Approximately
two and a half miles east of Holliday is a territory which
has been named Shake Rag. At one time this was a settlement
of black people, and there was a school and a church. The
settlement is now gone, but the people of Shake Rag played a
very important role in the rearing of some of the older
residents of Holliday. They would come from Shake Rag to the
town two or three times a week to wash, iron, or do other
work. Often they brought their children with them, and the
black and white children would have a good time playing
together. Some of the prominent people of the settlement
were Sally, who made her home with the Greg Glasscock
family, Crawford, Judy and Taylor Calbert, Judy Hawker, and
Sherman and Myrtle Galbraith.
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