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Elizabeth "Betty" Holman

Female Abt 1815 - Abt 1886  (~ 71 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth "Betty" Holman  [1, 2
    Nickname Betty 
    Born Abt 1815  Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Female 
    Died Abt 1886  [2
    Notes 
    • Harry Noble shows that her first marriage was to a Mr. Dye, before moving to Texas. Henson and Parmelee write that she married third Iredell D. Thomas, Sr., and was a stepmother to Victoria "Tory" Thomas who along with her cousins Anna Holman and Mary Garrett "Attended St. Mary's Hall, an elite Episcopalian finishing school founded in 1837 in Burlington, New Jersey, near Philadelphia...(enduring) terrible homesickness and culture shock upon...arrival in November 1854." (Henson and Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 174)
    Person ID I10076  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Col. Isaac Holman,   b. 14 Sep 1783, Surry County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Aug 1835, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Anne Wigglesworth,   b. 14 Sep 1783,   d. 22 Jul 1841, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 25 Dec 1800  Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    • Shown as marrying in Woodford County, Kentucky by some. Henson and Parmelee instead cite their marriage as taking place in Harrison County.
    Family ID F1133  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Isaac Campbell,   b. Abt 1813,   d. 7 Sep 1843, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 30 years) 
    Married 4 Jun 1839  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Harry Noble wrote that "Isaac Campbell, a flamboyent promoter and land developer, married Mrs. Elizabeth "Betty" Holman Dye (William W. Holman's widowed twenty-four-year-old sister). They were wed on June 4, 1839. Wanting to impress her with a grand wedding present, Campbell had earlier purchased four lots in the Sweet addition and contracted with Augustus Phelps, a San Augustine master carpenter, to build a fine two-story house (presently known as the Cartwright House) on the northeast corner of Ayish and Main Street. (Noble, page 117). Campbell suffered a series of financial reversals shortly after his marriage. In September on 1843 his house was sold at public auction. Two days later, Isaac Campbell, age thirty, was dead. Although records do not give details, some suggest that Campbell had gotten himself into such a financial tangle that his way out was suicide. (Noble, page 118).

      After his suicide the Masons, of which Isaac was a member, called a special meeting as a funeral service for Brother Campell and their members wore the Badge of Mourning for the usual length of time. (Noble, Harry ANTHONY B. PATTON "Justice of the Peace" San Augustine Tribune, Thursday, November 21, 2002)

      William W. Holman (Isaac's brother-in-law) would "sell the house, outhouses and lots to Reverend Francis Wilson and three Methodist Wesleyan College trustees: William D. Ratliff, John C. Brooke and James Perkins for $1200...for the next few years the former home of Isaac Campbell would be at the disposal of the College president and used a facility for the College's Female Department." (Noble, Harry WESLEYAN COLLEGE "Birth of the College" San Augustin Tribune, Thursday, March 27, 2003)
    Last Modified 15 Dec 2012 
    Family ID F4533  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Iredell Dickinson Thomas, Sr.,   b. Abt 1805,   d. Abt 1866  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Married Abt 1845  [4
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2012 
    Family ID F12599  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1815 - Kentucky Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 4 Jun 1839 - San Augustine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S233] Noble, Harry P. Jr TEXAS TRAILBLAZERS: SAN AUGUSTINE PIONEERS (Best of East Texas: 1999).

    2. [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), Appendix, Chart III: Isaac Holman's Descendants (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S292] Collins, Jerry H. (Jerry H. Collins@comcast.net) Ver. 2009-01-18; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jhc-3cousins.

    4. [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), p. 163 (Reliability: 3).