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Descendants of Thomas BOYLSTON, Jr.

230. MARY LOUISA⁸ HOLLAND (MALINDA⁷ BOYDSTUN, BENJAMIN G.⁶, JAMES⁵, DAVID⁴ BOYDSTON, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 18 Sep 1841 in Tazewell Co, IL, and died 19 Dec 1915. She married LEONIDAS HAMOLINE COOPER 02 Dec 1860 in Pleasant Valley, Dallas Co, TX. He was born 23 May 1837 in Near Indianapolis, IN, and died Unknown in Moved to Hood Co TX 1881.

Notes for MARY LOUISA HOLLAND:
Mary Holland moved from Illinois to Texas with her family in 1847, settling in the southwest corner of Dallas County.

Mary L. Holland married 2 Dec 1860 Leonidas Hamoline Cooper. He was living in Waxahatchie, Texas, at the time of his marriage. They lived in the Valley until 1881, afterwards moving to Thorpe Springs, Hood County, Texas, to educate their children at Ad Ran Jarvis College (now Texas Christian). In 1892, they moved to Briscoe County, Texas, and to Lockney, Texas in 1907.

All of their ten children were living at the time of their 50th wedding anniversary.

Some sources say Mary L. Holland's middle name was Laura. A news article about the 50th wedding anniversary celebration in Lockney, Texas, information given by Mary's son, J.E. Cooper, gives the name Mary Louisa Holland.

Notes for LEONIDAS HAMOLINE COOPER:
Born in Indiana near Indianapolis, moved to Texas with his parents in 1841, settling in Lamar County. In 1849, he moved to Waxahachie, Texas, where he lived at the time of his marriage to Mary L. Holland.

Children of MARY HOLLAND and LEONIDAS COOPER are:

	i.		JAMES EDGAR⁹ COOPER, b. 1861, Waxahachie, Ellis Co, TX; d. 1948, Midlothian, Ellis Co, TX; m. ADDIE SMITH, 19 Jun 1887, Altus, Jackson Co, OK; b. 1874; d. 1967, Prob. Midlothian, TX.
	ii.		MOLLIE COOPER, b. Abt. 1864; d. Unknown.
	iii.		EMMA COOPER, b. Abt. 1866; d. Unknown.
	iv.		ISAAC N. COOPER, b. Abt. 1868; d. Unknown.
	v.		S. THOMAS COOPER, b. Abt. 1870; d. Unknown.
	vi.		LINNIE COOPER, b. Abt. 1872; d. Unknown.
	vii.		ELIZABETH COOPER, b. Abt. 1874; d. Unknown.
	viii.		WINNIE COOPER, b. Abt. 1876; d. Unknown.
	ix.		CARRIE COOPER, b. Abt. 1878; d. Unknown.
	x.		WILLIE COOPER, b. Abt. 1880; d. Unknown.

231. HENRY THOMAS⁸ HOLLAND (MALINDA⁷ BOYDSTUN, BENJAMIN G.⁶, JAMES⁵, DAVID⁴ BOYDSTON, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 01 Mar 1846 in Illinois, and died 07 Apr 1912 in Dallas Co, TX. He married MARGARET ELIZABETH JONES 21 Dec 1876 in Tarrant Co, TX, daughter of ISAAC JONES and KATHARINE DUNAWAY. She was born 22 Aug 1852 in "Lizzie" b. McMinnville, Warren Co, TN, and died 25 Dec 1924 in Ellis Co, TX.

Notes for HENRY THOMAS HOLLAND:
"Early History of Cope Grove Community"
by I.T. Goodnight, Wellington, Texas

East of Mountain Creek were: (in the Valley Community) Robert Ground, Jacob Boydston, Isaac Lowe, Kirb Wilson, W.S. Rickets, Jim Holland, Isaac Holland and his brother Tom were just boys in those days, and Iddo Cope and his son J. B. Cope. Iddo's other sons were Tom and Rube Cope.

All the above men possessed all of the requirements necessary to overcome the hardships of settling a new country.

Children of HENRY HOLLAND and MARGARET JONES are:

	i.		CLAUDIA⁹ HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1878, Texas; d. Unknown, res Houston, TX; m. JIM DUNN, Unknown; b. Unknown.
	ii.		HENRY WALTER HOLLAND, b. May 1880, Texas; d. 1948, Texas.
	iii.		JAMES E. HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1884; d. Unknown, res Eugene, OR.
	iv.		ANNIE HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1887, res Midlothian, TX; d. Unknown; m. PEARL LEWIS, Unknown; b. Abt. 1885; d. Unknown.
	v.		GILLIE L. HOLLAND, b. 03 Oct 1891; d. 01 Oct 1895, Died of membraneous croup, Texas.

