Biography of L.F.A. HOLLEMAN, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	L.F.A. HOLLEMAN, planter, Paris, Ark. Mr. Holleman has been
a resident of Logan County, Ark., for the past seventeen years,
and his example of industry, and his earnest and sincere efforts
to make life a success, are well worth the imitation of all. The
condition of his farm, which consists of 120 acres, shows the
thrift and energy which are among his chief characteristics, and
all necessary buildings and fences form a prominent feature of the
improvements. L.F.A. Holleman was born on October 15, 1831, and is
a son of William H. and Emeline (Davenport) Holleman, natives of
Tennessee, the father born on February 22, 1812, and the mother on
January 28, 1813. They were married in Smith County, in 1830, and of
the eight children born to this union, only four besides our subject
are now living: Orville J., William C., Thomas H. and E.J. The father
died in Alabama on April 18, 1852. He was a local preacher in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother is now living in Alabama, and
is a member of the same church. L.F.A. Holleman was educated in the
Franklin Academy, and was married in Chattooga County, Ga., on
November 10, 1852, to Miss Narcissa Wyatt, who was born in Georgia,
on January 11, 1832. They became the parents of one son, W.E., who
was killed in a railroad disaster on July 17, 1890. Mrs. Holleman
died on November 12, 1854, in full communion with the Methodist
Episcopal Church. On October 14, 1857, Mr. Holleman took for his
second wife Miss M.E. Hendrix, a native of Alabama, born on
December 16, 1840, and to this union were born eight children,
six now living, viz: O.B., A.L., M.H., W.H., S.S. (deceased), J.B.,
N.V. (deceased), and F.G. The second wife died on February 4, 1882,
and on November 13, 1885, Mr. Holleman married Mrs. E.J. Daniel,
a native of Alabama, born on December 12, 1841. Mr. Holleman
enlisted as a private in the cavalry, Company G, in 1862, and at
the end of the eighteen months was promoted to the quartermaster
department of his regiment. He participated in the battles of Stone
River, Chickasaw Mountain, and was in a number [of] skirmishes,
serving until peace was declared. He was paroled at Columbus, Miss.,
in 1865, and after the war he returned home, where he engaged in
cultivating the soil. In March, 1873, he moved from Alabama to
Arkansas, settled in this county, and has seventy-five acres of
his fine farm under cultivation. He was elected justice of the
peace of Short Mountain Township, in 1888, and in his political
views is strictly Democratic. He and Mrs. Holleman are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is steward of the
same, being at the present time lay delegate to the Arkansas annual
conference.