Taken from - "The History of the Descendants of the Jersey Settlers Adams County Mississippi" Vol III, pg 618
"Holloway Percy Huff, son of Daniel Webster Huff and Mary Narcissa Lanehart, was b. 19 Nov. 1878 at Elmwood Plantation. He was called Percy or H.P. He received his post-secondary education at Washington College, where he studied Ancient Languages. On 14 Dec, 1905 be m. Mary Sharpe Swayze, b. 6 Nov. 1881 in Kingston, Mississippi, dau. of William Holliday Swayze and Belle Waller Swayze. Mary was educated at educated at Stanton Hall in Natchez when it was an elite girls finishing school. A portrait of her painted in her Stanton Hall days shows her to be a beautiful and elegant Edwardian Belle. She was unusually tall for her generation, nearly 5 feet 10 inches. A companion in their courting days was his youngest sibling, Miss George Huff, who remembered county wagon rides with the pair.
Holloway Percy and Mary lived in Wilkinson County at Beech Grove the cotton plantation on a hill above the portion of the Natchez Trace between Woodville and Centerville. Holloway Percy ran the commissary down the hill from the plantation house that had been operated by Huff's for sharecroppers on the plantation. All accounts were settled at harvest. Their son, Daniel William, remembered an annual, long wagon trip to obtain a year's supply of salt for the store. The family remained there until until the boll weevil made cotton planting unprofitable. Holloway Percy did not think that cotton should be planted the second year but did so on the advice of the county extension agent. The disastrous results confirmed an ingrained suspicion in the Huff family of the wisdom of the federal government and its agents. Holloway Percy divided the provision remanning in the general store amount the 75 families of tenants still on the plantation and put his family on the train to Bogalusa, Louisiana, where her operated an ice house. He was a very astute businessman. While in Bogalusa, he also sold life insurance for Life and Casualty of Nashville, Tennessee. He continued both occupations in a later move to Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
In 1923, the family moved to Baton Rouge, where Holloway Percy continued to sell life insurance for Life and Casualty. In 1926, Holloway and two of his fellow Life and Casualty agents, brothers J.C. and Fred Greer, formed their own life insurance company, Union National Life Insurance. The company sold industrial policies, with agents work on a debit, selling policies to blue collar workers, collecting premiums on a weekly basis. Members of the Greer and Huff families continued to be active in Union National until its sale in 1989 to the international conglomerate Teledyne. Holloway Percy d. 4 July 1940, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "
"Holloway Percy Huff, son of Daniel Webster Huff and Mary Narcissa Lanehart, was b. 19 Nov. 1878 at Elmwood Plantation. He was called Percy or H.P. He received his post-secondary education at Washington College, where he studied Ancient Languages. On 14 Dec, 1905 be m. Mary Sharpe Swayze, b. 6 Nov. 1881 in Kingston, Mississippi, dau. of William Holliday Swayze and Belle Waller Swayze. Mary was educated at educated at Stanton Hall in Natchez when it was an elite girls finishing school. A portrait of her painted in her Stanton Hall days shows her to be a beautiful and elegant Edwardian Belle. She was unusually tall for her generation, nearly 5 feet 10 inches. A companion in their courting days was his youngest sibling, Miss George Huff, who remembered county wagon rides with the pair.
Holloway Percy and Mary lived in Wilkinson County at Beech Grove the cotton plantation on a hill above the portion of the Natchez Trace between Woodville and Centerville. Holloway Percy ran the commissary down the hill from the plantation house that had been operated by Huff's for sharecroppers on the plantation. All accounts were settled at harvest. Their son, Daniel William, remembered an annual, long wagon trip to obtain a year's supply of salt for the store. The family remained there until until the boll weevil made cotton planting unprofitable. Holloway Percy did not think that cotton should be planted the second year but did so on the advice of the county extension agent. The disastrous results confirmed an ingrained suspicion in the Huff family of the wisdom of the federal government and its agents. Holloway Percy divided the provision remanning in the general store amount the 75 families of tenants still on the plantation and put his family on the train to Bogalusa, Louisiana, where her operated an ice house. He was a very astute businessman. While in Bogalusa, he also sold life insurance for Life and Casualty of Nashville, Tennessee. He continued both occupations in a later move to Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
In 1923, the family moved to Baton Rouge, where Holloway Percy continued to sell life insurance for Life and Casualty. In 1926, Holloway and two of his fellow Life and Casualty agents, brothers J.C. and Fred Greer, formed their own life insurance company, Union National Life Insurance. The company sold industrial policies, with agents work on a debit, selling policies to blue collar workers, collecting premiums on a weekly basis. Members of the Greer and Huff families continued to be active in Union National until its sale in 1989 to the international conglomerate Teledyne. Holloway Percy d. 4 July 1940, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "
Taken from - "The History of the Descendants of the Jersey Settlers Adams County Mississippi" Vol III, pg 618
"Holloway Percy Huff, son of Daniel Webster Huff and Mary Narcissa Lanehart, was b. 19 Nov. 1878 at Elmwood Plantation. He was called Percy or H.P. He received his post-secondary education at Washington College, where he studied Ancient Languages. On 14 Dec, 1905 be m. Mary Sharpe Swayze, b. 6 Nov. 1881 in Kingston, Mississippi, dau. of William Holliday Swayze and Belle Waller Swayze. Mary was educated at educated at Stanton Hall in Natchez when it was an elite girls finishing school. A portrait of her painted in her Stanton Hall days shows her to be a beautiful and elegant Edwardian Belle. She was unusually tall for her generation, nearly 5 feet 10 inches. A companion in their courting days was his youngest sibling, Miss George Huff, who remembered county wagon rides with the pair.
