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GENEALOGICAL
NOTES AND ANECDOTES
GASTON COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA:
COX AND HOLLAND MEMORIALS
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TO THE MEMORY OF
THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AND PATRIOTS
BURIED IN OLNEY CHURCHYARD |
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ADAM BAIRD
ROBERT BAIRD
JOHN BERRY
ELISHA COX
WILLIAM GREGORY
ISAAC HOLLAND
JOHN KINCAID
JOHN MARTIN |
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JOHN MASSEY
NATHAN MENDENHALL
JOHN MOORE
THOMAS PRICE
WILLIAM PRICE
ALEXANDER ROBINSON
JAMES ROBINSON
JOHN WILSON |
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William Gaston
Chapter D. A. R.
Erected 1925Olney
Presbyterian Church
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina
[Image Credit: C. Donald
Cann,
Cann Builders, Inc., Belmont, North
Carolina]
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ELISHA COX
Son of
John and Margaret
Morris COX
October 6 1771
January 26 1824Olney Presbyterian
Church
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina
[Image Credit: C. Donald Cann,
Cann Builders, Inc.
Belmont, North Carolina]
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MARGARET HOLLAND
Daughter of
Isaac and Hannah
HOLLAND
Consort of
Capt. Elisha Cox
Died Jan 31 1825
Age 51Olney Presbyterian Church
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina
[Image Credit: C. Donald Cann,
Cann Builders, Inc.
Belmont, North Carolina]
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In Memory of
ISAAC HOLLAND, Esq.,
who departed this life
in the 66th year of his ageMy
friends weep not for me at all
For all must die both great and small
And then before God's bar appear,
To give account for deeds done here.
Ye men of learning and of sense,
Remember that you must go hence;
Then my advice to all mankind
Is to God's will they be resigned.
Olney Presbyterian Church
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina
[Image Credit: C. Donald Cann,
Cann Builders, Inc.
Belmont, North Carolina]
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In Memory of
MARGARET COX
Died 1825 aged
51 yearsCramer Woods, near Gastonia,
Gaston County, North Carolina
[Image Credit: C. Donald Cann, Cann
Builders, Inc., Belmont, North Carolina]
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About the burial site of Elisha COX and Margaret
HOLLAND, there is some controversy. In her genealogical
memoirs, Frances Lee Pyron DANCE claimed that, although
there are markers for both Elisha COX and Margaret
HOLLAND in the cemetery of the Olney Presbyterian Church,
their site of burial is actually in what was the
graveyard of the Goshen Presbyterian Church in Belmont,
Gaston County, North Carolina.
In 2002, to complicate matters further, in the Cramer
Woods development, off New Hope Road (NC 279) near
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, a grave-plot was
discovered that was marked by a headstone inscribed as
follows:
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In Memory of
MARGARET COX
Died 1825 aged
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The grave has both a headstone and a footstone. Beside
it , there appears to be two graves marked with
headstones and footstones, none with any visible
inscriptions. The plot is surrounded by stone with an old
azalea bush growing out the top.
Since it has now (2005) been established, by means of
electronic soundings, that no burial occurred at the site
in the Cramer Woods development and that a burial did
occur in the graveyard of the Olney Presbyterian Church,
it seems well established that the interment of Margaret
HOLLAND took place at the graveyard of Olney Presbyterian
Church. The headstone in the Cramer Woods development
appears to have been the original which was replaced by a
newer monument at Olney Presbyterian Church.
The graveyard of Olney Presbyterian Church is located
about 2.8 miles south of Garrison Boulevard, in Gastonia,
North Carolina, and is about 1000 feet off the east side
of Highway US-321. The graveyard is not now owned by
Olney Presbyterian Church.
Also in the graveyard of Olney Presbyterian Church are
the following:
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In Memory of
HANNAH HOLLAND,
wife of
Isaac HOLLAND, Esq.,
who departed this life
June 2, 1818,
aged 70 years, 7 months
and three days |
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In Memory of
ISAAC HOLLAND, Esq.
Died Aug. 9, 1857,
aged 78 years and 13 daysNor
pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear
Can reach the peaceful
sleeper here
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Mary D. Holland
died February 20, 1809,
aged 19 |
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| This was Mary Dickson GREAVES, the
first wife of Isaac HOLLAND, Jr. The
footstone of this grave is inscribed
"P. D. H." |
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In Memory of
MARY C.,
consort of
Isaac HOLLAND, Esq.
Died June 9, 1865,
Born Feb. 14, 1794Yea,
though I walk
in death's dark vale,
I will fear no ill,
for thou art with me
and thy rod and staff
me comfort still.
