HOLT CEMETERY #2 (Yarbrough Rd) LIMESTONE COUNTY ALABAMA

Mapping the Location


An area view looking back from the field & residential road:4300C/4300/4302
The old Log Cabin:4294/4295/4299/Home had two chimneys but 1 has fallen 4301


HOLT, John H. Wesley, 14 Dec 1831 - 11 Apr 1906. Private, Co C, 11th Alabama Calvery. An honest man the noblest work of God. 4297C/4297/Military Marker:4298
HOLT, Martha C. L. Martin, 4 May 1834 - 19 Jan 1872. Her happy soul has winged it way to one bright eternal day. 4296C/4296
HOLT, Thomas W., 1859 - died before 1880 Census. Thought to be here. (Grave unmarked)*. 4296C/4296

Here you should find one double obelisk stone with two graves and one military marker for John W. Holt. Also a child is said to be buried here as relayed to Linda Smith from Myrtle Haggermaker in the 1990s.
The story is told in the Holt family that this cemetery was founded in 1872 when Martha died. At that time a rain storm flooded the Piney Creek and it was out of its banks and they were unable to get across it to take her remains to the old Holt Family Cemetery #1 on Hwy 31/Hwy 251. So they buried Martha northeast and behind the Cabin. Maybe the child died about the same time or after Martha and was theirs. Years later when John W. Holt died they added his remains here beside his wife.
* Information by descendent Ruth Hasten Walsh.

This Cemetery presentation is based on the photography of C. Wayne Austin on 17 Mar 2015.  Site linkage & programming  & adding to this site occurring on 19 Mar 2015 by the same.  It also appeared in the book Tombstone Inscriptions of Limestone County Alabama, By Linda Smith, 1992 on page 230 as taken 16 Mar 1986 by Philip Reyer & Tina Sandlin for Linda's book. The cemetery shows up on findgrave with a photo & visit of the inscription of the John W. Holt monument and someone added the military marker since 1992.