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• FSID: KWN2-HP4

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWCY-BFM
• Beskæftigelse: St George, Washington, Utah, USA; Farmer

George blev gift med Rachel Overton Holt den 6 okt. 1874 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Rachel (datter af James Holt og Parthenia Overton) blev født den 14 jun. 1856 i North Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA; blev døbt i 1864 i Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA; døde den 29 mar. 1942 i St George, Washington, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 30 mar. 1942 i Saint George City Cemetery, St George, Washington, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• FSID: KWCY-BFS

Notater:

Sketch of Rachel Holt Cottam
By Mary Ann Cottam Miller
With a few comments of James F. Cottam

Rachel Holt was born June 14, 1856, at North Ogden to James Holt and Parthenia Overton Holt. Her parents were converts to the Latter-day Saints Church in its early days. Her father was an overseer on a large cotton plantation in Tennessee and worked for his uncle who was owner of the estate and employed him to take charge of the slaves.
When the first Mormon Missionaries came into that section he heard and believed the message. He and his family (James’ first wife was Mary Pain) joined the Church and in 1840 set out to be with the Saints in Nauvoo. He was a real helper in the building if the Nauvoo House and the Temple both by the giving of means and by his labor.
In following the Church he and his family suffered many hardships. His first wife and two children died leaving him with four children.
After the death of the Prophet (Joseph Smith) he went with others to carry the Book of Mormon to the Iowa Indians. Here he met Rachel’s mother, who was one of the company on this mission. They were married in wild Indian country and she took over the care if his four children, all of whom were un poor physical condition because of lack of proper care. Pen cannot write the story of the hardships they endured but finally, by 1852, they arrived in Utah locating at North Ogden. It was here that Rachel was born. Her father had moved so much it was hard for him to remain in one place very long. When he would get well established he would sell out and make a new home. After nine years, when Rachel was six years of age, he moved his family to Washington, Washington County, Utah, in 1862, to grow cotton. Though Rachel was young she could pick the cotton very rapidly. When she was eight years old she and her brother would walk the seven miles to St. George with their cotton to trade it at Bentley’s store for something much needed. She well remembered giving her week’s wages of cotton for a yard and a half of calico. But how proud she was of the scant dress she got out of it.
She was of medium size with gray eyes and dark hair. Her hair changed to gray as she became older.
After the second season in Washington her father was suffering with malaria and they sought a cooler climate. A number of families were starting homes at Long Valley, Kane County,
So the Holts joined this group. They had only established themselves in rude shelters and planted their second crops when the Indians became very troublesome and they were advised to move out. They moved to Virgin City. The men went back to try to harvest their crops but only got part of them when the Indians came near massacring them and it was only by making their way by foot through the deep Zion Canyon country that they made their way back to Virgin City, the Indians took all of their produce.
One year in Virgin City was long enough and so they moved back to Washington. Some relatives had located on a ranch at the Meadow above the town of Hamblin and were so well pleased with their place that they thought it was just the place for the Holts to move to.
Rachel was now eleven years of age. Her schooling had been neglected because of moving so much but she herded sheep, rode horses and milked cows. Father Holt raised sheep for the meat and wool from which the family clothing could be made. It was scoured, carded, spun and woven. Rachel’s part of the work with the wool was the spinning. Her mother did the carding, then she spun the flakes unto fine threads ready to be woven into cloth, or into two, three, or four threads twisted into yarn for knotting into stockings. The successful use of the spinning wheel was an art in which Rachel was very clever. And years after her marriage she went to the ranch during the summer to spin the yarn from which she made stockings for herself and family. While visiting with her parents she also milked the cows and made cheese and butter for winter use.
When Rachel was seventeen she went to St. George to go to school. She lived with Martha Ashby, working for part of her board and keep and paying farm produce for the rest. She was not up with most of young people in her education at that time but did fairly well during the winter.
