When Mary Elizabeth Shaw Holliman was born in 1837, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, her father, John B H Shaw, was 39 and her mother, Mary Lawley, was 32. She married Elijah Holliman in 1858, in Fayette, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Fayette, Alabama, United States in 1860. She died in 1866, in Pickens, Alabama, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Millport, Lamar, Alabama, United States.