HOLLADAY, Waller[1]
1776 - 1860 (84 years)
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Name HOLLADAY, Waller Birth 17 Aug 1776 Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States 
[1] Gender Male Death 27 Aug 1860 Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States [1] Burial Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States [1] Address:
Prospect HillPerson ID I13197 Pickel_Bartlett Last Modified 29 Oct 2019
Children 1. HOLLADAY, Alexander Richmond, b. 18 Sep 1811, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States d. 29 Jan 1877, Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, United States (Age 65 years)Family ID F4005 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 16 May 2022
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Notes - "Mr. Waller Holladay studied law, was admitted to the Bar on January 12, 1801, and practiced his profession until a large estate left him by his half-brother, General Lewis Littlepage (Find A Grave Memorial# 5004843), demanded his full time, when he retired from practice. He was a man of scholarly tastes, and a poet of considerable merit. Though not personally attracted to public life he was very intimate with some of the foremost men of that day, and counted among his regular correspondents Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Randolph, John Randolph, of Roanoke, James Madison and other statesmen of the time. Like most of the prominent Virginians of that day, he served as a magistrate and as overseer of the poor. He was a member of the Virginia Senate in 1829 and 1830, and a Democratic presidential elector in 1836 and 1840. He declined to be a candidate to the State Senate in 1839 because of illness. He permitted his name to be used as a candidate to the House of Delegates, and was beaten by Major Oscar M. Crutchfleld, who jocosely said that he had beaten "the old wheel horse of Democracy in his county." He was a half-brother of General Littlepage, who made him his heir.
Waller Holladay was an excellent man of business and no man of his generation stood higher in his community."
- "Mr. Waller Holladay studied law, was admitted to the Bar on January 12, 1801, and practiced his profession until a large estate left him by his half-brother, General Lewis Littlepage (Find A Grave Memorial# 5004843), demanded his full time, when he retired from practice. He was a man of scholarly tastes, and a poet of considerable merit. Though not personally attracted to public life he was very intimate with some of the foremost men of that day, and counted among his regular correspondents Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Randolph, John Randolph, of Roanoke, James Madison and other statesmen of the time. Like most of the prominent Virginians of that day, he served as a magistrate and as overseer of the poor. He was a member of the Virginia Senate in 1829 and 1830, and a Democratic presidential elector in 1836 and 1840. He declined to be a candidate to the State Senate in 1839 because of illness. He permitted his name to be used as a candidate to the House of Delegates, and was beaten by Major Oscar M. Crutchfleld, who jocosely said that he had beaten "the old wheel horse of Democracy in his county." He was a half-brother of General Littlepage, who made him his heir.
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Sources - [S109] Find-a-Grave website, MEMORIAL ID: 88222144.
- [S109] Find-a-Grave website, MEMORIAL ID: 88222144.