Gabriel Holder (1770 - bef. 1860)

Born 1770 in Halifax, Virginia [uncertain]

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Died before 1860 before age 90 in Wayne, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Gabriel James Holder was born in 1768, in Virginia, a son of Major William Holder, a Veteran of the Revolutionary War, from Culpeper county, Virginia. ^[1]

Gabriel and Rhoda (Rice) Holder came to Wayne Co., Ky prior to 1817, from Virginia thru Tennessee. They brought with them their six known children: Chesley, who never married, Lydia who married Jeremiah Perry Morrow, William who married Nancy Parton, Mary who married William Holt, Elijah who married Nancy L. Dodson and Labon Rice Holder who married Armilda Lair.

Gabriel died before 1860, in Wayne county, Kentucky and is buried in the Holder Cemetery, in Eli, Russell county, Kentucky.

• Gabriel died sometime between the 1850, and 1860 federal census. 1 June 1843, Gabriel Holder traded a horse to William Yarbury in exchange for, 50 acres in Bear Hollow. This Holder Cemetery is within a few miles of where Gabriel, and Rhoda are buried in the Holder graveyard that now lies beneath Lake Cumberland. ^[2]

Census: 1830, Wayne County, Kentucky, p. 248, 1840, Wayne County, Kentucky, p. 166, Census: 1850, Wayne County, Kentucky, p. 613 Deed: 1 June 1843, Wayne County, Kentucky: William Yarbury to Gabriel Holder, in exchange for a horse, 50 acres in Bear Hollow Deed: 1 June 1845, Wayne County, Kentucky: sale of property on Bear Hollow, Wayne County, Kentucky from William Yarbury to Gabriel Holder Deed: 1 June 1845, Wayne County, Kentucky: sale of property on Bear Hollow, Wayne County, Kentucky from Gabriel Holder to Squire Roberts

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1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCZW-8LP
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190519719/gabriel-holder

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Holder-174 created through the import of Scoullar Family Tree dec07.ged on Jul 10, 2011 by Rhonda Scoullar

• Census: 1830, Wayne County, Kentucky, p. 248, 1840, Wayne County, Kentucky, p. 166, Census: 1850, Wayne County, Kentucky, p. 613

Gabriel and Rhoda Holder came to Wayne Co., Ky prior to 1817, from Virginia thru Tennessee. They brought with them their six known children: Chesley, who never married, Lydia who married Jeremiah Perry Morrow, William who married Nancy Parton, Mary who married William Holt, Elijah who married Nancy L. Dodson and Labon Rice Holder who married Armilda Lair.

Their son Laban, moved to Russell County, Ky and settled near the community of Eli. There Laban and Armilda raised the following children: James King who married Helen Warner, Thomas J, who did not marry, Jeremiah C. who married Mary Ann Kelsey, John W. who married Sarah J. Dunbar, Bradford L. who married Amanda Dunbar, Elizabeth who married Abner Bennett, Laban Rice Jr. who married Mary E. Fox. Moses Hamilton (Wilson) who maried Salvisa Taylor and second Eva Love, Theodore J. who married Palmira M. Taylor and Permelia Jane who married Moses L. Wilson.

Taken from the Russell County History book by Turner Publishing.

The surname of Gabriel's wife, Rhoda, was Reed. The verification is in the following 1866 letter.

MY GENEALOGY, AND LIFE AND TRAVELS, TOGETHER WITH A Sketch of the Misfortunes that have Befallen Me in Life. - June 3, 1866. - by E.H. REED

My grandfather on father's side was a native of Wales; he immigrated to America when a small boy, before the Revolutionary War. My grandmother on father's side was a native of Germany. She also came to America a small girl before the Revolution.

Very soon after the war they were married in the State of Pennsylvania and emigrated to East TN, then called the Territory of NC. They settled on the waters of the Nolichucky River, in a section of country that afterwards became Cocke Co., TN There they raised the following family: 1) John Reed, my father; 2) Rhoda Reed, who married Gabriel Holder 3) Robert Reed, who went to Georgia a single man and the family heard no more of him; 4) Jesse Reed, who died before he was grown; 5) Eliza Reed, who went to KY, and there married and raised a large family; 6) Nancy Reed, who married John Worth, my mother's brother, and they remained in Cocke Co., TN until their death; 7) George W. Reed, who was still in Cocke Co., TN the last I heard of him; 8) Elizabeth Reed, who married Zachariah McCone, they went to KY; 9) Margaret Reed, who married Tilchmond (Tilmon) Buckner and went to KY.

My grandfather Reed died in Cocke Co., TN (abt. 1825) when I was about 20 years old; my grandmother Reed then went to KY to some of her children, a very old lady; that is the last I ever heard of her. This is about all I know of my father's family connection.

