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Anthony Halloway, a substantial farmer of Moro Township, Fordyce post-office, was born in Troup County, Ga., July 25, 1846. His father, Allen Halloway, a native of Putnam County, Ga., born in 1811, was married in Georgia to Miss Susan Ann Shaw, born in Greene County in 1817, and by her had seven children, six of whom lived to be grown, and four of whom—two sons and two daughters are still living. His father was a farmer by occupation, and was a son of Anthony Halloway, Sr., who was born in Virginia, and died in Troup County in his eighty-first year. Allen Halloway died in Troup County, Ga., in 1848, and his wife died in Claiborne Parish, La. The subject of this sketch was the sixth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Halloway, and lived in Georgia until he was twenty-one years of age. In his twenty-second year he moved, with his mother and sisters to Louisiana, where he was married in 1873 to Miss Frances Chambers, a native of Greene County, Ala., born in 1850. She died in Louisiana in 1882, and in February, 1883, Mr. Halloway was again married, this time to Miss Mary Catherine Stroud, a native of Chambers County, Ala., born in 1842, and in December, 1883, they moved to the farm where they now live. This farm consisting of 290, acres of fine land, is located eighteen miles north of county seat, and three miles south of Fordyce, on the Cotton Belt Railroad. Mr. Halloway has about 140 acres of this land under cultivation, on which he has erected good substantial buildings. In June, 1804, Mr. Halloway enlisted in the Confederate army, in Company F, Fourth Georgia State Reserves, and served eleven months, most of the time at Andersonville prison, guarding the prisoners. In political matters he is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Seymour. In religious matters both he and his wife are members of the Primitive Baptist Church. His first wife was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Halloway is one of the stockholders in the District Fair held at Fordyce, of which he is also a director. He is a prominent and well-to-do citizen, and takes a deep interest in all public enterprises.