presents

(son of Enos Holland)

Born about 1824 in North Carolina
Died 12 March 1883 in Paint Rock, Alabama

Home Main Holland line Enos' branch  Eli's branch  Woodard's branch  Jesse's branch Curtis' branch Absalom's branch  Elisha's branch  Warren's branch Exum's branch West's branch Green's branch   Candace's branch  List of names

This page is a sub-section of Enos Holland and his wife Susan Brown's children.  It shows the descendants of their son Alvin Holland and his wife Mary Ellen Miers.

You can go directly to Elisha's or Enos' children through these links:

Elisha Holland's children with 1st  wife Patience Watkins:	Enos Holland's children	Alvin Holland's children (this page)
1.  Enos Holland (parent page) 2.  Eli Holland 3.  Woodard D. Holland 4.  Betsy-Jesse Holland 5.  Bryant Holland 6.  Curtis Holland 7.  Absalom Holland 8.  Elisha Holland	with wife Patsy Mitchell:     unknown with wife Susan Brown:   1.  Eson Holland 2.  Bright Holland (possible son) 3.  Benjamin Holland 4.  Alvin Holland (this page) 5.  Eli Holland	with wife Mary Ellen Miers:    1.  William Holland  2.  Frances Matilda Holland  3.  Sarah Ella Holland  4.  George D. Holland  5.  Bright Holland 1859 with wife Elizabeth Ann Jones:  6.  Elizabeth Ann Jones Holland  7.  Margaret Georgia Ann Holland  8.  Loveda A. C. Holland  9.  William J. Holland 10.  James A. Holland 11.  Mary P. C. Holland

4.  Alvin Holland was born about 1824 in Fair Bluff, Columbus County, North Carolina.  He married 1st Mary Ellen Miers on 24 December 1848, in Talladega County, Alabama.  They had five children together.  She died before 1865 in Alabama.  Alvin Holland married 2nd Elizabeth Ann Jones.  They had six children together, for a total of 11 children by Alvin Holland.  He died 12 March 1883 in Paint Rock, Jackson County, Alabama, at age 59.  Much of the information in this section was provided by Jim Allen.³⁴  

The 1850 census for Randolph County, Alabama, lists an "Alfred" Holland, age 25, with his wife Ellen, age 20, and their 3-month-old son William.  Although his state of birth is listed as Tennessee instead of North Carolina, and his name is listed as Alfred instead of Alvin, we are assuming this is Alvin Holland, son of Enos Holland, with his wife Mary Ellen Miers.  The ages fit very well and the names are close. 

The History of Jackson County, Alabama, by John Robert Kennamer, cites an A. M. Holland as being in Jackson County (or Paint Rock Valley area) sometime between before the civil war and 1871:

The Masons were the first to organize in the county.  There were five lodges and they held a big meeting once a year.  In 1869, they met about half-way between Woodville and paint Rock.  At this meeting a great fight broke out between the Woodalls and the Whitecottons.  Jim and Hy Whitecotton were killed. As the Whitecottons were turbulent, dangerous men, the people of the Woodville community felt greatly relieved at knowing these men had been killed.  Scottsboro hosted the annual meeting the next year and Dr. T. T. Cotnam was the orator.  This meeting was to celebrate the "anniversary of St. John, the Baptist."  In 1871, a new hall was erected in Scottsboro by the three orders of Masons, Odd Fellows and Pale Faces.  Odd Fellows had been organized in the county before the Civil war, some of the members were:  John F. Patterson, John Snodgrass, G. W. Story, W. H. Robinson, S. G. Grimmett, G. W. Allen, J. L. Gentry, J. F. Potts, D. N. Patterson, J. D. Patterson, David Tate, Wm. Mathews, Wiley Mathews, Jesse L. Potts, Lewis T. Webb, A. M. Holland, James M. Bryant, S. G. Grimmett, George W. Thorton, John G. Mathews, F. M. McMahan, Leroy Rash.³

In 1860, this family is found on the Colquitt County, Georgia, census (p. 554).  They are listed as follows:

Alvin Holland moved from Alabama to Georgia between 1856 when George D. was born, and 13 April 1859, when Bright was born.  After Bright was born, Alvin moved back to Alabama.  To substantiate his move back to Alabama, there are estate records in Talladega County, Alabama, showing that Alvin Holland, W. H. Holland, and Jesse Holland, bought items at the estate sale of George Miers on 2 October 1862.   George Miers is thought to be the father of Mary Ellen Miers, Alvin's wife.³⁶ 

It is not known when Mary Miers died exactly.  Her last child, Bright Holland, was born in 1859.  Mary appears on the Colquitt County, Georgia, census with her family in 1860.  By 1870, Alvin Holland is on the Colquitt County census with his second wife, Elizabeth Ann Jones, was born in Alabama.  Alvin is 46, a farmer born in North Carolina; his new wife Elizabeth is 25.  William P. Holland, who would be about 20 years old at this time, is no longer living with them.  Alvin's children living in the house are Frances, age 18; Sarah E., age 16, Bright, 11.  George D. is not listed and it is unknown what happened to him.  Alvin Holland's children with Elizabeth Ann Jones appear on the census as Eliza A., age 5; and Georgiann, age 2, perhaps named for George D. 