My grandmother's maiden name I never heard as I recollect of. My grandfather and grandmother on father's side were both natives of Wales. The immigrated to America when they were both small, before the French war with the American Colonies. My grandfather Thomas Worth, was in the battle of Braddock's defeat; after that he was with George Washington through the whole of the Revolutionary struggle. At the close of the war he returned to Craven Co.,N.C. near Newbern, and remained there until my mother was nearly grown; then he removed to Cocke Co., TN. and settled on French Broad River, but staid there only a few years, when he moved to Buncombe Co.,N.C. and there remained till his death. He died when I was quite small; I can just recollect seeing him. I can't give the names of all his children according to age, but I can give their names and locality; 1.) Thomas Worth the oldest son, left his father in NC, and went to Maryland where he married, and from there he moved to New York, from whom sprang Gen. Worth, of Mexican war notoriety. 2.) Louis Worth went to TN and married a widow Mucelhang, and moved west of the Mississippi river before the cession of Louisiana to the United States, which was the last ever heard of him by our family; 3.) John Worth married Nancy Reed, my father's sister as before stated.

The girls names and marriage are as follow: 4.) Sitnah Worth married a man by the name of Richmond and he died, and she married Thomas Love; she died without children. 5.) Rebecca Worth married John Durham and moved to KY and from there to Limestone Co.,AL. 6.) Elizabeth Worth married Elijah Durham, brother of John Durham, and moved to KY; 7.) Delilah Worth married Thomas Craig and moved to VA; 8.) Susanah Worth married Thomas McMullen and moved to Stone River, TN; 9.) Nancy Worth, my mother, married John Reed, my father, in Cocke Co., TN., and remained but a short time and moved to Buncombe Co.,N.C. where I was born, Feb. the 2d 1805, they staid there but a short time and went back to Cocke Co., TN., and remained there until my father's death in May, 1807, leaving my mother with two little boys, my brother, near 5 years older, and myself, all that was living of 5 children. My mother remained a widow about 4 years, and married a man by the name of John Martin, by whom she had 13 children of whom only five ever sucked, 1 boy and 4 girls were raised. I know but little about them; I had moved from that Co., (Cocke Co., TN) to Blount Co., TN about 75 miles from there and only went to see her twice till her death. She died at about 65 years of age; her mother lived to be about 112 or 115 years of age. I left my stepfather and mother at the age of 16 years, (abt 1821) and have shifted for myself ever since.

On the 13th of October (1824), before I was 20 years old, I was married to Sally Cox, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Cox; we remained in Jefferson Co., TN. 3 years (1824-1827) and in which time we had 1.) one child; it lived 4 months and died. We then moved to Roane Co., TN and stayed one year; there 2.) Malinda Reed was born; (abt 1828) then we moved to Blount Co., TN and staid there 5 years; (abt1828-1833) there 3.) Luther Reed, b. 1829-1833 4.) Mary Elizabeth Reed, b. 1829-1833 were born; Mary only lived to be three months old.

Then in the Fall of 1833 we moved to the State of Missouri to Cole Co.,; in 1833 my wife had another daughter, and it died the day after it was born, and my wife died four days afterwards, and I was left, not able to walk across the house, with two little children in a land of strangers, except two brothers-in-law. I remained unable to do anything for seven months. I then took a school for eight months, at the end of that time I married Delilah Martain, daughter of Louis Martain, and she lived one year, three months and three days, in which time she had a son, and on the 7th day of April 1837 she died, and left me with three little children, one only two months old. My trouble was so great that it did not seem to me that I could stay in that country. In September, '37, I gathered all together, and left my children with their uncle, and went to Texas and traveled over much of that country and returned to Arkansas and wintered there. In the Spring I sold my horse, bridle and saddle in Little Rock, took passage on a steamboat and went back to Missouri. I staid but a short time, become disgusted with a country that had bereaved me of all that I held dear. (except my children) I left it again and made my way to the western frontier of Arkansas, and plunged into the dark forest of the Indian country, and passed by the wigwams of the Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek tribes of Indians, seeking for something to soothe the mind, but all in vain. There was a vacuum that could not be filled among the children of the forests, so I returned to civilization again, staid five months in Arkansas, then went to Missouri to my brothers, staid there a few weeks and left for Memphis; there I staid a few days and sold my horse, bridle and saddle and took passage of boat to New Orleans; staid there a short time and returned to Baton Rouge, staid there four weeks at five dollars a day. I then left with the intention of going to Biloxi, but changed my notion and started for Jackson, Miss., got to Copiah Co.., MS there stopped and went to work, and after three years travail, and spending about thirteen hundred dollars, I began to meditate upon what I had done and what I was doing, and came to the conclusion that I could not live that way any longer. I then commenced looking around and found that the only plan to put a stop to my raving, was to marry again. So, I came to that determination and did so on the 28th day of July 1840. I married the daughter of Samuel and Tabitha Miller, & remained there nearly two years; then I moved to Choctaw Co.., MS where, after a little over three years, I made every preparation to go to Missouri after my children, which I did in the winter of 1845, and have remained in Choctaw Co.., MS ever since; and by my last wife who is still living with me, I have become the father of thirteen children of whom there is only 9 living now.

I have written this to be left with my other papers, so that after I am gone to that world from whence no traveler has returned, my children may read it and have some knowledge of their origin, and of the trouble that I have passed through in this world.

This the third day of June, 1866. E.H. REED Elijah Reed married Sally Cox 10-13-1824 Jefferson Co., TN

From Contributor 48320095.

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