When Mary Ellen Holloway was born in 1842, in Grundy, Missouri, United States, her father, Rev Joab Holloway, was 24 and her mother, Mary Rooks, was 23. She married John A Rooks on 20 April 1880, in Grundy, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Marion Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died in Grundy, Missouri, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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