Researched, written, and submitted by Joyce Hayes Wagar
I have found at least fifteen spellings for this family name. Often the same individual will have two or three variant spellings. The earliest spelling, I found is Holdright but after about 1900 the spelling is most often Holroyd. I have used these spellings interchangeably according to the sources referenced.
In 1809 Cabell County, Virginia was formed entirely from Kanawha territory. It contained 1,033 square miles and had a population of 5,884 among who were 629 taxpayers. The Guyandotte River passed across it in a northwesterly direction and was said to be inlaid with coal along both of its shores.
It was also a finely timbered valley and parts were classed as a good agricultural country. Barboursville, the county seat, was seven miles from the Ohio River and smaller than the settlement of Guyandotte, Ona was about halfway between Barboursville on the east and Guyandotte on the west. Ona is the community where most of the Holdrydes of Cabell County lived.
JOHN D. HOLDRYDE AND SARAH CHAPMAN
My Great, Great, Great Grandparents
On 18 June 1812, Congress passed an act declaring that war “be and the same is hereby declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States.” President Madison requested Governor Barbour of Virginia for 12,000 militia. John D. Holdright was commissioned as Ensign in the 120th Regiment, Virginia Militia, and was a Lieutenant when he resigned. (County Court Records, Cabell County, 1814-1866).
He and Sarah (Sally) Chapman were married in Cabell County on 2 February 1819. Their names first appeared together in the 1820 census in Cabell County, with their infant daughter Olivia. Living with them then and in all the following years was James Holdright, a disabled brother of John.
John D. was a farmer and landowner.
- In 1814 he paid tax for the possession of one horse or mule in Kanawha County. In 1830 John D. has taxed 16 cents for possession of two horses or mules.
- In 1832 he acquired a patent for 100 acres on Little Cabell Creek, a branch of Mud River.
- In 1836 he acquired 30 more acres.
- Land records for tax purposes 1861-1865 show his estate to be 305 acres at a value of $915.
- He had died in 1856 so the 100 acres owned by his daughter Elizabeth and the 125 acres owned by another daughter Olivia may have also belonged to him before his death.
The following nine children were named in John’s will, with birth and death dates, when known:
- Olivia (Sheff) abt. 1820
- Elizabeth abt. 1822 – 7 April 1886
- William 19 Dec. 1823 – 19 Dec. 1909
- Lucy (Sandridge) Dec. 1825
- Marian (Ward) abt. 1832 – 7 Mar. 1867
- Lewis abt 1835
- Allen 18 Feb. 1836 – 3 May 1861
- Margaret Caroline (Turley) 3 Feb. 1837 – 17 Dec. 1917
- Sarah Virginia (Harrison) abt 1844 – 23 Jan. 1887
There were two other sons not mentioned in the will. Verification is from the marriage records of John Jr. and Peter.
- John Jr. abt 1828 – 1905
- Peter abt. 1830 after 1900
I believe, but have not proven, that the William mentioned in the will of John D. is William Holdryde, (1823-1909) my ancestor who lived his adult life in Lawrence County, Ohio, just across the Ohio River from this family.
The will was written in 1856 mentions that John D. Holdryde had already given his son William ten dollars; perhaps the gift was at the time of his wedding for John D. Holdryde had given ten dollars to Lucy who was also married.
Even though my ancestor William lived across the river, he was born in Cabell County and was married in 1849 before the writing of the will. There is no William living with John and Sarah in the 1850 census. This is not proof but good evidence that William Holroyd living and dying in Lawrence County, Ohio, was the son of John D. Holdryde.
Will of John D. Holdryde
Written – 6 Jun 1855, Probate – 22 Sep 1856, Book 2, Page 251 – Cabell County, Courthouse Cabell County VA (now WV) 6 June 1855
(written exactly as in the original record)
In the name of God Amen. I, John D. Holdryde being well in health and of sound mind and memory thanks be to God for the same but knowing the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and that I may be the better prepaired to leave the world whenever it may please Almighty God to call me, do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills heretofore by me made:
First, I give my soul to God from whom I received it hoping to secure it again at his hand at the final judgement with the semissions of all my sins through Jesus Christ My Savior and my body to be buried at the discretion of my friends, And as to the Worldly good with which it has pleased, God to Bless me with I desire that they Should be dispossed of in the following manner towit; first It is my desire that My Wife Sally Holdryde should have the use and benefit of all my lands with all its Appertenances during her natural life of widowhood and at her death I wish it sold and the proceeds equally devided among all my children My daughters Olivia, Elizabeth and Mary Each have a Bedd and furniture of their own making. It is my desire they should hold them Seperately and aparte as their own property the remainder of my property I wished disposed of as the law directs with the following Exceptions towit; My Son William Holdryde and My daughter Lucy Sandridge Each having received ten dollars from me I wish said Sums counted as part of their parts and further I wish My Brother James, Should he be living at the time of My death to have all my wearing apparrel. And lastly, I make constitute and appoint Thomas Thornburg Sole Executor to this my last will and testament.
