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Below are Lindsay's notes from our last Holliday Reunion:

-----Original Message-----
From: Lindsay 'Doc' Holliday [mailto:teeth@mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: Holliday reunion


Biennial Holliday Family Reunion
Sunday before Labor Day - September 2, 2001
Historic Holliday Plantation Home
Hosts - Linda and David Chestnut of Atlanta

In retrospect, I wish we could have gotten photos of each family group. Maybe next time - Lnz... 

Photos:
Jack Holliday-
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/JackH.jpg


Marianne Holliday Bentley-
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/MABentley.jpg

Bernard H. and Frank Bentley-
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/RedandFrankB.jpg


Ann Holliday-
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/AnnH.jpg

Collage of people and images around the feast-
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/1877map.jpg




Collage of Holliday Park, maps, Gerry Hooper, Frances Shank, Janet Lee Holliday Hooper, Mike and Catherine
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/GerryFrances.jpg



Holliday Farm for Sale-
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/sellFarm.jpg

Duncan Holliday and his daughter Judy Weathers
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/DuncanJudy.jpg

http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/DuncanJudy2.jpg

Marianne [spelling?] H Bennett and her dad Bernard Holliday
http://www.hollidaydental.com/reunion/MandRed.jpg




Generations 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 by the State Assembly in Augusta in August 1781.

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
He sold his farmland 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 in Macon in 1919.

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 her social outlets.

Peter owned a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun for bird hunting. He and his boys Peter, Jr. and Jackson Riley occasionally dove hunted near Old Camp Wheeler.

Mercer University had a very successful football team at this time, and when they played UGA, he would ride the train to Athens with his good friend Dr Rufus Harris who later served as president of Tulane and then of Mercer University. These trips were a welcome release from domestic constraints, and the men were free to indulge in cigars and spirits. Tobacco was shunned later in life after he developed cardio-vascular problems. His law practice started with Hall, Block, Harris. Peter left them during the depression to accept appointment as Judge of the Juvenile Court. The family had both a model A Ford and an Essex in 1929. A 1932 Oldsmobile was purchased in 1934, and it was kept till Jack finished high school. [More to come]

16- Peter O., Jr b1921 married Mary Dozier
17- Lindsay Dozier b1955 married Marie Caroline MacKay 10-29-77
18- "Faira" Margaret Fairchild Dozier H. b1986

"If we do not write our own history, who will do it for us?"