Campbell County GaArchives News.....Hollis, Mr. & Mrs. E. B. Celebrate 59th Wedding Anniversary .
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"The Clenburne News" .
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, APRIL 29, 1937

COUPLE MARRIED FIFTY-NINE YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Hollis recently celebrated their fifty-ninth wedding 
anniversary at a gathering of relatives and friends at the home near 
Chulafinnee.

Mr. Hollis was born Dec. 19, 1854 in Campbell county, Ga. and came to 
Cleburne county with his parents to the Chulafinnee section in 1860. Mrs. 
Hollis, 78, was formerly Miss Margaret Malissa Johnson and lives within one 
half mile of the house in which she was married on March 19, 1878 by the 
Rev. Ellison Miller of near Delta.

Both are still active in church and civic affairs of the community. Mr. 
Hollis who is in his 83rd year, directs the activities of from 10 to 12 
plows and other farming work on his 400 acre plantation. He is the last of 
the old set. His father, G.B. Hollis Sr. and six uncles, enlisted in the 
Confederate Army early in the war. An uncle was killed at the battle of 
Shiloh and his father was slightly wounded in the right arm. Three sons of 
Uncle Ben and Mrs. Hollis enlisted for service in the World War. One son 
Saldwell, died while in camp.

The couple has four sons and four daughters, eight grandchildren and three 
great-grandchildren. When Mr. and Mrs. Hollis were married, a marriage 
license was copied from a statute book by Wesley Backus, a justice of the 
peace. Printed forms were not available nearly 60 years ago.

Mr. Hollis recently sold 13 bales of cotton at 15 cents a pound. His farm 
produces on an average of 1,000 to 1,200 bushels of corn, upward of 21 bales 
of cotton, grain, hay and fodder. "I live at home and board at the same 
place", he told a Cleburne News man Friday.

Although he is one of the most prosperous farmers in the county, he delights 
in telling of the first year he and his bride "started out" with little 
household furniture and working for $6. a month. He told Sam Striplin that 
if he could make a living farming he and Mrs. Hollis were ready to "get 
going." That Fall he sold six bales of cotton at 25 cents a pound and 
reduced the debt on the land he'd bought, including other debts.

He said he had never held public office, not even a trustee of his school 
district, stating he did not care for the job. However, he remarked that at 
one time he was "Scovalhoe Overseer". When asked what that meant, he 
enlightened The News; he was a road overseer when the only working material 
used included hoes, scooter plows, shovels and picks.

Down the Horseblock Mountain Highway about one half mile from his home, 
Hollis Schoolhouse has been replaced by a modern $35,000. brick building.


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