George Samuel Reid Family Roots

ELIZABETH RHODES (3 Aug 1811 – 21 Mar 1873) was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England the daughter of Ralph Rhodes and Elizabeth Welch.

Elizabeth married John Holt on 6 Aug 1830 in Manchester, Lancashire, England.  They had eight children of record:

• Sarah Holt (1832 – 1914)
• Mary Ann Holt (1834 – 1902)
• Joseph Holt (1843 – 1914)
• Ralph Holt (1845 – 1845)
• John Holt (1845 – 1845)
• Samuel Holt (1846 – 1895)
• William John Holt (1850 – 1926)
• Hannah Holt (1852 – 1918)

Life of Elizabeth Rhodes Holt

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Grandmother Elizabeth Rhodes, daughter of Ralph Rhodes and Elisabeth Welch, was born about 1811, August 3, in Lancashire, England.  She married John Holt in Manchester, Lancashire, England.  They had eight children; Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Hannah, Joseph, Samuel, William and Ralph who died as a child in England.

Elizabeth’s husband John came to Utah in 1854 to prepare a home for his family whom he had left in England.  John built a little log home on a piece of land in Ogden, Utah.  It was at the time of the “grasshopper plague”.  He left Utah and started back to England for his family.  John was traveling with another man at this time.  When they had gotten as far as St. Joseph, Missouri, grandfather took very ill with either a sunstroke or cholera and died.  The man he was traveling with could never tell where grandfather’s property was located in Ogden, and it is believed by the family that he kept it himself.

Elizabeth immigrated to Utah in 1866 accompanied by her son William J. Holt, and her daughter, Hannah Holt Cook.  They crossed the plains by ox team and arrived in Utah September 29, 1866.  She lived in Bountiful, Utah until her death in 1872.