Thomas Right Holloman was the fourth son of Mary Barrett and
Edmund Holloman.  He was born in 1818 near Avon, MO.  It is very
likely that his devoutly religious mother Mary named him for the
stirring Rev. Thomas Wright who was the itinerant preacher assigned
in 1817 and 1818 to her Methodist-Episcopal community, designated
at that time as the “Saline District” by their Methodist Episcopal
conference.  

Young Tom grew up to be quite handsome, charming and a bit on the
wild side.  Tom’s parents sent him to school at Farmington, MO, in
St. Francois Co. and he apparently impressed his schoolmates with
his flamboyant behavior as one Farmington resident years later wrote
about Tom buying a watch, taking it apart to see how it worked and
then joking about how it would not work after he tried to put it together
again.  Later in life Tom himself told stories about how when he was
a teenager, he would sneak out of the window of his second story
bedroom after his family was asleep, climb down the side of the house
and run off into the night to meet his friends and do what ever kind
of night activities teenage boys in the mid 1830s thought was fun
and exciting.

In the mid 1840s Tom made his way south to Mississippi, some have
said as a horse trader and others said as a gambler.   While there, he
charmed the heart of young Rebecca Cook, the only child of a rich
plantation owner, and in 1846 they were married on a river boat in
the Big Black River just a few months before she turned 17.  They had
two children by the time her father Fielding Cook died in 1848 leaving
Eagle Bend, his plantation in Yazoo Co. MS, to Rebecca.   It was
probably shortly after his father-in-law died that Tom began trying
to convince his mother and siblings to move down to Mississippi to
live near him and his young family.  In 1850 he finally succeeded in
getting one brother, Abner, to check out life in Yazoo Co.   By the
end of 1852, Tom and Abner had persuaded their mother and their
brother John to leave Missouri and settle in Mississippi near them.

Tom and Rebecca had a total of seven children but only three of their
children lived to adulthood.  In 1871 Rebecca died shortly before her
forty-second birthday and she was buried in the Thomas R. Holloman
family plot in the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church cemetery in Yazoo
Co. MS.  By 1880 Tom had married a young widow Amanda McKee
Curtis, daughter of John McKee of Yazoo Co. MS.  Tom and Amanda
had no children and they remained married until his death in 1894.  
Tom was buried next to his first wife Rebecca in his family plot in the
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery in the community of
Phoenix, MS.  It is not known where his widow Amanda was buried.

        THOMAS RIGHT HOLLOMAN FAMILY GENEALOGY CHART

01 Thomas Right HOLLOMAN, b. 10-23-1818 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;  
                        d. 11-19-1894 Bentonia, Mississippi
  + m1. Rebecca Ann COOK, b. 06-22-1829 MS; d. 05-21-1871 MS;  
                        m. 03-05/19-1846 Yazoo Co. MS
     02 Fielding Cook HOLLOMAN, b. 06-06-1847 Yazoo Co. MS;
                        d. 12-19-1859 MS      
     02 Mary “Molly” Amelia HOLLOMAN, b. 03-08-1848 Yazoo Co. MS;
                         d. after 1926 MS
        +  Summerfield BROWN, m. 02-17-1870  
           03 Annie Rebecca BROWN, b. 03-08-1848 Phoenix, MS;
                        d. 1926 MS
              +  Rev. J. Walter WARD
           03 Marvin Holloman BROWN, b. 01-01-1879;  
                         d. (after 1951?) Ft. Worth, TX
              +  Janie MCINTOSH
     02 Thomas Bascom HOLLOMAN, b. 01-18-1851 Yazoo Co. MS;
                        d. 09-09-1920
        +  Mary Latitia HOLLIDAY abt. 1875
           03 Thomas Bascom HOLLOMAN, Jr. Dr., b. 12-13-1874;
                        d. 03-28-1951
              +  Mary HAMILTON
           03 John Holliday HOLLOMAN, b. 09-09-1876, d. after 1951?
              +  Myra Lou HALEY, m. abt. 1904
           03 Frank Marvin HOLLOMAN, b. 03-17-1878; d. 09-29-1948
              +  m1. Bea WRIGHT
              +  m2. Sarah BRADLET
           03 Leon Catchings HOLLOMAN, b. 01-21-1880; d. aft. 1951?
              +  Sue Allen WHITE, m. 06-22-1904
           03 Mary Latitia HOLLOMAN, b. 03-12-1882; d. aft. 1951?
              +  Fountain SCOTT, m. ca 1909
           03 Harriett Rebecca HOLLOMAN (twin), b. 12-26-1883;
                        d. 04-13-1901
           03 Stella Josephina HOLLOMAN (twin), b. 12-26-1883;
                        d. aft. 1951?
              +  M. E. ROBERTSON
     02 Frank Pierce HOLLOMAN, b. 12-16-1852 Yazoo Co. MS;
         d. 11-13-1906
        +  Lemenda Usher SKINNER b. 1880
           03 Frank Pierce HOLLOMAN, Jr., b. 07-31-1895 MS;
                        d. 07-19-1946; unmarried
           03 Laura Rebecca “Laurie” HOLLOMAN, b. 03-06-1897 MS;
                        d. ca. 1982 Jackson, MS
              +  John Anthoy SCHAMBER, no children
           03 Amanda “Mannie” HOLLOMAN, b. 09-01-1899; d. aft. 1951?
              +  Earl Hardy KINNEY of Brownville, TN
           03 Thomas Right HOLLOMAN, b. 12-03-1903; d. aft 1951?
              +  Estelle STOGNER, lived Bolton, MS
     02 Allen Luther HOLLOMAN, b. 04-02-1855 Yazoo Co. MS;
                        d. 10-08-1859
     02 Willie HOLLOMAN (twin), b. 06-10-1857 Yazoo Co. MS;
                        d. 06-11-1857
     02 Wilber HOLLOMAN (twin), b. 06-10-1857 Yazoo Co. MS;
                        d. 06-11-1857

  + m2. Amanda MCKEE CURTIS, daughter of John McKee and
                        second wife of Thomas R. Holloman