Dayton Holloway

Male8 January 1795–18 May 1847

Brief Life History of Dayton

When Dayton Holloway was born on 8 January 1795, in Fairfax, Culpeper, Virginia, United States, his father, David Holloway, was 23 and his mother, Hannah Richards, was 20. He married Barbara Smith about 1819, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 18 May 1847, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Walnut Ridge Cemetery, Carthage, Ripley Township, Rush, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Dayton Holloway
1795–1847
Barbara Smith
1799–1876
Marriage: about 1819
Sarah E Holloway
1820–1896
Margaret Holloway
1823–1890
David S Holloway
1826–1887
Edward Frost Holloway
1829–1872
Benjamin Franklin Holloway
1831–1880
Helen D Smith
1833–1927
Hannah Holloway
1833–1927
William H. Holloway
1835–1920
John R Holloway
1838–1924
Jonathan Dayton Holloway
1841–1922

Sources (11)

  • Daylon Holloway, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Dayton Holloway in entry for Helen D Smith, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
  • Dayton Holloway, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1819Virginia, United States
  • Children (10)

    +5 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

    Age 5

    While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

    1803

    Age 8

    France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

    1812

    Age 17

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    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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