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The family of Landon and Rebecca Holt. From the hollers of Pike County, Kentucky, the ancestors and out to every place the family has gone since.
The Holt family archiveThe family of Landon and Rebecca Holt. From the hollers of Pike County, Kentucky, the ancestors and out to every place the family has gone since.
Eight points rise over the Pike County hills, one for each of Landon and Rebecca's children who grew to adulthood. The bright star that shines a little apart is Onada, the little sister who blessed them for only twenty months. Every map of this family includes her.
From the Archive · Patriot ancestor
about 1751 – 1835
“...there was serveral bullet holes through his clothes.”
Jacob Dobkins, pension declaration, 1832
In 1780 Jacob marched with George Rogers Clark. Ten men of his company were killed in an attack at the mouth of the Kentucky River, and at the Pickaway towns he fought through a battle that lasted three and a half hours. In 1831 he wrote a will freeing the people he enslaved. His family kept it hidden, and it took a lawsuit and a court ruling to enforce it.
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