History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 270-71.       [Fairview Precinct]

JOHN HOLLAND, retired, was born February 4, 1799, in Cabell County,
W. Va.  He is the fifth in a family of eleven children born to Michael
and Aggie (Ward) Holland.  The father was a millwright and farmer; he
died in 1825, aged about sixty-five.  The mother died in 1810, aged about
forty.  John and a brother are the only survivors of this family.  John
came to Todd County in February, 1820, and located in Sharon Grove, where
he remained two years, after which he moved to Pond River and remained
one year.  He then returned to Sharon Grove and there stayed eight years.
In 1831 he came to his present locality.  He then bought 100 acres and
has since added until he now owns 240 acres, about 150 of which are
improved.  His sight has been failing him the past ten years; he is now
totally blind.  He was married November 20, 1821, to Mary Tharp Humphrey.
She died February 11, 1879, aged seventy-eight years.  These parents
were members of the Baptist Church.  They had six children, all of whom
deceased.  Mrs. Holland was daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hopper)
Humphrey, natives of Virginia.  Father Holland has been a credit to his
generation.  He forms a link which binds the past to the present; his is
richly deserving such an eulogy as should be given to the faithful, tried
and true.

Holland Ward Humphrey Hopper
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Cabell-WV

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