I82: Daisy Dean HOLLAND (28 Jan 1878

Daisy Dean HOLLAND

28 Jan 1878 - ABOUT 1950

BIRTH: 28 Jan 1878, DeView, Woodruff Co., AR
DEATH: ABOUT 1950, Siloam Springs, Benton Co., AR
BURIAL: Oak Hill Cemetary, Siloam Springs, AR

Father: William Henry Harrison HOLLAND
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth WRIGHT

Family 1 : John William NEELY

MARRIAGE: 29 Dec 1902, Woodruff Co., AR

                                                            _____________________
                                   _James HOLLAND _________|
                                  |                        |_____________________
 _William Henry Harrison HOLLAND _|
|                                 |                         _____________________
|                                 |_Jane RED ______________|
|                                                          |_____________________
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|--Daisy Dean HOLLAND 
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|                                                           _Willis WRIGHT ______+
|                                  _Edward Ausburn WRIGHT _|
|                                 |                        |_Mary (WRIGHT) ______
|_Sarah Elizabeth WRIGHT _________|
                                  |                         _____________________
                                  |_Rebecca CHAPPELL ______|
                                                           |_Elizabeth CHAPPELL _

Notes:

Name listed as Daisy Dean Holland in Cora Warner's Bible. Appears to have been living with her cousin, Edgar Lee Watson in 1900, and is listed in his household in the 1900 Census for the Chickasaw Nation (TWP 6 South Range 5 East) of the Indian Territories (now Mashall Co., OK). Sampled from the Woodruff County News (McCrory, G. W. Kramer, editor):
	April 18, 1901 Miss Daisy Holland of Augusta visited home folks here the first of the week.
	May 2, 1901 Miss Daisy Holland of Augusta is visiting home folks in our City this week.
	July 4, 1901, Local news for Grays: Misses Daisy and Lizzie Holland of McCrory, were in our town Monday morning.
	Nov 2, 1901 Miss Daisy Holland came in last Sunday from Augusta. She will remain with home folks for some time.

Sampled from the Central Leader, McCrory, Woodruff Co., AR:
	August 30, 1918 Mrs. J. W. Neeley left Tuesday for Memphis and is now in a hospitial there.

A Mrs. Daisy Neely is listed as purchasing plot "7 West 1/2" of the New Addition of the "cemetery at DeView". This from a handwritten document which includes plot maps on LDS Fiche #6018052 (found by Pat Bodine), "Arkansas Tombstones: DeView, Arkansas." It appears that she bought a plot at Odd Fellows Cemetery which she never used. Mrs. J. W. Neely and daughter, Alta, Siloam Springs listed as attending Sarah Elizabeth Holland's funeral. From Pat Bodine:
	Daisy Holland Neely worked for John Brown University. She was a solicitor of funds for the school. She influenced Joe Holland to attend because tuition was free for a year -- also Wiley Warner, his cousin.

From Gene Neely:
	One time, when the family was out taking a leisurely drive in the countryside, Winston Neely saw a large tarantula spider on the side of the road which he wished to take home as a "pet" or "science project." They didn't have any container in the car to put the spider in, so Daisy held the large spider in her lap while petting it to keep it calm, all the way back to their house.
	Daisy was a very frugal person which may have been more common in that time and place. She would steam open envelopes of any mail which she would receive, turned them inside out, repasted them, and used them over again. While living in McCrory, she would make biscuits and sell them to people on the trains that went by as a way to make a little extra money for her family.
	Daisy rarely displayed having a temper like some of her sisters. However, her grandchildren once observed her getting very angry with her husband about something, and in her rage, went out and plowed up all of his watermelons and cantaloups that he had planted for that season.

The wedding photograph of her and her husband originally in Cora Warner's collection, had become unidentifiable for many years by my family. Finding the same photo during my first trip to Arkansas in 1997, in a Wright descendant's collection as well as identified as to who the picture was of, was the first piece of concrete evidence discovered by us, proving that my great great grandmother was related to this group of Wright which were still extant in Woodruff County (See How We Found our Family History Down at a Convenience Store in Kensett, Arkansas).

William & Daisy Holland

This page created on 04/23/00 01:33:20 . Updated 07/01/03 23:45.