Alvin Holland
(Nov 1857 - 2 Oct 1936)
Descendant List
Notes on Alvin - PDF file - 48KB
Alvin Holland is a person of interest because he comes from one of the Holland families out of Johnston and Wayne counties, NC, with which I have been trying unsuccessfully to connect Susan/Suannah Holland or Mary J Gray for many years. Brothers Enos and Eli Holland were located in South Georgia in Thomas, Colquitt and Mitchell counties at least from 1850 to 1870
Funny thing is that Mary J Gray's sons kept moving back to Georgia to areas close to where these Enos/Eli Holland families show up. By 1870, her son Andrew Jackson Gray had left Geneva County and was in Mitchell County on the west side of Colquitt. So was Eli Holland. By 1880, Andrew Jackson was in Berrien County, on the east side of Colquitt, and his brother Daniel was now in Mitchell. Daniel later moved to Calhoun County, Florida, near Blountstown, just a short distance west of where Susan Holland lived in Gadsden. By 1900, we have Charlie T and brother Wylie Eli Holland from Mitchell County settled in nearby Jackson County, Florida, joined by 1910 by their father, Joseph E Holland. By 1920, Wiley Eli and his father have also moved to Blountstown. In 1930, Eli was back in Jackson County, living near his brother David in the town of Sneads, about 5 miles across the Apalachicola River from Chattahoochee, which is in Gadsden County about 6-8 miles up the road from Sycamore.
The Joseph and Mary J Gray family also had some kind of ties to Jackson County, Florida, because their youngest daughter, Matilda, married William Miles Beaman there in 1873. I do not know what she was doing in Jackson County at the time. Her family was in Geneva County in 1870 and in Dale County in 1880. It is possible they moved to Jackson for a while before moving back to Geneva, where William Beaman received a homestead patent in 1891 for land between Coffee Springs and Eden Baptist Church.
Enos Holland lived in the Thomas/Colquitt County area, near Moultrie, from 1850-70. Neither Eli nor Enos appear on the 1880 census. As they were both around 90, they had probably died by then.
In 1903, an Alvin Holland from Colquitt Co., Ga bought 80 acres in the Sycamore community where Susan’s family still lived. He bought the land from H D Wells, who at one time lived in Ochlocknee, in Colquitt County. The deed originated in Colquitt and referred to “Alvin Holland, now of Gadsden County…” implying that Alvin was formerly a local person. Alvin was born about 1857-58 and appears on the 1910-1920 Gadsden Co. census with his wife, Kitty L. (Colquitt Co. marriage record has Alvin Holland m. Kitty L Holland 5 Jan 1882.) Kitty L may be Enos Holland’s granddaughter, in his household on the 1860 census. Both Alvin and Kitty L (1859-1942) are buried in Gadsden County (no dates on Alvin’s stone).
Alvin is the right age and in the right place to be the son of Bright and Eliza Holland. It is not clear whether Bright Holland is the son of Enos or Eli. In 1908, Alvin Holland and Rufus Tolar were two of eleven original stockholders in a business venture in Greensboro, the nearest town to Sycamore. Did Alvin know that Rufus' mother was Susan Caroline Holland, daughter of the widow Suannah? Were they relatives as well as business partners?
Descendant List - Bright HOLLAND - 10 Sep 2005
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1-Bright HOLLAND
b: abt 1823 in North Carolina
sp-Louisa (Eliza) APPLEWHITE
b: abt 1823 in Georgia
m: 1841 in Stewart County, Georgia
. . . . . . . . 2-Elizabeth HOLLAND
b: abt 1845
. . . . . . . . 2-William HOLLAND
b: abt 1847
. . . . . . . . 2-John W HOLLAND
b: abt 1848
. . . . . . . . 2-Lovide Ann HOLLAND
b: abt Jun 1853
. . . . . . . . sp-Samuel J MATHIS
m: 1 Dec 1878 in Thomas County, Georgia
. . . . . . . . 2-Alvin HOLLAND
b: Nov 1857 in Georgia
d: 2 Oct 1936 in Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida
. . . . . . . . sp-Kittie Louisa HOLLAND
b: 27 Jun 1859 in Georgia
m: 5 Jan 1882 in Colquitt County, Georgia
d: 7 Feb 1942 in Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-Louisa HOLLAND
b: Sep 1885 in Georgia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-Rosetta HOLLAND
b: Apr 1887 in Georgia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-Kittie HOLLAND
b: Jan 1892 in Georgia
d: 1930
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sp-Jessie David GOODSON
b: 1882
d: 1965
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Mayo GOODSON
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-Laura HOLLAND
b: Mar 1895 in Georgia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-Bettie HOLLAND
b: Jun 1897 in Georgia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-Alvin "Buddy" HOLLAND , Jr
b: 15 Dec 1899 in Georgia
d: 31 Aug 1982
. . . . . . . . 2-Martha A HOLLAND
b: abt 1864
. . . . . . . . 2-General W HOLLAND
b: abt 1865
