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.