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George Thomas HOLTON was born in Cabell county, (now) West Virginia, February
11, 1847, and came to Lincoln county in 1872. His parents, James and Margaret (Cooper) Holton, were here when
the county was organized. In Lincoln county, December 23, 1878, the Rev. W. A. Snodgrass united in marriage
George Thomas Holton and Yantus Elkins. She was born in Logan county, West Virginia, June 16, 1860, and her
parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Elkins) Elkins, were residents of Lincoln county at the time of its organization.
Mr. and Mrs. Holton have been blessed with two children: Minnie, born October 26, 1879, died August 29, 1882;
Len~ille Marion, born July 22, 1881. George Thomas Holton is a school teacher and a farmer in Hart Creek
district, and receives his mail at Fourteen, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.