When Gracie Holloway was born on 7 April 1885, in York, Virginia, United States, her father, Wirt Holloway, was 45 and her mother, Arinthia Susan Watkins, was 42. She married Arthur Bernard Phillips in 1909, in York, Virginia, United States. She lived in Poquoson District, York, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Poquoson, York, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1949, at the age of 64.
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 ).
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