Caldwell-Burke County NcArchives Wills.....Holloway, George November 8, 1843
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Source: Nc Archives, Caldwell County, Cr017.801.2
Written: November 8, 1843

In the name of God amen, I Georg Holloway being advanced in years and calling to
mind that all flesh must yeald to deth when it is pleas God to call them being
of sound mind my first will it that all my jest debtes be puncitely paid and
settled. 2. that my wife Mary Holloway have the use of all my Estate both rail
and personaly during hir life or widdowhood and if she should marry for hir to
have what the law would give hir and if she should live and dye my widdow then
for all my land and negros goods and chattels of every kind to be sold and a
Eaquel divide to be made between all my children Elisabeth Crisp, Jean Setsor,
Sally and Suzan Fleming and Mehale Fair and Washington Robert and George
Holloway and that part or shear that would fall to my son James T. Holloway had
he a lived  to be divided between his two children Carline and Elizabeth Jean
Holloway and the half of that part that would cum to my daughter Mehale Fair to
be divided between hir too children Salley and Catrine Fair and at the death of
my wife Mary Holloway for my old negro woman Mevies not to be sold and for Sally
and Suzan fleming to tack hir and if they will not if she should not be abel to
labour for hir support for to have hir support out of my Estate during hir life
and leaving my oald friend William Dickson and my son Robert Holloway Executors
of this my last will.

In witness wheirof I have set my hand and seal this 8 day of November 1843.

									Geo Holloway (Seal)
									      
ATTEST:
Joseph Puett   Jurat
Sarah J. Puett Jurat

SOURCE:
NC State Archives
Caldwell County, NC
CR 017.801.2


Additional Comments:
I have a very legible copy of George Holloway's 1843 written will whose content
and spelling I have interpreted and provided exactly as written.  The will
specifically  names daughter, Mehale (Holloway) Fair, in a manner that strongly
suggests she is deceased and that her two daughters, Salley and Catrine
(Catherine?) should receive her share.  Burke County marriage records indicate a
Joseph Fair married Mahaly Holloway in 1821.  This Joseph was the oldest son of
Joseph and Mary "Polly" Morgan Fair of Burke/Caldwell Counties in NC.  There is
some 1850 Carter County, TN Census evidence that Mehale's husband eventually
moved to Carter County, TN (Dist 9) where one finds a Joseph Pharr (51) married
to Tempe Estep with an indicated oldest child of 8. In the same census we also
find likely younger brother David (35) living in District 7, married to Joannah
Williams with oldest child 9.  Also living in that household is a 20 year old
Katherine Pharr (Catrine? Fair). Still further in the 1850 Census (District 5)
we find Sherrod Pharr (41) married to Amanda Hyder with oldest child 14. Joseph
and David indicate birth in NC and Sherrod in TN though the latter birthplace
could be in error. 

Contact with an elder Carter County, TN researcher several years ago elicited an
early tale of "three brothers riding in on white horses from NC in the 1800s." 
These brothers, Joseph, Sherewood and David Fair, likely born in Burke County,
NC seem to fit that tale.  The fourth brother Ambrose, settled in Haywood
County, NC.  Other relatives of this family later moved to Carter and adjoining
TN counties.

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