HOLLADAY, Alexander Richmond^[1]

1811 - 1877  (65 years)

• Name	HOLLADAY, Alexander Richmond
  Birth	18 Sep 1811	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Jan 1877	Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, United States   [2]
  Burial	Mineral, Louisa, Virginia, United States   [2]
  	Address: Prospect Hill Cemetery
  Person ID	I13140	Pickel_Bartlett
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	HOLLADAY, Waller,   b. 17 Aug 1776, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States d. 27 Aug 1860, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F4005	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	POINDEXTER, Patsee Quarles,   b. 17 Sep 1816, Virginia, United States d. Jul 1902, Virginia, United States (Age 85 years)
  Residence	27 Nov 1850	Easterm District, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States   [3]
  	Lawyer
  Residence	6 Aug 1860	Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [4]
  	Lawyer
  	Listed as A. H. Holladay and Patsy Q. Holladay
  Residence	26 Jun 1870	Brookland, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [1]
  	Lawyer
  Children	1. HOLLADAY, Col. Alexander Quarles LLD,   b. 8 May 1839, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States d. 13 Mar 1909, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States (Age 69 years)   2. HOLLADAY, Frances,   b. Abt 1840, Virginia, United States d. Yes, date unknown   3. HOLLADAY, William,   b. Abt 1845, Virginia, United States d. Yes, date unknown   4. HOLLADAY, Virginia,   b. Abt 1847, Virginia, United States d. Yes, date unknown   5. HOLLADAY, Rosa E.,   b. Abt 1855, Virginia, United States d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3991	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2022

  
  

• Notes

  U.S. Congressman. He attended the University of Virginia, studied law, was admitted to the bar and proceeded to practice law in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, (1845-47) and elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, serving (1849-53). Declining to be a candidate for re-nomination, he was president of the Virginia Board of Public Works, (1857-61) and practiced law until his death. Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith "The next child was Alexander Richmond Holladay, twin with Henry Addison Holladay. These two were born September 18, 1811. Alexander Richmond married, on September 7, 1837, Patsy Q. Poindexter, and died January 29, 1877. His twin brother, Henry Addison, married, May 14, 1846, Mary F. (Jenkins) Calvert." This is an entry on the Find a Grave memorial of his father, Waller, Holladay.

  
  

• Sources

  [S69] 1870 Federal Census, Brookland, Henrico, Virginia, Page 30 Family 235. [S109] Find-a-Grave website, MEMORIAL ID: 53835212. [S76] 1850 Federal Census, Eastern District, Spotsylvania, Virginia, Pg 74 of 109, Dwelling 514. [S316] 1860 Federal Census, Western Subdivision, Henrico, Virginia, Page 71, Dwelling 559.