Larkin Holt
BIRTH 1784
North Carolina, USA
DEATH 22 Jan 1855 (aged 70–71)
BURIAL Cherry Log Baptist Church Old Cemetery
Cherry Log, Gilmer County, Georgia, USA
Larkin Holt's age in the 1850 census for Gilmer County, Georgia, calculates to 1786 as his birth year in North Carolina. We don't know who provided that information.
Much of what we know about Larkin's early history, we learned from his War of 1812 Pension Application. Fold3 Page 21, of Larkin's Pension File, dated September 15, 1851, under oath before Justice of the Peace John Whitener, Larkin states he is 67 years old...
1851 - 67 = 1784. Folds3, Page 21 of Larkin's Pension Files. It is the only statement of age that we can be assured was made by Larkin himself, and it was sworn testimony.
He was married to Mahala Blair, daughter of James Blair and Elizabeth Powell, on 23 Apr 1805 in Franklin County GA by Jeremiah Sparks, Justice of the Peace.
Larkin served as a private in Capt. Benjamin Cleveland's Company, Georgia Militia, in the "War between the United States and Great Britain and the Creek Nation of Indians," what is now known as the War of 1812. He served 200 days, being honorably discharged on 11 Mar 1814 and mustered out at Milledgeville, then the capital of Georgia. Benjamin Cleveland was married to Mahala's sister Argin and was present at their marriage.
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