Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Thomas C., 1934 

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THOMAS CARR HOLLAND

   Thomas Carr Holland, for many years an honored citizen of the Franklin 
community, died at Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, December 10, as the result of 
injuries sustained while engaged in his work as section foreman of the Seaboard 
Air Line Railway here. Mr. Holland was born near Branchville Decmeber 4, 1865, 
the son of the late Carr and Mrs. Narcissus Newton Holland. He had been in the 
service os the Seaboard for 52 years, and was the oldest employee of the 
railroad in point of service. He had spent the greater part of his life in Isle 
of Wight County near Franklin and was known and esteemed as a man of honor, 
integrity and good citizenship.

   In 1896 he married Miss Grizzelle Hayes, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
Timothy Hayes of Isle of Wight, his first wife dying in 1907. Of this union 
there survived three sons, Thos. C., Jr., T. Hayes and Jack W. Holland of 
Franklin, and two daughters, Mrs. R.A. Cox of Smithfield, Va. and Miss Grizzelle 
Holland of Franklin.

   In 1908 Mr. Holland married Miss Mary Magdalene Ivey of Branchville, who 
survives him with a daughter, Mrs. J.E. Nancy of Trenton, N.J., and two sons, 
Ivey Holland who is teaching in Pittsylvania County and James Holland. He also 
leaves three sisters, Mrs. T.P. Wrench of Smyrna, Delaware, Mrs. W. W. Clark of 
Woodville, N.C., and Mrs. W.F. Howell of Franklin, and two half-sisters, Mrs. 
A.W. Rives and Mrs. J.C. Niblett of Norfolk, besides four grandchildren.

   For many years he had been a loyal and consistent member of High Street M.E. 
Church here and of the R.M. Chandler Men’s Bible Class. Funeral services were 
conducted from the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock by his Pastor, Rev. 
Roscoe Jones, assisted by Dr. Elwood Jones and Rev. R.D. Stephenson, and Rev. 
F.B. Oglesby of Smithfield M.E. Church. During the rites Mrs. Herbert G. Cobb, 
Miss Lizzie Mae Cutchin, J. Edgar Weede and Robert Vaughan sang "When the Roll 
Is Called up Yonder, I’ll Be There."

   In the presence of a large company of friends the body was borne to Beaver 
Dam Cemetery for burial, the active pallbearers being: Nelson Gardner of 
Suffolk, J. Edgar Weede, Dr. J.B. Powell, Geo. H. Parker, E.P. Jones, Harry 
Steinhardt and Herman Howell of Franklin. Honorary pallbearers were members of 
the R.M. Chandler Bible class and Frank M. Cobb and J.D. Johnson. The casket was 
covered with a large spray of white carnations, pink rosebuds and gypsophilia, 
and there were many beautiful floral tributes.


[Thomas Carr HOLLAND, Seaboard R.R. section foreman, 
 b. 4 Dec 1865, near Branchville, d. 10 Dec 1934, Suffolk, 
 interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 14, 1934] 

[*Isle of Wight County Historical Society, Grave Site Survey Task Force list: 
 http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Beaverdam_Beaverdam%20Rd_Cemetery.doc] 

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