Oral tradition of the Maddux family indicated that Alvin Holland's second wife was a full-blooded Indian, and that her name might have been Sarah Elizabeth.  No substantiating evidence of this has been found, although his second wife may have been an Indian woman.  Her name is probably Elizabeth Ann Jones, but may be Sarah Elizabeth Jones.  She was born 27 February 1865, in Calhoun County, Alabama.  She was about 21 years old when she married Alvin Holland, apparently around 1864 or 1865. 

In 1880, this family is found in Jackson County, Alabama.  Alvin Holland is 53, head of household, born in North Carolina;  and his wife Elizabeth is 30, born in Alabama.  Only one child from Alvin's first marriage remains in the home - Sarah Ella Holland, who is 25 now.  Children from his second marriage to Elizabeth Ann Jones living with them at this time are Eliza A. J., age 14; Margaret, age 11 (Georgiann?); Lovedie A. C., 9; William J., 6; James A., 3; and Mary P. C., 1.  All the children were born in Alabama.

Alvin died 12 March 1883, at Paint Rock, Jackson County, Alabama. 

Children of Alvin Holland and Mary Ellen Miers:

1.  William Holland was born about 1850 in Alabama.  He appears on the 1850 census in Randolph County, Alabama, with "Alfred" Holland, a blacksmith, age 25; and Ellen, his wife, age 20.  While it is not certain that this family on the census is our family, it is assumed that it is Alvin Holland, his wife Mary Ellen Miers, and their first child, William, age 3 months. 

2.  Frances Matilda Holland was born 18 February 1853, in Alabama.  Her line is followed in a separate section.

3.  Sarah Ella Holland was born about 1855 in Alabama.  She married A. Jack Lanham on 19 May 1917, in Bell County, Texas, when she was 62 (Bell County, Texas Marriage Records, Vol. V, p. 280).  He was know as both A. J. and Jack.  She died 21 November 1982 near Phalba, in Van Zandt County, Texas.  She was buried near Phalba between Maybank and Canton on the Brewer Family Place. 

Sarah Ella Holland appears on the 1860 census in Colquitt County, Georgia, along with Alvin Holland, her father; on the 1870 census in Calhoun County, Alabama; and on the 1880 census in Jackson County, Alabama.  In 1900, she is on the Bell County, Texas, census living with her brother Bright Holland.  In 1910 she would have been about 55 years old and single.  In 1920, she about age 62 and married to J. A. "Jack" Lanham.  

4.  George D. Holland is listed on the 1860 census with his parents Alvin Holland and Mary, in Colquitt County, Georgia, age 4, born in Alabama, listed as idiot.  By the 1870 census, neither he nor his mother are listed with the family. 

5.  Bright Holland was born 13 April 1859, in Colquitt County, Georgia.  He is on the 1870 census with his parents in Calhoun County, Alabama.  He married Love [last name unknown]. 

Children of Alvin Holland and Elizabeth Ann Jones:

6.  Elizabeth Ann Jones Holland was born 27 February 1865, in Calhoun County, Alabama.  She married John Henry Bruce in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, on 2 October 1887.  John Bruce was born 20 August 1865, in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, the son of Francis Marion Bruce and his second wife Sara Elizabeth Kirby.  He died of cancer 10 April 1934, in Estelline, Hall County, Texas.  He was buried in Hulver Cemetery in Hall County, in the panhandle region of Texas.  Elizabeth Jones Holland died and was buried in Bell County, Texas, in 1915. 
Children of Elizabeth Ann Jones Holland and John Henry Bruce:²⁴⁵ 

1.  Minnie Mae Bruce was born 23 May 1889 in Alabama.  She married Olie Hair; they had four children together.
Children of Minnie Bruce and Olie Hair:

