BOOTH, MARY ELIZABETH (ELIZA) [James Thomas Booth, John James Booth, James Booth, Thomas Booth], daughter of James Thomas Booth and Clarkey Bessant Hux. Eliza was born Aug. 12, 1880 in Horry Co. On March 15, 1903 the Rev. John Manning performed the ceremony as she was married to Joseph Holladay McGwigan, Sr According to census records Joseph was born in Virginia, as were both of his parents. What seems to be the correct family is living in Elizabeth City (Hampton
County), VA in 1860. [CR] Apparently he was living in Dalmatia Township, Halifax, NC with two brothers in 1870. Joseph is listed as a merchant clerk. [CR] In 1910 he is living in the Conway Township of Horry County with wife Eliza and son Lahna. He was a retail merchant of a grocery store.
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From articles in the IRQ I understand that Homewood (a community in Horry Co.) was settled around 1896 or shortly before as a experimental farming co-operative. Joseph was a merchant there. He was born Jan. 21, 1853, died on Nov. 20, 1912, and is buried at Poplar.

Children: Gladys, b. and died Aug. 6, 1903
Joseph Holiday, Jr. (Lahna) , b. Aug, 1906

Eliza's second marriage was to Benjamin Grover Strickland on Aug. 10, 1913. The ceremony, performed by Rev. J. I. Sprinks, took place at the home of Enoch Booth (Eliza's brother), the witnesses were Enoch and his wife Nancy. [Grover had a previous marriage to Charlotte Lou Ella Anderson who died Dec. 14, 1912. They had three children: Sean Hubert (b. Apr. 10, 1908), Bennie Dow (b. Apr. 2, 1910), and Alma Inez (b. Sept. 25, 1912)] Grover was born March 9, 1885 and died Dec. 8, 1926. He is buried at Zoan
Church in Horry Co. Eliza died Jan. 20, 1966 and is buried at Poplar.
Children: Woodrow B.
James Eugene
Edith Aline
Marguerite
Anthon Furman
Grover SHB
Joseph Holladay McGwigan was born in Harpers Ferry, VA (The Horry Herald). Joseph was the son of William McGwigan and Mary Holladay Whitfield. Eliza - "She was a very mild and sweet tempered woman and never spoke ill towards anyone. She could always find something good to say about a person
if it were only something simple as ‘He had nice teeth.' She had a country store when I was small and she would put me up on the counter and pick oysters from a can and feed them to me with a hair pin. She grew beautiful flowers and had a small garden and chickens that made nests under her house. Many times, I crawled underneath her home to gather eggs. Probably no one else cares that she had a big china tree and lots of cana lilies growing at the edge of her yard and also around the outhouse. She enjoyed singing and sang louder than anyone else in our small church. Sunday mornings, she would tie a dime in the corner of an embroidered handkerchief with a few drops of perfume dabbed on it for me and we walked to the church nearby. She was proud of her brothers and sisters and all of her family and didn't
mind letting it be known. I never heard her utter a bad word or say anything bad about any person." Iris
Bennett, granddaughter.


resource taken from a CD provided by Marilyn Hardwick Long at the Booth Family Gathering held in Conway, SC on 7/7/12.