Samuel Doak Holt
b. 14 October 1803, d. 23 April 1863
- Father: Dr. William Holt b. 12 February 1758, d. 10 September 1826
- Mother: Lucy Saunders b. 15 March 1765, d. 25 December 1847
- Samuel Doak Holt was born on 14 October 1803 in Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia.
- He married Laura Hall, daughter of Bolling Hall and Jane Abercrombie, on 23 July 1830.
- Samuel Doak Holt and Laura Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary Elizabeth Holt, William Bolling Holt, Samuel Elbert Holt, Laura Hall Holt, Florence Montgomery Holt, Charles Abercrombie Holt and Bolling Hall Holt.
- He was a medical doctor, according to the 1850 census.
- Samuel Doak Holt and Laura Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery County, Alabama, living not far from Samuel's brother Elbert.. Other members of the household included Florence Montgomery Holt, Charles Abercrombie Holt and Bolling Hall Holt. "David S. Holt," age 9, likely is son Frank.
- He was a medical doctor, according to the 1860 census.
- His wife Laura Hall became a widow at his death.
- Samuel Doak Holt died on 23 April 1863 at age 59 in Montgomery, Alabama.
- A biographical sketch appears in the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1920): Samuel Doak Holt, physician and mayor of Montgomery, was born October 14, 1803, at Elberton, Elbert County, Ga., and died April 23, 1863, at Montgomery; son of Dr. William and Lucy (Saunders) Holt, the former a native of Louisa County, Va., who later lived in Tennessee and Georgia, and surgeon in the Revolutionary Army; grandson of John and Edity (Brewer) Holt also of Louisa County, and of Thomas and Elizabeth Saunders of Hanover Court House, Va; great-grandson of Joseph Holt, one of the three brothers, John, Joseph and William Holt, born in London, and immigrated to Virginia in 1665 or 1670, landing at Hog Island at the mouth of the James River. Mr. Holt graduated in medicine at the South Carolina medical college, Charleston, and located in Montgomery, in 1827, where he practiced his profession for nearly forty years. He was mayor of Montgomery in 1837; captain of the Montgomery Guards, and in 1836 was major of the regiment that served in the Creek Indian War. He was a Whig and a Methodist. Married: in 1830, in Autauga County, Laura, daughter of Bolling and Jane (Abercrombie) Hall (q. v.) Children: Mary Elizabeth, m. Lewis C. Jurey, of New Orleans, La; 2. William Bolling, m. Ada E. Holt; 3. Samuel Elbert, m. Ellen Gaines; 4. Laura Hall, m. William R. Pickett; 5. Florence, m. Joseph Hodgson, (q. v.); 6. Charles Abercrombie, m. Melanie Weeks, of Galveston, Texas; 8. Frank Saunders, m. Mary Brantley. Last residence: Montgomery.
- Last Edited: 4 Nov 2011
Family: Laura Hall b. 26 May 1815, d. 9 June 1899
- William Augustus Holt b. 17 June 1831, d. 25 September 1835
- Bolling Hall Holt b. 18 February 1833, d. 23 July 1833
- Mary Elizabeth Holt b. 10 May 1834, d. circa 1918
- William Bolling Holt b. 21 August 1836, d. 31 July 1910
- Samuel Elbert Holt b. 28 March 1838
- Laura Hall Holt+ b. 9 May 1840, d. 23 May 1916
- Florence Montgomery Holt b. 2 March 1841, d. 7 February 1925
- Charles Abercrombie Holt b. 18 January 1844, d. 20 November 1924
- Thomas Eldred Holt b. 30 September 1845, d. 30 July 1847
- John David Holt b. 11 February 1847, d. 3 November 1847
- Bolling Hall Holt b. 28 September 1848, d. 21 June 1901
- Frank Saunders Holt b. 15 July 1851, d. 31 October 1892
- Infant Daughter Holt b. March 1855, d. March 1855