Person:Mary Redd (3)

Mary Redd, b 27 Sep 1792, Snead's Ferry, N.C., d 18 Nov 1875, Spanish Fork, Utah; md John Holt, Nov 1814, b 14 Mar 1792, Virginia. (Mary Redd Holt, her daughter, Mary Mariah (Aunt Polly) Holt Redd, her son Jesse Payton, and her daughter-in-law, Sarah Naomi Carr Holt, are all buried on the same lot in the Spanish Fork Cemetery. Mary left a posterity of strong sons and d aughters, many of them bishops, high councilmen, and counselors in various organizations. Her patriarchal blessing promised that many of her descendants will stand in high places in the church and that her daughters will be women of great renown whose posterity shall become mighty before the Lord and their possissions shall become great in the midst of Zion and unto her generations there shall be no end. At the time of their marriage, John Holt was a seaman. He enlisted about August 1, 1813, in Captain John C. Manson's Gun Boat No. 7, in the squadron of Lieutenant Guntier at Wilmington, North Carolina, for the defense of Wilmington and Beaufort during the War of 1812. In some way John Holt became acquainted with John Hardison Redd, and they became friends. We have no record that John H. Redd was in the War of 1812, but he may have been. John H. Redd brought his new friend home with him, and he became acquainted with Mary that way. John Holt received his discharge shortly after his marriage in the latter part of December, 1814. According to his Patriarchal Blessing, given by Hyrum Smith in Nauvoo on April 3, 1844, John was born in Virginia on March 14, 1792. In 1844 he was sent on a mission to North Carolina. In the Journal History of the Church, under the date of April 15, 1844, the name of John Holt is the fifth name mentioned. John Holt came to Spanish Fork -- or Peeteeneet Creek--with his second wife, leaving Mary Redd and her family in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Pottawattamie County, Iowa. They were there in July, 1850, when Jesse Payton Holt was baptized. It is not known when John and Mary Redd Holt left Tennessee and joined with the body of the Church, but John Holt was in Payson,Utah, on December 20, 1850. Mary's oldest son, William Holt, went with the Mormon Battalion sometime after July 26, 1846. Mary remained in Iowa with her son, Jesse, and her hwo daughters until 1851. They immigrated to Utah in the company of Captain Alfred Cardin, arriving in Salt Lake about October, 1851 They lived in Salt Lake for a short time, where Jesse Payton worked in a saw mill for his brother-in-law, Samuel Thompson. The mill was located in Mill Creek Canyon. Jesse worked there until February, 1852, when he moved with his mother to Spanish Fork. They lived first in a dugout home until a better one could be built, near the Markham farm by the old sugar factory. They moved into the fort--which Jesse helped build in Palmyra--for one year when they had Indian troubles; then they built a home where Walter Moore lived for many years. The fort was on a lot later owned by A.R.M. Beck.

1.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (TM). (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).