florence Estelle STEWART, b. 01-26-1874; d. Feb. 1929
               +  Dr. DORRAH  
     02 John Barrett HOLLOMAN, Jr., b. 01-20-1848 in MO;
                         d. 03-03-1871 in MS
     02 Melville Cox HOLLOMAN, b. 12-12-1849; d. 01-02-1850
     02 Mary Wesley “Wes” HOLLOMAN, b. 04-06-1851 in MO;
                         d. 03-28-1929
        +  R. Walter STEWART (brother of A. B. Stewart), m. 11-26-1874
           03 Willie Minter STEWART, b. 01-31-1878; d. 10-30-1916
           03 Lewise “Love” STEWART, b. 10-08-1888; d. ?
              +  J. Leon AVERITT
     02 Thomas Abner HOLLOMAN, b. 12-09-1852 in MS;
                         d. 10-31-1950 (or 1847?)
        +  m1. Julie H. WHITE on 08-11-1879
            03 Thomas Wynn HOLLOMAN, b. 10-04-1880;
        +  m2. Laura S. WARREN on 02-25-1885  
           03 Melville Guy HOLLOMAN, b. 02-04-1890;
              +  Laura ANDERSON
           03 Warren Emory HOLLOMAN, b. 08-13-1893; d. 04-18-1923
              +  Irene MILLER
           03 Barrett W. HOLLOMAN, b. 03-16-1897; d. 06-26-1935
              +  Lucille FREE
     02 Edwin Pearce HOLLOMAN, b. 07-06-1855 in MS; d. 07-09-1871
     02 Robert Bruffey HOLLOMAN, b. 09-04-1857 MS; d. 08-03-1859 MS
     02 Roberta “Berta” Helen HOLLOMAN, b. 09-22-1861 in MS;  
                         d. 09-05-1897 in MS
        +  Dr. Lewis Carter JONES (grandson of Roberta’s Aunt Elizabeth
                         Holloman Aikman & son of her cousin Mary Ann Aikman)  
           03 Lewis Barrett JONES, b. 06-15-1889 MS; d. 11-23-1959
              +  Baldwin LLOYD
           03 Robert  Wesley JONES, Rev., b. 10-05-1891 MS; d. 12-08-1978
              +  Jessie Mary JOHNSON
           03 Julia Priestley JONES, b.07-17-1894 MS; d. 09-21-1979
              +  Edwin Guy DOANE