John D. Holdryde (seal) attest W. C. Miller A. H. Samuels John Merritt
Codicil to the Above Will
It is my desire that my daughter Caroline should have the bed and furniture she has bein Making Seperate and appart from my other property.
It is My desire that the crop on my place the present year should be kept and used on the place for the benefit of the family on the place as also the wool and yarn of the present years clip and also three hogs & seven pigs all to be placed at discretion of My wife Sally Holdryde the hogs to be made choice of by her.
It is my desire that this codicel Should form apart of My will Witness my hand and seal this 15th day of July 1856
John D. Holdryde (seal)
attest
Mary A Wilson
Eliza A Wilson
Benja S Davis
James T Herndon
Cabell County Court September the 22nd 1856
The last Will and testament of John D. Holdryde decd was presented in court and proved by the oaths of W C Miller Alex H. Samuels Benj S Davis & James T. Herndon the subscribing witnesses thereto which is ordered to be recorded.
John D. Holroyd, according to the Cabell County Annals and Families by George Selden Wallace, was one of the early deans and also a clerk of the Mud River Baptist Church. Minutes of meetings with his signature date to 1853.
At first, the pioneers met in homes; but when a piece of land was donated, the church was built above the Blue Sulphur Springs along Mud River. The log church had split log benches and a slave gallery.
In December 1839 Olivia and Elizabeth Holdryde were baptized there. In 1842 a new frame church was constructed with two doors, one for men and one for women. During the Civil War, the church abandoned its building and again met in homes.
The Confederate Army took over the building in August of 1861 during the skirmish at Barboursville using it for living quarters and for storing gear. In the 1880s the Mud River Baptist Church was remodeled to its present configuration and the slave gallery was eliminated.
In Cabell County VA (now WV) Order Book: “Overseers of the Poor” written by Carrie Eldridge it is interesting to find both brothers John and James mentioned. As a board member of the Overseers of the Poor, John D. and other gentlemen were selected by the county court to protect the poor and indigent. They were responsible for setting the poor-rate and seeing that it was collected. From that rate, they received payment for their services and money to assist those in need.
Interesting that John D’s brother James, was a recipient of these funds while John was on the board, and he continued to get aid after John’s death. James once a year would receive between $15 and $30 which were given either to John or his wife Sarah on his behalf.
John D. Holdryde continued to live in Cabell County, Virginia (now WV) until his death on 29 August 1856. In 1860 Sarah Chapman Holdryde and five adult children (Olivia, Elizabeth, Marian Lewis, and Sarah Virginia) and her disabled brother-in-law James lived in the same household. Sarah died on April 17, 1878.
WILLIAM HOLROYD AND DIANA WAKEFIELD
My Great, Great Grandparents
While I do not have absolute evidence that John D. and Sarah are the parents of William Holdryde/Holdrye/Holroyd. I have good documentation that William is my ancestor. The earliest record in Lawrence County of William Holdrye is his marriage to Dianna Wakefield on October 22, 1849.
Dianna, born on 18 October 1829, was the daughter of Elhanen and Candace Gillett Wakefield who were pioneers in Lawrence County in the early nineteenth century. Her family as described in another chapter was primarily farmers, teachers, and ministers in Lawrence County. William and Dianna Holroyd had three children.
- Florence J 1853 before 1880
- Oliver Cromwell 1855 27 Feb. 1889
- William W 1859 30 Apr. 1883
The following map is Union Township, Lawrence County, Ohio in 1887 as published by D. J. Lake and Company. It shows the residences of family member William Holroyd at the top of the map. It also shows a residence nearer the Ohio River that belonged first to Mr. Suiter where Oliver Cromwell Holroyd, son of William lived. It may be that only Oliver’s widow lived there.
