aholibama

Updated: June 14, 2025

She had been christened Aholibama a name which she told me was taken out of some story-book, though I afterwards found that it was in the Bible but this being too long an appellation, they had abbreviated it to Holly. During a hasty glance into the cheerful kitchen, I caught a glimpse of a very nice-looking colored woman, who, I afterwards found, was Sylvia, the cook.

Ella Rodman Church - A Grandmother's Recollections