Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Col. Edward E., 1941 

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COLONEL EDWARD EVERETT HOLLAND 

HOLLAND RITES SET FOR SUNDAY - 
   INJURIES FATAL TO SUFFOLK CIVIC, POLITICAL LEADER 

   Suffolk, Oct. 24 - Funeral services for Col. Edward Everett Holland, 81, 
prominent civic and political leader of Suffolk, and a former member of 
Congress from the Second District of Virginia, who died at 11:30 o’clock last 
night at Lakeview Hospital from injuries received in a fall at his home 
several days ago, will be held at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon at Suffolk 
Christian Church with the Rev. John G. Truitt, pastor, officiating.

   Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.  The body will lie in state at the 
I.O. Hill Funeral afternoon.

   Colonel Holland, who served as a member of Congress for ten years and of 
the Virginia State Senate for an even longer period, was born in Nansemond 
County February 26, 1861, the son of the late Everett and Ann Pretlow Holland 
of Nansemond County.

   His first wife, who died several years ago, was the former Miss Otelia Lee, 
of Nansemond County.  Surviving from this union is a daughter, Mrs. Edward 
Fitzgerald Creekmore, of New Orleans.

   Colonel Holland’s second wife who survives him was the former Miss Eunice 
Ensor.  They had no children.  Other survivors include his stepmother, Mrs. 
Lizzie Hare Holland, of Holland; a half-brother, Everett Holland, of Sumter, 
S.C.; a half-sister, Miss Annie Holland, also of Holland; two grandchildren 
Edward Fitzgerald Creekmore, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn. And Miss Sarah Lee 
Creekmore, of New Orleans, and a number of nieces and nephews, among whom are 
Harvey M. Holland, cashier of the Farmer’s Bank of Nansemond; Herbert H. 
Holland and Charles Holland, Mrs. Harry L. Trotman, of Churchland, Mrs. J.E. 
Rawls and Miss Susie Holland, of Suffolk.

NEVER DEFEATED POLITICALLY 

   Colonel Holland had the unique distinction of never having been defeated in 
a political campaign.

   His public career was long and varied.  He became mayor of Suffolk in 1885 
and served in that capacity until 1887.  From 1887 until 1908 he was 
commonwealth’s attorney for the city and Nansemond County.

   His district elected him to the Virginia State Senate in 1908 where he 
served until 1911 when he was elevated to the U.S. House of Representatives 
for a tenure that continued from 1911 to 1921.  He was returned to the State 
Senate in 1930 and served without interruption in the Legislature from that 
date.

   Colonel Holland had the distinction of being one of the oldest active bank 
presidents in the nation by virtue of 50 years as president of the Farmers 
Bank of Nansemond.

   He was educated at Richmond college, where he received the LL.B. Degree, 
and the University of Virginia.  He was a Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the 
southern Society of New York, the congregational Christian Church and was a 
leader in civic affairs.

   The 1922 he became president of the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and held 
that office for two years, thereby becoming the third man to be elected to a 
second term.  During his term, the Chamber of Commerce building on North 
Saratoga Street was erected.

   In the State Senate, he headed the committee on public institutions and 
education and was a member of the committees on finance, fish and game, 
insurance and banking privileges and elections and general laws.

   The former congressman spent the winter of 1940-41 in Florida in an effort 
to improve his health, which had not been good for several years.


Col. Edward Everett HOLLAND, 
b. 26 Feb 1861, Nansemond Co., d. 23 Oct 1941, Suffolk, age 81, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, 26 Oct 1941, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times Dispatch," Oct. 24, 1941 

*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 parents are buried in a HOLLAND family cemetery, on O'Kelly Dr. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Family Cemeteries, Vol. II, 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 

His 1m. 26 Nov 1884 to Sarah Otelia LEE; recorded in 
   Lee family Bible record, 1823-1903. 
   The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Bible records collection, 36730. 
   http://www.lva.virginia.gov/ 

Her obits ("Norfolk Virginian," July 17-20, 1897, p. 6) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h453s9ob.txt 


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