Jasper Lorenzo Holt (1845 - 1925)

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Jasper was born in 1845. He passed away in 1925.

Jasper Lorenzo Holt served on both sides of the Civil War conflict. He enlisted in the CSA at the age of 17. When his unit was reassigned in mid-1864, he deserted & traveled by foot to Cleveland, TN where he enlisted in the Union Army on 12 Sep 1864.

After the War, he came back Gilmer Co, Georgia, but soon returned to Tennessee, to marry Sallie Wilson. They were married in McMinn County, Tennessee, on her 21st birthday, 28 Nov 1865. They remained in Tennessee until after the birth of Joseph in 1867, then moved back to the Lower Turniptown area of Gilmer County, Georgia. Sons, James, Benjamin, Charles and Lawrence were born in Gilmer County. Sallie died on 6 Apr 1880, at age 35...

Roxanna Redmond, became Jasper's second wife on 24 Mar 1881. Recorded Gilmer Co, Georgia; Bk 3, Pg 105. Jasper and Roxie's children were Clara and Gordon. Roxie died on 12 Oct 1885, just past her 26th birthday...

12 1/2 years later, Jasper married Ada Marie Sorrells on 17 Apr 1898, recorded in Gilmer Co, GA; Bk 4, Pg 120... He moved her to Cartecay, where their grandson Vernon, Jr. and family lives today. Here they raised a family of Vernon, Homer, Florence, Harold, Glenn, Jewell and Raymond... Ada died in Buncombe County, North Carolina on 19 May 1961...

Jasper served as postmaster of Pike, Georgia in the enclosed area that was the dogtrot between two sections of their old log home. He also operated the grist mill and a small general store near his home. Jasper died in 1925 and is buried at the old Holt family cemetery which is now known as Northcutt Baptist Church Cemetery, in Gilmer County.

An excerpt from a document written by Jasper's son, Homer; The largest nugget ever found, until that time, was found at White Path. Two nuggets with a total weight of 1600 penny weight was found there. The larger of the two was seen and handled by my grandfather, and it weighed 1100 DWT. This would of course give us the exact weight of the lesser one, that being 500 DWT. This is a terrific sized piece of gold, and the larger of the two was described to my father, Jasper Holt, as being, "larger than a goose egg."

Sources

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GM-YGY : 22 August 2017), Jasper L Holt, Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 105, sheet 565C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,148.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60012248/jasper-lorenzo-holt