Elijah Vinson Hollis Sr. (1763 - 1832)

Born 30 Mar 1763 in Fairfield, Colony of South Carolina

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Died 1832 at about age 68 in Chester, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Elijah was born in 1763. He married Ailsey Knighton about 1780. He died in 1832.

Source: Mildred Jackson Hankins Military: Revolutionary Soldier, 3 tours under Lt. John Hollis, one under Capt. Charles Lewis. He served in the militia under a Lt. Hollis and a Capt. Lewis during 1781 and 1782. Patriot Index Supplemental; A.A.3704; Q491.

Census: 1790 Fairfield District, SC (page 150): Elijah Hollis over 16 1 female 3 males under 16

1790 Census Fairfield County, South Carolina Heads of Families Elijah Hollis, 5 Reference: page 162, History of Fairfield County South Carolina from "Before the White Man Came" to 1942, by Fitz Hugh McMaster, native of Fairfield County. Published 1946, The State Commercial Printing Company, Columbia, S. C.

1800 Fairfield District, SC (page 215): Elijah Hollis 26-45 1 female 26-45 2 males 16-26 2 males 10-16

1810 Fairfield District, SC (page 182) (written page 579): Elijah Hollis 45 and over 1 female 45 and over 2 males 16-26 2 females under 10

1820? 1830 Fairfield Co., SC (page 370) Elijah Hollis 60-70 1 female 20-30

Court: Friday the 19th Day July 1799 Estate of James Bishop was returned into Court, duly ordered, Whereupon Ordered that Letters of Administration be granted to ? Bishop and Josiah Knighton who propose Elijah Hollis and ? Aldridge as Securities of whom the Court approved, to be bound ? Sum of one hundred pounds. the Administrators were qualified, ? Thomas Knighton, Musear Bolar, John King, Moses Knighton, ? Grimes as appraisers. Page 174 Reference: Fairfield County, South Carolina Minutes of the County Court, 1785 - 1799 By: Brent Holcomb, C.A.L.S. Following is for Information only: Copy of a letter from Peter T. Hollis dated November 26, 1917 Rodman, South Carolina My Dear Mr. Owens: I was very glad indeed to hear from you, and to learn something of the family history from your letter. I an interested more and more as I grow older in the history of my people and would like to find out what has happened to the ones that went to Alabama. My information as to the founders of the family is the same as yours. My father told me that three brothers came down from Virginia or Maryland and settled on the Wateree Creek in Fairfield County, South Carolian. I don't remember which of the brothers is our ancestor, or what any of the brothers were named, but I do remember that Moses was the first of the family that our branch came from. Moses had six children, viz Capt. Jno, Moses, Berry, Elijah, Peggy, and Mrs. Miller. Capt. John's children were Col. John (Jack), Darling, Daniel, and David. You know Colonel Johns history. Darling went to Alabama and we have no record of him. Daniel was a Negro Speculator and was killed by the Negroes. David married a Griffin and they had five children viz Mary who married a Gibson. Jno never married, Daniel who never married, but was killed in the civil war. Darling who never married and was also killed in the war. Jim married a Ford and their children now live in Winnsboro, S. C. This is all I know of Captain Johns family. Captain Johns brother Moses who also married a Knighton had six children, Mary, Mounsey, Peter, Brunson, Berry, Moses. Mary married Elijah Hollis and moved to Alabama. Mounsey never married. She died in this country. Peter married Elizabeth Wilson and they have seven children: Rosanah, who married a Mayben. They moved to Texas. John who married Mary Mayben. He lives near me and is 82 years old. They have two children John and Clarence. They both have families and live in Chester County. Mary married a Fudge and they live in Rock Hill, S. C. They have children, Ella and Walter. Daniel died when a boy. Susan never married and she has died. Peter T. is my name. I married Victoria Gaston and we had seven children: Joe who married Annie Lyle, and they have ten children. They live near me. Porter (who visited you) married Mary Walter and they have two children. William Gill who married Gertha Henderson they have four children and live in Columbia, S. C. Elizabeth, who married James Reid and they have five children. Anna married James Lynn and they have three children. Lawrence married Emma Clyde and they have three children. They live in Greenville, S. C. Dan Saye married Maude McFadden and they have four children. They live with me. Eliza married John Fennell. They have seven children. Eliza and Mary are both living. Capt Johns brother Berry and Elijah had families, but I don't know the history. One of them had a son Elijah who married my father's sister Mary. Peggy married a Patterson (History not known); one of the sisters married a Miller (no history). Brunson and Berry moved to Alabama. I met Capt. Bankhead and Green Holliday, John Hollis (Berry's Son) during the war. I would like to find out something of their families. My father and his Uncle David (Capt. John's son) were the only members of the family who stayed in South Carolina. I hope you can get something from this, and would be glad to hear from you.

