Dennis, I still believe that my Lemuel A. Holt (my grandfather) is connected to the Union co. Kentucky Holt's that moved to Illinois but have never connected with them yet. There are several Lemuel Holt's from that the Kentucky area however, he is not the Lemuel A Holt that is listed on the 1880 census. I know he was in Arkansas by 1890 because that is where he married for the first time to an Emma Smith. My grandfather (Lemuel) states that he was born in Illinois in 1869 and that his father was born in Illinois and his mother was born in Mississippi. We believe she was Choctaw. LaVon