Mary (Polly) Lucas^[1]

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• Name	Mary (Polly) Lucas
  Born	2 Jan 1819	, , South Carolina, United States
  Gender	Female
  Died	6 Jul 1913
  Buried	Springhill Baptist Church Cemetery, Bluff, Fayette, Alabama, United States
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  Person ID	I433	Kull Family
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	Charles Daniel Lucas,   b. 30 Jun 1771, , Marlboro, South Carolina, United States ,   d. 31 May 1858, near Newtonville, Fayette, Alabama, United States
  Mother	Mary Hastings,   b. 10 Sep 1786,   d. 21 Jan 1867
  Family ID	F104	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Uriah Holliman,   b. Abt 1817, , , South Carolina, United States ,   d. 8 May 1862, Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States
  Married	29 Aug 1836	, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States   [1]
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2009
  Family ID	F208	Group Sheet

  
  

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  		Born - 2 Jan 1819 - , , South Carolina, United States Married - 29 Aug 1836 - , Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States Buried - - Springhill Baptist Church Cemetery, Bluff, Fayette, Alabama, United States  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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  Born in S.C. according to 1850 Ala census As told by Rhodes Burns Holliman about his great-great grandmother, MaryPolly Lucas Holliman. She drank whiskey out of the bottle, smoked a corncob pipe, chewedtobacco, and acted as midwife to most of north western Fayette County,Alabama, after the Civil War. From:  Fayette, AL Newspaper, Feb, 1978 Winding Trails  Sharlene McGee Foster      THE PIONEER SPIRIT OF MARY LUCAS HOLLIMAN One day while in Springhill Cemetery near Bluff I found an epitaph whichread, "Pioneer Strength, Integrity, Human Kindness".  This was on thetombstone of Mary (Polly) Lucas Holliman who was born January 2, 1819 anddied Jul 5, 1913. With an epitaph like that, I decided Mary must have been quite a woman.I felt the need to learn of her contributions to Fayette's early history. Mary was born in South Carolina and was one of the ten children ofCharles Daniel Lucas and wife Mary.  This Lucas family was of "BlackDutch" descent. Charles was a tailor while in Marlboro County, South Carolina.  By theearly 1830s his family and several other Lucas and Holliman families wereon their way south to never lands. Their journey ended in the wilderness around what is now Newtonville.Mary was just in her early teens when this journey was made. One of the other families was that of Cornelius Holliman and wife MaryElizabeth Plyes.  These Hollimans received a land grant in 1836 nearNewtonville. Cornelius and Elizabeth had at least three sons and two daughters.  Theirson Uriah H. Holliman was born in 1817 in South Carolina. In the last 1830's Uriah H. Holliman and Mary Lucas were married.  From1837 to 1861 they became the parents of 13 children.  Mary raised all ofthese children except the first born who died at the age of four years. By the 1860's Mary and family were living near Bluff. The clouds of war soon covered the south and Mary saw her husband andfour or five sons enter the Confederate Army.  Uriah and his two sonswould never return home thus being claimed by death while serving "theSouth". Uriah and son Charles Daniel were stationed at Okalona, Mississippi, whenan epidemic of measles and pneumonia struck the troops.  Both were takensick and somehow word of their illness got back to Mary at Bluff. Mary hitched up her wagon and two horses and went by her self toOkalona.  There she nursed her husband the son until their deaths. Mary caught the measles herself but still she made the long wagon tripback to Fayette County. When she regained her strength she again started nursing her sick friendsand neighbors.  Mary was skilled in the use of primitive medicines suchas herbs.  Mary also well know for her skills as a midwife.  Whenever andwhere ever she was needed Mary would get her medicine bag and ride off onher white mule. The 11 children born to this remarkable lady are as follows:  MaryHolliman: she was born in 18337 and died in 1841; Sarah Holliman--shemarried Charles Corpelli and moved to Texas; James P. Holliman--he wasborn about 1839.  He fought in the Civil War and was taken prisoner.After the war's end he settled near Bluff.  He married first to RebeccaUtley and second to Bertha Powell;  Charles Daniel Holliman--he was bornin 1843 and died in May of 1862 at Okalona while serving in the CivilWar;  John Thomas Holliman--he was called "Hico John", since he livednear the old Hico Post Office below Fayette on the Gordon Road.  Johnfought in the Civil War.  He married twice, first to Sarah Corbett andnext to Martha Jane Walker;  Elijah Holliman.. he died in a ConfederalHospital in Lagrange, George.  In 1864 at the age of 18 years;  NancyPalestine..she married John Pinion but did not have children.  She livedat Bluff; Cornelius Holliman.. he married Sarah Elizabeth Smith.  Theymoved to Texas and raised a large family.  William Perry Holliman..hemarried his cousin Sarah Holliman.  They also moved westward to Texas;Ann Holliman..she married Rufus Buckner and moved to Texas;  RebeccaHolliman..she raised a large family in Texas after her marriage to JohnT. "Black John" Holliman; Frances Holliman..she married Abner McClung.They lived near Bluff;  Joshua Warren "Bud" Holliman..he was the youngestof the 13.  He and wife Martha Goolsby lived in Vernon;  Mary LucasHolliman was quite a woman.  She accomplished a lot in her 92 years.  Hermany descendants should be proud of her fine pioneer spirit.

  
  

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  [S21] Web Site: Fleming, Hall, Harrison, Hudson, White, Braswell, Danford, Verna Hudson, (WorldConnect Project).