Ashton P. Holman House

Original Owner: Ashton P. Holman

334 Quitman Street

Built: 1911

Ashton Pruitt Holman was born in 1883 to John Miller Holman and Eula Pruitt, a member of an old Morris County family. She died in 1890. John Miller Holman’s second marriage in 1891 to Sue Russell Hill produced six half-siblings for Ashton. In 1906 Ashton married Wilsey Berry. They had two children – a son, John William (Jack) and a daughter, Jane. In his younger years, Mr. Holman was engaged in the furniture and hardware business in Pittsburg, Daingerfield and Naples. He quit the mercantile business and was a traveling representative for furniture concerns in three states. After spending 30 or more years in Dallas, he returned to Pittsburg and retired from business. He was a lifetime member of the Methodist Church.