Jefferson Davis Holt was the the oldest child of Thomas and Nancy Kite Holt. Born during The War Between the States places him in a South filled with war, hunger and insecurity. His entire childhood and youth saw his family struggle for their daily lively hood. Jeff proved equal to the job as he did every thing in his power to improve his circumstances.
He first married Araminta "Mittie" Elizabeth BANKS 17 Dec 1882 in Fayette Co., GA.Their oldest child Hester Lorene is buried in the small Glass-Dickson cemetery with her grandparents Tom and Nancy Holt and her great-grandparents Elisha and Matheny Holt.
He and Mittie and their children migrated from Clayton county Georgia to Alabama about 1887.He signed the Homestead papers in Huntsville, Alabama on 12 July 1900. On these acres, Jefferson Davis Holt would remain until his death some thirty-five plus years later at age seventy-three.
Mittie Banks Holt died in 1898 at age twenty-nine, leaving Jeff and six living children.
Children
Hester Lorene Holt b: 21-APR-1884 in Fayette Co, GA,d.21 Jun 1885, Fayette Co., GA
Thomas Bradford Holt b: 20-OCT-1885 in Fayette Co, GA
Noah Holt b: 6-NOV-1886 in Fayette Co, GA
Calvin W Holt b: 23-SEP-1888 in Cherokee Co, AL
Lewis Andrew Holt b: 1-JAN-1890 in Cherokee Co, AL
Amon D Holt b: 16-FEB-1892 in Cherokee Co, AL
Hassie Elizabeth Holt b: 19-MAR-1894 in Cherokee Co, AL
Claudie Ovelia Holt b: 17-NOV-1895 in Cherokee Co, AL
Mary L. Holt b: 1-MAR-1898 in Cherokee Co, AL


The 1900 census finds a new wife, Lorie S, age twenty-one years. She is fourteen years younger than Jeff. The story is told by grandchildren of Jeff that he announced one morning to the children that he was going to town. When he returned he had a new wife, Lorie (S.S. Lorie McCloud). This marriage was only three weeks after Mittie's death, demonstrating the serious circumstances of Jeff's family. At this time the oldest child was twelve and the youngest two and one-half.Jeff also loses his second wife, Lorie, to complications of child birth. The census tell us Lorie has had two living children: Sarah A and Paul. The Mountain Springs cemetery tells us she lost and infant son and two years later an infant daughter. Lorie died four days after the baby daughter, May 1906. She and Jeff had been married eight years and she left two living children. Lori was twenty-six when she died.
Marriage 2 Lorie S McCloud Married: 13-APR-1898 in Cherokee Co, AL
b: 27-NOV-1877 in AL, d. 31 May 1906

Children:
Sarah 'Anna' Holt b: 22-MAR-1899 in Cherokee Co, AL
D. Paul Holt b: 28-APR-1902 in Cherokee Co, AL
Infant Son Holt b: B/D 31-SEP-1904 in AL
Infant Daughter Holt b: B/D 27-MAY-1906 in AL


Jeff marries Matilda Ruthie Rankin in Dec 1907. b. 26 Feb 1882; d. 20 Oct 1928.
He was nearly forty-four and she was almost forty-five. From all reports she had not been previously married. She was dearly loved by the children still at home and by the daughters-in-law that had married Holt sons and lived near by. She was the center of Holt social life and affectionately called "Miss T". Miss T and Jeff had no children together.
There must have been a serious pneumonia outbreak in 1923 for it is reported that both Jeff and Miss T were sick at the same time. She died in October 1923 and he recovered. After nearly sixteen years of marriage Jeff is once again without a wife.

Jeff and Carrie Beulah Hopkins b.24 Mar 1879; d.10 Jan 1955 were married 16 December 1924 in Campbell county, Georgia. Jeff was sixty-one and Beulah was forty-five. Beulah was a widow.The three oldest of her children had either married or were old enough to stay on their own in Georgia. Her youngest son, Clyde, about nine years old moved with her to Jeff's home in Cherokee county.
Beulah and Jeff had a daughter when she was forty-six, Jeff was sixty-three. Laurette was born 31 Dec 1926.
Jeff died in 1936 at age seventy-three. He was buried in Mountain Springs cemetery with three wives and several children. Beulah was fifty-seven and Laurette nine and one-half.
Beulah and Laurette remained on the homeplace for several years.Later, Beulah moved to Talladega county, Alabama to be near her son Clyde and his family. She remained there until her death in 1955, Her body was returned to Fairburn, Fulton (old Campbell county) Georgia to be buried with her first husband in the Antioch Methodist Cemetery.