Mary Ann Holloman, born about 1820 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO, was
the second daughter of Mary Barrett and Edmund Holloman. She
probably enjoyed a happy and carefree childhood until her youngest
sibling Edmund Wesley (E. W.) Holloman was born when she was about
five. By the time she was six, her mother would have expected her
to care for and entertain her baby brother so that her mother and
older sister Elizabeth could get all of the cooking, washing, spinning,
weaving and sewing done for their busy household. When her brother
Allen’s daughter Rachel was born a few years later and his wife died,
Mary Ann would likely have been given responsibility for watching and
entertaining Rachel when Rachel began crawling.
By 1831 when Mary Ann was eleven, her brother Allen had remarried
and moved with Rachel into the home of his new father-in-law. Her
youngest brother E. W. was about six and likely wanted to hang out
with his older brothers. So, undoubtedly during her preteen and
teenage years, much of Mary Ann’s time was spent with her mother
and sister Elizabeth learning how to perform the domestic duties of
running their household. When her sister Elizabeth Aikman died in
1845, Mary Ann probably took over the care of Elizabeth’s three
children and new born infant. Mary Ann would have been their mother
figure between 1846 and 1852 when those four Aikman children moved
from Missouri to Mississippi with their grandmother Mary B. Holloman,
uncle John B. Holloman and his wife and children. It is not known
whether Mary Ann moved to Mississippi with that group or remained
in Missouri.
What is known is that between 1851 and 1854 Mary Ann married Joseph
Carter Hawkins, a widower who also became the father-in-law of Mary
Ann’s niece Rachel. Joseph Carter was a farmer in the Crawford-Phelps
County area of Missouri when Rachel married his son James Marion
Hawkins in 1853 and the young couple quickly moved to Yazoo Co.
Mississippi where James Marion worked for the next few years as an
overseer at Eagle Bend Plantation. Joseph Carter may have met and
married Mary Ann in MO before Rachel and his son married or the
older couple may have met at Rachel’s wedding festivities or possibly
afterwards in MS.
Once married, Mary Ann and Joseph Carter settled down on his
Missouri farm. Some people claim the couple had a son Allen Meville
Hawkins who was born in early 1853 and had died by 1860. If so, then
Mary Ann and Joseph Carter had met and married before Rachel
and James Marion Hawkins married. Census data shows that their
first daughter Mary Elizabeth Hawkins was born in 1855 in MO and
their son Samuel was born in 1860 in Phelps Co. By the time Mary
Ann’s 63-year-old husband Joseph Carter died in August of 1860, his
son James Marion and Rachel had returned to Missouri with their
children to help Mary Ann care for her ailing husband and young
children and farm her husband’s land. Four years later Mary Ann’s
young son Samuel died and was buried near his father in a cemetery
in St. James, MO.
In 1866 Mary Ann married farmer Lea Miller, a widower who lived in
Phelps Co. She and her daughter moved into his home where Mary
Ann became the step-mother of his daughter and son. A year later in
1867 a new son Lea Edmund Miller joined their blended family group.
Mary Ann and Lea apparently had a strong, loving marriage. Their
daughters Mary Elizabeth Hawkins and Letitia Miller grew up, married
brothers James B. and John C. Welch and setup housekeeping near the
Millers. Mary Ann and Lea lived comfortably in Phelps Co. until Lea
died in 1892.
Soon after Lea’s death, Mary and her son Lea Edmund Miller decided
to travel to MS to visit her brothers John B. and Thomas R. Holloman
in Yazoo Co. There her son Lea Edmund met and fell in love with a
local girl, Sally Lumley. They soon married and settled down near the
Lumley family. Mary Ann moved in with the young couple and was
living with them when she died in 1896. According to family stories,
she was buried in the Wesley Chapel Methodist Cemetery in Yazoo Co.
MS where her mother and brothers Abner, John and Thomas are buried.
However, her name is not listed along with theirs in a list of persons
interred at that cemetery.
MARY ANN HOLLOMAN FAMILY GENEALOGY CHART
01 Mary Ann HOLLOMAN, b. bet. 1820-1822 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO,
d. 1896 in Yazoo Co. MS
+ m1. Joseph Carter HAWKINS, b. 1797 in Greenville Co., SC;
d. 08-12-1860 in St. James, MO;
m. abt. 1854
02 Mary Elizabeth HAWKINS, b. 08-22-1855 MO;
d. 10-18-1910 in Dixon, MO
+ James Buchanan WELCH, b. 08-26-1856 in IN;
d. d. 06-15-1931 Maries Co. MO;
m. 10-03-1875 in home of Millers
03 Jacob C. WELCH, b. 10-30-1876 in Phelps Co. MO
+ Alice EMERY of Meta, MO; m. 12-14-1904
03 Winnie A. WELCH, b. 07-16-1879 in Phelps Co. MO
03 Charles W. WELCH, b. 11-12-1880 MO
+ Emma WOODY, b. abt 1881 MO; m. abt 1904 MO
04 Evelyn WELCH, b. 12-29-1904 MO; d. Nov. 25, 1910
04 Fredy WELCH, b. abt 1907 MO
04 Edwin WELCH, b. abt 1910 Jackson, Osage, Missouri
04 Edith WELCH, b. abt 1913 MO
04 Lula WELCH, b. abt 1915 MO
04 Mary WELCH, b. abt 1918 MO
04 Florrie Mary WELCH, b. abt 1921 MO
04 Marcella WELCH, b. abt 1924 MO
03 Minnie M. WELCH, b. 07-27-1884 MO; d. bef. 1900?
03 Mamie/Minnie Ella WELCH, b. 10-23-1887 Rolla, MO; d. aft 1930
+ John SCHROEDER Jr, b. Oct 1879 MO;
m. 06-26-1906 MO
04 William SCHROEDER/Schweder, b. abt 1907 Osage Co. MO
04 Walter SCHROEDER, b. abt 1909 Osage Co. MO
04 Dora SCHROEDER, b. abt 1912 Osage Co. MO
04 Edwin SCHROEDER, b. abt 1915 Osage Co. MO
04 Otto SCHROEDER, b. abt 1917 Osage Co. MO
04 Edna SCHROEDER, b. abt 1919 Osage Co. MO
04 Roy A. SCHROEDER, b. abt 1923 Osage Co. MO
04 Olivia S. SCHROEDER, b. abt 1925 Osage Co. MO
03 Edward W. WELCH, b. 08-12-1890 MO; d. bef 1900
02 Samuel C. HAWKINS, b. abt. 1860; d. 05-13-1865
+ m2. Lea H. MILLER, b. 1826 in TN; d. 09-03-1892 MO;
father of Lutitia (b. 1857) & Thomas (b. 1859)
m. 04-19-1866 MO -2nd wife Mary Ann Holloman Hawkins
02 Lea Edmund MILLER, b. 04/29/1867 in Phelps Co. MO
+ Sally LUMLEY, m. 1895 in Yazoo Co. MS
03 John Andrew MILLER, b. 02/07/1897, Phoenix, MS;
+ Mary Belle HORNSBY
03 Jennie Lea MILLER, b. 03/15/1898
+ J. Malcom BANKSTON
03 Carrie Belle MILLER, b. 03/25/1900
+ Mr. NOBEL
03 William Lumbley MILLER, b. 04/22/1903
03 Ida Joyce MILLER, b. 05/10/19
03 Lea Edmund MILLER, Jr., b. 01/13/1913 MS; d. 11/13/1913 MS