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Oscar Holland, Man Without A Country, Dead. - - (excerpts from longer article) - - "Oscar Holland, a bachelor, and one of the few survivors of the vast army which went West during the gold excitement of 1849, died Friday morning in a St. Joseph hospital after an illness of 2 days of pneumonia." (Holland would have been 82 years old on March 17, 1912)
"In 1854 he came to Platte County and bought the farm 3 miles east of here (Dearborn, Missouri) which he owned until his death." "Mr. Holland's father died when the son was young and in 1859 he sent for his mother, brothers, and sisters to come to Missouri and live with him."
"When the Civil War broke out he took the vast retinue of negro servants that belonged to his family and started to Texas and Mexico with them but the Emancipation Proclamation and Union troops which he encountered freed the slaves."
(Researcher's note: The 1860 Platte County Census lists Oscar Holland and his family, all from Virginia, in Green Township: Ann 65 years old, Amanda 35 years old, Martha 33 years old, Oscar 26 years old, Richard 24 years old, Virginia 22 years old, Eldridge 20 years old, and Mary J. 18 years old. The 1860 Platte County Slave Schedules lists Ann Holland, on July 6, 1860, as enslaving a 12-year old girl and a 14-year old girl. No other slaves listed.)Date(s) of Creation
3/1/1912
