Joseph Holloway

Joseph Holloway, son of William Holloway Sr. and Frances Meador, was born in Cumberland Co., VA in about 1750. His wife is unknown. They seem to have married in Cumberland Co., VA. Census records show that Joseph's daughter Sarah was born in North Carolina, so her birth in about 1775 locates the family there as of that time. Joseph appears on the personal property tax list in Bedford Co., VA in 1782 and 1783, appearing on the list alongside his father in 1782. By at least 1787, Joseph claimed 66 acres on Thomas McGill's Creek in Lincoln Co., NC, his property bounded by Frederick Hambright. Jacob Fulenwider purchased 640 acres on Long Creek in 1795, his property adjoining Joseph Holloway and including part of Little Mountain Ridge. These properties were in Dallas, Lincoln County, now situated in Gaston County. The 1790 Lincoln County Census lists Joseph Holloway in the 8th Militia Company. Joseph witnessed the will of Michael Hoyle in Lincoln County in 1793. His daughter Sarah Holloway married Jeremiah Hammontree in Lincoln County in about 1795, and then their son Alexander Hammontree was born in Tennessee in about 1796. Joseph's family seems to have moved from Lincoln Co., NC to Blount Co., TN by that time.

Joseph's daughter Caty Holloway married John Boyd in Blount Co., TN in 1799. Another daughter, Nancy Holloway, married James Hammontree in Blount County in 1800. Joseph appears on the personal property tax list in Blount County in 1800. In 1803, he was appointed "overseer of the publick road from Jacob Timbermans cabin to Mark Edwards old place." Joseph surveyed 131 acres on Six Mile Creek in Blount County in 1807, patenting the property in 1809. This was the same property as what Joseph sold to Bains Holloway in 1813, "Bains" evidently referring to his nephew Barnes Holloway. The property was described in the deed as adjoining John Holloway, Jeremiah Hammontree and James Holloway. Also in 1813, Edmond Holloway purchased 47 acres from Jeremiah Hammontree on both sides of Six Mile Creek. Witnesses were Joseph and Billy Holloway. On the same day, 3 Dec. 1813, Joseph and Billy Holloway witnessed the will of Jeremiah Hammontree (Joseph's son-in-law). Joseph and John Holloway also served as witnesses on 28 Nov. 1818 when Jeremiah's widow Sarah Holloway Hammontree reacquired from Edward (Edmond) Holloway the 47 acres that Jeremiah had sold him in 1813.

Joseph testified on behalf of Billy Holloway's Revolutionary War pension application in 1818, stating that he and Billy were brothers. In so doing, he stated that he himself did not fight during the war. He also witnessed two land contracts with William Jeffries in 1819 between Philmer/Filmer Greene and Augustine Bowers. With about a hundred other residents of Blount and Monroe counties, he signed a land petition submitted to the Tennessee Legislature in 1820. He appears a number of times in court cases in Blount County and is mentioned frequently in the Minutes of the Six Mile Baptist Church. The last indication Joseph was alive is found in the church minutes on 16 Dec. 1820. He seems to have died shortly thereafter.