The 1881 History of Ray County sketches three Holman men, all born in Ray County, but it never says how they were related, so each household stands alone here. Dr. William A. Holman, born in 1837, fought for the Confederacy from Pea Ridge to Vicksburg, graduated from the St. Louis Medical College in 1869, practiced at Albany, and from 1876 served three terms as treasurer of Ray County. Levi A. Holman, born in 1843, served in the 10th Missouri Cavalry and came home in 1865 to farm and marry Mary Teegarden. James R. Holman, born in 1849, owned 1,000 acres and, in the book's words, was perhaps the largest stock shipper in the county. A Rev. Hardy Holman performed marriages in the county from 1857 to 1879, including James R. Holman's second marriage in 1874. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Ray County history.
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Physician, druggist and county treasurer
WILLIAM A. HOLMAN, M. D.
William A. Holman is a native of Ray county, Missouri. He was born October 3, 1837, and, being the son of a farmer, was reared on a farm. In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in company C,3d Missouri infantry volunteers, of the Confederate army. He was a participant in the battles of Pea Ridge, Baker's Creek, Iuka, Corinth, and Vicksburg, at which place he was captured; he was however, exchanged in a few months and returned to his command. Under General J. E. Johnston, he fought through the Georgia campaign, and was afterward with Hood, who superseded Johnston in his raid through Tennessee. After the battle of Corrinth, he was promoted, for gallant conduct in that engagement, from orderly sergeant to first lieutenant. He surrendered at Mobile, Alabama, in April, 1865. Upon his return home, he began the study of medicine, subsequently entered the St. Louis Medical College, and graduated from that institution in the spring of 1869; after which he located for the purpose of practicing his profession in Albany, Ray county, where he remained till January, 1874. In that month he came to Richmond, and engaged in the drug business. In 1876, he was elected treasurer of Ray county, after which he sold his drug store. He was re-elected in 1878, and again in 1880, and is now serving out, with honesty, fidelity and efficiency, a third term as county treasurer of Ray county. He is a member of the church, as is his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza McGee, and to whom he was married April 29, 1869. Mrs. Holman is a refined and exemplary Christian lady, and both she and her husband, are respected throughout the entire community in which they live. They have one daughter living — Blanche, born November 18, 1872.
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Union veteran; farmer and stock raiser
LEVI A. HOLMAN.
Levi A. Holman is a native of Ray county, Missouri, born January 24, 1843, and has lived in the county all his life except the time he was absent in the late civil war. He enlisted, in the fall of 1862, in company F, tenth Missouri cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Cherokee Valley, Tupelo, Corinth, Selma and a number of others. He was discharged in June, 1865, and returned to his home in this county, and resumed his former business of farming and stock raising. Mr. Holman was married, December 28, 1865, to Miss Mary Teegarden, a native also of this county, born July 31, 1846. The issue of this marriage has been six children: Celia C, born April 21, 1867; Hardy, born March 21, 1869; Fanny B., born November 24, 1871; James, born January 9, 1873; Nancy, born December 9, 1878; Julia, born December 24, 1880. Mr. Holman and his wife are both members of the Christian Union Church, and he is a member also, of the Farmers' Club, Mr. Holman is a prosperous farmer and a valuable and leading citizen.
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Stock dealer and shipper
J. R. HOLMAN.
James R. Holman was born in Ray county, Missouri, August 15, 1849. After finishing the common school course here, our subject attended college at Columbia, Missouri, and subsequently took a commercial course at St. Louis. Mr. Holman has been dealing in stock during the past fifteen years, and is now, perhaps, the largest shipper in the county. He owns one thousand acres of land, about four hundred acres in the prairie, all fenced, handsomely improved, and stocked with the best efc/muvit breeds of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. He is one of the most prominent and successful farmers in Ray county. Mr. Holman was married, in 1808, in this county, to Miss Eliza Lanier. The issue of this union was one child. Mrs. Holman died in 1872, and our subject was again married, March 11, 1874, to Miss Martha Johnson, by Rev. Hardy Holman. They have one child. Mr. Holman is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a highly respected and influential citizen.
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Minister
Wife of William Kelmel
Wife of William R. Jackson
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