1.  Estelle Hair was born est. 1908.

2.  Carnell Hair was born est. 1910.

3.  Thelmer Hair was born est. 1912.

4.  Johnnie Mae Hair was born est. 1915 in Terrell, Texas.

2.  Bell Bruce was born est. 1888, probably in Texas.  She married Mill Roe. 
Children of Bell Bruce and Mill Roe:

1.  Mildred Roe was born est. 1910.

2.  Bessie Mae Roe was born est. 1912.

3.  Roger Lee Roe was born est. 1915.

3.  Erna Bruce was born est. 1890, probably in Texas.  She married Harlo Stephens.
Children of Erna Bruce and Harlo Stephens:

1.  Gladys Stephens was born est. 1912.

2.  Merle Dean Stephens was born est. 1914.

3.  Dollie Stephens was born est. 1916.

4.  Anna Stephens was born est. 1919.

4.  Altha Bruce was born est. 1892, probably in Texas.  She married Zack Jouitt.  They had eight children together. 
Children of Althea Bruce and Zack Jouitt:

1.  John Thomas Jouitt was born est. 1914.

2.  Annie Bell Jouitt was born est. 1916.

3.  Milford Jouitt was born est. 1918.

4.  Bobbie Jack Jouitt was born est. 1920.

5.  Billie Fern Jouitt was born est. 1922.

6.  Wanda Jo Jouitt was born est. 1924.

7.  Doyce Jouitt was born est. 1927.

8.  Mannie Mack Jouitt was born est. 1930.

5.  Etta Lee Bruce was born 27 April 1894, probably in Texas.  She married Ralph Daniel Farr on 5 July, not sure what year. 
Children of Etta Lee Bruce and Daniel Farr:

1.  Bruce Farr was born est. 1910, probably in Texas.  He married Kathryn Morley.
Child of Bruce Farr and Kathryn Morley:

1.  Peggy Joyce Farr was born est. 1933.

2.  Allen Farr was born est. 1911, probably in Texas. 

3.  Maybelle Farr was born est. 1912, probably in Texas.  She married Curtis Fox. 
Children of Maybelle Farr and Curtis Fox:

1.  Crocket Daniel Fox was born est. 1932, probably in Texas.

2.  Ronald Lee Fox was born est. 1934, probably in Texas, a twin to Ronald Dee Fox.

3.  Ronald Dee Fox was born est. 1934, probably in Texas, a twin to Ronald Lee Fox.

4.  Anna Jane Fox was born est. 1947, probably in Texas.  She married James Puckett.
Children of Anna  Jane Fox and James Puckett:

1.  Curtis Puckett was born est. 1960.

2.  Marcie Puckett was born est. 1962.

4.  Imogene Farr was born est. 1913, probably in Texas.  She married Albert Eugene Peterson.
Children of Imogene Farr and Albert Peterson:

1.  Bonnie Faye Peterson was born est. 1936, probably in Texas.

2.  Doris Annette Peterson was born est. 1938, probably in Texas.  She married Homer Yarborough.

5.  Ralph Daniel Farr was born est. 1914, probably in Texas.  He married 1st Dorothy Hill, married 2nd Bobbie Lou Kemper.
Child of Ralph Farr, Jr. and Dorothy Hill

1.  Sharon Farr was born est. 1935.

Children of Ralph Farr, Jr. and Bobbie Lou Kemper:

1.  Darrell Wayne Farr was born est. 1938, probably in Texas.

2.  Robert Farr was born est. 1940, probably in Texas.

3.  Linda Farr was born est. 1942, probably in Texas.

4.  Travis Farr was born est. 1945, probably in Texas.

6.  John Farr was born est. 1915, probably in Texas.  He married Lois Douglas.  It is not known what the relationship was, if any, between Lois Douglas and John's brother Billie Bob Farr's wife, Dorothy Douglas.  Dorothy Dougals and Billie Bob Farr did have a daughter they named Lois Farr.  John Farr died 1 November 1968, in Temple, Bell County, Texas.
Children of John Farr and Lois Douglas:

1.  Douglas Farr was born est. 1938, probably in Texas.

2.  Thomas Farr was born est. 1940, probably in Texas.

3.  Deborah Farr was born est. 1943, probably in Texas.

7.  Eunefern Farr was born 24 December 1918, in Houston, Texas.  Her name has also been spelled Unifern;  if anyone can provide the correct spelling, I would appreciate it.  She married Arnold C. Fletcher.  He was born 11 March 1915. 
Children of Eunefern Farr and Arnold Fletcher:

