Individual Details

Lucy Myrick Newsom

(28 May 1809 - 19 Jan 1894)



Greenesboro, GA, Jan 21 (1894)
Mrs. Lucy W. Holtzclaw, widow of Judge John G. Joltzclaw, late of Perifried, Greene County, is dead. Mrs. Holtzclaw was the mother of the late Judge Henry M. Holtzclaw of Perry, Ga.; Judge Jesse A. Holtzclaw of South Arizona; Robert Newsom Holtzclaw, deceased, and John Graham Holtzclaw, Jr. who was killed in the late war; Mrs. Ann English, Mrs. Eliza. English, Mrs. Mary Thornton, deceased, Mrs. Julia Fluker of Atlanta, and the sister of Judge Newsom of Atlanta.
Mrs. Holzclaw was nearly ninety years of age. For more than fifty years she illustrated the humble and devout Christian. She was a noble woman and her Christian conduct beautified her long Christian life. She was a woman of very fine sense and warm attachments.

Events

Birth28 May 1809
Marriage22 Dec 1825John Graham Holtzclaw
Death19 Jan 1894Greene County, Georgia

Families

SpouseJohn Graham Holtzclaw (1804 - 1879)
ChildHenry Macon Holtzclaw (1823 - 1892)
ChildMartha Elizabeth Holtzclaw (1841 - 1920)