Biography of Miles Holt - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 75

Miles Holt, a substantial farmer and resident of Morrilton, owes his
birthplace to Gilmer County, Georgia, and was born about 1843, being
the sixth of a family of seven sons and three daughters born to
Seaborne and Sophia (Davis) Holt, who were probably natives of South
Carolina, but afterwards removed to Georgia where they spent the
remainder of their lives, Mrs. Holt dying May 10, 1885, and Mr. Holt
February 20, 1888. Mr. Holt was a farmer by occupation, and was a son
of Larkin Holt, who also died in Georgia. The maternal grandfather,
Milton Davis, died in the State of Georgia a few years ago at the
remarkable old age of 103 years. Miles Holt was reared on a farm and
has spent his life as a tiller of the soil. His educational advantages
were limited to the country schools. When the war broke out he was
almost in his boyhood, but in 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army
in Company F, of the 7th Georgia regiment of Volunteer Infantry, and
served from that time till the close of the war in the Army of
Virginia, participating in the battles of Yorktown, seven days fight,
first Frederickstown, second Manasssas, Charlottesburg, Gettysburg,
and many minor engagements, without being wounded or captured. He
surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox, and returned to his home,
but afterwards spent one year in Tennessee, and in 1870 came to Conway
County, Arkansas, where he was married the same year to Elizabeth
Smith, a native of Mississippi, and a daughter of Henry and Harriet
Smith, who removed from Mississippi to Conway County, where Mr. Smith
died. Mrs. Smith is now living at Fort Smith. Mrs. Holt died in 1881,
being the mother of five children, viz.: Ida May, Mattie Belle
(deceased). Wm. Arthur, Mary Etta (deceased) and Robert H. (deceased).
On September 15, 1883, Mr. Holt was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah
Elizabeth Stokes, widow of Andrew Stokes (deceased), and a daughter of
John Miller, an early settler of Conway County, where he and wife both
died, and where Mrs. Holt was born December 16, 1861. By this latter
marriage Mr. Holt has two children, Romer and Grover C. Soon after his
residence in Conway County, Mr. Holt settled in the woods near the
mouth of Point Remove, where he improved a fine farm of 80 acres which
he still owns, but for some years has lived in the confines of
Morrilton, where he has a good home of five acres well improved. He is
a Democrat in politics, and both he and Mrs. Holt are members of the
M. E. Church, South