Individual Details

Clare's grave marker reveals that her married name was Pittman. She married Brooks Oliver Pittman; after her death he married Margaret Sprout Long, Clare's first cousin and they had two daughters.

The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 21 Oct 1906, Carrolton News:
"The friends of little Miss Claire Holderness will be sorry to learn she is quite ill at the home her parents, Colonel and Mrs. Sidney Holderness, on Dixie Street."

To: khaden@comcast.net
Subject: Sidney Holderness
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008
From: slenaeus@aol.com
Hi, I saw your web site with info on the Holderness family. I knew Mrs. Holderness the wife of Sidney Holderness, Jr. She was in the DAR with my mother. I also know Dottie Pittman who currently lives in the Holderness house on Dixie Street in Carrollton.
Clare Holderness married Brooks Oliver Pittman. He and Clare lived in the Dixie Street House after Ada Long Holderness passed. After Clare Holderness died Brooks Oliver Pitman remarried Margaret Sprout Long. They had 2 daughters one of which lives in the Holderness house on Dixie Street to this day. A picture of the Holderness house can be found at:

Birth	23 Jul 1897	Georgia
Death	21 Jan 1943

Father	Sidney Holderness Sr. (1864 - 1939)
Mother	Ada Clare Long (1871 - 1940)
Sibling	Ben Scott Holderness (1895 - 1896)
Sibling	Sidney Holderness (1899 - 1974)