William Holroyd bought 3 acres for nineteen dollars on 1 July 1853 from Roswell Gardner, a cousin of Dianna. The farm was in section four of Union township of Lawrence County, Ohio. (See map from Atlas of Lawrence County, Ohio by Hardesty 1882) By 1887 he had 86 acres in that section.
An article in the Ironton Register, 19 August 1858 described the Holroyd farm.
Rambling over the hills of Lawrence County, the other day, I took shelter beneath the hospitable roof of our good friend William Holdride, in Union township, on the ridge which divides the waters of Symmes Creek from Indian Guyan.
I hope my friend will pardon me for alluding to this matter, but I am constrained to say that I was pleased with the appearance of things about the premises. Mr. Holdride cultivates a “hill farm” and it may not be expected to produce like some of the river bottoms. But everything betokens a neat farmer with substantial evidence of thrift.
He farms by system gathers facts and makes practical use of them. He seeks the best methods of cultivation and takes pride in making his farm present a pleasant appearance. He has learned how to raise crops without impoverishing the soil, which many persons seem not yet to know. Notwithstanding the dry season, he has a field of hill corn which promises an abundant yield and will be very apt to bear off the palm, should it be placed in competition for a premium. A fine young orchard, in a thriving condition, will soon repay the skill and labor bestowed on it.
Mr. Holdride has a pleasant young family to endear him to home and enlists the warm sympathy of those who may chance to become his guests. While the children were still young, the Civil War began and William Holroyd with many other farmers from Lawrence County volunteered.
The 188th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio March 2, 3, and 4, 1865 to serve one year. On March 4, the Regiment received orders to report to General Thomas at Nashville where it arrived on the 9th. A letter printed in the Ironton Register, on March 23, 1865, sent by a soldier in Company A, William Holroyd’s company, describes the frustration of waiting in the Zollicoffer Barracks at Nashville.
Well, here we are and here we have been since Thursday last –four days only it is true—but how heartily tired of the place we are, and how we long to get out of here where we can see the sun and breath fresh air, give us fortifications, give us the tented field, give us anything or any place so that we can leave Zollicoffer Barracks …The barracks is a building partially erected for a hotel before the breaking out of the war, by one Maxwell, a leading rebel spirit and relation of the world-renowned General, whose name the building now bears. It is built of brick…and five stories high, there is a good roof on it but no doors or windows, it is divided up into rooms, separated by thick walls; each (room) contains a fireplace.
The building contains now from 4,000 to 7,000 men and is capable of quartering about 10,000. Regiments are coming in and going out all the time and no pains is taken to keep the building clean. Fires have to be kept in all the apartments for …although we are in the Sunny South we have suffered more with cold since we have been here than we have in Ohio during the coldest weather of the past winter…But the boys are in fine spirits and should the opportunity occur, I think they will make a good record. Our company (Co. A) is all from the Townships of Perry, Fayette, Union, and Rome.
The A Company was assigned to duty under Brigadier General Van Cleve and ordered to Murfreesboro, Tenn. where it remained for two months and then ordered to Tullahoma. Here it remained for two months and was then ordered to Nashville, where it remained until 2 September 1865 when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department. The regiment lost 45 men to disease. Private William Holroyd mustered on 16 February 1865 and mustered out on 21 September 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sadly, just three months after William Holroyd got home from the Civil War, his wife Dianna died on December 20, 1865, at the age of 36. Surviving her were her husband and three children Florence about 12, Oliver Cromwell about 10, and William W. about 6.
The Ironton Register 18 January 1866 described her as a teacher and a devoted Christian.
“At her residence in Lawrence County, OH Dec 20, 1865, Mrs. D. W. wife of Wm. Holroyd and daughter of E. W. Wakefield, of this county, died at 36 years. From the early age of 12, she lived as a professed and consistent Christian. Although afflicted for several years, she never bore it with Christian fortitude.
Whiled impaired in physical strength her mind remained clear and rational with a bright hope of immortal glory. She feared not death but fully realized the Angel of the Covenant was faithful to his promise and stood prepared to walk with her through death’s dark vale. When asked how she felt while struggling with the monster’s death, she sweetly smiled and said, “Jesus was…. she was nearing the Haven of eternal bliss.
