Fought in Revolutionary War beside his brother, Charles Holland. After his marriage to Sarah Miller, he moved to Madison County, AL in 1813, was in Greene County, AL in 1826 and moved to Pickens County prior to 1830.
Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
Author: Thomas M. Owen
HOLLAND, CHARLES, aged 76, and a resident of Tuscaloosa county; private S. C. Militia; enrolled on July 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date of publication of list, $240.--Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
HOLLAND, JACOB, came from South Carolina, and is buried at Hebron churchyard, in Greene county. The following inscription is upon his tombstone:
Sacred to the
memory of
JACOB & SARAH HOLLAND
Jacob
departed this life
Oct. 1st, 1852,
Aged 91 years.
Sarah
May 13th, 1851,
Aged 87 years.
--Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, vol. iv, p. 544.
HOLLAND, THOMAS, aged 71, and a resident of Limestone county; private S. C. Militia; enrolled on June 13, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $76.66.; sums received to date of publication of list, $229.98.--Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Limestone county, June 1, 1840, aged 78.--Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
