Brief Life History of Isaac
When Isaac Holloway was born on 19 May 1792, in Campbell, Virginia, United States, his father, William Haines Holloway, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Stanley, was 19. He married Nancy Agnes Cherry on 14 February 1819, in Highland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Perry Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 23 February 1877, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Farmland, Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States.
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- Isaac Holoway, "United States Census, 1860"
- Isaac Holloway, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Isaac Holloway, "Find A Grave Index"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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