My name is James Earl Jackson Holloway. I was supposedly born in Mingo County, West  Virginia at the old Tug Valley Clinic. My father and mother resided in Pike County,  Kentucky when I was born. I was raised in Pike County, Kentucky. I am proud of my  heritage and grateful to those who came before me for their passing on of the genes.  Thanks so much, people who came before!
  I have a story here about my true place of birth... In 2007 I was trying to get a passport.  Frankfort, Kentucky informed me there was no record of my birth in Kentucky. After a while I  inquired at Charleston, West Virginia because Williamson, West Virginia was the closest hospital  to us when I was born. In two weeks I received a letter, inside was a birth certificate, but it  was peculiar. Right where it says West Virginia Department of Health and Vital Statistics the  words had been marked through with a pencil, Kentucky had been written in pencil where West  Virginia had been. Then Kentucky had been marked out with a pencil, and the delivering doctor had  written on the side beside the marked out words: By Dr. George Easley. I was talking to my sister  about this and she informed me I was born at home in Turkey Creek, Pike County, Kentucky and Dr.  George Easley from Mingo County had made a house call to our home in Pike County to deliver me.  North Carolina. These two words ring in my head. My father's voice is speaking  as I listen. 'Son,' he is saying, 'our people came from the state of North  Carolina to these mountains around 1866. My Grandpa's name was Martin Holloway.  He was born and raised in Wilkes County, North Carolina. His Daddy was Andrew  Jackson Holloway. Grandpa Martin served in the 61st North Carolina Infantry, Company I  for two years during the Civil War. In 1866 Grandpa Martin married Nancy Rose Brown  over in Tazewell County, Virginia. Your sister, Gretta Rose was called after her.  Hardin Holloway was my Daddy. Most folks don't know it, and I reckon I ain't never  told you, yet. . . my Daddy's first name was James, just the same as yours, son. Be  proud of that name, son. . . and carry it well. You were named after a proud and fine  man. son. . . .James Hardin Holloway. Daddy was born in Pike County, Kentucky in  October in the year of our Lord 1869. Hardin was the second son of Martin and  Nancy Rose, Andrew Jackson was their first born. 
  Sarah Charles was my Mama, son. She was the daughter of John Charles and Mary  Elizabeth Keene. John and Polly, as they called her, were the parents of three  children. Sarah, my Mama, William Perry, who married Caroline Goff, and  Franklin Kerry, who married Mary Sullivan and raised a family over at Raccoon  Creek. Sometimes, folks get to a confusing my Uncle Frank with Franklin Kelly  Charles, the son of John Charles' uncle, Frederick Charles. Franklin Kelly  married Etta Sullivan, the sister of Mary Sullivan that my Uncle Frank  married. I aim to tell you some more about my people, son. . . .when I get the  time, and your Mother says she has a story to tell you, ever you get around to  asking her.'
   Your Mama's mama's name was Pauline Dolly Mead afore she married your Grandpa  Gilmore Justice. She was a little doll, 'bout 4 and a half feet tall. Old man  Gilmore was a giant of a man. They was some fine people, son.

Coming soon: Original research on the Frederick Charles and Pricey Keen family.  Original research on the family of Harvey George Charles and Elizabeth Phillips  especially their son, John C. Charles, and much more you always wanted to know, but  could never find out. Unknown member of Frederick Charles and Pricey Keen family  revealed, the wives and times of Franklin Kelly Charles, son of Frederick and Pricey,  the story of what happened to Frederick and Pricey's son, Richard Charles, and more. For the first  time in 149 years the middle name of John C. Charles, son of Harvey George Charles will be made  available to the general public.