Person

John G. Holloway (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1802-09-02 d. 1871-01-17

Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Holloway and Anne Starling Holloway. Married to Sarah R. Terry Holloway on April 1, 1830. Married to Laura M. Smith Holloway on September 4, 1838. Father of Peter Smith Holloway, John J. Holloway, William Starling Holloway, Ann R. Holloway, Edmund Starling Holloway, Laura A. Holloway, Hamden S. Holloway, James W. Holloway, Mary Turpen Holloway, and Robert Anderson Holloway. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Represented Henderson County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1835 and 1843. Elected vice president of the Kentucky Colonization Society in 1847. Farmer in Henderson County 1850. Owned thirty-seven enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Farmer in Henderson County in 1860. Owned fifty-two enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860, including Lety Mumford.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 284B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 187.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 168A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Upper Town, p. 225B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film 000576460, p. 40.

"The Kentucky Colonization Society," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 25, 1847, p. 2.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 335.

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky: Comprising History of County and City, Precincts, Education, Churches, Secret Societies, Leading Enterprises, Sketches and Recollections, and Biographies of the Living and Dead (Henderson, KY: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887), pp. 740-742.

"John Gordon Holloway (1802-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial 109059454, accessed December 9, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109059454.

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Holloway, John G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211492 (November 12, 2026).

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