Virgil Mordie Holland, M.D.
submitted by Marylee KnightBorn 03-04-1918
Died 10-30-1990
Buried Bethlehem Cemetery, Snap Community, Panola County TX
The following information was composed by Virgil Mordie Holland in 1970. He was a prominent Panola County physician and a life long collector of local history. His particular talent was that he could examine an old photograph and, judging by the clothing and hair styles, give a close estimate of the year in which the picture was made.
He was a son of David Mordie Holland and Lois Elizabeth Allison who was the daughter of Gustavus Allison (a son of Elizabeth Shaw and Thomas G. Allison) and Minnie Sharp (a daughter of Richard Vastine Sharp and Eliza Hodge).
The first page of the booklet contains the statement: "This tract may be reproduced or duplicated in any manner if the author is given proper credit." We do, indeed, give Dr. Holland a tremendous amount of credit for recording the valuable information about earlier times in the Fairplay Community.
We also thank Mrs. Casie Lee Owens-Hines for generously sharing her personal copy of the booklet in order to preserve the information it contained.