Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Holloway, Redin 1833 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    REDIN HOLLOWAY, planter of Beat No. 9, Coffee county, Ala., was born in
Houston county, Ga., in 1833. He is the son of Charles and Mary J. (Sanderson)
Holloway, the former a native of Georgia, the latter a native of North Carolina.
Mrs. Holloway came to Georgia with her parents, where she and Mr. Holloway
received a common school education. They married there, and in 1840 removed to
Coffee county; Ala., settling in the woods near Elba, and there Mr. Holloway
spent the rest of his life, dying in 1862. Mrs. Holloway is still living at the
age of seventy-five years. Mr. Holloway was a well-to-do farmer, and a
hard-working and industrious man. He was one of twelve children born to Jeremiah
Holloway, an Englishman, who came to Coffee county in 1841, and both he and wife
died there before the war. Both were members of the Primitive Baptist church.
One son, Griffin Holloway, was killed at Harper's Ferry, in Virginia. Dr. John
Anderson, the maternal grandfather of Redin Holloway, was probably a South
Carolinian by birth, whence he removed to Georgia, and in 1842 to Coffee county,
where he and his wife both died. He was a physician and surgeon for many years,
and raised three sons and three daughters, two of the sons serving in the late
war. Shepherd and Benjamin F. Redin Holloway is the eldest of ten sons and one
daughter, viz.: Redin, John, who served in the Virginia army all through the
war, now deceased; Thomas, who served in the western army from the first until
in 1862, when he was discharged on account of disability, and died at home;
William, who served in an Alabama regiment all through the war in Virginia, and
who was captured at Gettysburg, but who was not imprisoned, now deceased;
Benjamin, deceased; David, who was in the western army all through the war, was
wounded in his last fight in North Carolina, now living in Texas; Charles, of
Texas; Jeremiah, of Texas; Joseph and Solomon, twins, both deceased; Abigail,
died when young. Redin Holloway began life on the farm, with a good English
education. At the age of twenty one he began life on his own account as a hand
in the logging business in Florida, worked thus a short time. and then returned
to Coffee county and engaged in farming and teaming, hauling from Montgomery,
Eufaula, Columbia, Milton, Fla., etc., to Elba for several years. In 1859 he was
married, in Covington county, to Amanda, daughter of William and Mahala Jones,
natives of Georgia, whence they removed to Coffee county, Ala., where they both
died. He was a prosperous farmer, raised a large family, and had four sons in
the late war, all of whom survive. Mrs. Holloway was born in Georgia, and is the
mother of seven children, three of whom are living. Those who are living are a
follows: Mary E., wife of Alfred Seay; Nina Texarkana, wife of Augustus Wise,
and Ida, wife of James Killcrease. Those who are deceased were: Charles F.,
Abigail and William, died in Morgan county, Ala., and Louler, died in
Mississippi, all dying when young. In March, 1862, Mr. Holloway joined company
A, Thirty-third Alabama infantry, fighting first in Perryville, Ky. He then
fought at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and all
the way down to Atlanta, and was captured July 22, 1864, and was imprisoned at
Camp Chase from August 2, 1864, to March 4, 1865, during which time he was ward
master of the sick and fared well. He reached home April 2, and has followed
farming ever since. From 1865 to 1877 he lived in Morgan county, Ala., and then
in Tate county, Miss., four years. He then traveled in Florida for one year,
when he returned to Coffee county, six miles east of Elba, where he has 400
acres of land, all of which he has acquired by his own efforts since the war. He
has been a Mason many years, and is a member of the Central alliance. Both he
and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 669-670


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