When Nancy Jane Holloway was born on 27 December 1846, in Carroll, Georgia, United States, her father, John B Holloway, was 46 and her mother, Dorcas Beck, was 37. She married John Miles Pate about 1859, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Union, Clay, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died on 10 June 1895, in Clay, Alabama, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Clay, Alabama, United States.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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