| Elizabeth Holloman |
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| Written by Lynn Fusinato | |||
| Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:50 | |||
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Elizabeth Holloman was the oldest daughter of Edmund Holloman and his wife Mary Barrett. Elizabeth was born in 1816 about four years after her family settled in the "New Tennessee Settlement" in Ste. Genevieve County Missouri. Her mother undoubtedly enlisted Elizabeth's help with cleaning house, preparing meals and helping with the younger children when Elizabeth was quite young. So, when she married William C. Aikman in early 1838, she was already experienced in keeping house and rearing children. The newlyweds moved in with Elizabeth's parents and her husband William helped her father farm his land just southwest of Coffman, MO. By the time her father Edmund died in 1843, Elizabeth had three children (two girls and an infant son). Since her three older brothers were married and apparently lived in their own homes or possibly with their in-laws, Elizabeth's family continued to live in the home of her widowed mother and William farmed her father's land. Sadly, just two years later Elizabeth herself died from complications in giving birth to her third daughter. Elizabeth was undoubtedly buried near her father Edmund Holloman, probably in an unmarked grave in the Old Stone Methodist cemetery near Coffman, MO. Elizabeth's mother and younger sister Mary Ann took over rearing her children. Her husband William purchased part or all of her father's homestead from her siblings and continued farming the land. In 1849, when Elizabeth's mother, her sister Mary Ann and brothers Allen, Abner and John moved to Arcadia, MO, they took the Aikman children with them and enrolled them in Rev. Jerome Berryman's academy along with other Holloman grandchildren. The 1898 obituary of the eldest Aikman daughter Mary Ann reported that she felt she had received a very adequate education at Berrymanâs Academy which prepared her for her future life. However, the Aikman children attended the academy just two or three years as that same obituary also reported that they moved to Mississippi in 1852 in a family group. Census data and family stories indicate that the family group probably included Elizabeth's four Aikman children, her mother Mary Barrett Holloman and her brother John Barrett Holloman with his wife and children. It seems quite likely that Elizabeth's husband William C. Aikman also moved to Mississippi with his children since two of his children lived with him in Yazoo Co. MS at the time of the 1860 Census. The three Aikman girls (Mary Ann, Sarah and Elizabeth) all married and lived the rest of their lives in Mississippi, eventually dying sometime in their 60s or 70s. Their brother John B. Aikman died in his thirties in 1875 apparently without ever marrying. Elizabeth Holloman Aikman's husband William and most of her children were buried in the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church cemetery in Yazoo Co. MS where her mother Mary and her brothers Abner, John and Thomas Holloman were also buried. ELIZABETH HOLLOMAN FAMILY GENEALOGY CHART 01 Elizabeth HOLLOMAN, b. 08-25-1816 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO; d. 11-10-1845 in MO; m. 1838 Ste. Genevieve Co MO + William AIKMAN, b. abt 1805; d. aft. 1860 02 Mary Ann AIKMAN, b. 10-15-1838 Ste Genevieve Co. MO; d. 01-26-1898 or 05-26-1898 MS + Dr. Lewis Henry JONES, m. 01-24-1857 Yazoo Co. MS 03 Lewis Carter JONES, physician, b. 06-09-1861; d. 12-22-1945 + m1. Roberta "Berta" Helen HOLLOMAN in 1886 + m2. Alice TAYLOR in 1901 03 William P. JONES, b. 10-16-1863; d. 03-07-1950 + Ettie Willie YOUNG, m. 03-28-1891 03 Mary Eunice JONES, b. 06-13-1865; d. 04-29-1896 + Joseph Henry BENTON, b. abt. 1890 03 Frank Aikman JONES, physician, b. 07-16-1867; d. 09-23-1922 + Maybelle RABB, m. 1890 03 Robert C. JONES, b. 10-20-1869; d. 12-28-1882 02 Sarah "Sallie" C. AIKMAN, school teacher in Phoenix, MS b. 11-28-1840 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO d. 01-07-1918 Yazoo Co. MS + T. F. JOHNSON, d. before 1870; m. 05-21-1859 Yazoo Co. MS 02 John B. AIKMAN, b. abt. 1843 MO; d. 1875 unmarried 02 Elizabeth "Eliza" H. AIKMAN, b. Nov. 1945 in MO; d. bet. 03-04-1918 and 1920, probably Yazoo Co. MS; m. 11-12-1873 in Yazoo Co. MS + John W. CATO, b. May 1852 Warren Co. MS; d. bet. 1900 & 1905 MS 03 Corinne CATO, b. abt. 1875; + m1. a Hawkins + m2. George W. Buck 03 Stewart CATO, b. Mar 1879; d. unmarried 03 John D. CATO, b. June 1886; d. unmarried
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