U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970
Name:Henry Alexander Holder
Event Type:Baptism
Baptism Date:21 Jun 1857
Baptism Place:Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Church:First Presbyterian Church
Father: A. G. Holder
Mother: Susan C. Holder
Source Citation
Presbyterian Historical Society; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1907; Accession Number: 991.60 81B 2 Box 1

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Henry A Holder
Age in 1860: 4
Birth Year: abt 1856
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1860: County North of The NC Rr, Rowan, North Carolina
Gender: Male
Post Office: Mount Vernon
Household Members: Name Age
A G Holder 34
Susan C Holder 25
Laura A Holder 8
William H Holder 6
Henry A Holder 4
James Holder 2
J Deets 24
Henry Owens 17
James Bullen 16
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: County North of The NC Rr, Rowan, North Carolina; Roll: M653_912; Page: 180; Image: 359.

1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Henry A Holder
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
Age in 1870: 13
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1870: Mount Ulla, Rowan, North Carolina
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Salisbury
Household Members: Name Age
A G Holder 44
S Caroline Holder 34
Laura A Holder 17
Wm H Holder 15
Henry A Holder 13
James B Holder 11
John T Holder 9
Minnie Holder 7
Robert L Holder 5
Carrie Holder 3
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Mount Ulla, Rowan, North Carolina; Roll: M593_1158; Page: 523; Image: 211.

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Henry Holden
Home in 1880: Blackstock, Chester, South Carolina
Age: 25
Estimated birth year: abt 1855
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to head-of-household: Something other than a direct relationship (Other)
Father's birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Laborer
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Lucas C. Deatz 27
Henry Holden 25
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Blackstock, Chester, South Carolina; Roll: T9_1224; Page: 120.1000; Enumeration District: 38; .

Articles from “The Landmark” Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.

1/Sept/1882: Amity Hill Items. Mr. Henry A. Holder, of Newton, is at his father’s, Mr. A. G. Holder, where he has been with a spell of sickness for a week past, bur is fast improving. We have heard no complaint of THE LANDMARK not coming regularly to Amity Hill in the last two weeks. More Anon, A. H. P. Amity Hill, N. C., Aug. 29th, 1882

12/8/1892: Mr. H. A. Holder of Blackstock, S. C., is visiting at his Mother’s. Mr. J. C. Holder of Chester, S. C. is coming home to spend Christmas. Mr. Phil Alexander and Family and John L. Tolbert and Willie Simpson left this morning for Texas. Mr. R. L. Holder and Family will start the 3rd of January.

1/3/1896: Mr. H. A. Holder, of Blackstock, S. C. was here this week, visiting relatives in Statesville and the county.

15/October/1897: Amity Items; Mrs. Susan C. Holder has gone to Tennessee to visit her daughter and to see the exposition. She was accompanied from Statesville by her son, Mr. H. A. Holder, of Blackstock, S. C.

THE FAIRFIELD NEWS and HERALD.
WINNSBORO, S.C.
Wednesday, March 9, 1898.
Page #3.
BLACKSTOCK AFFAIRS.
One Thursday evening, February 24th, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Boyd, Mr. H. A. Holder, of our town, and Miss Dora Boyd were united in marriage, Rev. M. R. Kirkpatrick officiating. The marriage was a quiet affair, a few friends and a number of relatives being present. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple left for Statesville, where they remained for a week. The best wishes are extended to them.

1900 United States Federal Census
Name:Henry Holder
Age:43
Birth Date:Nov 1856
Birthplace:North Carolina
Home in 1900:Township 2, Fairfield, South Carolina
Sheet Number:1
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:1
Family Number:1
Race:White
Gender:Male
Relation to Head of House:Head
Marital Status:Married
Spouse's Name:Dora Holder
Marriage Year:1898
Years Married:2
Father's Birthplace:North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:North Carolina
Occupation:Wheelwright
Months not employed:0
Can Read:Yes
Can Write:Yes
Can Speak English:Yes
House Owned or Rented:R
Farm or House:H
Household Members:Name:Age
Henry Holder 43
Dora Holder 25
Mable Holder 1
Source Citation
Year: 1900; Census Place: Township 2, Fairfield, South Carolina; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0030

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: H A Holder
Age in 1910: 52
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: North Carolina
Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina
Home in 1910: Blackstock, Chester, South Carolina
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
H A Holder 52
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Blackstock, Chester, South Carolina; Roll: T624_1455; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 18; Image: 86.

