My husband apparently descends from HENRY COBLE (ca. 1764 NC - Apr. 19, 1860 MO) and his first wife, said to be MARY "Polly" HOLT, dau. of NICHOLAS HOLT and presumably wife NANCY. Others before me have made these connections, but I have not yet found "proof" that they are correct. Can anyone shed any light on how or why these connections came to be made? This hurdle is the key to my husband's possible descent from MICHAEL HOLT and ANNA ELISABETHA SCHEIBLE. HENRY COBLE's 2nd wife was Mrs. Kesiah Mitchell, md. Aug. 13, 1844, in Dade Co., MO, where they are enumerated in the 1850 census -- HENRY age 86, b. NC, and Kesiah age 56, b. TN. If HENRY's age was stated approx. correct in this census, he was b. ca. 1764. He is said to have been in Lincoln Co., TN, when his first wife died, and several of their offspring and descendants married and lived in Marshall Co., TN, where some stayed and others moved on to southern Missouri. For those of you who are not "into quilts," a brief history of the Alamance Factory established by Edwin M. Holt in 1837 is included in the book, Ellen Fickling Eanes, et al., North Carolina Quilts (Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of NC Press, 1988), pp.12-13, and a quilt made by Elizabeth Ann Mebane, wife of Alfred Augustus Holt, oldest son of E.M. Holt, is pictured and described on pp.66-67. --Wilene Smith in KS

The book, THE DESCENDANTS OF MICHAEL HOLT, by Maudie Marie Holt Marshall, lists Mary (Polly) Holt as being the wife of Henry Coble. Mary (Polly) Holt was the daughter of Nicholas Holt, Jr., the grand-daughter of Nicholas Holt, Sr., and the great-grand-daughter of Michael Holt (the original immigrant). I have no further information on this specific couple but you might see if you can borrow a copy of the above book and it may, or may not, have more information. You might also search the Holt list archives on Rootsweb as well as check the marriage records for Orange County, NC which are online at either the Orange County, NC page, the state of NC page, or maybe both. The above book lists only one wife for Nicholas Holt, Jr., and she is "Sarah" last name unknown. Robert Nicholson ----- Original Message ----- From: <WileneSmth@aol.com> To: <HOLT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: [HOLT-L] HOLT + COBLE > My husband apparently descends from HENRY COBLE (ca. 1764 NC - Apr. 19, 1860 > MO) and his first wife, said to be MARY "Polly" HOLT, dau. of NICHOLAS HOLT > and presumably wife NANCY. > > Others before me have made these connections, but I have not yet found > "proof" that they are correct. Can anyone shed any light on how or why these > connections came to be made? This hurdle is the key to my husband's possible > descent from MICHAEL HOLT and ANNA ELISABETHA SCHEIBLE. > > HENRY COBLE's 2nd wife was Mrs. Kesiah Mitchell, md. Aug. 13, 1844, in Dade > Co., MO, where they are enumerated in the 1850 census -- HENRY age 86, b. NC, > and Kesiah age 56, b. TN. > > If HENRY's age was stated approx. correct in this census, he was b. ca. 1764. > He is said to have been in Lincoln Co., TN, when his first wife died, and > several of their offspring and descendants married and lived in Marshall Co., > TN, where some stayed and others moved on to southern Missouri. > > For those of you who are not "into quilts," a brief history of the Alamance > Factory established by Edwin M. Holt in 1837 is included in the book, Ellen > Fickling Eanes, et al., North Carolina Quilts (Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of NC > Press, 1988), pp.12-13, and a quilt made by Elizabeth Ann Mebane, wife of > Alfred Augustus Holt, oldest son of E.M. Holt, is pictured and described on > pp.66-67. --Wilene Smith in KS > > > ==== HOLT Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >