1788 - 1840

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• Title	Rev.
  Birth	8 Jun 1788	Riverhead, Parish of Seven Oaks, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 May 1840	Pit City, Venango, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I110442	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2005 00:00:00
  Family	Sarah TERRY, b. 26 Jun 1788, ,, England
  Married	1814
  Children	> 1. Thomas HOLMDEN, b. 1817, ,, England > 2. Walter HOLMDEN, b. 1822, ,, England > 3. John A. HOLMDEN, b. 1825, , Venango, Pennsylvania   4. Elizabeth Ann HOLMDEN, b. 23 Feb 1819, ,, England   5. Sarah HOLMDEN, [infant], b. 1815, ,, England
  Family ID	F37223	Group Sheet

• Notes

  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.