History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 659.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

J. H. HOLDING, farmer; P. O. Lair's, native of Scott County, born in 1818.
His father was James Holding, who died in 1762, at the age of seventy-five.
His grandfather, William H., was a native of Maryland, emigrated here
early and settled in Scott County, and his great-grandfather emigrated
here from England.  His mother was Nancy Barnett, a daughter of Joseph
Barnett, of Harrison County, who came from Virginia, she died in 1827. He
married Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, daughter of David Jewett, of Bourbon County,
and they have two children, named James David and Lair Belle.  His son,
James W., was in Capt. Jim Cantrill's Co. of Gen. John H. Morgan's
command during the war and returned home in 1865.  Mr. Holding is a
breeder of high grade stock, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and
a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church at
Cynthiana, he being one of the stewards of the Church; he was also
Lieutenant in Militia.

Holding Hill Barnett Jewett
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Scott-KY Bourbon-KY MD England

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