For many weeks we watch over her with anxious care, trusting the one so dearly loved might yet be spared but we out to eat on earth a spirit rule for Heaven. How vain the day had come the day that closed all earthly friendships and finished every east of love. Day of eternal gain for worldly loss. With a firm confidence in Him who careth for the orphan, she committed her light charge to his trust, then calmly and composedly fell asleep in Jesus. Truly she lived the life of the righteous. A companion, three children, and many friends mourn.
“Servant of God, well done
Thy earthly ties are riven,
Thy work is wrought, the crown is won,
And thou are saved in Heaven.
Yes, thou art freed from cumbering clay,
No more of earth’s vain joys to know,
But dwell in Christ in realms of day,
To triumph o’er this world of woe.
We could not wish thee back to stay,
But we will meet on that great day,
Where pleasure is pure without alloy,
Thy precepts pure will get us through
This world of sorrow and sin
And will our wearied souls renew,
Till we the crown of glory win.”
by C. W.
(This could have been her sister Chloe Wakefield.)
The Wakefield sisters showed affection and admiration for each other as expressed in this poem about Dianna and also in the poem written by Marinda at the death of Keziah. Dianna was buried in the Wakefield Cemetery, which still exists across the road from the Love Farm, which was originally the Wakefield home in Lawrence County, Windsor Township, OH. Dianna’s grandfather Peter Wakefield is also buried in this cemetery.
After Dianna’s death, William Holroyd married Izora Kerr on 9 September 1866. Izora, daughter of William M. Kerr and Caroline Smith Kerr, was born in 1847, twenty-four years his junior. They had one daughter Edith Elizabeth 21 June 1867. A year and a half after Dianna’s death young Florence, Oliver Cromwell, and William W. had a new mother and stepsister.
The framed portrait of what I believe was Izora Kerr Holroyd, hung in the home of my grandmother, Alice Holroyd Hayes, and is now in my home. The Ironton Register reported on 9 March 1908 that Mrs. Holroyd (Izora) was ill with the grip. She died on 17 March 1908.
A newspaper tidbit in the Ironton Register on 30 August 1877 confused me for a long time. It read “Mr. Holroyd came out of the railroad catastrophe Tuesday night as well as any of them. “ I thought he had been in a train accident but it turns out he had invested in the railroad.
On 3 December 1885, the Ironton Register wrote, “Wm Holroyd is noted as a successful beekeeper. He was perhaps the first man in the county to attempt bee culture upon scientific principles. He uses hives of superior manufacture, and the various appliances needful for the promotion of pleasure, safety, and profit in his work.”
Nothing is known about Florence, daughter of Dianna Wakefield Holroyd and William Holroyd, after the 1870 census which shows her living with her parents in Union township, Lawrence County, Ohio. She is not mentioned in her father’s will written in 1908.
William W., the youngest child of William and Dianna, was described in the Ironton Register on 17 May 1883 as “one of the best informed and most promising young teachers” of Lawrence County before he went to Colorado in the spring of 1880.
Scanning the newspaper of the late 1870s, I found William W. had regularly attended and participated in the Teacher’s Institute which had been established in 1867 to motivate and inform the teachers of the county. The Ironton Register 6 September 1877 mentions he was a vice president of the Institute. It is not known why William W. Holroyd left his career and family to move to Colorado, but those with adventurous spirits always went west.
His obituary published in the Gunnison Daily Review Press on 3 April 1883 tells the rest of the story.
The public will be pained to learn of the death of Mr. Wm. W. Holroyd, of typhoid fever, which occurred in this city at the Newport this morning at one o’clock.
The deceased came to Colorado from Lawrence county, Ohio, early in the spring of 1880 and the excitement in regard to Gunnison County at that time being at a high pitch, he crossed the range via Alpine Pass and early in June found himself in this city.
He had been brought up on a farm but was possessed of a good, common school education and we understand had taught a term or two in his native county. But schools at that time in Gunnison country were something almost unknown. During the first four or five months here he turned his hand first at one thing, then at another, not being ashamed to work at anything that promised him employment and the necessaries of life.
