When John Newton Holloway was born in January 1855, in Kankakee, Johnson Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, his father, John Smith Holloway, was 30 and his mother, Mary Louisa Wells, was 23. He married Florence E. Rockhill on 31 January 1878, in Marshall, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Etna Green, Etna Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 1 February 1888, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States, at the age of 33.
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Historical Boundaries 1855: Kosciusko, Indiana, United States
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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 ).
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