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So. The biggest question lately has been why Daniel Holladay had 3 wives simultaneously. At first we thought maybe they were his slaves. However, there is one problem with that theory. His third wife's son John Daniel Sr. later grew up, moved to Arizona and started a plantation with slaves of his own. If he had been the son of a slave, he would still be a slave himself. Not only would he lack the freedom to start his own plantation, but it is unlikely that he would keep slaves himself. Later on he accepted the Gospel, freed his slaves, and moved West with the Mormon pioneers in the Mississippi Company.
With the slave-wife theory semi-disproved we have now to wonder about the details of Daniel Holladay's family life. What was the situation of this South Carolina Revolutionary War soldier that he would support three wives and about 22 children?
Ancestry.com has several photos of his tombstone and marriage records I would LOVE to get my hands on, but I'm not a member. Any brilliant ideas?
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HEY--- I registered with genealogy.com because they have a Holladay Forum, where people researching the Holladay lines frequently post info/questions.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/holladay/
It's a lot to look through, but could really pay off! I e-mailed a guy about a 500-pg book on several generations of Holladays that he has on CD!
Just be careful, because I'm not sure how our English Holladays link in with the Irish Hallidays, and most of the current posts seem to be for the Irish.
Ok, you have his name wrong. It is John Daniel Holladay, Ist. He was born around Charlotte, NC and moved to Alabama, where he had a small plantation. The family lore states that he owned 99 slaves...as it is told "I can't keep 100 slaves, because either one would run away or one would die".
He was contacted by the Mormon Missionaries, where he dug a hole in the creek and had the whole family baptised and all of the slaves. Before he left with the Mississippi Company wagon train, it was told that he gave them all their freedom
The wagon train was making for Nauvoo Illinois, Until they heard that the Prophet Joseph Smith had been murdered. They decided to make for the trail that the mormons were going to use to move west. They got to the trail, only to find that Brigham Young wasn't on the trail yet.. I'm not sure how he received this message. Maybe from someone on the trail.
He settled Boulder Colorado and stayed there for 2 years or until Brigham Young started to move. They met Young on the trail and was only one day behind him coming into the Salt Lake Valley. He settled by this creek, which is now called Holladay Utah, but he was a rambling stone. He eventually settled in Spring Creek, Utah.
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