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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Flavius P. Holt, a progressive citizen of Nashville, Ark., is a native of Lebanon, Tenn., his birth occurring there in 1846, he being the fourth of a family of seven children born to Jesse W. and Harriet C. (Gregory) Holt, natives of Tennessee and Virginia, respectively. They came to Arkansas in 1847, settling in Hempstead County, where he purchased 600 acres of land, a large, portion of which he cleared and cultivated, afterward becoming the owner of much more land. He was an earnest Christian, and assisted in organizing the First Missionary Baptist Church, of which he was a member, in his section of the county, this being the church at Ozan in 1847. He was well known throughout Southwest Arkansas, and his death, which occurred in December, 1864, was lamented, not only by his immediate household, but by all who knew him. His wife still survives him, lives on the old homestead, and although seventy-three years of age is in good health. Flavius P. Holt resided with his father on the farm until he was sixteen years of age, after which he was sent to school, but left the institution in which he was placed, and enlisted in the Confederate service. He joined Company D, First Arkansas Cavalry, Monroe's regiment, and being in the Trans-Mississippi department, they participated in the battles at Cedar Glade, Little Rock, Poison Springs, Mark's Mill, Jenkins' Ferry, and in all the battles in which Gen. Price took part during his memorable raid. After this Mr. Holt returned to Arkansas and Louisiana, then to Texas, after which he was sent to Washington, Hempstead County, where he surrendered May 18, 1865, lacking a few days of having been in the service four years. He returned home and entered school at Nashville, where he remained earnestly applying himself to his books for three years. In 1869 he opened a mercantile store in Nashville, continuing ten years, opening, in 1872, the first hotel in the town. On the completion of the railroad, he started a hotel at the depot, continuing in the business there until Christmas, 1889. He is the owner of an excellent farm of 160 acres, partly within the limits of Nashville, and has 135 acres under cultivation, but all is excellent creek bottom land and capable of cultivation. Mr. Holt was married May 1, 1871, to Miss Hope Parker, a daughter of Thomas G. Parker, and to them six children were born: Lena, and Anlin P. and Charley who are dead; Hardie Hicks, Birdie, and one that died in infancy unnamed. The family are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.

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This family biography is one of 116 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Howard County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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