Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Abram T., 1939 

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ABRAM THOMAS HOLLAND

SUFFOLK CIVIC LEADER DIES - 
ABRAM T. HOLLAND, 79, PIONEER PEANUT DEALER, SUCCUMBS AFTER ILLNESS

   Suffolk, Feb. 10, 1939 - Abram Thomas Holland, 79, for nearly a quarter of 
a century a business, church and civic leader of Suffolk, died this afternoon 
at 4:15 o’clock at his home, 512 Washington Street, after a long illness, he 
was born near Holland on May 1, 1860, the son of Edward and Martha Parker 
Holland and was educated at the local school at Somerton Friends Meeting 
House, now called Box Elder.  He was married in July 1881, to Miss Annie Cobb, 
of Southampton County, who survives him.  In has early life he engaged in 
farming and later began to deal in peanuts in which he was one of the most 
successful men of the county.

   He was one of the founders of the Holland-Lee Company, Inc., whose plant 
was at first located at Holland, where they engaged in cleaning peanuts, and 
later this business was moved to Suffolk and located, in 1906, on Hall Avenue. 
At the same time, Mr. Holland became connected with the Suffolk Peanut 
Company, Suffolk’s pioneer cleaning establishment and spent his life in 
helping to make these two businesses among Suffolk’s most successful 
enterprises.

   Of a clever and mechanical turn of mind, many of the mechanical devices of 
the cleaning industry were initiated or passed upon by Mr. Holland.

   He was also a director in the Farmer’ Bank of Nansemond and during his life 
in Holland was a member and deacon in Holy neck Christian Church.

   On coming to Suffolk, he joined the Suffolk Christian Church and was 
chairman of its board of deacons, member of its finance committee and was a 
trustee of Elon College.

   While a resident of Nansemond County, Mr. Holland served as a member of the 
board of supervisors from Holy Neck District and during his earlier years in 
the city of Suffolk, was a member of the Suffolk City Council.

   A man of lovable character, he was know for his kindness and charity in 
both Suffolk and his county.

   Surviving his are his wife, Mrs. Annie Cobb Holland; four daughter, Mrs. 
Mamie H. Leathers, Mrs. Goldie H. Britt, Mrs. Virgie Holland MacClenny, Miss 
Annie Thomas Holland, all of Suffolk; three grandchildren, Thomas Holland 
Britt, Misses Anne and Virginia MacClenny, all of Suffolk, and a number of 
nieces and nephews in Suffolk and the county.

   Funeral services will be conducted at the residence, 512 West Washington 
Street, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Dr. John G. Truitt, pastor of the 
Suffolk Christian Church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Abram Thomas HOLLAND, businessman, former supervisor & councilman, 
b. 1 May 1860, near Holland, d. 10 Feb 1939, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 77*), Suffolk, 12 Feb 1939, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

His widow's (donated, 1958) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h453a3ob.txt 


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