232. ISAAC WALKER⁸ HOLLAND (MALINDA⁷ BOYDSTUN, BENJAMIN G.⁶, JAMES⁵, DAVID⁴ BOYDSTON, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 05 Mar 1848 in Illinois, and died 09 Jan 1938 in Midlothian, Ellis Co, TX. He married (1) MARY ADA BUNDY 30 Dec 1875 in Another child died in infancy, daughter of RICHARD BUNDY and AMELIA ... She was born 07 Nov 1856 in Texas, and died 14 Feb 1885 in Texas. He married (2) ELLEN VICTORIA BEVINS 06 Dec 1888, daughter of ISAAC BEVINS and MARGARET ... She was born 24 Nov 1858 in "Vic" b. Scott Co, VA, and died 08 Mar 1941 in Dallas Co TX.

Notes for ISAAC WALKER HOLLAND:
Isaac Walker Holland is enumerated with his parents in 1850, Ellis Co, TX, 1860 Dallas Co, TX, 1870 Dallas Co, TX and with wife and two children 1880 Dallas Co, TX.

Letter from Isaac W. Holland, Midlothian, TX to Roberta Dukes Richardson, dated 30 Mar 1933

"Yes, I am the son of Malinda Boydstun and her husband James Holland.... your grandfather Boydstun was married in Barren County where my father was. I do not know the date of the place they were married but probably it was in Barren County where my parents were married. They all moved to Illinois about the year 1833. One hundred years ago. He lived there until the Spring of 1848 when he and your uncle Bob Ground moved to Texas. Your mother, Martha Virginia was born at Pleasant Valley, Texas.

"Your grandfather Boydstun and his family lived near Abingdon, Ill., and left for Texas in the Spring of 1848. We left for Texas in the fall of '48. Uncle Isaac Lowe and family and Mr. I.A. Cooper came with us and all settled in the Valley together. We came down the river from St. Louis, MO., and were several weeks making the trip to Texas.

"Your grandfather gave the grounds for the church and the plot for the cemetary...just the log kitchen of Bob Ground's first domicile is still standing and is out in a field."

1937 Dallas News

Uncle Isaac Holland, Pioneer Who Stayed In Community of Parent's Choice, Dies at 89

I.W. Holland, 89, who in 1848 traveled in a covered wagon with pioneering parents from Illinois to settle in Dallas County, died Sunday at his home at Midlothian, Ellis County.

Known to most of the long time families of Southwest Dallas County and adjoining section of Ellis County as Uncle Isaac, the venerated settler had been ill for three years. His condition had been serious since a stroke that paralyzed him a year ago.

Funeral services will be at the Midlothian Church of Christ, Monday at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be in a little cemetery in Pleasant Valley, at the foot of the cedar breaks west of Cedar Hill, the community settled by the Hollands, the Boydstuns, the Copes, the Lowes and the Grounds families when they homesteaded sections of land along the creeks that now bear the names of those families.

Three Sundays ago marked the golden wedding anniversary of Uncle Isaac and Victoria Bevins Holland, who survives him. Their surviving two sons and daughter are Ocar Holland of Nashville, Tenn., Edgar S. of Houston, Texas and Mrs. T. E. Robnett of Nashville.

Early settlers around Cedar Hill and Midlothian recall that Uncle Isaac was the last survivor of the first class to enroll in Pleasant Valley School, when lessons in a log cabin were started in the middle '50s with his elder brother, James B. Jr. as first teacher. The school building, and a larger one that later replaced it served also as a meeting house for the Pleasant Valley Church of Christ, of which he was a member until transferring his membership to the Midlothian Church when the Holland family moved to town. He was the last of the members of the five families living at the time of the wagon trip from Abingdon, Ill.

Notes for ELLEN VICTORIA BEVINS:
Obituary sent by Louminda Roberts Torbett, 4 July 1999. Her email address: michael_torbett@bigfoot.com. She is the granddaughter of Oscar Carson Holland and Mabel Beasley.

Following is the obituary for Ellen Victoria Bevins Holland. Note that Mrs. T. E. Robinett is Nannie Eulalia Holland, sister of Oscar Holland and Edgar Holland.