Yours, etc. Peter T. Hollis

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• a very poor copy of letter

Copy of letter from Walter E. Hollis dated August 15, 1962 2916 Laurel Street Vicksburg. Mississippi Mrs. Lucille Hollis Cooner 1732 Lacrel? Street Mobile 19, Alabama Dear Mrs. Cooner: I recently stopped in the History and Archives Library at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama and learned for the first time that they had a family folder on the Hollis family. This folder consisted primarily of bits of correspondence between Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owens and various interested descendants of the Hollis family in South Carolina and Alabama. I learned that Mrs. Owens, is now deceased had been the Archivist for some years and was herself a descendant through the Hollis-Holliday-Bankhead family. I was pleased to read a copy of a x correspondence you had with Mrs. Owens some years ago in which you stated that you had done considerable research on the family in Alabama and would travel to South Carolina and Virginia to get additional information. I was particularly interested in your statement that you were writing a book on the Hollis family. Have you completed your book? Can I purchase a copy or have access to a copy in some manner? I know that often x these projects go astray? and never comes to x, but since you have done some study of the family in Alabama, I would be interested in seeing anything you have done. I am enclosing a brief outline of the descendants of Moses Hollis and his wife Rosannah? Hollis, who lived in Fairfield District, SC before 1776? (apparently came to SC from Virginia). There six children are those listed in a copy of a letter I found in the correspondence file on Hollis family in Montgomery from a Mr. Peter Hollis. In the first column on the left you will find John Hollis. His son Col. John (Jack) Hollis married Letitia Holliday, from that marriage came a daughter who married a Bankhead (this is where I believe Mrs. Owens line comes from). Col. John (Jack) Hollis brother Darling was my Great, Great, Grandfather, born July 2, 180? in Fairfield District, SC and Died in Lamar County, Ala. February 23, 1883. Buried in Old Moscow Cemetery between Sulligent and Vernon, Alabama. His youngest daughter Margaret E. was my mother's Grandmother (my Great Grandmother). Now looking under son Moses Hollis line, I believe this Mary is my Great, Great Grandmother on my father's side of the family. I believe she married Elijah Hollis, Jr. (the son of Elijah Hollis) who was her first cousin and my Great Grandfather on my father's side of the family. The only proof of have ? this is a dim one that Elijah and Mary were my Great Grandparents on my father's side of the family is this: Daniel George Washington Hollis of B???ord, Ala (born February 24, 1655 at Marton ? PO in the county of ? ? ? ? ? ? ? was a cousin of my father. His father ? Jonathan Hollis was a brother of his father's Grandfather Hiram. In fact Jonathan married Barbara ? ? and El? married Rebecca R. ? (two sisters).  ? was born in South Carolina January 5, 1817 and died Sept 29, 1893? in Lamar County, Alabama. His brother Jonathan was born in South Carolina March 12, 18?5 and died in Alabama, October 23, 1872. Now the son of Johnathan Hollis, (Daniel George Washington Hollis) served in the Alabama legislature from 1892-93 and again from 1927-31. In a biographical memoranda for publication in the official journal of Alabama he had this to say: "Father's name Johnathan Hollis born in Fairfield District. He lived at Fairfield Distinct and moved to Marion County, Alabama, Moscow ? he moved from Marion to Fayette Co., in 1857. He was the son of Elijah Hollis and his wife Mary Hollis who lived at Fairfield District, S. C." Great-great grandfather of Daniel George Washington Hollis was John Hollis. He moved from Virginia to Fairfield District, S. C. -- Great Grandfather was Elijah Hollis. Borne and died in Fairfield District, S. C. Died between 1825 and 1830. He fought in the Revolutionary War." Since Daniel George Washington Hollis states that his Great Grandfather Elijah Hollis and Great Grandmother was Mary Hollis, mine would be the same as his, but I come ? ? on this Great Grandfather being John, for it seems to me that it should be Moses. Now the reason for me presenting all this information: Do you have any authentic information as to the descendants of Moses Hollis and his wife Ros? Hollis that might help me clear up this line. I would appreciate any help you can give me, and I would like to purchase a copy of any book or pamphlet you have published on the Hollis family of Al. and /or South Carolina. May I hear from you? Sincerely yours, Walter E. Hollis PS. have any of these lines been proven out or published in DAR or other records available to interested personnel?

