This is more on our lineage to George W. Bush. The Hollidays originally were white and owned slaves who were black but became family and several were mixed (mulatto) out of that. This specifies more about the white lineage that continued, and our black, white and mixed ancestors. The Holliday family is important not just for the job they provided to the Clemens family in time of need. John James Hollidays daughter( Nancy Eliza Holliday) was born in Hannibal in 1847. She is the great-grandmother of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and great-great-grandmother of President George W. Bush. She lived until 1942 in St. Louis. The elder President Bush turned 18 that year. Joseph Holliday, like many Northeast Missourians in the days before the Civil War, kept the majority of his money in two assets that were immune from the shaky banking system of the time - land and slaves. In 1850 Holliday owned 10 slaves. By 1860, his human wealth had grown to 16 slaves.Twelve of the slaves in 1860 were identified by the census taker as mulatto or mixed race. It is of course difficult to determine who fathered those slaves, though one must bear in mind the observation of Mary Chesnut, famous southern Civil War diarist and wife of South Carolina Senator James Chesnut: Joseph Holliday lived until 1870, five years after Missouri slaves were finally set free in 1865. Although he amended his will in 1867, slaves still figured prominently in the will. They were listed because they had already been given or sold to his children during his lifetime. In one of historys little twisted ironies, the Bush ancestor John James Holliday had been given a slave named Walker whom he had sold. John James Hollidays granddaughter would marry into a Walker family and two American presidents would carry the Walker name into the White House. The white Holliday family prospered. A town was named in their honor in 1872. Holliday, Missouri was a stop on the Hannibal and Central Missouri Line, later part of the MKT Railroad, better known as the Katy. Some descendants of the Holliday slaves, many of whom took the name Holliday, still live in Monroe County. They are hard-working people. Patricia Louise Holliday Minter is the living matriarch of one branch. She remembers her grandfather Del Holliday. No one knows exactly when he was born nor much about his familys experiences in slavery. There were two things people of his generation did not talk about: slavery and the white folks to whom they were related. It is clear that the black Hollidays lived a very different life than the white descendants of the Hollidays. 1.h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-slavery&month=0202&week=a&msg=Cp10uZkZ6j%2BofNQhGa2iXA&user=&pw= Interesting? Celestina Holliday Alix Holliday Sharon Williams Patricia Holliday
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