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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.