In the month of November 1880, he made his way into THE REVIEW office. . . and expressed a desire to come and learn the “Art preservative of all Arts.” He went to work, remaining without losing a day until the last of June 1882, when he went to Crested Butte to take a position as a compositor on the REPUBLICAN, which he held until he was obliged, by sickness, to throw up a few weeks ago. He arrived in Gunnison on Monday morning, April 9th, and went to the Newport in charge of Mrs. A. Morgan where he had been confined to his bed up to the hour of his death.
Mr. Holroyd was aged 25 years and was a young man universally esteemed by all who knew him. His father, who lives on a farm at Russell’s Place, Lawrence Co., Ohio, has been advised by telegraph, and at this writing, it is not known what disposition will be made of his body.
His funeral was at an M. E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church after carriages and a number of friends met at the Newport (hospital) and followed his remains to the church. Six young male printers were pallbearers. Col. Phillips spoke of his excellent traits of character and of the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him. On the casket was placed a wreath, woven of evergreens, geranium leaves, and white flowers. (Gunnison Daily Review Press, 7 May 1833.)
The Gunnison County Globe on 6 April 1967 did a story about Glendale Cemetery which was described as “crumbled ruins, overgrown by sagebrush and prairie grass with but a few lonely headstones, bearing mute testimony to its past history.” One of the tombstones photographed in the story was that of William W. Holroyd.
Under the picture of the tipped-over monument, it says “Sacred to the memory of W. W. Holroyd was the inscription on this marker which was erected by local printers to a man who came west to seek his fortune as a printer and linotypist……his body lies in state for a hot summer’s week until local printers took pity and put their brother to rest.”
Back in Lawrence County, Ohio, the survivors of William W Holroyd were his father William, his stepmother Izora and stepsister Edith, and his brother Oliver Cromwell Holroyd, my great grandfather.
Oliver Cromwell Holroyd and Martha Ann Told
My Great Grandparents
Oliver Cromwell Holroyd married Martha Ann Told, daughter of Joseph Told and Mary Davies Told both of Wales, on July 14, 1877.
Before they were married Martha Ann (Mattie) was a domestic in the home of the minister a. A. Jameson and his wife Mary in the 1870 census. In I875 Martha and her sister, Sarah Alice passed the exam for teacher certification for one year.
I am not sure how long Martha taught, but in October 1875 the school in Proctorville was “progressing finely under the supervision of Mr. Eakman assisted by Miss (Martha) Mattie Told of Millersport.” In 1875 there were 118 school districts in Lawrence County, Ohio, and 129 schoolhouses. Most schools were a district. The average female teacher made $36 a month while an average male made $43.
Oliver Cromwell Holroyd and Martha Ann Told had eight children:
- Olive Bell (Marks) 8 June 1879 – 19 Nov. 1912
- (Mary) Florence (Corn) 30 June 1881 – 11 July 1909
- Mattie 4 Sep. 1882 – 6 Nov. 1903
- Clarence W 25 Jan. 1885 – July 1967
- Joseph 25 Jan. 1885 – before 1889
- Alice Nora (Hayes) 4 Mar. 1886 – 12 Apr. 1971
- Twin of Alice 4 Mar. 1886 – 4 Mar. 1886
- Claude bef. 1889
Olive (Ollie), the oldest daughter of Oliver and Martha
Holroyd, and her husband Harry Manford Marks, Sr. were married on 12 February 1902 in Lawrence County. They had four daughters:
- Harriet Irene (Dillon) 7 Dec. 1902 – 22 May 1968
- Ruth Brown (Smith, Pinkerman) 14 July 1904 – 18 Dec. 1996
- Kathleen 15 Jul. 1908 – 27 Feb. 1909
- Mabel Louise (McDowell) 4 Apr. 1911 – 25 Ma.r 1999
Three of the daughters lived well into adulthood but Kathleen died when she fell and struck her head on the fireplace hearth. Her obituary read “Little Kathleen, daughter of Harry and Ollie Marks…died aged 7 months and 12 days.” After Olive died at age 33, Harry married Blanch Claudia Hulbert on 13 June 1919.
The second daughter of Oliver Cromwell and Martha Ann Told Holroyd was Florence who married Rev. John Alonzo Coleman Corn. They had a son Dustin and four daughters: Frankie, Nellie, Vivian, and Florence. The oldest daughter Frankie married William H. Brammer, a carpenter who lived many years next to the Rome Methodist Church in Lawrence County, OH. He served on the school board and received a purple heart in WWI. Florence, his wife, died at 28 years of tuberculosis about a month after the birth of baby Florence. John A. C. Corn married Arizona Johnson, then Anna Roach.