She has been courted for some time by a fine young man of Hamblin, who accidently shot himself in the arm and later died of blood-poison. While going to school she became acquainted with George T. Cottam and they started their courtship. Some time after she returned home he made a trip up to see her and make the acquaintance of her family. When he arrived, unexpectedly, she was dressed in an old pair of her brother’s work pants and was down in a potato pit sprouting potatoes. How embarrassed she was, but he did not care, he was still of the opinion that he wanted to marry her.
In October 1874, they went to Salt Lake City, along with four couples from St. George, and were married in the Endowment House by Daniel H. Wells. The trip took three weeks with team and wagon. While in Salt Lake City, George and Rachel were guests of his grandparents- John and Catherine Livesay Cottam. She was a very shy, modest girl and the old grandfather shocked her terribly. When they returned home they at once came to live at St. George, where George was a prosperous young man. They made their home with Father and Mother Cottam-Thomas and Caroline Smith Cottam-for two and a half years while their home was being built.
Rachel worked hard helping with such chores as milking cow, feeding pigs and caring for the chickens as her husband worked in the fields from very early until late at night. She was an excellent cook, a quick, hard worker and she never permitted a suggestive or unclean story to be told in her presence. She would not tolerate vulgar stories, slang or profanity. If the girls over-heard anything immodest away from the home they knew better than to repeat it at home. With the younger children it was different. As times changed, they were not as strictly disciplined and though she did not approve of many things they gradually crept in. The rule if the family was that each of them had to made it known when they returned from a part or activity and late hours were discouraged.
Every Sunday she prepared a fat hen with dumplings or doodles for dinner. She would remind the family that James liked the neck and he finally decided that he did.
Her washing was begun before daylight each Monday morning and finished before noon.
Many people came to their home to spend a few days working in the temple of for a few days of business and visiting. Her children were often tucked in a corner on a quilt of two for the night while their beds were given to the visitors. This still remains an unpleasant memory with some of the children. Many winters Rachel boarded two boys while they attended school. With her large family it meant additional work. The older children were girls and they were taught to work. If there was some time when there was not some job on, there was a baby to care for so there was no time for play. As soon as school was out for the summer, quilts were to be made and repaired, carpet rags to be made ready for the weaver to make into a new carpet. Her five rooms were covered with homemade carpets. This was made possible by shifting the older ones upstairs during the spring housecleaning and the poorest one put where the wear was not so great.
As a donation she baked all of the bread that was used for the Sunday School Sacrament for twenty-five years. She also did the laundry for the church tablecloths. She kept the commandment, “provoke your husband to good work.” She write few letters but ‘saw to it’ that George never neglected the family letters to the absent ones.
When the children were mostly grown she went to Relief Society and served for some time as a counsel under Emma Brooks. In the days that she served in the presidency it was expected that the Relief Society would help care for the sick in the ward. At times it was a lot of work especially when there was a lot of sickness and often a death or two. Many nights Rachel sat up caring for those needing helping from the Relief Society. She never sought public office and did not want others to know what she did. For many years she was a visiting teacher and enjoyed this duty.
She seldom missed going to church on Sunday afternoon.
With her older children she was strict in discipline and when she spoke to them they knew it meant “Do”. They were not allowed to play cards nor read novels.
In here later years she pieced quilt blocks and made braided rugs. She read the church books and some novels.
She was the mother of twelve children, eight girls and four boys. Her oldest boy died when he was nine years old. The others all lived to marry. She was a widow for seven years. She died at the home of her daughter Vilate Prince, in St. George where she had been living for some time-on March 29, 1942, at the age of eighty-five. She is buried in St. George.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWJ4-GP5
• Departure: 27 jul. 1852, Kanesville, Iowa
• Arrival: 27 okt. 1852, Slc; Age: 48
• Indvandring: 27 okt. 1852, Utah, USA

