Surry County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holloway, R. Dudley, 1920 

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RICHARD D. HOLLOWAY 

DEAD BY HIS OWN HAND 

Newport News Business Man Ends Life with Revolver Bullet 

  Newport News, Va., March 8 - R.D. Holloway, president of the Vassar-Abbott 
Co., whose financial transactions caused the recent closing of the Colonial 
State Bank here, committed suicide at an early hour Saturday morning, shooting 
himself in the right temple with a 32 caliber revolver.

  Warrant was served on Holloway last night, charging him, along with the 
cashier of the bank, Frank R. Bartlett, with the larceny of $15,000 of the 
bank’s funds.  He had been hailed to appear in Police Court, and it was 
understood that as a result of the warrant, which was sworn out by C.C. 
Berkley, Commonwealth’s attorney, a grand jury investigation of the bank’s 
failure would begin next week.

  Holloway was found dead on the floor of his dining room when his wife came 
down, attracted by the muffled report of a revolver.

  A copy of a morning paper, telling of Holloway’s arrest, lay spread on the 
table in front of the chair in which he sat.  The chair was overturned in the 
floor and blood oozed from a tiny hole in Holloway’s right temple.

  Holloway had $79,000 in life insurance, which as assigned to the Colonial 
State Bank.

  The bank was declared insolvent and failed to open its doors on February 21. 
A report of the State Corporation Commission declared that credits of more 
than $300,000 extended to the Vassar-Abbott Co., were responsible for the 
failure of the bank.

  Holloway was a native of Surry County, and was 55 years old.*  He had been 
prominent in business circles in Newport News for twenty-five years.  He was 
twice married, but leaves no children.


Richard Dudley HOLLOWAY, broker, 
Surry Co. native, suicide 6 Mar 1920, at home, Newport News, age 60*, 
interred in Greenlawn Cemetery*, Newport News, 
"The Alexandria (VA) Gazette," Mar. 8, 1920, p. 5 

*Additional information: 

Find a Grave Mem. #84691277 

D.Cert. #9602 (Newport News #163) 

His first wife was Annie Ella (BUTTS) HOLLOWAY {1859-1918}. 
   They m. 14 Dec 1881, in Pr.Geo.Co.  (Ancestry.com "Virginia Marriages") 

His second wife was Nannie Carrington (REYNOLDS) HOLLOWAY {1882-1967}. 

Both wives also buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. 

He appears in the 1920 Census (Ward 4, Newport News), age 58, 
   with Nannie R., age 36. 

His father, Richard A. HOLLOWAY {1840-1881}, was postmaster at 
   Holloway's Store, in Surry Co.  He is buried in Moore's Swamp Baptist 
   Church Cemetery, Elberon, Surry Co.  (Find a Grave Mem. #8261838) 

Dudley was appointed postmaster when his father died. 

His mother was Mary Jane (BUTTS) HOLLOWAY {1840-1916}. 
   Her D.Cert. gives bu. Surry Co. 

She seems likely to have been a cousin of Annie Ella's.  Her parents, 
   William E. & Virgie A. (HARRISON), appear as neighbors of Annie Ella's 
   family in the 1870 Census, in Bland Dist., Pr.Geo. Co. (sheet 199) 


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