Sergeant Daniel Holladay

How exciting is this:

Using the BYU-Idaho library, we found a picture of Daniel Holladay's gravestone! (This is the Daniel who was married to Kezziah Terry, Margaret Brunson, and Martha Knighton)

Daniel William Holliday (1752-1837)

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?