Charles Sherwood Holland^[1]

1794 -

• Name	Charles Sherwood Holland
  Birth	1794	South Carolina, USA
  Born	Apr 07, 1794	South Carolina, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	Y
  Buried	Holland Cemetery
  Notes	-     As a teenager, he moved with his Uncle Charles to Mississippi.  He later fought at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend with Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812.  He married Elizabeth Smith around 1816, probably in Jackson Co., MS.  They had the following children:  Jacob Leroy, Robert S., William, Levi Hugh, John Wesley, Alpha, Ebenezer and Martha.     Charles Sherwood was Justice of the Peace of Jackson County in 1815 and 1824.  He was a Constable in 1820 and was Sheriff of Jackson Co. in 1828.  He also served in the Lower House of the Mississippi Legislature in 1840 and 1841.     Around 1846, Charles Sherwood took his family to East Texas and settled near what is now Village Mills.  This area became known as the Holland Settlement as his children stayed in the area and built farms of their own.  Also arriving in Texas with Charles Sherwood were his slaves.  Together, they helped build the houses and the first roads in the area.  The Hollands were also friends with the Alabama-Coushatta Indians, who sometimes camped on their property.  One of Charles' slaves, a midwife named Ann, died in 1849 and was the first person buried in what would become the Holland Cemetery.  Originally, this land was part of the garden.  Charles' wife, Elizabeth, died shortly after and was buried there also. FROM: TEXAS HANDBOOK ONLINE http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvhbg HOLLAND, TEXAS (Hardin County). Holland (Holland Settlement) is a half mile west of U.S. Highway 69/287 and a mile south of Village Mills in north central Hardin County forty-one miles north of Beaumont. The community was established by Charles Sherwood Holland in the late 1840s. Early settlers raised stock and ran small farms, but logging became more important in the area after the railroads came into northern Hardin County in the 1880s. A few scattered dwellings remained at the site of Holland in the 1980s. BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. T. Block, ed., Emerald of the Neches: The Chronicles of Beaumont from Reconstruction to Spindletop (Nederland, Texas: Nederland Publishing, 1980). Houston Chronicle, October 27, 1957.
  Person ID	I5785	mykindred
  Last Modified	Jul 18, 2013

  
  

  Father	Jacob Holland, R.S.,   b. 1761, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, USA ,   d. Y
  Mother	Sarah Miller,   d. Y
  Married	circa 1790
  Family ID	F17818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Smith,   b. circa 1800,   d. Y
  Married	circa 1816
  Children	1. Jacob Leroy Holland,   b. Jan 18, 1818, Jackson county, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Jan 08, 1875, Hardin county, Texas, USA  (Age 56 years)   2. Robert S. Holland,   b. Apr 04, 1820, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Oct 17, 1870, Tyler county, Texas, USA  (Age 50 years)   3. William Sherwood Holland,   b. Feb 15, 1822, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Feb 13, 1868  (Age 45 years)   4. Levi Hugh Holland,   b. 1823, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Jan 07, 1896, Hardin county, Texas, USA  (Age 73 years)   5. John Wesley Holland,   b. Jun 30, 1825, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Nov 06, 1889, Hardin county, Texas, USA  (Age 64 years)   6. Alpha Holland,   b. 1828, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Y   7. Ebenezer Holland,   b. 1833, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 1865, Atlanta, Fulton county, Georgia, USA  (Age 32 years)   8. Martha Holland,   b. Apr 06, 1836, Dog Creek, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Sep 15, 1878, Liberty county, Texas, USA  (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F2095	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S844] Holland, Randy, email of OCT 21 2002.