Henry Joshua Holt Jr. (1842 - 1901)

Born Feb 1842 in Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Perry) Holt — married 14 Feb 1875 in Cheatham County, TN

Descendants

Died 12 Jun 1901 at age 59 in Davidson County, Tennessee

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Biography

Henry Holt was the son of Henry Joshua Holt and Mary Wills. His obit follows which is transcribed from the Nashville Tennessean Newspaper, June 12, 1901, p.2: Mr. Henry Holt, died last night at his home on Eden's Creek. (Should read Eatons Creek). The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at the residence and the remains will be buried at the family burying ground. (End of Obit). Henry Holt was married to Mary Ann Perry on February 14, 1875 in Cheatham County, TN. Their children were: Mattie Elizabeth, Bertie, Willie, Charles, John Henry, Maggie, Alonzo, Sallie and Maude Holt. He is interred in the Holt Family Burial Grounds, off Eatons Creek Road on McCool Rd., Nashville, TN. This area was known as Holt's Hollow during the time that the family lived there. Henry died of Tabes Mesenterica, an old-time medical term which is a condition of Tuberculosis.

Henry was born in 1842 to Henry Holt and Mary Wills. He was a Confederate soldier during the U.S. Civil War.^[1] He married Mary Ann Perry in 1875.^[2] He passed away in 1901, and is buried in the Holt Family Cemetery in Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZW7-35W : 4 December 2014), Henry Holt, 1863; from "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Forty-eighth (Nixon's) Infantry, NARA microfilm publication M268 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1960), roll 313.
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ7Q-HZ1 : 6 November 2017), Henry Holt and Mary Ann Perry, 14 Feb 1875; citing Cheatham, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 82, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,012,090.
3. ↑ FindAGrave.com #55774174

• family records, census records

See also:

• "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSC-9L5W?cc=1473181&wc=7QMS-CYH%3A1589422383%2C1589433429%2C1589436110 : 24 March 2017), Tennessee > Davidson > 23rd District > image 3 of 11; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD79-3P1 : 15 July 2017), Henry Holt, District 23, Davidson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 82, sheet 350C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,251.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS8C-WF6 : accessed 5 October 2019), Henry Holt, Civil District 23, Davidson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 138, sheet 6B, family 116, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,566.