James Saunders Holman

Notes:

James would make his mark in Houston, Texas. He would become involved in John and Augustus Allen's Houston venture and would eventually own 13 1/2 Houston blocks, and would serve as Houston's first Mayor. Holman avenue was named in his honor. (Noble, page 112).

James, along with his brother William W., joined Captain Bailey Anderson, Jr.'s company, the Texas forces that had been camped around San Antonio since early October, 1835---reinforcements to the "Siege of Bexar." (Noble, page 113). Henson and Parmelee note that they took eleven pounds of powder and a bar of lead from the Cartwright store. (Henson & Parmelee, p. 85). His son, Columbus Holman of Austin, stopped for lodging at the home of his Aunt Amanda Holman Cartwright in Sabine county in 1863, en route to Mississippi for duty with the commissary department. (ibid, p. 227)

Richard Browning, on the "Ancestors and others for the Texas Cartwrights" shows him instead as James Barksdale Holman, born 7 Sept 1801 and died 24 Feb 1855. This conflicts with Henson and Parmelee's book about the allied Cartwright family of San Augustine. They instead shows his dates as 1804-1867, and note he married a cousin, Martha Holman. They had a eight children, Hardy Columbus, Isaac W, Joseph, James Smith, Polly Ann who m. J. D. GILLUM, Willis M., Louisa Virginia who m. G. M FLOURNOT and William Fulton.