Person:Benjamin Holaday (3)

HOLADAY, Benjamin M., "The Paoli Weekly News" (April 7, 1875)

    The friends and acquaintances of Benjamin M. Holaday were greatly shocked to learn, on Saturday morning last (April 3, 1975), of his death, which occurred at 3 o'clock that morning from a congestive chill. Mr. Holaday was sick but a short time and almost from his first attack it was evident that he could not recover. He was attended in his last sickness by his friend and family physician, Dr. Lee Hazlewood, who did all that medical skill could do to save the dying man, but it was of no avail. He died peacefully and calmly, surrounded by his entire family and a large number of friends and neighbors by whom he was justly held in great estimation. In the death of Mr. Holaday this county looses an old pioneer, he having resided here for more than half a century. He was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, in 1815 and removed with his mother to this county in 1926, be being the last survivor out of a family of ten brothers and sisters except two, Joshua Holaday and Hannah Hadley, who lives at this time in Wayne County, Illinois, and in Parke County, Indiana respectively. Mr. Holaday was twice married and the father, we believe, of six children five sons, namely Vandever, Patrick, William, Joel and Henry Holaday and one daughter, Mrs. Sarah Stroud, the wife of Mr. George W. Stroud. His first wife was Cynthia Noblitt, to whom he was married Dec. 2, 1841. Mrs. Holaday died in 1857. He was again married Jan. 29, 1861, to Samaria Danner, who with her only son, Henry, survive him. He was buried on Sunday last at Rock Springs burying ground. The large attendance at his funeral demonstrates the esteem in which he was held in this community. In the death of uncle Ben Holaday we lose a warm hearted, generous citizen and a truly good man as well as one of the old landmarks of the county. We can assure the grief stricken family that in their affliction they have the sympathy of a very large circle of friends and acquaintances who sincerely mourn with them. Submitted by Tom Agan.

Provided by John Holaday, 7/2001.

1. ↑ Jill Jones. The family files of Jill Jones. (World Connect Project, 7/2001).
2. ↑ from the original "History of Lawrence, Orange, & Washington Counties," 1884. History of Orange County, Indiana, Stout's Print Shop, 1965
   page 622 & 623.
3. ↑ The Quaker Collection; Jerry Richmond Files, 1999. (<invalid link - 12 May 2017>).
4. ↑ Weston, Leroy, Charles Goodspeed. History of Lawrence, Orange & Washington Counties, Indiana- From the Earliest Time to the Present. (Chicago; Goodspeed Brothers & Company, 1884).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Benjamin M Holaday, in Find A Grave.