Mahala Ala Holt was born on 24 September 1836, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, her father, Bartlett Wyatt Holt, was 64 and her mother, Mary Milburn Boleypaugh, was 26. She married Samuel Gragg on 9 October 1854, in Greene, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 13 August 1901, in Gregg Cemetery, Grundy, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
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