Mary Holbrook

Rodney Reo Hammons shows her parents as Mary Hargis & Thomas Hargis

Mary Hargis

• Married names: Hammon, then Holbrook
• Birth: 7 Feb 1726 in Goochland County, Virginia
• Death: about 1782 at about age 55 in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States
• Parents: uncertain: perhaps Thomas Hargis and Mary Weddington
• Spouse: James Hammon — married 1750 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia, British Colonial America (record?)
• Spouse: John Holbrook Sr. — married 1763 in Goochland County, Virginia, British Colonial America

Unknown DOB/place/parents (see research notes).

Married first to John Hammond, they had one child.

Married second to John Holbrook.

From Rootsweb:

John Holbrook Sr. and Mary Hargis were married about 1763 in Goochland County, Virginia. Children were: William B. Holbrook, John Holbrook Jr., Randolph Holbrook, Hargis Holbrook.

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/hammon-john

John Hammon, second-to-the-last Revolutionary War veteran to die, was born in Goochland County, Va. He was the son of James Hammon[d], who died in 1763, and Mary Hargis Hammon, who later married John Holbrook of Goochland County. In 1774, his uncle, William Hammon, moved to Wilkes County, N.C., apparently with the other members of the Holbrook and Hammon families, and became minister of the Roaring River Baptist Church.

Biography

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holbrook-904

John Holbrook Sr. resided in North Carolina in 1787.[1]

From Rootsweb: < link >

John Holbrook Sr. was born about 1727 in Goochland County, Virginia. He died about 1805 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

From Descendants of Ralph Calloway and Sarah Ann Holbrook by William C. Castevens, page 21 & 22:

INDIVIDUAL NOTES:
Descendants of Ralph Calloway and Sarah Ann Holbrook by William C. Castevens, page 21 & 22:
- Migrated in the late 1760's or early 1770's to Surry County, North Carolina to an area that would later become Wilkes County, North Carolina

Parents: Randolph HOLBROOK Sr. and Mary UNKNOWN.

Spouse: Mary HARGIS. John HOLBROOK Sr. and Mary HARGIS were married about 1763 in Goochland County, Virginia. Children were: William B. HOLBROOK, John HOLBROOK Jr., Randolph HOLBROOK, Hargis HOLBROOK.

From < Yeahpot.com > accessed 8 January 2025 (no sources)

Mary Hargis Hammons, b. 1730 in NC d. 1782 in Wilkes Co., NC, d/o John Hargis II and Ann Elizabeth Whitehead, married first to James Hammons Sr. (d. about 1763) they had one child:

1. James Hammons Jr b 29 Jan 1760.

Mary Hargis Hammons, widow of James Hammons Sr. married second to John Holbrook Sr. (b.1725 in Goochland, VA, d.1807 in Dockery, Wilkes Co., NC), was the son of Randle Holbrook and Ann Mary Stanway in 1763 in Goochland, VA.

Children of John Holbrook Sr and Mary Hargis:

1. John Henry Holbrook Jr., b. 1765 in Wilkes Co., NC, d. about 1815 in Russell Co., VA (killed while tending a whiskey still when the still exploded); m. 1784 in VA or NC to Mary Mollie Cooksey (b.1768 in Russell Co., VA, d. 1833 in VA, d/o LeMaster Cooksey and Nancy Ward).
2. Larkin Holbrook, b. about 1767.
3. Randolph Holbrook, b. about 1770 in NC, d. about 1847 in Letcher Co., KY; m. about 1795 in Wilkes Co., NC, to Elizabeth A. Adams (b. about 1775 in Wilkes Co., NC, d. about 1861 in Letcher Co., KY, d/o Benjamin Adams Jr and Henryetta Caudill).
4. Hargis Holbrook, b. about 1775 in NC, m. Katherine Gross and stayed in the Dockery area of Wilkes Co., NC on the farm he inherited from his father.
5. Robert Holbrook, b. about 1789, m. Mary H "Polly" McCoy (b. about 1789 in Russell Co., VA, d/o George McCoy and Mary Brumfield).

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Mary Hargiss married John Holbrook abt. 1764 and the family moved to Wilkes Co., NC.

Research Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hargis-209

Possible Parents

• John Draper Hargis II (1695–1730) FS ID: LCB7-226 and Grace (Boswell) Hargis (1690–1790) FS ID: LZX1-LJ9 are connected as Mary's parents on FamilySearch.
• John Hargis II (same as above?) and Ann Elizabeth Whitehead (not found on Wikitree) are named as Mary's parents on Yeahpot.com, an unsourced online tree.
• Jane Weddington and Thomas Hargis were detached as her parents because the connection was not proved.
• In source previously cited, Insightbb.com, no Mary Hargis Holbrook is named.

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References

1. Reference: RootsWeb's WorldConnect - SmartCopy: Jun 4 2017, 20:21:20 UTC
2. Birth of Son: "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VRRC-2VZ : 5 December 2014), Mary Hargiss in entry for John Hammond, 29 Jan 1760; FHL microfilm 975.5 V2D. 3
3. < St. James Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia Genealogy > St. James Northam Parish has served Goochland County, Virginia. Beaverdam Episcopal Church (also known as the Second Episcopal Church), built before 1764, was situated in Goochland County.[1] Founded 1744 from St. James Parish (Goochland Co.)
4. Register of St. James Northam Parish, Goochland County < Archive.Org > (no results on search)