Brief Life History of Job H
When Job H Holloway was born on 12 January 1832, in Ohio, United States, his father, Jason Holloway, was 30 and his mother, Jane Rawls, was 23. He married Rebecca Copeland on 26 September 1855, in Duck Creek, Henry, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States for about 40 years and Lagro, Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States in 1920. He died on 5 March 1921, in Wabash, Indiana, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Center Grove Cemetery, Lincolnville, Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States.
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- Job Holloway, "United States Census, 1860"
- Job Holloway, "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992"
- Job Holloway, "Find A Grave Index"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) sunken road’, from Middle English hol(g)h ‘hollow’ + weie ‘way, road’ (Old English holh + weg), or else a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Holloway (Middlesex) or Holway (Somerset). In Ireland (Leinster), the name has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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