Marion Luther Holland

Brief Life History of Marion Luther

When Marion Luther Holland was born on 24 July 1904, in Newville, Henry, Alabama, United States, his father, Francis Marion Holland, was 38 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Kirkland, was 32. He married Winnie Laura Holloman on 15 March 1924, in Geneva, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Samson, Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Geneva, Geneva, Alabama, United States for about 1 years. He died on 24 December 1985, in Dothan, Houston, Alabama, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Travelers Rest Cemetery, Samson, Geneva, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

Marion Luther Holland
1904–1985
Winnie Laura Holloman
1899–1989
Marriage: 15 March 1924
Marion Luther Holland Jr
1925–1925
Sterling Brown Holland
1926–2009
Edwin Orlando Holland
1927–2008
John Charles Holland
1929–2017
Ina Juliet Holland
1930–
Mary Frances Holland
1932–1935
Martha Sue Holland
1932–2007
Melba Ann Holland
1936–2007
Thelma Nan Holland
1936–2023
Alpha Holland
1939–

Sources (23)

  • Marion L Holland, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Marion L Holland, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Marion L Holland, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1906 · Licencing Butchers

A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.

English: habitational name from Downholland or Upholland (Lancashire), Hulland (Derbyshire), the Parts of Holland, one of the three administrative subdivisions of Lincolnshire, any of the four places called Hoyland (southern Yorkshire), and possibly Great and Little Holland (Essex). The placenames all derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + land ‘land’.

English: habitational name either from Hoeland (Farm) in Bury (Sussex), or from Holland's Barn in Albourne (Sussex). The placename in Bury has the same etymology as in 1 above, while the placename in Albourne may derive from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + land ‘land’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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