Tobias HOLT

  General Notes:

Photo: A stone bearing the name "Tobias Holt" and his years of birth and death is at Greenwood Cemetery in Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. Nearby is a matching stone for his wife, Harriet (Sayre) Holt, who died one year later. On the same plot are Tobias and Harriet's daughter, Mary Elizabeth Holt, who married Justus Frazier Allum, and their granddaughter, Mildred Holt Allum, who married Edwin Barnes Haughton.

Photo taken for ALLUM in 2009 by Diane (Fowler) (Lisk) Corbett



1838 BIRTH of Tobias Holt in England

According to the death certificate of Tobias Holt, his father was also named Tobias and his mother's maiden name was "Littleton." Both parents had been born in England.

1860 EMIGRATION from England to America; naturalized in 1865

1869 MARRIAGE of Tobias Holt and Harriet Sayre on December 28 in Mason County, West Virginia

1870 CENSUS, West Virginia, Mason County, City of Hartford ("Tobias," age 37, "Coal miner," born in England) (wife "Harriet," age 23, born in Virginia) ("Holt" is "Hott" in some census indexes) (Tobias and Harriet are in the household of Charles and Mahalah Juhling)

1880 CENSUS, West Virginia, Mason County, Waggoner District ("Tobias," age 35, "Miner") (wife "Harriet," age 33)

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1885 WHEELING REGISTER, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, November 10:

"The coal miners of this section have formed the following permanent organization: President, Tobias Holt; Vice President, Peter O'Malley; Corresponding Secretary, C. B. Knox; Financial Secretary, Thomas Johnson; Treasurer, John Applegarth."

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1900 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Pultney Township, Bellaire ("Tobias," age 61, "Day Laborer," born "September, 1838 in England") (wife "Harriet," age 53, born "March, 1867 in West Virginia") (Harriet is shown as the mother of 3 children, 3 children living in the year 1900; she and Tobias had been married 29 years)

1910 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Pultney Township, Bellaire (Tobias, age 72, "Laborer, Glass House") (wife "Harriet," age 63) (Harriet is documented as the mother of 3 children; she and Tobias had been married 40 years) (Tobias is "Tobries" in some census indexes)

1920 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Pultney Township, Bellaire (Tobias, age 84, no occupation) (wife "Harriett," age 72) (Tobias is "Tolia" in some census indexes)

1924 DEATH, Tobias Holt, at 85 years 4 months 6 days

Cause of death: "General devitalization" --death certificate

1925 DEATH of wife, Harriet (Sayre) Holt, at approximately 78 years




DOCUMENT: State of Ohio Death Certificate No. 355 for Tobias Holt signed by his wife, Harriet L. Holt

Tobias married Harriet SAYRE on December 28, 1869 in Mason County, West Virginia. (Harriet SAYRE was born in March 1847 in Virginia (Probably Mason County) (Later In West Virginia), died in 1925 and was buried on September 5, 1925 in Greenwood (aka Rose Hill-Greenwood) Cemetery, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio.)