Grayson Co., TX - Cemeteries - Old Holder Family Cemetery *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Mary Urban" Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Old Holder Family Cemetery in Grayson Co. TX Established about 1875 on William Lawson Holder property just northeast of the intersection of the Preston Bend Road and Pottsboro Road, Highway 120, west of Denison, Texas in Grayson County. Some of those buried there did not ever have stones. Now the stones that were erected are broken and weathered. There may be family members buried there that no one now living knows about, but the names and dates of those we do know about have been engraved on the back of a new headstone for their progenitor, Bledsoe Holder (1783-1861) erected April 2003 in the Georgetown Cemetery north of Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas. Inventory of this family cemetery was in about 1975 by Frances Holder Arnold and Tom E. Arnold in consultation with Roy Rexford Holder and Julia Gabbert Lewis. Additional comments and relationship notes, as well as more complete names added by Mary Urban of Provo, UT, a Holder descendant and researcher. William Lawson Holder abt1821 ~ 23 Nov 1876 [no stone] [son of Bledsoe Holder and Elizabeth Stewart] and his wife Mary Ann Looney Holder 19 Nov 1819 ~ 26 Nov 1876 [no stone] [daughter of John Looney and Elizabeth Littleton] [William L. Holder and Mary A. Looney married 16 Apr 1840 Polk Co. MO] William Jackson “Jack” Holder 14 Jan 1849 ~ 12 Mar 1874 [this date on his old stone seems to be wrong, since we find him with his wife and children in the 1880 Grayson Co. TX census] [son of William Lawson Holder and Mary Looney] Clinton Lafayette Holder 18 Nov 1845 ~ 18 Jan 1897 [stone had only C. L. Holder 1845-1897] [son of William Lawson Holder and Mary Looney] Louis Holder 23 Nov 1899 ~ 6 Jun 1900 [stone said died June 6, 1900, age 6 mos, 13 days] [son of Rufus Irving Holder and Iva Forisha] Ruby Ruth Holder 13 Dec 1898 ~ 23 Jan 1899 [stone] [dau of Charles Frederick Holder and Margarite Louise “Maggie” Anderson] Nancy Clementine Young Strait Crabtree abt 1830 ~ abt 1905 [no stone] [mother-in-law of Clinton Lafayette Holder] Mrs. Elizabeth Ridenour 8 May 1834 ~ 12 Oct 1908 [mother-in-law of Ellen Elizabeth Holder Ridenour] on back of her stone: Eliza J. Stevens 3 Jul 1865 ~ 8 Nov 1889 Milton Evan Holder 15 Dec 1849 ~ 25 Aug 1933 [no stone] [son of William Lawson Holder and Mary Looney] and his wife Rebekah J. Moreland 1 Aug 1850 ~ 12 Apr 1902 [no stone] Harry Richard Holder 4 Mar 1881 ~ 11 Dec 1899 [no stone] [son of Milton E. Holder and Rebekah J. Moreland] Dennis Holder 28 Aug 1883 ~ 2 Mar 1900 [stone] [son of Isaac Bledsoe Holder and Hattie E. Bilderback] Clara Pauline Gabbert 22 Nov 1906 ~ 9 Apr 1912 [no stone] [daughter of Paul B. Gabbert and Clara Josephine Holder] Infant of Henry H. Reeves and Julia May Holder [no stone and no dates known] Elizabeth Ann “Betsy” Holder Looney 11 Feb 1845 ~ 26 Dec 1889 [stone] [daughter of William Lawson Holder and Mary Looney, and wife of Burton Allen Looney] Amanda L. “Mandy” Looney 11 Mar 1875 ~ 19 Aug 1883 [stone] [daughter of Burton Allen Looney and Elizabeth Ann Holder] Clarence Looney 10 Oct 1875 ~ 2 May 1877 [stone] [son of William C. Looney and Mary M. Fisher] Buried in this cemetery is an unrelated woman who had a nice stone: Mrs. E. H. Giddens 12 Jan 1822 ~ 11 Mar 1891 “Wife, sister, mother” [She may be the Mrs. E. H. Giddens widow age 58 in the 1880 Red River Co. TX census] Also reportedly buried in this cemetery are an unknown woman and her small child, and several slaves.