Reunion 2003
"700 Years of Hollidays" - text of the book
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 DisAmbiguation-Doc-Holiday-pics.pdf -    Notes 

Map to Holliday Historic Home near Washington, Ga.

Generations below are numbered following the order established by Omar T Holliday in his 1939 book "700 Years of Hollidays"

Generations began with #1 , Thomas Holliday of Pontefract, 1435.

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Generations:

#10 Elijah William Holliday lived in Virginia and moved to GA

#11- Owen Thomas Holliday 1750-1800

       He was granted several thousand acres of land in Wilkes County, Georgia by the State Assembly in Augusta in August 1781.  Pic of advertisement to Sell The Farm

12-Allen 1789-1841 married to Nancy Oneal 1798-1864

13- Allen T. 1828-1865 married to Elizabeth Zellars

       Allen "T" fought in the Battle of Atlanta for the Confederate States of America

14- Thomas Otis 1853- 1929 married 1st to Katherine Burdette

15- Peter Osborne, Sr. 1887- 1951 married Martha Riley

       [this info is not in the book] POH, Sr. sold his farmland in Wilkes County , Georgia to help finance college and law school at Mercer in Macon, GA. During WW1 he tested high in math and was trained in ballistics to aim large artillery. He was half way across the Atlantic Ocean towards Europe when peace was declared and his ship turned back to America. He met Martha while she was a student at Wesleyan. Her father George Riley was a farmer and mule trader from Perry, GA who worked also as Chief of Police (Picture) in Macon in 1919. He owned stables on Mulberry where the Old Post Office is now the Federal Courthouse. He would rent wagons for weddings. He has a set of body-building weights there. The Riley farm near Kathleen became home for the "fountain of nude lady" that was removed from Macon by the prudes.

Mr Riley was known to intimidate his daughter's suitors by greeting each one with a crushing handshake. Peter O was the first suitor to pass this test. Peter loved to read and to collect books. Book purchases became at times a source of contention with his wife who was more interested in the house and yard. The sewing club and the Vineville Garden Club and later docenting the historic Hay House and the Cannonball House were Martha's social outlets.

Peter owned a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun for bird hunting. He and boys occasionally dove hunted near Old Camp Wheeler. Mercer had a very successful football team at this time, and when they played UGA, he would ride the train to Athens with his friend Dr Rufus Harris who later served as president of Mercer University. These trips were a release from domestic constraints, and the men were free to indulge in cigars and spirits. Tobacco was shunned later in life. Law practice started with Hall, Block, Harris. Left them during the depression. In 1932 he was appointed as Judge of the Juvenile Court. 250/month. He was one out of many applicants for this position.

His family had a membership at private Winship Lake. His boys  - Peter, Jr and Jack, tried to spend every summer day there. Cost some $15 a year.

Had a Model-A Ford and an Essex in 1929. 1932 Oldsmobile purchased in 1934, and kept it till Jack finished high school.

16- Peter O., Jr b1921/07/09  married Mary Lucille Dozier

17- Lindsay Dozier b1955/04/25  married Mary MacKay

18- "Faira" Margaret Fairchild Dozier H. b1986

Reunion stuff

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