Census Local Census 1829 In the office of the Secretary of the Historical Commission a "home-made" book on handwriting has the following: "This is a correct census of all the free white inhabitants, residing in Fairfield District, according to names inserted in this book, and number to each name annexed, for the year 1829; Taken by Abner Fant. Total number of inhabitants 9470." On a separate sheet there is an affidavit by Fant that it is correct, impartial and complete, sworn to before James Elliott, "justice of the quorum." The numbers annexed to each name are the free white persons in the household. Many of the householders must have had many relative or other white people in the house-hold. The records of this census are in an odd way. The names were indexed according to the first letter of the first name, i.e. Aaron, Benjamin, Charles, etc., Following the names frequently are letters whose meaning is uncertain, the guess is that B. C. means Beaver Creek, C. C., Cedar Creek, L.M. Lees Mill. It has taken a great deal of labor to copy the names and index them according to the sirname. Spellings have changed, and mis-spellings occur, and other evidence, frequently, is necessary to verify. Frequently two names are the same, with no means of identification. Census: Local Census 1829, Fairfield County Elijah V. Hollis..........8 Reference: Page 176, History of Fairfield County, South Carolina, from "Before the White Man Came," to 1942. By: Fitz Hugh McMaster, Native of Fairfield County, With New Index By Margaret H. Cannon, Ph.D., The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1980 This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Sources

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-F49W : 1 March 2021), Elijah Or Elisha Hollis, 22 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711095.
• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-7XP : accessed 5 February 2022), Elijah Hollis, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 149, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 568,151.
• South Carolina Archives and History, Fairfield County, South Carolina Wills and Administrations, Recorded in Book 3, Pages 63 and 64. AUG. 4, 1794, Apt. 18, File 230, http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=306855
• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRH-RZR : accessed 5 February 2022), Elijah Hollis, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 215, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 47; FHL microfilm 181,422.
• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH23-NX7 : accessed 5 February 2022), Elijah Hollis, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 579, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 62; FHL microfilm 181,421.
• FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, PRESENTMENT CONCERNING COMPENSATION FOR JURORS AND CONSTABLES, THE MODE BY WHICH MILITIAMEN UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE ARE PROVIDED ARMS, SLAVERY, AND THE CONDITION OF DISTRICT ROADS. (4 PAGES), http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=285120
• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL7-3Y5 : accessed 5 February 2022), Elijah V Hollis, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States; citing p. , NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5S-J9M : 20 February 2021), Elizah V Hollis, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States; citing 370, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 169; FHL microfilm 22,503.
• Source: S-716201734 Repository: #R-1149081671 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=61188132&pid=676
• Repository: R-1149081671 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Willis Wells for creating WikiTree profile Hollis-679 through the import of Wells Family Tree-2.ged on Dec 13, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Willis and others.