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Submitted: 3/18/12 • Approved: 11/24/12 • Last Updated: 6/26/23 • R664627-G0-S3
MAJOR GENERAL CSA
Company A 12 Texas Troops
Civil War Confederate
July 8, 1845 - May 7, 1934
J. W. Hollis, a prominent planter of River Township, was born in Ouachita County, Ark., in 1845, the fifth of a family of thirteen children born to Jeremiah and Sallie A. (Puckett) Hollis, natives of Tennessee, where the former followed farming until 1842. He then went to Mississippi, and from there came to Arkansas, settling in Ouachita County, where he entered land and lived for seven years. He then bought a farm in what is known as River Township, consisting of 160 acres, and made extensive improvements on the place. He was the first sheriff of this county and served three terms; he was also the first postmaster of Locust Bayou post-office, serving for three years; he was also a justice of the peace in that township for a number of years. He died in 1883 and by his death the county lost one of her best known and highly respected citizens. The mother died in 1886. Our subject was raised and lived on the farm, attending the common schools until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Texas Troops and served in the Trans-Mississippi Department. He was in the battles og Mansfield, Little Rock, Pleasant Grove, Yellow Bayou (La.), and with Gen. Price on his famous Missouri campaign, and participated in all the battles of that trip. His regiment surrendered at Marshall, Tex. Our subject then returned to Arkansas and engaged in farming for two years, and then went to Tennessee, where he remained for three years following various occupations; then he went to Texas and farmed for seven years, and in 1881 came back to Calhoun County, Ark., and bought a farm of forty acres of land in River Township, most of it under cultivation. In 1869 he was married to Miss Mollie Hassell, a native of Tennessee, by whom he has four children: Minnie, Joseph, Jessie and Mary, all healthy, interesting children. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Hollis takes a deep interest in religious and educational matters, and has been school director for nine years, and takes an active part in promoting the public interests. He is now secretary of Calhoun County Wheel Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, 1890. Goodspeed Publishing Company)
Contributed on 3/18/12 by debbraszymanski
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