1.  Edward Fletcher was born est. 1938, probably in Texas.  He married Annie Silvas. 

2.  Carol Ann Fletcher was born est. 1940, probably in Texas.  She married Charles McDaniel.

3.  James Ralph Fletcher was born est. 1943, probably in Texas.

8.  Billie Bob Farr was born 27 June 1926, in Estleen, Texas.  On 7 August, 1948, he married Dorothy Evelyn Douglas, possibly related to his brother John Farr's wife, Lois Douglas, in Taylor, Williamson County, Texas.  He was a crane operator for ALCOA, and retired after 33 years.  He was also a rancher.  He was a member of International Order of Oddfellows and of the First Baptist Church in Rockdale, Texas.  Billie Bob Farr died 12 January 2009, in Rockdale, Milan County, Texas, and was buried 16 January 2009, in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rockdale.  He was 82.  His obituary is in the Public Records Obituary section of this web site.¹⁹³ 
Children of Billie Bob Farr and Dorothy Douglas:

1.  Billie Bob Farr, Jr. was born 10 September 1949, in Williamson County, Texas.

2.  Randy Dan Farr was born est. 1950.

3.  Lois Rene Farr was born est. 1953, and possibly named for her aunt, Lois Douglas.

9.  Wendell Darnell Farr was born 1 November 1928, in Granger, Texas.  He married Dora Mae Love sometime after 1939, in Taylor, Williamson County, Texas.  She was the daughter of Howard Love and Lucille [last-name-unknown], social security no. 463-70-6909. 
Children of Wendell Darnell Farr and Dora Love:

1.  Donna Kathryn Farr was born 30 May 1949, in Williamson County, Texas.

2.  David Darnell Farr was born est. 1952, probably in Texas.

3.  Dennis Kirby Farr was born est. 1954, probably in Texas.

4.  Dana Carol Farr was born est. 1957, probably in Texas.

10.  Meleroinet Odell Farr was born 4 August 1931, in Granger, Texas.  He married Bobbie Jean Johnson.  Bobbie Jean Johnson was born 17 December 1930, in Taylor, Texas.  She died 3 April 1971, at age 40. 
Children of Meleroinet Odell Farr and Bobbie Jean Johnson:

1.  Cindy Lou Farr was born est. 1950, probably in Texas.

2.  Allan Reynolds Farr was born est. 1952, probably in Texas.

11.  Odis Lee Farr was born 13 December 1933, in Granger, Texas.  He married Geraldine Schiller on 16 March 1958, in Temple, Bell County, Texas. 

12.  William Lynn Farr was born in 1938.  He married Barbara Emma Cecilia Dute in Fulda, Germany, in 1959. 
Children of William Farr and Barbara Dute:

1.  Andrew Eddie Gerald Farr was born 11 February 1960, in Taylor, Texas. 

2.  Margaret Etta Farr was born 1 January 1961, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.  She met and married Brian William Atkin on 2 July 1982.  He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on 21 October 1955.  They married again in church when his parents came to visit on 30 September 1983.  Both marriages were in Fulda, Hessen, Germany.
Children of Margaret Farr and Brian William Atkin:

1.  Christopher William Atkin was born 6 April 1987, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2.  Alexander Russell Atkin was born 21 November 1989, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He died 12 December 2011 after being run over by an illegal driver while crossing the street in a crosswalk.  There is a picture of Alex Atkin in the Album - Family Photos section of this website.

3.  Daniel Augustine Farr was born 10 September 1963, in Fort Benning, Georgia.

4.  Steven Lynn Farr was born 1 June 1967, in Schweinfurt, Germany.

6.  Jesse Coleman Bruce

7.  Margaret Georgia Ann (Georgiann) Holland was born about 1869 in Calhoun County, Alabama.  On 23 October 1892, in Bell County, Texas, she married David S. Montrose.  David was born 14 September 1871, in Bellefonte in Jackson County, Alabama.  Bellefonte was the first town incorporated in Jackson County (15 December 1851), and was selected as the county seat.  Margaret Holland died at the age of 30 in May 1899 in Holland, Bell County, Texas.  By 1910, David Montrose was re-married and listed on the census in Williamson County, Texas, along with his new wife Mary and the three children he had with Margaret.  Nellie was 18, Willie 15, and Lee 10.³⁴ 
Children of Margaret Georgiann Holland and David Montrose:

1.  Nellie J. Montrose was born 23 July 1893, in Holland, Bell County, Texas.  She died 7 August 1964, at age 71 in New Salem, Rusk County, Texas. 

