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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1831 - 1874 (42 years)
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| Name |
Holden, Emory Brock [1] |
| Birth |
22 Jun 1831 |
Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
27083 |
| Residence |
1870 |
Hightowers, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Death |
8 May 1874 |
Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I65021 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
Holden, Thomas W., b. 12 Aug 1793 d. 19 Sep 1852, Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 59 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Nichols, Sarah, b. Abt 1803 |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
8 Apr 1823 |
Orange County, North Carolina |
| Reference Number |
250112 |
| Family ID |
F9249 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Currie, Bettie Rainey, b. 16 Mar 1834, North Carolina d. 26 Jan 1923, Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina (Age 88 years) |
| Reference Number |
350851 |
| Notes |
- Married- In Caswell County, N. C., on Oct. 9, Col. E. Brock Holden, of Halifax County, Va., to Miss Bettie R. Currie of Caswell. (p. 1, c. 5).
Source: Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser (Friday, October 19, 1855).
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Earlier I posted information on Civil War soldier and Ku Klux Klan member Emory Brock Holden (1831-1874). Here is a photograph of him in his Confederate uniform. He is a half-brother of NC Governor William Woods Holden (1818-1892) of Kirk-Holden War fame.
Interestingly, he married Bettie Rainey Currie (1834-1923), whose sister Sallie L. Currie (1829-1896) married Franklin A. Wiley (1825-1888). Frank Wiley once served as Caswell County Sheriff and was the person who led NC State Senator John Walter (Chicken) Stephens to his death in 1870 at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in the Caswell County Courthouse. Thus, the sisters both married men associated with the Caswell County Ku Klux Klan.
Source: Richmond S. Frederick, Jr., 19 October Facebook Post.
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| Children |
| | 1. Holden, Alexander, b. Abt 1862, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Holden, Edgar, b. Abt 1865, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. Holden, Clifford, b. Abt 1868, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F10938 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Emory Brock Holden (1831-1874)
(for larger image, click on photograph)
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Caswell County Ku Klux Klan Member
In 1858, Emory Brock Holden apparently was an officer for Caswell Co. However, what kind of "officer" is not known, but he was ready to attend to claims entrusted to him.
Based upon known records he was born 1831 and died 1874, having served in the Confederate army during the Civil War He is the half-brother of NC Governor William Woods Holden of Kirk-Holden War fame. The two were not friendly, as one [Brock] fought for the Confederacy and the other [William] vehemently opposed it.
Brock, openly clashed with William during their entire adult lives. While serving as first lieutenant of Company B, Fifty-ninth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops, Brock participated in a protest meeting of North Carolina officers in August 1863 at Orange County Court House, Virginia, against Holden's newspaper, the "North Carolina Standard," for opposing the war.
In 1864, Brock ran for the NC state legislature on a ticket opposed to Holden's peace movement efforts, but was defeated. Later, in 1870 he [Brock] was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Caswell County and worked against the governor's military occupation of Yanceyville.
Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC), 2 Jun 1858
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Earlier I posted information on Civil War soldier and Ku Klux Klan member Emory Brock Holden (1831-1874). Here is a photograph of him in his Confederate uniform. He is a half-brother of NC Governor William Woods Holden (1818-1892) of Kirk-Holden War fame.
Interestingly, he married Bettie Rainey Currie (1834-1923), whose sister Sallie L. Currie (1829-1896) married Franklin A. Wiley (1825-1888). Frank Wiley once served as Caswell County Sheriff and was the person who led NC State Senator John Walter (Chicken) Stephens to his death in 1870 at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in the Caswell County Courthouse. Thus, the sisters both married men associated with the Caswell County Ku Klux Klan.
Source: Richmond S. Frederick, Jr., 19 October Facebook Post.
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The half-brother of NC Governor William Woods Holden (of Kirk-Holden War fame), Emory Brock Holden, is a brother-in-law of Caswell County Sheriff Franklin A. Wiley, who led NC Senator John Walter (Chicken) Stephens to his death and was arrested by Colonel George W. Kirk under the authority of Governor Holden after Caswell County was declared in a state of insurrection in 1870.
Emory Brock Holden married Bettie Rainey Currie. Franklin A. Wiley married Sallie L. Currie. The sisters are daughters of Caswell County's Isaac Rainey Currie (1797-1855) and Eliza Johnston Currie (1804-1871).
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In July 1870, Emory Brock Holden visited Raleigh to persuade his half-brother, NC Governor William Woods Holden, to order the prisoners (including his brother-in-law former Caswell County Sheriff Franklin A. (Frank) Wiley) be tried in Caswell County by a special Court of Oyer and Terminer ordered by the governor. Why Emory Brock Holden believed this would be beneficial to his brother-in-law is not understood. Moreover, generally, the half-brothers disliked each other.
The New York Times (New York, NY), 23 July 1870.
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Emory Brock Holden: Slave Auctioneer in Leasburg, NC
This Emory Brock Holden (1831-1874) certainly was consistent: slave auctioneer; Confederate soldier; and Caswell County Ku Klux Klan member. He sold enslaved people, fought to keep them enslaved, then worked to oppress them after being freed.
Newspaper Item: "High Prices," American Advocate (Kinston, NC), 16 Nov 1858.
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Company B, Fifty-Ninth Regiment. This outfit was enlisted at Yanceyville beginning in July, 1862. Within less than a month it was accepted into Confederate service as Captain James T. Mitchell's Company of Partisan Rangers, but soon afterwards it was called over to Garysburg and was designated as Company B, Fifty-Ninth Regiment which actually was the Fourth Regiment of North Carolina Cavalry. Other officers were lieutenants E. Brock Holden, Robert T. Jones, and Henry S. Thaxton. There were 182 enlisted men in what must have been a rather mature company as only ten of those for whom ages are recorded were below twenty. Most were in their late twenties and thirties. Three enlisted men were assigned regimental duties: Danie W. Richmond as Quartermaster Sergeant, Thomas R. Long as Ordnance Sergeant, and William G. Bradsher as Musician.
What influence an advertisement in the Milton Chronicle on February 12, 1863, had is unknown, of course, but Lieutenant E. Brock Holden identified himself as a recruiting officer offering $100 bounty to recruits, regular pay, and the guarantee that they might keep anything taken from the enemy. The Fifty-Ninth was employed during the summer and fall of 1862 in southeastern Virginia where the enemy was cleared out of about 150 square miles of the coastal region. During the winter the men returned to North Carolina to help contain the enemy who had taken positions along the coast. Drives to Kinston and Goldsboro made by Union General J. G. Foster were opposed by these troops. In the spring of 1863 they were called to Virginia to join General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on the Gettysburg campaign and they remained with him until the surrender at Appomattox.
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- Details: William W. Holden: North Carolina's Political Enigma, Horace W. Raper (1985) at 253.
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