CEMETERY: HOLT #1 Cemetery, McCreary County, Pine Knot, Kentucky

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Robert Ernest Stephens "McCreary County, Kentucky Cemeteries" books would
not have been possible without alot of hard work.  Robert Ernest Stephens
and Beatrice Lawson Stephens have helped make it possible for genealogists
to work on their family trees without trapsing through the woods.  Although
on a beautiful day it's not too hard of work.  If any errors are noted
please email me and I will correct them.

I look forward to reading Mr. Stephens history of McCreary County when it
is finished.  The book is entitled, "A Lost Heritage for a Changing
People."  I also would like to thank him again for the permission to copy
their work.

McCreary County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol. I
published 1990
Author, Robert Ernest Stephens
Copied as written with permission/Kenna Austin

Cemetery Name: Holt # 1
Nearby Town: Pine Knot
Graves identifiable: 0
Unidentifiable: 4
Date Copied: April 26, 1987

Location: From the junction of KY 92 and US 27 at the red light in Pine
Knot travel 2.1 miles NE to KY 1044.  Then continue NE toward Gilreath,
cross Clear Cr. And go to the Luther Hamlin place.  From the junction of KY
1044 and KY 92 go 1.3 miles along KY 1044.  The Luther Hamlin place is on
the right and the old cemetery, which no longer has any identifying marks,
is found South of the home of Nellie Cox Hamlin Stephens.  Ray Hamlin, son
of Luther Hamlin and Nellie, says that it was an old "Holt place" and that
4 graves were located here.


 SUMMARY

Luther Hamlin and his wife Nellie Cox Hamlin moved to this location in
1938.  At that time there were several graves located 100 feet to the rear
of the house where a chicken house was later built.  She was told about the
graves, after her husband had purchased the home.  He told her, "Now it
really won't bother us that these graves are here."  The graves were marked
only with unidentified field stones.  They were removed and the land used
for agricultural purposes.  Several people, Dean Kidd's mother, Mrs. Nellie
Hamlin and others, remember this being a Holt burying place.

The land has now been planted in grass and has been purchased by Mr. Drex
Campbell.  Mrs. Nellie Cox Hamlin Stephens, after Luther died she married
Dewey Stephens, will reside here until her death.  At which time she says,
"Mr. Campbell will probably tear down her home."  The house will
undoubtedly some day be torn down and the little cemetery behind it will no
longer be identified with any known man-made feature, thereby returning it
to obscurity in the earth that once gave nurture and sustenance to the
Holts, who were some of our earliest settlers.  They took up Tellico Grants
in this area in the early 1800's.