Holloway Percy and Mary lived in Wilkinson County at Beech Grove the cotton plantation on a hill above the portion of the Natchez Trace between Woodville and Centerville. Holloway Percy ran the commissary down the hill from the plantation house that had been operated by Huff's for sharecroppers on the plantation. All accounts were settled at harvest. Their son, Daniel William, remembered an annual, long wagon trip to obtain a year's supply of salt for the store. The family remained there until until the boll weevil made cotton planting unprofitable. Holloway Percy did not think that cotton should be planted the second year but did so on the advice of the county extension agent. The disastrous results confirmed an ingrained suspicion in the Huff family of the wisdom of the federal government and its agents. Holloway Percy divided the provision remanning in the general store amount the 75 families of tenants still on the plantation and put his family on the train to Bogalusa, Louisiana, where her operated an ice house. He was a very astute businessman. While in Bogalusa, he also sold life insurance for Life and Casualty of Nashville, Tennessee. He continued both occupations in a later move to Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
In 1923, the family moved to Baton Rouge, where Holloway Percy continued to sell life insurance for Life and Casualty. In 1926, Holloway and two of his fellow Life and Casualty agents, brothers J.C. and Fred Greer, formed their own life insurance company, Union National Life Insurance. The company sold industrial policies, with agents work on a debit, selling policies to blue collar workers, collecting premiums on a weekly basis. Members of the Greer and Huff families continued to be active in Union National until its sale in 1989 to the international conglomerate Teledyne. Holloway Percy d. 4 July 1940, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "
"Holloway Percy Huff, son of Daniel Webster Huff and Mary Narcissa Lanehart, was b. 19 Nov. 1878 at Elmwood Plantation. He was called Percy or H.P. He received his post-secondary education at Washington College, where he studied Ancient Languages. On 14 Dec, 1905 be m. Mary Sharpe Swayze, b. 6 Nov. 1881 in Kingston, Mississippi, dau. of William Holliday Swayze and Belle Waller Swayze. Mary was educated at educated at Stanton Hall in Natchez when it was an elite girls finishing school. A portrait of her painted in her Stanton Hall days shows her to be a beautiful and elegant Edwardian Belle. She was unusually tall for her generation, nearly 5 feet 10 inches. A companion in their courting days was his youngest sibling, Miss George Huff, who remembered county wagon rides with the pair.
Holloway Percy and Mary lived in Wilkinson County at Beech Grove the cotton plantation on a hill above the portion of the Natchez Trace between Woodville and Centerville. Holloway Percy ran the commissary down the hill from the plantation house that had been operated by Huff's for sharecroppers on the plantation. All accounts were settled at harvest. Their son, Daniel William, remembered an annual, long wagon trip to obtain a year's supply of salt for the store. The family remained there until until the boll weevil made cotton planting unprofitable. Holloway Percy did not think that cotton should be planted the second year but did so on the advice of the county extension agent. The disastrous results confirmed an ingrained suspicion in the Huff family of the wisdom of the federal government and its agents. Holloway Percy divided the provision remanning in the general store amount the 75 families of tenants still on the plantation and put his family on the train to Bogalusa, Louisiana, where her operated an ice house. He was a very astute businessman. While in Bogalusa, he also sold life insurance for Life and Casualty of Nashville, Tennessee. He continued both occupations in a later move to Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
In 1923, the family moved to Baton Rouge, where Holloway Percy continued to sell life insurance for Life and Casualty. In 1926, Holloway and two of his fellow Life and Casualty agents, brothers J.C. and Fred Greer, formed their own life insurance company, Union National Life Insurance. The company sold industrial policies, with agents work on a debit, selling policies to blue collar workers, collecting premiums on a weekly basis. Members of the Greer and Huff families continued to be active in Union National until its sale in 1989 to the international conglomerate Teledyne. Holloway Percy d. 4 July 1940, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "
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