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Henry A Holder
Home in 1920: Blackstock, Chester, South Carolina
Age: 63 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Dora B
Father's Birth Place: North Carolina
Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 465
Household Members: Name Age
Henry A Holder 63
Dora B Holder 45
Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Blackstock, Chester, South Carolina; Roll: T625_1689; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 21; Image: 465.

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Henry A Holder
Home in 1930: Columbia, Richland, South Carolina
Age: 73
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Dora B
Race: White
Household Members: Name Age
Henry A Holder 73
Dora B Holder 56
Francis C Holder 25
Norman Moody 25
William F Rickmond 23
Bain B Sloan 30
Dora E Sloan 36
Ben B Sloan 6
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Columbia, Richland, South Carolina; Roll: 2210; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 13; Image: 420.0.

1940 United States Federal Census
Name:H A Holder
Respondent:Yes
Age:83
Estimated Birth Year:abt 1857
Gender:Male
Race:White
Birthplace:South Carolina
Marital Status:Married
Relation to Head of House:Father-in-law
Home in 1940:Newberry, South Carolina
Street:Highway 88
Inferred Residence in 1935:Sh, Newberry, South Carolina
Residence in 1935:Same House
Resident on farm in 1935:Yes
Sheet Number:7A
Attended School or College:No
Highest Grade Completed:Elementary school, 7th grade
Weeks Worked in 1939:0
Income:0
Income Other Sources:Yes
Household Members:Name:Age
G O Clark 42
Mabel Clark 41
H A Holder 83
Dara Holder 66
Source Citation
Year: 1940; Census Place: Newberry, South Carolina; Roll: m-t0627-03827; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 36-9

THE COLUMBIA RECORD.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.
TODAY'S NEWS TODAY.
SATURDAY, JUNE 06, 1942.
PAGE #7.
Holder Brothers Meet Here After 50 Years Separation.
Two brothers had not met for half a century sat this morning on the porch of a North Sumter street home and swapped tales of their boyhood, 60 to 75 years ago, in the North Carolina hills.
They were R. L. Holder, 77, of Ferris, Texas, and H. A. Holder, 86, of 1817 Sumter St. A third brother lives in Columbia. He is E. A. Holder, of 506 Etowah, also is almost a stranger to his brother, R. L.
Actually, it was 49 years and six months ago, in January 1893, that R. L. Holder, whose moustache and black chin beard attested to his vigor, left their Rowan county home, near Salisbury, N. C., to make a home in Texas.
"What did I say to H. A. when I first saw him here a couple of weeks ago after a separation of 50 years," said R. L., this morning. "The first thing I said to him was what the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina! It's been a long time between drinks."
H. A. grinned back at his "Kid" brother and knowing full well that he could pass for 60 to 65 instead of 77, added; "The first thing I said to him was, You're looking mighty old, I hadn't seen him for 50 years." H. A. continued, "and I hadn't seen his face for longer than that, for he wore that moustache and beard for some time before he left Rowan county.
RECALL BOYHOOD.
The Texan, R. L., returned his brother's smile and retorted, "Remember that time we all slipped off to the swimming hole. One of us went back home first, and when our father asked him where he had been answered that he had been in swimming." "Father said, well, I won't whip you because you told the truth," in a little bit, the rest of us got home and father asked where we had been. We said we had been down in the orchard. Father asked, "were you with your brother?" We said yes, and then father said, "Well, your brother has already told me he has been in swimming, so I am going to punish you for telling a lie," and he did.
R. L. retired after harvesting his cotton crop from the black soil belt of Texas last November, and now he is enjoying his retirement by looking up the kinpeople he has not seen for scores of years, though when his trip to the Carolinas is over, he expects to return to his Texas lands where his three sons and two daughters live.
For a long time, however, he has been the visitor in the holder clan. In 1920, he decided on the spur of the moment to go to Muskogee, Okla., to visit his ailing sister, Mrs. R. L. Parker, whom he had not seen for 35 years, and now he is glad that he did, for she has since died.
Mr. Holder had left his home to spend a day in town, and while there learned that his sister was in Muskogee, bought a ticket and got on board.
SCOTCH ANCESTRY.
The three brothers now re-united here are the grandsons of Willis Holder, who, with two brothers, came to this country from Scotland. Willis settled in Iredell county, N. C., while one brother went to Tennessee and the third to Alabama.
Their parents, A. G. and Susan B. Holder had eight children, and the family last was all together at the old homeplace in 1881. Another brother, now 83, followed R. L. to Texas in the 1890's and now lives near him, in the vicinity of Ferris, about 20 miles from dallas.
R. L. brought with him from Ferris a sample of the "Texas black dirt" which grows cotton so prolifically that, that state has become the largest cotton producer in the union, and grows it so cheaply that South Carolina farmers are hard put to compare with Texas staple, and also a sample of the gray blue shale which, around Ferris, lies beneath seven or eight feet of the black dirt which once was sea bottom. "I took this black dirt from one of my cotton fields in January," Mr. Holder said, displaying a sample on the point of his knife. "I have added no water to it, you see, it still is moist." He kneaded a lump of the black, clay like soil in his fingers, and it held it's shape like a potter's clay. The gray shale once made Feris one of the nation"s brick centers, since it can be ground and pressed into bricks without the addition of water and without fire.
For minutes at a time, the two brothers sit silent, smiling at one another in happiness that they again are united. R. L. came to Columbia three weeks ago, and expects to leave next week to visit other relatives in North Carolina, before returning to Texas by way of Columbia so that he may continue his talks of old times with his older brother, and his brother's wife, who make their home with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Summers.

