Jefferson-Chatham-Bibb County GaArchives Biographies.....Holt Sr., Asa  
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Larry C. Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 August 31, 2019, 6:09 pm

Source: Personal genealogical research
Author: Larry C. Knowles

Corrections and amplification of previously submitted biographical 
information.

Biographical information on Judge Asa Holt Sr. as submitted to this site on 
September 2, 2018 is 98% accurate! However, initial conclusions regarding 
the relationship of the younger Asa Holt-as shown with his wife and young 
daughter on the 1860 Sumpter Co. GA census-clearly on the land of the older 
Asa Holt Sr.-(then of Bibb Co. GA)-is not correct. In fact, despite the 
compelling mass of circumstantial evidence, the young Asa was not Asa Holt 
Sr.'s son, but his nephew, the son of Kinchin Holt of Monroe Co. GA! All 
research was done online in the LDS Family History Center in Lexington, VA 
primarily using access to their Georgia Probate Records, and free access to 
Ancestry.com records. Much information was found on the older man through 
the Historic Newspapers of the Digital Library of Georgia. The younger man's 
CSA records, his death & burial were found on the Georgia Archives' 'Virtual 
Vault' site, in the 'widow's pension' records-filed in four counties. As the 
1864 Sumter Co. GA tax records indicated J. T. Holt-as agent for the young 
man-who was then in CSA service, I erroneously concluded 'his brother'-i.e. 
the two 'sons'-or males, on Asa Holt Sr.'s 1840 Jefferson Co. GA census. The 
guardianship record as noted in the first biography named the three orphans 
of Asa Holt ('Jr.')-who had died in Macon. GA after surgery which revealed 
rib fragments, shortly before Sherman's march to the sea, and led to further 
research in Macon Co., and to the correct relationships! Young Asa had been 
wounded at Petersburg, VA, spent more than a month in hospitals there, was 
issued new clothing, and furloughed to home. His wife was present when he 
died.

Additional Comments:
Though the circumstantial evidence seemed overwhelming, continuing research 
led to the truth. To date the two young males on the 1840 Asa Holt Sr. census 
have not been identified.  Larry Knowles

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