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Subject: [ALHENRY] Re: Mary Murphy Henry Co. Alabama
Date: 15 Aug 2001 07:06:00 -0600



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Surnames: Holley, Hutto, Price
Classification: Queries

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Is this your man in the 6th Alabama Infantry. Companies A & B contain bios for Henry County Soldiers.

HOLL(e)Y, John Green. (Private, Company B, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment) John was born 19 July 1820 in Lawrence (Laurens?) County Georgia the son of John Holl(e)y (died 1828) and Penelope. John married 1) Phoebe Price 7 January 1844 and Issue are: Sarah Ann P. Holley m. James A. Hutto; John Green Holley Jr. m. Mary B. Murphy; Mary A. Elizabeth Holley m. Jesse Vickers; Martha Lucinda Holley m. Nathaniel L. Hawley; Francis Marion Holley m. Hannah Leonora Espy; Phoebe A. Malissa Holley m. William L. Kelly; Augustus W. Holley m. Virginia E. Holmes. 2) Martha Jane Fondren 6 July 1862 the second daughter of William Thompson Price and Elizabeth Spurlin. Issue are: Robert Lee Holley m. Effie Jane Baker; James Burl Holley m. Mary E. Hudspeth; Nancy Loretta Holley d. age 15; William Thomas Holley m. Leona Holmes; W. G. Holley d. 1874 infant; George Michael Holley m. Leila. John appears on the 1850, 1860 and 1870 census records in Lawrenceville Henry County Alabama, first with his fi!
rst wife Phoebe and then with Martha Jane. It appears that the two wives were first cousins. He enlisted in the Henry Grays, 6th Alabama Infantry under General A. C. Gordon when it was first organized in 1861. He served until the end of the war. After the war and the death of his first wife, he distributed most of his land to his children. He then opened a general merchandise store in Lawrenceville. He was on his way to the store from his home early one morning. 28 January 1877, when he died of apoplexy. He is buried at Price Family Cemetery east of Lawrenceville, Henry County Alabama. Henry's Heritage, Vol II, Page 130, ©1980

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