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| This was Mary C. RANKIN,
the second wife of Isaac HOLLAND, Jr. |
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In Memory of
W. F. HOLLAND,
born 2nd April, 1817,
departed this life
the 18th of Nov. 1851God
my Redeemer lives
And often from the skies,
Looks down and watches all my dust
Till he shall bid it rise.
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In Memory of
Col. I. HARRISON HOLLAND,
died July 10, 1857,
aged 35 years, 7 months
and 1 day |
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HOLLAND, the son of Isaac HOLLAND, Jr.
and Mary C. RANKIN. |
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In Memory of
Col. OLIVER W. HOLLAND
who departed this life
Oct. 12, 1857,
aged 76 years, 2 months, and 15 daysBlessed
are the dead
who die in the Lord
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In Memory of
Col. JAMES HOLLAND
who departed this life
March the 30th, 1826,
aged 41 years, 5 months
and 26 daysNo sorrow,
no complaint
My pleasures here destroy
I live with God and all his saints
And endless in our joy.
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Other memorials of interest in the graveyard of Olney
Presbyterian Church are as follows:
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COX, John Dailey: 45 days, March
8, 1841 [See Child
9: Mary Salina COX, under G0494A:
Elisha COX, in Antecedents and Descendants of John Cox
(1 November 1727 - ABT 1804/05).] HOLLAND, Mary M.: September
21, 1825 - March 9, 1832. Daughter of I. and M.
C.
HOLLAND, Margaret Ruth: December 31, 1818. Date
buried. Wife of W. W.
HOLLAND, William M.: 54 years, 6 months, 18 days,
July 13, 1864
HOLLAND, Rebecca Ida: 1 year, 6 months, 19 days,
1862. The date on the stone is 22 10, 1862.
Daughter of W. M. and M. A .
HOLLAND, Oliver William: May 14, 1852 - October
16, 1853. Son of W. M. and M. A.
HOLLAND, Robert and Margaret, twins of W. M. and
M. A.
HOLLAND, Mary M.: 6 years, 5 months, 17 days,
March 9, 1832
HOLLAND, Rebecca F.: 60 years, 6 months,18 days,
July 21, 1888
HOLLAND, William R.: September 14, 1819 - June 3,
1898
HOLLAND, Melissa: December 15, 1834 - June 11,
1905. Wife of W. R.
HOLLAND, Robert I.: August 18, 1848 - January 26,
1857. Son of W. R. and R. T.
HOLLAND, Oliver Willy: 40 years, 9 months, August
10, 1853
HOLLAND, E. J.: March 23, 1841 - March 21, 1893
HOLLAND, John S.: December 26, 1852 - November 8,
1854. Son of O. W. and E. J.
HOLLAND, Eliza E.: 8 months, April 17, 1851
HOLLAND, Franklin H.: 48 years, 11 months, 4
days, August 26, 1857
HOLLAND, Infant: August 5, 1844. Daughter of F.
H. and P. R. [This is the daughter of Franklin
Harper HOLLAND and Priscilla Ruth WILSON.]
HOLLAND, Mary A.: 20 years, January 16, 1840
[This was the first wife of Franklin Harper
HOLLAND.]
HOLLAND, James Harvy: 25 years, October 23, 1840
HOLLAND, Isaac: 38 years, January 4, 1849 [This
was the son of Col. Oliver Wiley HOLLAND, Sr. and
Mary ("Polly") Elizabeth MOORE.]
HOLLAND, Nancy C.: 18 years, 2 months, 6 days,
August 20, 1847
HOLLAND, W. F.: April 2, 1817 - November 8, 1851
HOLLAND, M. Lexine: 37 years, 6 months, 20 days,
July 18, 1899
HOLLAND, Margaret A.: April 9, 1827 - October 9,
1906. Wife of M. L. [This was the widow of Marion
Leggett HOLLAND.]
HOLLAND, John Franklin: 5 years, 5 months, 4
days, August 21, 1857. Son of M. L. and M. A.
HOLLAND, Rockwell N.: September 5, 1859 -
September 6, 1932
HOLLAND, W. S.: February 19, 1857 - October 11,
1929
HOLLAND, Martha J.: May 4, 1862 - February 13,
1941
HOLLAND: Illegible
HOLLAND: 70 years. Otherwise illegible
HOLLAND, Sarah E.: 34 years July 23, 1858 [This
was the widow of Jasper N. HOLLAND.]
MOORE, William: 88 years, April 15, 1839 [This
was the father of Mary ("Polly")
Elizabeth MOORE, the wife of Oliver Wiley
HOLLAND, Sr.]
MOORE, Rebecca: 52 years, January 7, 1808 [This
was Rebecca GULLICK, the wife of William MOORE
and the mother of Mary ("Polly")
Elizabeth MOORE, the wife of Oliver Wiley
HOLLAND, Sr.]
[All inscriptions read by W. D. Floyd in
2000.]
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