Young Crockett Holton, Vernon Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Jane Parker McManus
Date: July 14, 2007



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Vernon Baptist Association Records
Obit - Young Crockett Holton - 1897

Bro. Young Crockett Holton M.D.

The subject of this sketch, Bro. Holton, was born in Washington Parish 
LA July 16, 1859. United with the Walnut Hill Missionary Baptist Church
and was baptized by Eld. B.O. Owens in May 1879, was married to Miss 
Elizabeth J.Q. Stanly, daughter of M.H. Stanly, well known as one of the
old batistes of Western Louisiana, on April 6, 1881 by Eld. B.O. Owens.

Dr. Holton united with the Masonic faternity at N.H. Bray Lodge No. 108,
F.A.M. in the year 1890, and departed this life after a short but painful
illness at his residence on Hemp Hill, Rapides Parish LA, Dec. 15 1897.
The writer of this sketch having been intimately acquainted with the
doctor in all the different positions which he so worthily filled, is
therefore prepared to testify to his worthiness. As a son, ever dutiful
and obedient to his parents. As a brother, ever kind and affectionate.
As a companion, loving, affectionate and tender. As a father, loving and
indulgent. As a Christian, humble, devoted and submissive, a worker in 
the master's vineyard. As a mason, true to the craft, a mason at heart 
as well as by name. As a physician, ever successful, kind and feeling 
with his patients, the writer having often heard him remark that when
he was called to a patient he not only carried his pill bags but also
his prayers for his patients. The doctors's remains were interred at
the family graveyard at Walnut Hill where an appropriate slab marks 
his last resting place on earth. He leaves a devoted wife, two children,
a father, three brothers and one sister besides a host of relatives
and friends to mourn his death, but we trust that our loss is his
eternal gain.

'Tis hard to break the tender cord,
When love has bound the heart,
'Tis hard, so hard, to speak the words,
"Must we forever part."
Dearest loved one, we have laid thee
In the peaceful grave's embrace,
But thy memory will be cherished
Till we see thy heavenly face.'
M.H. Stanly

[Note: Young Crockett Holton was son of William Amos Holton and Izilla
Strickland. His wife Elizabeth J. Quintilla Stanly (1857/1933) was
daughter of M.H. Stanly. They are buried in Holton Cemetery, Slagle LA.]