THE STATE.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1945.
PAGE #7.
H. A. HOLDER CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY.
Henry Alexander Holder celebrated his 89th birthday November 29 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jack Summers, 1817 Sumter street. He has lived in Columbia 17 years. Mr. Holder came from Statesville, N. C., in 1880 and located at Blackstock, Chester County. In 1894 he owned and operated a wood and blacksmith shop and also sold coffins and caskets until his health failed and had to close out his business and move to Columbia. He is a Mason, being a member in good standing of Blackstock Lodge No. 180 AFM for 60 yeras, and a past master. While at Blackstock he was present at every meeting for 19 years. He is a member of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian church in Columbia.

Name: Henry A Holder
Death date: 18 Jan 1947
Age (years): 90
Estimated birth year: 1857
Gender: Male
Color: White
County of death: Richland
Volume number: 2
Certificate number: 728
Microfilm roll number: CD08

South Carolina Deaths, 1944-1955
Name: Henry Alexander Holder
Death Date: 18 Jan 1947
Death Place: South Carolina
Gender: Male
Age at Death: 90y 1m 20d
Estimated Birth Date: 1857
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Dora Boyd Holder
Father's Name: Alphonso G. Holder
Mother's Name: Susan C. Smith
Film Number: 2394777
Reference Number: cn 728

THE STATE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1947.
PAGE # 4B.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
H. A. HOLDER.
H. A. Holder, 90, of 1817 Sumter street, for the past 23 years a resident of Columbia, died at 6:30 a. m. yesterday at his home.
Mr. Holder was born in Salisbury, N. C., and prior to living here conducted a blacksmith shop and funeral parlor establishment at Blackstock.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dora (Boyd) Holder; two daughters, Mrs. Omerle Clark of Little Mountain and Mrs. Jack Summers of 1817 Sumter street; two brothers, R. L. Holder of Farmersville, Texas, and R. A. Holder of Brooklyn, N. Y.; three sisters, Mrs. C. C. Heilig of Salisbury, N. C.; Mrs. Minnie Sides of Statesville; and Mrs. Thomas Horton of Mt. Ulla, N. C., one grand-daughter and two great grandchildren.
Mr. Holder had been a Mason for the past 60 years.
Funeral services will be held at the Dunbar funeral home at 2 p. m. Sunday. The Rev. Walter K. Beaty, pastor of Arsenal Presbyterian church will officiate. Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial park.
Active pallbearers will be E. H. Miller, W. P. Stradley, R. C. Cooper, O. L. Ussery, J. B. Ratteree and Fred Kaylor.
The elders of Arsenal Presbyterian church are honorary pallbearers.