Notater:

James Holt was a pioneer, he lead his own pioneer company along a 1,000 mile route to Salt Lake City that was less traveled, so as to avoid the epidemic of cholera "to cross the plains with as small a company as possible on account of sickness, as it was a very bad year for cholera. ". His company was mostly of family. They traveled from 27 July 1852 - 27 October 1852. Passing Indians on a few accounts along the way

James Holt
Birth: Feb. 10, 1804 Halifax County, North Carolina, USA
Death: Jan. 25, 1894 Washington County, Utah, USA

JAMES HOLT

Teasdale, Wayne County, Utah,
April 9, 1894 - Not having seen a notice of the death of my father in your paper, I take the liberty of sending you a short sketch of his life.

James Holt was born Feb 10, 1804 in North Carolina. He was the son of James and Elizabeth Holt. His parents moved to Tennessee when he was six months old where they made a permanent home. My father received the gospel in the year 1839 and was baptized. In 1840 he emigrated to Nauvoo, where he became intimately acquainted with the Prophet Joseph.

He was sent on a mission in the spring of 1844 to Tennessee, and was preaching on the day the Prophet was killed. He was filled with prophecy at the time and said: "Now they have murdered the prophet of God, he has sealed his testimony with his blood and my mission is ended for this time." He immediately started home and on his way learned it was all too true.

He left Nauvoo in the fall and suffered all the hardships of that trip. He stopped in Iowa until 1852, where he came to the valley and settled at North Ogden. He was counselor to Bishop Thomas Dunn for a number of years. He was one of the first to settle Ogden Valley, in 1862 he moved south and settled at Washington, and from there he went to Long Valley, and finely when the settlers were all run by the Indians, he went to the Mountain Meadows, finely settling at the mouth of the Meadow canyon, where he resided until his death. Which occurred on the 27 of January, 1894, he lacked a few days of being 90 years old.

He was honest as the day is long, and a staunch believer in the Gospel, and was always on hand to respond to every call made upon him. He was the father of nineteen children, some having gone before. He leaves a wife, nine children, many grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and a host of friends to mourning his loss. He had a great deal of work done in the St. George Temple for his dead.

W. A. Holt

other children:
(1) Hyrum Holt Born and Died 1831 or 1832
LDS Ancestral File has this child as Jesse Hyrum Holt 1831, Near Lebanon, Sumner Co, Tenn. Died 1834. LDS Temple Records for St. George has this child as Hyrum Holt Birth and death 1831 in Sumner Co. Tenn. A History of the Holt Family by William Alma Holt birth 27 Jul 1832, Wilson Co, Tenn. Death 27 July 1832.

(2) Jesse Washington Holt birth 15 July 1833, Johnson County, Illinois, Death Nov 1833 Johnson County, Illinois

(3) Sarah Ann Elizabeth Holt Birth 27 Nov 1835, Johnson County Illinois, Death Jul 1835, Johnson County, Illinois

(4) Leander Holt Birth 6 Dec 1836,Johnson County, Illinois
Death Nov 1844, 5 Miles North of Kitchen's settlement Iowa

John James Holt Birth 22 Aug 1844, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, Death 10 Feb 1845, Iowa

Family links:
Parents:
Jesse A Holt (1783 - 1844)
Elizabeth Davis Holt (1780 - 1818)

Spouses:
Mary Payne Holt (1814 - 1844)*
Parthenia Overton Holt (1821 - 1906)*

Children:
Jesse Hyrum Holt (1832 - 1832)*
Washington Holt (1833 - 1833)*
Sarah Ann Elizabeth Holt (1835 - 1835)*
Leander Holt (1836 - 1844)*
LeRoy Holt (1838 - 1910)*
Mary Ann Holt Barker (1840 - 1916)*
William Alma Holt (1842 - 1920)*
John James Payne Holt (1844 - 1845)*
Dandridge Overton Holt (1846 - 1847)*
Joseph James Overton Holt (1848 - 1853)*
Nancy Catharine Holt Slade (1850 - 1931)*
Franklin Overton Holt (1852 - 1929)*
Clarissa Jane Overton Holt (1853 - 1854)*
Calista Overton Holt (1855 - 1855)*
Rachel Overton Holt Cottam (1856 - 1942)*
George Albert Holt (1858 - 1935)*
Parthenia Overton Holt (1861 - 1863)*
Henry Davis Holt (1864 - 1959)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
In Memory Of James Holt Born Feb 10, 1804 in North Carolina Died Jan 25, 1894 An Amiable Father here lies at rest As ever God with his image blest the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age the guide of youth.

Burial:
Holt Cemetery Enterprise Washington County Utah, USA Plot: B4

Maintained by: JJH
Originally Created by: Karen Todora
Record added: Mar 05, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 25076561

James + Parthenia Overton. Parthenia blev født den 12 jul. 1821 i New Salem, Washington, Indiana, United States; døde den 6 maj 1906 i Gunlock, Washington, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 7 maj 1906 i Holt Cemetery, Enterprise, Washington, Utah, United States. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWJ4-GPP
• Indvandring: 27 okt. 1852, Utah, USA