Elizabeth "Betty" Holman

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Harry Noble shows that her first marriage was to a Mr. Dye, before moving to Texas. Henson and Parmelee write that she married third Iredell D. Thomas, Sr., and was a stepmother to Victoria "Tory" Thomas who along with her cousins Anna Holman and Mary Garrett "Attended St. Mary's Hall, an elite Episcopalian finishing school founded in 1837 in Burlington, New Jersey, near Philadelphia...(enduring) terrible homesickness and culture shock upon...arrival in November 1854." (Henson and Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 174)

Elizabeth married Isaac Campbell on 4 Jun 1839 in San Augustine County, Texas. Isaac was born about 1813; died on 7 Sep 1843 in San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Harry Noble wrote that "Isaac Campbell, a flamboyent promoter and land developer, married Mrs. Elizabeth "Betty" Holman Dye (William W. Holman's widowed twenty-four-year-old sister). They were wed on June 4, 1839. Wanting to impress her with a grand wedding present, Campbell had earlier purchased four lots in the Sweet addition and contracted with Augustus Phelps, a San Augustine master carpenter, to build a fine two-story house (presently known as the Cartwright House) on the northeast corner of Ayish and Main Street. (Noble, page 117). Campbell suffered a series of financial reversals shortly after his marriage. In September on 1843 his house was sold at public auction. Two days later, Isaac Campbell, age thirty, was dead. Although records do not give details, some suggest that Campbell had gotten himself into such a financial tangle that his way out was suicide. (Noble, page 118).

After his suicide the Masons, of which Isaac was a member, called a special meeting as a funeral service for Brother Campell and their members wore the Badge of Mourning for the usual length of time. (Noble, Harry ANTHONY B. PATTON "Justice of the Peace" San Augustine Tribune, Thursday, November 21, 2002)

William W. Holman (Isaac's brother-in-law) would "sell the house, outhouses and lots to Reverend Francis Wilson and three Methodist Wesleyan College trustees: William D. Ratliff, John C. Brooke and James Perkins for $1200...for the next few years the former home of Isaac Campbell would be at the disposal of the College president and used a facility for the College's Female Department." (Noble, Harry WESLEYAN COLLEGE "Birth of the College" San Augustin Tribune, Thursday, March 27, 2003)

Elizabeth married Iredell Dickinson Thomas, Sr. about 1845. Iredell was born about 1805; died about 1866. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isaac was a veteran of the War of 1812 where he earned the title of Colonel. An attorney by profession, he was attracted to politics. He was elected to the Kentucky legistlature in 1810 and again in 1816. In 1818, he moved his family to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he immersed himself in public affairs, running for the Tennessee assembly in 1823, and later serving as state senator. A credit squeeze in Tennessee put the Holman family in a financial bind, and the family decided to move to Texas. Sons William W. and James S. made the trip first, arriving in San Augustine in October 1834. (Noble, page 111). Isaac arrived in December with his two younger sons. In March, 1835, his wife and daughters followed. The entire family became citizens of the Redlands. Isaac died only eight months after his arrival in San Augustine. (Harry Noble) In "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" it was written that the family brought 20 slaves with them to Texas. (Henson & Parmelee, p. 84)

Isaac married Anne Wigglesworth on 25 Dec 1800 in Kentucky. Anne was born on 14 Sep 1783; died on 22 Jul 1841 in San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Holman Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Henson and Parmelee, in their book "The Cartwrights of San Augustine," wrote that Anne, along with her teenage daughters, Amanda, America and Elvira, journeyed "from Lincoln County, Tennessee via Nashville, Natchez, and Natchitoches in only fifteen days, a remarkably short time, having connected with steamboats at all three places by mere minutes. In Natchitoches a drove of horses from Arkansas had just arrived and they bought three for only $180. The colonel had been Sandford, his youngest son, to Tennessee to escort his mothers and sisters, but he had unknowingly passed them on the river. From this brief account, it is clear that Anne Wigglesworth Homas was an unusually self-reliant woman, unafraid to travel alone over unfamiliar territory. She and her three teenage daughters were relatively safe on board the steamboats, but the journey from Natchitoches seems unusual. The ladies most have been accompanied by loyal servants who could hitch the horses to their vehicles and act as an escort past Fort Jesup and through the Sabine Bottom. (pp. 84-85). Aldophus Sterne in Nacogdoches noted that a number of pope suffered from fever and died during the month [of July 1841, when both John Cartwright and Anne Wigglesworth Holman died]. While no local people identified the sickness that summer, it may have been yellow fever. Two men who left Nacogdoches in September died of the dread disease as soon as they reached Vicksburg. (p. 117).

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Married:
Shown as marrying in Woodford County, Kentucky by some. Henson and Parmelee instead cite their marriage as taking place in Harrison County.