Mahala was the daughter of James Blair and Mary Elizabeth Powell.
She was born in Pendleton District, South Carolina... formerly a Georgia district divided to South Carolina with Treaty of Beaufort in 1787...

She married Larkin Holt on 4 April 1805 in Franklin County, Georgia. She was the mother of ten children: six sons and four daughters.
The names of her children on the tombstone, were the best information available at the time...
Please see notes at the bottom of this bio and verify them on your own, and don't let this information stop your research...

The headstone was placed in recent years by family members... and replaced unmarked slate stones... If they had been marked, the flaking of the layers removed any marks over time...
The location of these two graves are surrounded by close family members...
The stump at the foot of Mahala's traditional side of her husband Larkin speaks of the age of the tree... It appears to be an Eastern Red Cedar... We don't know when it was cut...

However, by using an unscientific aging technique for the slow growing tree, the measurements of the stump surface place the planting at the correct period for Mahala's death...

The grave sites for Mahala and Larkin are at the highest point on the northern end of the cemetery... Larkin appears to have been the first to be buried in the cemetery...
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*Payton born and died as an infant in Franklin Co.*
1806 Seaborn, born in Franklin Co.
1809 Ausborn, born in Franklin Co.
1809 **Polly Ann, born in Franklin Co.**
1811 Elijah, born in Franklin Co.
1813 Mary, born in Franklin Co.
1816 Martha Ann, born in Franklin Co.
1818 William, born in Habersham Co.
1821 ***Mickey, born in Habersham Co.***
1827 James, born in Habersham Co.
1831 Lucinda, born in Habersham Co.
1836 John, born in Gilmer Co.

We are working on the listings noted with asterisks...
*A note in the Lucinda Holt Rogers family history, states the first child of Larkin and Mahala died in infancy and is buried in Franklin along with Larkin's brother Shadrac. Lucy was one of the youngest children and are more likely to have been around when Mahala was older and talking about her family... *
**Information about Polly is little but that she might have been the fourth child and died as a child.**
***Information is available in family trees and DNA circuits for Mickey C. Holt Berry born 1821. There is a female marked in the 1830 Habersham County census for the 5 thru 9 column... There is no other known child that would fill that spot... She was married and counted on the 1940 Gilmer County census and living in her father-in-law Jesse Berry's house with her husband Neil Colvard Berry... Neil C. Berry was a witness to Elijah Holt's will along with Ausborn, Daniel A. Smith and Coke Ellington... Daniel A. Smith is Ausborn's son-in-law...***