Bio  James Mitchell Holliday - Crescent, Logan County, Oklahoma

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James Mitchell Holliday

James Mitchell Holliday, dob 6-30-1846, born in Lucasville, Scioto County,
OH.  His parents were Alexander & Nancy Mitchell Holliday formerly of 
Antrim, Ireland. James enlisted 10-16-1861 at Portsmouth, Warren Co., OH
in Civil War as a Pvt. in Co. F, 56th Reg. Ohio Volunteers Inf. under 
command of Capt. George Wilhelm. He was honorably discharged in New 
Orleans, LA on 1-31-1864 & re-enlisted as Corporal in Co. D & was
discharged 11-26-1865. He served  near Memphis, TN in the month of August
1862 & contracted pleurisy & at Mansfield, LA in April 1864 received 
deafness of left ear from a cannon he was helping repel an attack of the 
enemy. He married Sarah Jennie "Huston" Holliday 7-5-1872 in Lucasville,
OH and fathered 10 children;6 born in Lucasville and last 4 born in 
Crescent, OK. Children were A. Bonner Holliday, Ellen, Bertha, William 
Beverly, Oliver, Daisy, Benjamin, James M. Jr., Perle P. & Roy Logan. 
Most of whom are buried in the Crescent cemetery.