1. Martha L. HOLMDEN b. Abt 1853.
2. James HOLMDEN b. Abt 1859.
3. Ida D. HOLMDEN b. Abt 1863.

According to “The Holmden Family Tree,” Walter Holmden came to America in 1824 with his wife and four of their five children (John, the fifth child, would have been the only child born in North America). Walter, born circa 8 June 1788 in England, was a Baptist minister; he had married in 1814 Sarah Terry, born 26 June 1788

For more information on the Holmden line, see “The Holmden Family Tree, 1788 to 1915” (in the form of a chart), sent to the Venango County Genealogical Club by Richard Hammell, 5144 Strongs Ridge Road, Bellevue, Ohio 4484 (18 inches by 20 inches chart)

Thomas Holmden’s farm encompassed Big Pithole Creek; to the west of Thomas’s tract was the Walter Holmden farm; to the east, the Hyner Farm; to the south the John Holmden, or Blackmer, farm and Rooker farm; and to the north, the Copeland farm owned by Parcus Tilley Copeland.

The flatlands on the western side of Big Pithole Creek on the Thomas Holmden farm was to become the main part of Pithole City during the oil excitement of 1865,992 but the adjacent farms of his brothers, Walter and John, were in the same general area.

[source of all of the above: http://www.fleming.oilcreekgenealogy.net/content/oilc.html]

DEATH: aged 60y 11m 6da when he died
Most accounts show Walter as dying in 1840. The Fleming Oil Creek website shows his date of death for 1849.

1. Thomas HOLMDEN b. 1817, ,, England; d. 1 Feb 1886, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 1. Walter HOLMDEN b. 1822, ,, England; d. 7 Nov 1864, Cornplanter, Venango, Pennsylvania.
3. John A. HOLMDEN b. 1825, , Venango, Pennsylvania; d. 25 May 1854, Cornplanter, Venango, Pennsylvania.
4. Elizabeth Ann HOLMDEN b. 23 Feb 1819, ,, England; d. 2 Feb 1894, Tidioute,, Pennsylvania.
5. Sarah HOLMDEN, [infant] b. 1815, ,, England; d. 1817, ,, England.