This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4h.2ADI/1510.2 Message Board Post: >From the Ripley County, Indiana, History, (Ripley County History Book Committee, 1989), page 122: "Towns have to have names, Holman was suggested but Jesse Holman did not agree with this. They settled on the name Holton (Hol-town)."