The daughter of Lewis Alexander Boggs and Eliza Hart Boggs. The first wife of Henry Thompson Holladay.
Published in 1970 by the University of Virginia;
The Journals of Mary Jane Boggs Holladay, 1851-1961.
It consists of her diary entries concerning a journey through Virginia to the Blue Ridge Mountains, through Charlottesville, Waynesboro and Lexington. She was accompanied by her father and four young relatives.
Her journal begins:
"I believe young ladies who travel usually write journals, diaries or some such accounts of their rambles, and I shall comply with the custom so far as to keep a journal, in which I shall, every night, set down the occurrences of the preceding day; but as it is intended merely to refresh my own memory hereafter, I shall allow its pages to be perused by no eye except my own, unless I make use of a woman's privilege, and--change my mind."
She also writes of her preparations for marriage, the burdens of owning slaves and her child's illness and death.
She was confronted with afflictions such as finances for the wedding, leaving her family and the house she loved, and creating a home for her future husband with their very limited resources. Mrs. Holladay wanted to prove her strength to her family and friends who believed her to be weak, and her solution was to have a happy marriage and a happy home. She writes;
"I am expecting Mr. Thompson this evening. He has been down to our future residence to make some repairs. It is an indifferent house and we shall be obliged to live economically, but: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. I shall not fear poverty of distress if I can only feel assured that we shall always love each other and do our duty to the best of our ability."
As a wife and mother, she confided her anguish over the death of a daughter. The sorrow never lifted. She had another child, stillborn, and she died at twenty-eight. Immediately afterward, her husband joined the Confederate army. When the war was over, he came home and remarried.
Published in 1970 by the University of Virginia;
The Journals of Mary Jane Boggs Holladay, 1851-1961.
It consists of her diary entries concerning a journey through Virginia to the Blue Ridge Mountains, through Charlottesville, Waynesboro and Lexington. She was accompanied by her father and four young relatives.
Her journal begins:
"I believe young ladies who travel usually write journals, diaries or some such accounts of their rambles, and I shall comply with the custom so far as to keep a journal, in which I shall, every night, set down the occurrences of the preceding day; but as it is intended merely to refresh my own memory hereafter, I shall allow its pages to be perused by no eye except my own, unless I make use of a woman's privilege, and--change my mind."
She also writes of her preparations for marriage, the burdens of owning slaves and her child's illness and death.
She was confronted with afflictions such as finances for the wedding, leaving her family and the house she loved, and creating a home for her future husband with their very limited resources. Mrs. Holladay wanted to prove her strength to her family and friends who believed her to be weak, and her solution was to have a happy marriage and a happy home. She writes;
"I am expecting Mr. Thompson this evening. He has been down to our future residence to make some repairs. It is an indifferent house and we shall be obliged to live economically, but: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. I shall not fear poverty of distress if I can only feel assured that we shall always love each other and do our duty to the best of our ability."
As a wife and mother, she confided her anguish over the death of a daughter. The sorrow never lifted. She had another child, stillborn, and she died at twenty-eight. Immediately afterward, her husband joined the Confederate army. When the war was over, he came home and remarried.
The daughter of Lewis Alexander Boggs and Eliza Hart Boggs. The first wife of Henry Thompson Holladay.
Published in 1970 by the University of Virginia;
The Journals of Mary Jane Boggs Holladay, 1851-1961.
It consists of her diary entries concerning a journey through Virginia to the Blue Ridge Mountains, through Charlottesville, Waynesboro and Lexington. She was accompanied by her father and four young relatives.
Her journal begins:
"I believe young ladies who travel usually write journals, diaries or some such accounts of their rambles, and I shall comply with the custom so far as to keep a journal, in which I shall, every night, set down the occurrences of the preceding day; but as it is intended merely to refresh my own memory hereafter, I shall allow its pages to be perused by no eye except my own, unless I make use of a woman's privilege, and--change my mind."
She also writes of her preparations for marriage, the burdens of owning slaves and her child's illness and death.
She was confronted with afflictions such as finances for the wedding, leaving her family and the house she loved, and creating a home for her future husband with their very limited resources. Mrs. Holladay wanted to prove her strength to her family and friends who believed her to be weak, and her solution was to have a happy marriage and a happy home. She writes;
"I am expecting Mr. Thompson this evening. He has been down to our future residence to make some repairs. It is an indifferent house and we shall be obliged to live economically, but: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. I shall not fear poverty of distress if I can only feel assured that we shall always love each other and do our duty to the best of our ability."
As a wife and mother, she confided her anguish over the death of a daughter. The sorrow never lifted. She had another child, stillborn, and she died at twenty-eight. Immediately afterward, her husband joined the Confederate army. When the war was over, he came home and remarried.
Published in 1970 by the University of Virginia;
The Journals of Mary Jane Boggs Holladay, 1851-1961.
It consists of her diary entries concerning a journey through Virginia to the Blue Ridge Mountains, through Charlottesville, Waynesboro and Lexington. She was accompanied by her father and four young relatives.
Her journal begins:
"I believe young ladies who travel usually write journals, diaries or some such accounts of their rambles, and I shall comply with the custom so far as to keep a journal, in which I shall, every night, set down the occurrences of the preceding day; but as it is intended merely to refresh my own memory hereafter, I shall allow its pages to be perused by no eye except my own, unless I make use of a woman's privilege, and--change my mind."
She also writes of her preparations for marriage, the burdens of owning slaves and her child's illness and death.
She was confronted with afflictions such as finances for the wedding, leaving her family and the house she loved, and creating a home for her future husband with their very limited resources. Mrs. Holladay wanted to prove her strength to her family and friends who believed her to be weak, and her solution was to have a happy marriage and a happy home. She writes;
"I am expecting Mr. Thompson this evening. He has been down to our future residence to make some repairs. It is an indifferent house and we shall be obliged to live economically, but: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. I shall not fear poverty of distress if I can only feel assured that we shall always love each other and do our duty to the best of our ability."
As a wife and mother, she confided her anguish over the death of a daughter. The sorrow never lifted. She had another child, stillborn, and she died at twenty-eight. Immediately afterward, her husband joined the Confederate army. When the war was over, he came home and remarried.
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