My Holdridge Family
1813-2000

This is John H Holdridge Jr. and his wife Martha A Jackson Holdridge
John H Holdridge Jr is the son of John and Eady Holdridge.

It would seem that here in America there are two major Groups of Holdridges. In all likelyhood these two Holdridge lines all come from one family.

First there is the New York Holdridge. There is a large number of Holdridge families that congregated around the New York area and stayed there for many years. Some traveled west to Ohio and some northern states. There has been a great deal of information studied about these Holdridges. I call these the "Northern Holdridges". Although those Holdridges have travelled the world over, they have seldom come south in the history of the last 100 years. For information on this noble Holdridge line, see the links at the bottom of this page.

The Second "batch" of Holdridges is my line of Holdridges. The Southern Holdridges. They concentrated in South Carolina, then travelled into Georgia and Alabama, making then
the long journey to Texas.

This is the Holdridge line that I decend from.

John Holdridge was born in Laurens District, South Carolina 1813. He parentage and lineage is still a mystery to us today. Likewise we know little about his childhood.

When John was 26 years old he married Eadith Coley. Edith was born in 1822 in North Carolina and was some 9 years younger than John. The two married July 28, 1838 in Newton County Georgia. They would later move on to Tallapoosa County Alabama. The move from Georgia to Alabama happened sometime around 1840.

Very little if anything is known about John Holdridge. We assume that he was a farmer. This we glean also from the records of the census. Edith is said to be an Indian.
We are not sure at this time what tribe of Indian she comes from.

John died June 12, 1881. Eady died in 1812 in Tallapoosa County Alabama.

John and Edith Coley Holdridge had the following children

James W Holdridge

John Henry Holdridge

Mary Holdridge Lee

Edmond C Holdridge

Martha Ann Holdridge Lee

Nancy Holdridge

George M Holdridge

Here is an outline of my Holdridge line

If you would like other information on Holdridges you may contact

Margaret F. Holdridge McGehee, Woody L. McGehee, Diane Holdridge Robbins, or Mike Holdridge

For information on our New York and Connecticut Holdridge Family

you can contact Irene Taft or see Holdridge Genealogy

Also check out

Holdridge Genealogy Forum

Also for other Holdridge information you can check here

Diane Robbins "Holdridge homepage"

Miles B Holdridge

DEDICATION

This page is dedicated to my grandfather. Click on the picture to go to the dedication. I would appreciate it greatly if you would read it. I think my grandfather would be honored.

Curtis Lee Holdridge

June 17, 1911 - March 04, 1999

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