Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Holland, Roxey (Ellington)  1829 - 1915
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[Abstract from the (Crenshaw County News) In April 01,1915 ]

I am the widow of Ferman Holland.  I was born down on Horse Creek in this
county, but it was a part of Butler county then.  I was born in the year 1829. I
moved from Beat 12 when I was 14 years old, up near Sweetwater church, where I
have lived ever since until now.  I was married in the year 1847. I am the mother
of 10 children,  five of whom are living. I have forty-nine grand children and
twenty-eight great grand children.  I have been a member of the Primitive Baptist
church at Sweetwater for twenty-six years. I will be 86 years old next August.
I can remember very well when the Indians were here.  This county in that day was
full of wild animals, I can remember hearing the wolves howling around near the
house. The people had to watch their calves and pigs very closely to keep the
panthers and other wild animals from devouring them.  This county was full of fish
and game. 

When I was a girl Montgomery was our nearest market. There were no Rail Roads in
this county then.  The County was thinly settled. People used ox teams for
hauling. They had no buggies, sewing machines and cooking stoves like we have now.
We made all of our cloths and shoes by hand.  My husband died in the Southern Army
during the last year of the Civil War.

Yours respectfully, Mrs. Roxie Holland May 13, 1915


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