This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holt, Bellinger, Allen, Hails, Boschiere, Massellon, Massilon Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eej.2ACIB/2884 Message Board Post: Montgomery Times Monday, October 28, 1912 At 9:00 this morning Mary Augusta Bellinger Holt, widow of the late Edward Rowell Holt, quietly and peacefully passed away at the home of her son, Mr. Elbert Holt, on South Hull Street. As the third daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Carnot Bellinger, late of Bellinger Heights of this city, she was an ante-bellum belle. She was born on July 14,1837 at the old plantation home, Prairie Dale, near Oak Grove, in Montgomery County, just three years after her parents had made the remarkable journey as pioneers from their historic old home on the Ashley River at Charleston, South Carolina. Amid the refined association with the remarkable people of the old regime, Mary Augsta Bellinger grew to a gracious young girlhood. She became the pupil of the distinguished educator, Dr. Lipscomb, whose famous school for girls then stood where the old Herbert homestead, on the 400 block of Perry Street now stands. In this institution of much learning, fine manners, and gentlest morals, she had as schoolmates and friends for life such girls as we have known since as Sallie Taylor Sanford, Ann Goldthwaite Seibels, Sallie Hails Janney, Mary Somerville Shepherd, Martha Dandridge (Dike) Bibb, Hannah McIntyre Cozart, Mollie Goldthwaite Arrington, Lou Wyman Johnson, Sallie Allen Bibb, and others. Many of them preceded her to the sweet land of rest, but there are still many left, whose weary eyes are watching her flight upward, upward; -- they do not grieve for her going -- for she is at rest. On April 2, 1857, Mary Augusta Bellinger was married to Edward Rowell Holt of Augusta, Georgia. Happy years followed this union, broken only by the keen agony of the four years of civil strife. Then, with little children clinging to her tender hands, she left the plantaiton home on the Woodley Road - for no longer were white women safe in country homes - and came to build a nest home on Bellinger Heights, just across the old avenue from the home of her sainted father and mother. Here in 1874 was established a home, verily; and ever after, the house has taken on the character of the sweet chatelaine within. Those of Mrs. Holt's family who survive her are three sons, Messrs. William Carnot, Elbert and Edward Rowell Holt, and one daughter Mrs. Sallie B. Holt Allen; also, two sisters - the oldest and youngest: Mrs. A. M. Allen and Mrs. R. P. Dexter, all of this city. This obituary was found inside an old book published by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1927 with Military Service Records of men who fought in WWI. Also included with this obituary was the following notation: Mrs. Sallie Hails Bellinger Allen 30284 B. Charleston, SC Widow of Maj. Augustus Massellon Allen Descendant of Capt. Robert Hails of SC Daughter of Dr. Carnot Bellinger and Sarah Boschiere Hails. Granddaughter of Capt. Robert Hails and Sarah Boschiere (2nd wife) Great-Granddaughter of Robert Hails and Susanna Savage Robert Hails (1754-1816) raised a company at his own expense and fought the enemy in the swamps of the Santee River. He is buried on his plantation on the Santee and the house he built in Columbia, SC is still standing. Taken from the 1900 Volume of the DAR Records The following was found inside this same book. Allen, Augustus Massilon (V) June 21,1917 - Mar. 19, 1919, Draftsman. Overseas, Aug. 17, 1917 - Mar 9, 1919, grandson of Augustus Massilon Allen, Sr., Hilliard's (Ala.) Legion. Major Commissary Dept. July 31, 1863-1865. CMS No. 508, Sophie Bibb Chapter, Montgomery, Alabama Allen, Jas. Bethune, Jr. (V) Sept. 7, 1917 - June 19, 1918. Pvt., Camp Grant, Ill. Grandson of Edward R. Holt, Major Commissary Dept. Hillard's Legion (Ala.). CMS No. 1467 Sophie Bibb Chapter, Montgomery, Alabama Allen, John S. (V) Oct. 1917 - May 1, 1919. 2nd Lt. Camp Sheridan, Ala. Grandson of Edward R. Holt, Major Commissary Dept., Hilliard's Legion (Ala.) CMS No. 1468 Sophie Bibb Chapter, Montgomery, Alabama Holt, Wm. Carnot Jr. (V) July 23, 1917 - Mar 29, 1919 Grandson of Jas. Henry Fannin, Lt. Inf. (Bull's Invincibles) Grandson of Edward R. Holt, Major Com. Dept. Hilliard's Legion (Ala.) CMS No. 1465 Sophie Bibb Chapter, Montgomery, Alabama Holt, Elbert Allen (V) Oct. 8, 1917 - May 18, 1919 MM 1c US Navy & Naval Aviation. Overseas May 16, 1918 - Dec 11, 1918. Grandson of Jas. Lawrence Agnew, Co. A 6th GA Bn. CMS No. 1012 Sophie Bibb Chapter, Montgomery, Alabama