John Lewis Sullivan Holt (1887 - 1929)

Born 11 Apr 1887 in Athens, Limestone Co., Alabama

Ancestors

Husband of Stella (Brown) Holt — married 20 Jan 1917 in Ardmore, Carter Co., Oklahoma

Died 23 Apr 1929 at age 42 in Otter Creek, Kiowa Co., Oklahoma

Biography

John Lewis Sullivan Holt was born in Limestone Co., Alabama on April 11, 1887. He lost his mother, Mary Surginer Holt, after he was born due to complications of child birth. His father, Benjamin Holt, left him and his older brother, William, with Mary's parents while he moved to Texas to live with family and get life started in a new place. After Ben remarried in 1888, he returned to Alabama to retrieve his young sons but found that his children's grandparents were unwilling to return them to him. The family legend goes that due to the hardships of trying to get his children back he finally abducted them and returned to Texas.

Sources

"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MJ9W-GGD : accessed 2 March 2015), John Holt, Bokchito, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States; citing sheet 16B, family 296, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,454.

Son H.P. and father John photo courtesy:

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6256053/person/6874251471/media/2?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid|pgNum

Family lore as recalled by Dianna Holt.