Joyce I didn't mean to imply Limestone County Al and Running Water Tn were near. Running Water is corner Dade County Ga in Marion County Tenn. You would have to cross Madison and Jackson Counties Al to Ga/Tn border. gerald preas dallas tx --- "Joyce G. Reece" <[email protected]> wrote: > I emailed another person who had a Randall Holt then > later a Joseph Murphy > in Running Water town near Limeston Co Alabama. > Does this line have an Eli? > > > Joyce Gaston Reece > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: [HOLT] Washington/Greene Co TN > > > > It looks to me that you have the Randall Holt line > from Hog Island, VA > > You > > can see these in lineages of some of my Family > Tree DNA Holt Surname > > Project > > members on http://www.holtfamilydnaproject.com > > Ed Holt, Administrator > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joyce G. Reece" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:16 PM > > Subject: [HOLT] Washington/Greene Co TN > > > > > >> In Washington County Tennessee Court Records is > found: > >> > >> James Penney, Daniel Kennedy, Dr. William Holt > and Baldwin Harcle bond to > >> prosecute with Abram Broyles: case of Broyles > vs. Penny, Kennedy, July > >> 14, 1799 > >> > >> David Holt, Joseph Holt (Greene County): > subpoena; State vs. William > >> Smith; September 2, 1802 > >> > >> Joseph Holt (Greene County); subpeona; State vs. > William Smith; September > >> 7, 1802 > >> > >> David Holt, Joseph Holt and Barrett Holt (Greene > County); subpeona; > >> William Cocke vs. James Ore; September 1804 > >> > >> Joseph Holt, Barrett Holt; Subpeona; William > Cocke vs. William Smith; > >> September 1805 > >> > >> David Holt (Greene County); subpoena Samuel > Stinson, et al. vs. John > >> Russell; March 1808 > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

In a few weeks I'll be returning to Limestone Co., AL to collect additional data to help complete records on the Holt families and their collateral lines who lived in and around nearby counties. The majority of the Holt families in Limestone County, AL descend from Samuel Holt whose will was proven in the Northampton, North Carolina June Court of 1821. While there, I have hopes of persuading members of three or four lines to contribute their DNA. There are one or two lines in Texas I hope to find a donor willing to contribute DNA. My database is extensive. My intent has been to identify and document each descendant born into these liens (including the daughters collateral families) through the middle of the 20th century. In many lines, the data covered names of individuals born at the end of the 20th century and/or early twenty-first century. My database includes hundreds of obituaries, funeral home records, probate and other court records. Living descendants are centered primarily in Limestone Co., AL, Giles Co., TN, Madison Co., AL, Morgan Co., AL, Lauderdale Co., AL, with a few others living throughout the rest of Alabama. Some descendants live in and around Craighead Co., AR; however, the second largest population of these Holts and their collateral families in Texas with focus on the blackland prairie area of Fannin, Hunt, Delta, and Hopkins Counties. A few other lines scattered throughout Texas in the post-Civil War years. A handful of lines eventually moved to Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, and California. Compiling this database has been a real struggle. I still have some strays and unidentified relationships I cannot definitely prove. Right now, in unedited book style format (using Rootsmagic software program) a book limning these families contains more than 1,750 pages, excluding index and source or citation pages. With one last push at collecting additional documentation in the Limestone County area, I hope to wrap up this portion of my research effort by June 2007. Then I will make an effort to find appropriate DNA donors for any of the questionable lines. If anyone on this mailing list is a male with the Holt surname who believes they descend from the Limestone Co., AL families and who wishes to contribute their DNA to Holt project I'd greatly appreciate their contacting me at [email protected] so that we can coordinate our efforts. I worked on the very complicated Blanton-Womack DNA project(s) and finding suitable donors without religious or other moral constrictions was not an easy task. In one case, a prospective contributor's preacher gave a sermon on "DNA - The Work of the Devil". Needless to say, that donor backed out of the DNA project. I then had to find someone else in that line to submit their DNA - not an easy task since there were only a handful of eligible males still living who were not members of that particular religious sect. Ruth Hasten Walsh

Ruth, I descend from Barrett Holt who was born about 1782 in Virginia and spent time from 1800 - 1845 in East Tennessee. Other Holt's in the area at that time were Dr. William Holt, David Holt (brothers) and Joseph Holt (probably a cousin). A strong prospect for Barrett's father is William from a first wife who died or from Lucy Sanders, his wife of record, with a birth prior to marriage. William left Tennessee and went to Georgia with a large family that migrated over the southeast including Mississippi and Alabama. I am interested in your database as it relates to the Holt's that got their start from Randall. I have done the DNA testing and am listed as case #27801 on the Holt Family DNA Project reports. Which Samuel do you cite as the major contributor to the Limestone County families. Do you have his parents and grandparents. One of the other DNA contributors from the Randall line goes through William Cocke Holt who went to N. Carolina and then S. Carolina. I have a good amount of records on this family and according to the DNA we do relate. Always looking to connect with cousins. Preston Holt ----- Original Message ----- From: "delins1" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [HOLT] Limestone Co., AL & Holt DNA efforts > In a few weeks I'll be returning to Limestone Co., AL to collect > additional > data to help complete records on the Holt families and their collateral > lines who lived in and around nearby counties. The majority of the Holt > families in Limestone County, AL descend from Samuel Holt whose will was > proven in the Northampton, North Carolina June Court of 1821. While > there, > I have hopes of persuading members of three or four lines to contribute > their DNA. There are one or two lines in Texas I hope to find a donor > willing to contribute DNA. > > My database is extensive. My intent has been to identify and document > each > descendant born into these liens (including the daughters collateral > families) through the middle of the 20th century. In many lines, the data > covered names of individuals born at the end of the 20th century and/or > early twenty-first century. My database includes hundreds of obituaries, > funeral home records, probate and other court records. Living descendants > are centered primarily in Limestone Co., AL, Giles Co., TN, Madison Co., > AL, > Morgan Co., AL, Lauderdale Co., AL, with a few others living throughout > the > rest of Alabama. Some descendants live in and around Craighead Co., AR; > however, the second largest population of these Holts and their collateral > families in Texas with focus on the blackland prairie area of Fannin, > Hunt, > Delta, and Hopkins Counties. A few other lines scattered throughout Texas > in the post-Civil War years. A handful of lines eventually moved to > Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, and California. Compiling this > database has been a real struggle. I still have some strays and > unidentified > relationships I cannot definitely prove. > > Right now, in unedited book style format (using Rootsmagic software > program) > a book limning these families contains more than 1,750 pages, excluding > index and source or citation pages. With one last push at collecting > additional documentation in the Limestone County area, I hope to wrap up > this portion of my research effort by June 2007. Then I will make an > effort > to find appropriate DNA donors for any of the questionable lines. > > If anyone on this mailing list is a male with the Holt surname who > believes > they descend from the Limestone Co., AL families and who wishes to > contribute their DNA to Holt project I'd greatly appreciate their > contacting > me at [email protected] so that we can coordinate our efforts. I > worked > on the very complicated Blanton-Womack DNA project(s) and finding suitable > donors without religious or other moral constrictions was not an easy > task. > In one case, a prospective contributor's preacher gave a sermon on "DNA - > The Work of the Devil". Needless to say, that donor backed out of the DNA > project. I then had to find someone else in that line to submit their > DNA - > not an easy task since there were only a handful of eligible males still > living who were not members of that particular religious sect. > > Ruth Hasten Walsh > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >

Preston Sorry, that was Louvenia Jane Alberty..... Not Lucinda Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: "Preston Holt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [HOLT] Limestone Co., AL & Holt DNA efforts