The third daughter of Oliver Crowell and Martha Ann Told Holroyd was Mattie who died at age 21 of diphtheria. Her obituary (in the Athalia column of Ironton Tribune 12 Nov 1903) read “ She was a member of the Baptist Church at Bradrick where she lived until two years ago. She was a true Christian wherever she was and always found at her post. Her life was one worthy of emulation. It seems hard that one just in the bloom of youth is snatched from us, but Thy will be done, not ours.”
Clarence William was born on 25 Jan 1885 to Oliver Cromwell and Martha Ann Told Holroyd. The best evidence is that he was a twin to Joseph died in childhood. Clarence married Pearl J Brumfield about 1906 and they had one daughter Dorothy who married Virgil Elmer Stanley. Clarence died Jul 1967 or 15 Jun 1967 at age 82 in Huntington, West Virginia.
When my grandmother Alice Holroyd (Hayes) was three years old, her father Oliver Cromwell Holroyd died on 27 February 1889. The obituary in the Ironton Register on 7 March 1889 read “Cromwell Holroyd, one of Lawrence County’s former school teachers, died at his home in Bradrick last Wednesday. He was buried at Millersport Saturday, March 2nd. He was only sick for five days with pneumonia. He leaves a wife and five children.”
The children were 10, 8, 7, 4, and 3… I do not know how Martha Holroyd supported her children but to her credit, in 1900 the three still at home were in school In the 1920 census she was living alone in Union Township, Lawrence County, Ohio as a needle crafter. She died on 30 June 1929 at the age of 80 and is buried in Coal Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio
The tombstone has his birth as 1850 but based on census records, he was born about 1855.
Oliver Cromwell Holroyd.
William Holroyd outlived all his children except Edith despite the effects of old age and his physical impairments including deafness from the Civil War. After application he was granted a pension of 6 dollars per month because of his rheumatism the Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, United States of America commencing 10 July 1890.
His declaration for the pension gave his height as 5’7”, his complexion and hair light, his eyes gray, and his weight 148 pounds. After another application accompanied by a medical report and a statement from a lawyer, William was granted an increase to 20 dollars a month commencing 26 February 1907. He died on 19 December 1909 according to the pension file obtained from the National Archives. His second wife Izora died before him on 17 March 1908.
The Will of William Holroyd
The following instrument of writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of William Holroyd, late of Lawrence County, Ohio, deceased was produced in open court and filed 28 December 1909.
In the name of the Benevolent Father of all: I, William Holroyd, of the Village of Proctorville, County of Lawrence and State of Ohio, being about eighty-four years of age and of sound and disposing of mind and memory, do make, publish, and declare this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and annulling any and all will or wills by me made heretofore.
First: My will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my estate as soon after my decease as shall be found convenient.
Second: I give devise and bequeath to my Daughter Mrs. John Brammer $5.00.
Third: I give my grandchildren Florence Corn 5 0$. I give to Bessie Dennison my niece all my household and all it contains.
Fourth: I give my grandson Clarence Holroyd fifty Dollars (50$), also his sister Alice Hayes fifty Dollars (50$), and Olive Marks forty Dollars (40$).
Fifth: I appoint I. W. Ollom, executor of this my Last will and testament. I hereby revoke all other wills by me made. All money left after the settlement is to be turned over to the Trustees of the M. E. Church at Labelle, Ohio.
In Testimony Whereof, I have set my hand to this my last will and testament at Proctorville this 27th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.
Signed by William Holroyd
Florence Corn, named in the will, died about six months before her grandfather William. It appears her inheritance went to her surviving children: Dustin 10 years, Frankie 9 years, Nellie 7 years, Vivian 4 years, and baby Florence 6 months.
ALICE NORA HOLROYD AND ENOCH HAYES
My Grandparents
Alice Nora Holroyd, my grandmother, was born to Oliver Cromwell Holroyd and Martha Ann Told Holroyd, on 4 Mar 1886. Her twin died at birth. Alice married Enoch Earlywine Hayes on 2 April 1908. Their children were Charles Franklin Hayes, my father, born 1 Mar 1909, and Mabel Anna Hayes born 27 December 1910. The story of this family is in another chapter.
W. W. Holroyd headstone is on my property in gunnison