2.  William George Montrose was born 11 April 1895, in Bell County, Texas.  On 15 January 1922, he married Ethel Elizabeth Milner.  Ethel Milner was born 2 July 1902, in Fosterville, Anderson County, Texas.  Fosterville is near Indian Creek at the intersection of a country and Farm Road 315, seventeen miles northeast of Palestine in northeastern Anderson County.  The community was founded sometime before 1870 and had a post office from 1870 to 1905.  It had a population estimated at fifty in 1896.  By the 1930's the Fosterville school was gone but the townsite still had a sawmill and a number of dwellings.¹⁷² 

William G. Montrose died 23 March 1982, in Tyler, Smith County, Texas.  Ethel Milner Montrose died 9 May 1985, in Nacogdoches, Texas.  She was buried in Poynor Cemetery in Poynor, Henderson County, Texas. 
Children of William George Montrose and Ethel Milner:

1.  Ruby Louise Montrose was born 3 June 1923, in Fosterville, Anderson County, Texas.  She married Elmer E. Harrison around 1939.  Elmer Harrison was born about 1920, probably in Texas.

2.  Mary Ann Montrose was born 17 April 1925, in Fosterville, Texas.

3.  William Franklin Montrose was born 22 April 1927, in Fosterville, Texas. 

4.  James Vivian Montrose was born 22 June 1929, in Fosterville, Texas.

5.  Elizabeth Jane Montrose was born 10 March 1932, in Fosterville, Texas.

6.  Marjorie Nell Montrose was born 4 March 1934, in Fosterville, Texas.

7.  Harmon Edwin Montrose was born 2 April 1936, in Fosterville, Texas.

8.  Alvis Wayne Montrose was born 12 January 1940, in Henderson County, Texas.

9.  Charles Loyd Montrose was born 29 October 1942, in Henderson County, Texas.  On 5 February 1965, he married Nancy Luan Vermillion, in Frankston, Anderson County, Texas.  They were married in Luan's mother's home. 

Frankston is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 175 and State Highway 155, near Lake Palestine and within a twenty-five-mile radius of Tyler, Jacksonville, Palestine, and Athens in far northeastern Anderson County.  The community was founded in 1902 when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built through the area.  At one time Frankston had three hotels, a variety of stores, several gas stations and cafes, a basket factory, a Masonic hall, and a movie house.  After 1925, the town's population ranged from 818 to 1,500.¹⁷² 
Children of Charles Loyd Montrose and Luan Vermillion:

1.  Rebecca Ann Montrose was born 19 November 1967, in Jacksonville, Texas.  She married William Thomas Mullins on 22 September 1990, in United Methodist Church, Frankston, Anderson County, Texas. 

2.  John William Montrose was born 3 December 1970, in Jacksonville, Texas.  He married Deanna Anna Glass on 5 August 1989, in Frankston, Anderson County, Texas. 

3.  Matthew Montrose was born 2 November 1978, in Tyler, Texas. 

4.  Catherine Nicole Montrose was born 6 November 1981, in Dallas, Texas.

10.  Margaret Love Montrose was born 9 January 1947, in Henderson County, Texas.   She married John Henry Riggins on 5 October 1968, in Dickson, Dickson County, Tennessee.

3.  David Lee Montrose, called Lee, was born about 1899, in Holland, Texas.

8.  Loveda A. C. Holland was born 18 April 1872, in Alabama.  She married Jesse Blant Bowden on 27 December 1893, in Bell County, Texas.  Jesse Blant Bowden was born 2 February 1870, in Mississippi.  Loveda Holland died in December 1925 at age 53, and was buried in Holland Cemetery in Holland, Bell County, Texas.  Jesse Bowden died in February 1940, in Bell County, Texas.   ^{34 173}
Children of Loveda Holland and Jesse Blant Bowden:

1.  Jesse Goddard Bowden was born 4 August 1906, in Holland Texas.  He married Bessie Lorene Roberts who was born 5 April 1904, in Cedar Creek, Bastrop County, Texas.  He died 12 August 1975, in Houston, Harris County, Texas, and was buried in Tecula Cemetery in Cherokee County, Texas.  Bessie died just six months after he did, on 28 February 1976.  Tecula Cemetery is located on FM 2064 and 347 northeast of Jacksonville, Texas.  It was started by the side of a little log schoolhouse before the Civil War.  It is catalogued online at http://www.tx-wooddell.net/cherokee/ne/tecula_cemt.htm but no Bowden is listed.

Children of Jesse Goddard Bowden and Bessie Roberts Bowden:

1.  Mary Alice Bowden was born 8 September 1938, in Holland, Texas.

2.  Betty Jo Bowden was born 10 March 1943, in Houston, Texas. 

9.  William J. Holland was born about 1874, in Alabama.

10.  James A. Holland was born about 1876, in Alabama.

11.  Mary P. C. Holland was born about 1879, in Alabama, probably in Jackson County.

This is the end of Alvin Holland's line.  To see his sibling lines, go back to Enos Holland's page, of which this is a sub-section.  If you can add any information on the family of Alvin Holland, it would be a welcome advance to this line of the Jimmie Holland Family.