Showing posts with label Samuel Holt 1831-1909. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Holt 1831-1909. Show all posts
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Passenger List for Samuel Holt Family
Liverpool to New York on the General McClellan (21 May 1864 - 23 Jun 1864)
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Samuel Holt Subpoenas for Unlawful Cohabitation
Subpoenas for trials in the third district court in Ogden Utah. These papers show summons to trial for the charge of unlawful cohabitation, or polygamy. Called as witnesses were Joseph Bowhey Holt and George Burrows of Mendon, Frances Holt, Annie Hansen Holt and Rhoda Bowhey Holt.
Unfortunately the papers do not give a great deal of detail.
The newspaper article is from the Ogden Standard Examiner, and it says that Samuel Holt was acquitted since the prosecution failed to make a case.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Biography of Samuel Holt
[Transcribed from a typewritten copy by
Paula Goodfellow August 2005, copy came from Stephanie Barksdull. No date or
authors listed. Spelling, wording, grammar, etc. as in original]
Samuel Holt left
Liverpool, England with his sife Salvia and two children on May 1, 1864. Having
buried their infant child, Emma, before leaving Liverpool. They sailed on the
McCellon, the trip taking 6 weeks to make. They landed in New York in the month
of June. They started their journey
Westward with ox teams.
Their little son
Thomas died in Wyoming and his wife died later and he buried her at Sweet Water
on the 19th of September. With his own hands he wove willows together and made
a casket in which to bury his wife. He landed in Salt Lake in October 1864 with
one little girl, Mary. He made a home for himself and daughter with
Albert Carrington for the winter. He worked for Brother Carrington until
1865.
In the month of
April 1865 he married Rhoda Bowhey, who had travelled from Liverpool in the
same company. On the 1st of April, he started to work for Brigham Young as his
coachman. In 1867 he was sent to St.
George to assist in putting telegraph poles. In 1868, in company with Willard
Young, he took horses for wintering. They
wintered the horses at Cedar Springs for Brigham Young.
He was overseer
of the Forest Farm for four years and in
1872, he was called to come to Cache Valley to take charge of the Brigham Young
Farm. This position he held until the death of
President Young.
At this time his
home for his family was in Logan. In the year of 1883, he built a home at
Millville for his family, and engaged in the pursuit of farming for
himself. While in this place, he
emigrated nine members of his father’s family.
In August 1897 he
went to his native land, England, in search of genealogy. While there, his
health failed him on account of the damp
climate and he was obliged to return to Utah. he returned in January 1878
[sic].
From this illness
he never fully recovered, and in September 1900 he sold his farm and built a
home in the Sixth Ward of Logan. He was
appointed Watermaster and Street Supervisor for Logan City, and while in
this position the boulevard was laid and the trees were planted under his
supervision.
The remainder of
his days were spent in doing work for the dead in the Logan Temple.
On September 16,
1909 he hauled fifty bushels of wheat from his son, Joseph’s farm at Clarkston,
Utah, a distance 28 miles, and unloaded the wheat in the Central Mills at
Logan, Utah. After sun down, and went
home and cared for his team.
The sleep of the
Righteous is sweet. He went to bed at 8:30 and fell to sleep, never to wake again in life.
He is buried in
the Logan Cemetary.
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Notes from Paula Goodfellow:
Samuel’s first
wife was named Selina, not Salvia. The son, Thomas, died in Wyoming, Nebraska,
a temporary camp for people preparing to cross the plains. The date given in old family group sheets for
his death was 9 June 1864. Selina died
near the banks of the Sweetwater and was buried in Pacific Springs, Wyoming,
according to the journal of another pioneer. He also verified that a child, no
name given, died in camp on June 9 or 10 1864, the night that Thomas Holt
probably died.
I don’t have anything to back up the story about being Brigham Young’s coachman right now, but he did work for Brigham Young later, and since he was a coachman in England it doesn’t seem unlikely. Also, Albert Carrington was an early editor of the Deseret News and probably well-connected in Salt Lake City, so could have arranged the job. I wonder if there are account books in the LDS church archives, or the state historical society for Brigham Young’s households and farms.
I don’t have anything to back up the story about being Brigham Young’s coachman right now, but he did work for Brigham Young later, and since he was a coachman in England it doesn’t seem unlikely. Also, Albert Carrington was an early editor of the Deseret News and probably well-connected in Salt Lake City, so could have arranged the job. I wonder if there are account books in the LDS church archives, or the state historical society for Brigham Young’s households and farms.
Logan ward
records show that Samuel and Rhoda’s second daughter, Francis Rhoda was born in
January 1868 in Cedar Springs, Utah, so that backs up the story that Samuel was
wintering horses at Cedar Springs then. (I had wondered why on earth she was
born down there.) Cedar Springs was the old name for the present day town of
Holden Utah, which is near the somewhat larger town of Fillmore (the first
capitol city of Utah).
The family members who emigrated were his brother Joseph, Joseph’s
wife and daughter, Samuel and Joseph’s mother, Mary Butler Holt and their sister, Emma and several of her
children. I cannot find death information for Mary Butler Holt, as of August
2008. She probably died in Cache Valley, but I can't find record of it in any
cemetery there.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Cemetery Records for Samuel and Rhoda Holt
Source
Information:
Utah State Historical Society, comp.. Utah Cemetery Inventory
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
Original data: Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory.
Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Samuel Holt and Rhoda Bowhey
Samuel Holt , was born on 9 Dec 1831 in Tittensor, Staffordshire, England. He died on 17 Sep 1909 in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. The cause of death was Heart failure. He was buried on 19 Sep 1909 in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United
States (1200 East 1000 North). He married Rhoda Bowhey on 15 Apr 1865 in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
Rhoda Bowhey, was born on 2 Aug 1838 in Whittakers Buildings, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England. She died on 1 Nov 1920 in Tetonia, Teton, Idaho, United States. She was buried on 7 Nov 1920 in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (1200 East 1000 North).
They had 8 children:
Emily Selina Holt
Francis Rhoda Holt
Josephine Holt
Joseph Bowhey Holt
Wilhemina Holt
Lulu Louise Holt
John Mose Molt
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