Obituary 1941:

Mrs. Vic Holland Dies Suddenly In Dallas March 8
Rites Are Held In Local Church of Christ March Tenth

Mrs. Vic Holland, 82, wife of the late Isaac Holland, died Saturday, March 8, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. E. Robinett in Dallas.

Funeral services were held Monday morning at 10 o'clock in the Midlothian Church of Christ with Horace Teddlie, Dallas, officiating. Pallbearers were: L. C. Reeves, Harry Reeves, Claude Martin, M. A. Witherspoon, P. G. Lewis, Sam Baxter, and John Jackson. Interment was made in the Valley Cemetery.
"Mrs. Holland is survived by three children: Two sons, Oscar Holland of Dickson, Tennessee, and Edgar Holland of Houston; one daughter Mrs. T. E. Robinett of Dallas; two step-children, Mrs. L. A. Holland of Vernon and Emory Holand (sic) of Midlothian; one sister, Mrs. D. M. Daugherty of Nicholsville, Virginia.

Mrs. Holland's husband preceded her in death several years as well as three children, two of whom died in infancy, and a son, Johnny Holland, aged 27 years, died in April, 1927.

Miss Victoria Bevins, born in Scott County, Virginia, November 24, 1858, was married to Isaac Holland, December 6, 1888, since which time she has lived in or near Midlothian.

Mrs. Holland's death was a surprise to her family as she seemed unusually well Friday evening as a guest in the home of her daughter but she passed away sometime during Friday night and was discovered by her daughter Saturday morning.

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Children of ISAAC HOLLAND and MARY BUNDY are:

MARY MAUDE⁹ HOLLAND, b. 1876, Dallas Co TX; d. Bef. 1938, Not ment in Isaac's obit; m. LEE A. HOLLAR; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

Notes for MARY MAUDE HOLLAND:
Although Maude is not mentioned in her father's obituary in 1938, it is possible that she is the "step-child" mentioned in Vic Holland's obituary of 1941 as Mrs. L. A. Holland of Vernon.

Louminda Torbett clarifies this, and says that "Maude" is Mary Maude b. 1876, and married Lee HOLLAR.

	ii.		EMORY ISAAC HOLLAND, b. 13 Nov 1880, Dallas Co TX; d. 20 May 1960, Texas; m. MARY JANE JONES, Unknown; b. 28 Sep 1889, "Kate" res Midlothian, TX; d. 07 Jan 1967, Texas.
	iii.		RALPH LESLIE HOLLAND, b. 15 Oct 1882; d. 14 Nov 1882, Texas.

Children of ISAAC HOLLAND and ELLEN BEVINS are:

iv.

OSCAR CARSON⁹ HOLLAND, b. 01 Mar 1889; d. 08 Aug 1962, Nashville, TN; m. MABEL BEASLEY; b. 10 Mar 1895; d. 08 Apr 1979.

Notes for OSCAR CARSON HOLLAND:
Oscar ("Ocar") was thought to be a son of Mary Ada Bundy, but Vic Holland's obituary states that he is her natural son.

His middle name is provided by Louminda Roberts Torbett, who is his granddaughter. She sent the obituary for Ellen Victoria "Vic" Bevins Holland.

Oscar lived in Nashville, Tennessee in 1938, in Dickson, Tennessee in 1941, and died in Nashville, Tennessee.

	v.		MARGARET MALINDA HOLLAND, b. 03 Jan 1892; d. 15 Jan 1892, Buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery Dallas Co TX Row 23 Lot 13.
	vi.		LIZZIE FLORENCE HOLLAND, b. 15 Mar 1897; d. 15 May 1897, Buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery Dallas Co TX Row 23 Lot 12.
	vii.		JOHN THOMAS HOLLAND, b. 06 Oct 1898, "Johnny"; d. 17 Jul 1927, Buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery Dallas Co TX Row 23 Lot 11.
	viii.		NANNIE EULALIA HOLLAND, b. Unknown; d. Aft. 1941, Res. Nashville TN 1938; m. T.EARL ROBINETT, Unknown; b. Unknown, of Nashville TN; d. Unknown.

Notes for NANNIE EULALIA HOLLAND:
Previously believed to be a daughter of Mary Ada Bundy, Vic Holland's obituary clearly states that she is a natural daughter.

ix.

EDGAR S. HOLLAND, b. Unknown; d. Aft. 1941, Res Houston, TX 1938.

Notes for EDGAR S. HOLLAND:
Previously thought to be a son of Mary Ada Bundy, but Vic Holland's obituary states that he is her natural son.

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