PRIVATE JACOB
HOLLEY CHAPTER
United
States Daughters of 1812
Tulsa,
Oklahoma
ORGANIZED APRIL 13, 1982
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Catherine Scott
1982-1984 & 1984 –
1986
CHAPTER NAMED AFTER
Private Jacob Holley
c. 1785 - 1813
He wore the blue of the Kentucky Soldier with the bright red
belt and fringe.
Oklahoma Society Organized - March 4, 1914
Chapter President Project
To increase membership and to seek out
and mark the graves of 1812 Patriots.
BIOGRAPHY OF PRIVATE
JACOB HOLLEY
Complied by: Mrs.
Leslie N. (Catherine) Shorn
Jacob Holley was born in Bedford County,
Virginia circa 1785 to
John and Judith (Goad) Holley,
who lived on Sycamore Creek in the northern part of the
County.
Jacob Holley and John Whittenton made
bond in Hustings Court,
Corporation of Lynchburg (Campbell county)
Virginia,
19 November 1806 for a license for Jacob to
marry
Charlotte McGeorge, daughter of Lawrence,
whose affidavit gives his consent. They were married 25 November
1806 by William P. Martin, a Methodist
Episcopal Church minister.
After 1810, Jacob and family apparently moved to
Montgomery County,
Kentucky where an older brother,
Benjamin, had lived as early as 1787 when it was
Fayette County, Virginia.
Another brother John
either accompanied or proceeded Jacob,
as both Benjamin and John died in Montgomery County,
Kentucky.
No land records have been
found in either Bedford
County, Virginia or Montgomery County,
Kentucky for Jacob.
Jacob enlisted 3 May 1813 at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky in
Capt. Henry Daniel's
Company, 28th Infantry.
August 13, 1813 he was
attached to Capt. Wagoner's Company.
The companies were
commanded by Col. Thomas Dye.
Jacob died at Ft. Shelby
(near Detroit) 23 December 1813.
His burial place and
circumstances of his death are unknown,
however
the following is quoted from "History of Detroit and Wayne
County and Early Michigan
by Silas Farmer, Pages 282-3".
"Large bodies of militia were gathered in Kentucky and Ohio
and under the leadership
of
General Harrison were moving toward Detroit. . .On September 20. . .
transported Harrison's army from Port Clinton to
Put-in-Bay Island . . .
and on to Malden . . . the American army
proceeded to Malden . . . to Sandwich . . .
arrived on the 29th.
Meanwhile the inhabitants at Detroit were all in anxious
expectation of the troops
the Kentucky soldiers with their blue hunting shirts, red
belts and blue
pantaloons
fringed with red met with a hearty welcome.
The Fort was newly christened
Fort Shelby in honor
of
the brave governor of Kentucky, who when 63 years of age,
had
marched at the head of his troops to the relief of Detroit.
His state during the War
of 1812, up to October 12, 1813
had
sent over 17,375 troops into the field,
and
at one time in October 1813 had over 7,000 soldiers in the army.
On the evening of September 25, 1813 Col. R. M. Johnson, then at
Fort Meigs with a regiment
of
Kentucky cavalry, received orders from General Harrison to march immediately
to the River Raisin as it was probable that the army would
land the next day. . .
Johnson's force pressed
forward, stopping at Frenchtown long enough to bury
the
remains of the Kentuckians massacred the previous January . . . late in the
afternoon
the
columns emerged from the woods at Springwells. The entire population of the
town gathered along the river road to greet
the 1,100 horsemen as they thundered by. . .
Before they had got into their winter quarters the army was
attached by an
enemy which decimated their ranks far greater
than their losses by battle. A disease,
similar in action to the cholera, carried them
off by hundreds . . . Reliable accounts say
that fully 700 soldiers died as many as six
or eight a day . . . The entire army on the
northern
frontier was similarly affected. . . At Detroit so great was the demand for
coffins
that
finally no one was able to procure
then; and pits were dug near the
fort
in which many soldiers were buried together as in one grave.
In 1823 the plain where the soldiers were buried was used as the
parade
ground
and was covered with the tents of soldiers then in the garrison.
After his death, his widow returned to Bedford County to live
with her father,
bringing
with her at least two boys, Smithson G. and William Holley.
In the 1850 Federal census, Charlotte, age 60, was living
with son Smithson G. Holley in Franklin
County, Virginia.
She died 23 November 1856
and is buried in
the
Holley Family Cemetery on Highway 122 near
the Old Hale's Ford on Staunton River,
as is her son Smithson, and Grandsons Samuel, John V.
And
Jacoby Lawrence.
Grandson Henry Clay Holley is burried
in Mendota, Virginia
and
grandson Harrison Wysong Holley is buried in Hugo,
Oklahoma.
CHAPTER OFFICERS
Mrs. Jay Garland Faulkner (Ruth)
President
Mrs. Dewey C. Talley (Donna) Vice-President
Mrs. William H. Evans (Jean)
Chaplain
Mrs. Dan DeLoache, (Sharon)
Recording Secretary
Mrs. David Albertson (Kathryn) Treasurer
Mrs. John D. Edwards (Beverly) Registrar
Ms. Mary Ruth Craig Historian
Mrs. John C. Phelps (Phyllis) Librarian
L-R
Seated: Mary Duffe, State President and Ruth
Faulkner, Chapter President
L-R
Standing: Mary Craig, Sue Cook, Pat Schwaninger,
Catherine Littell,
Shirle
Williams, Past State President, Katherine Albertson, Past State President,
Beverly
Edwards, Phyllis Phelps, Janice Dunn, Donna Talley and Sharon DeLoach
August
29, 2006 chapter meeting
2006-2008
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