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I finally heard back from Salt Lake County Archives.
"I have received your request for a death record for John Daniel Holladay, Sr. I checked our death record index covering the years 1848-1883 and was not able to find a listing for a Holladay. You might want to try the Utah State Archives and see if they have one. Their website address is http://historyresearch.utah.gov I did a name search for him on their website and his name did come up, but didn’t have any documents attached to it so you may have to call them at 801-533-3535. Do you know exactly where Spring Creek was? Could it have been in Utah County? If you can figure out where that was, then that might help as well."
I checked the state archives, and they had a listing for John Daniel (1798-1862) buried in Santaquin County. But when I pulled up the cemetery's burial list, it was the wrong John Daniel (1828-1909).
SO. Since Salt Lake County has no record of him, and he's not listed as being buried anywhere in utah State, my conclusion is that he is buried (unmarked) in Holladay Memorial Park. And unless we get a bolt of lighting-revelation telling us that "Spring Creek" does not refer to the stream in Holladay, Utah, I am pretty sure that's what we'll have to stick to.
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John Holladay (yes plain John, no Daniel), the father of John Daniel (no Jr.) and Thomas Wiley is buried in Santaquin. You might want to try the DUP. He is not buried in Holladay. They moved out of there to San Bernardino within a few years with Apostle Lyman. There used to be a monument but it was moved. Thomas Wiley is buried in Pima, AZ. He is my great great grandfather. I come from Charles Eugene and Lawrence. That gravestone you have for Daniel Jr. is in Moscow AL. I was there the other day looking for it. There are still Holladays in AZ too. Holladaytoma@mac.com
Dear Cousins,
John Daniel Holladay, Sr. is buried in Spring Creek, UT and I have been there! Spring Creek is just south of Santaquin across the freeway from Spring Lake. I do not think it is on any maps because Spring Creek was the farm where JDH, Sr lived when he died. Both he and his wife are buried in the field (no cemetery) out in front of the house. For many years there was a marker there with an iron fence around it – but later owners of the property had the marker moved to the Santaquin cemetery, but the bodies were never moved. When I was there some 10 – 15 years ago (now it is July 2009) it was a plowed field. John Daniel Holladay, Jr. and his three wives are buried in the Santaquin cemetery.
Jared Bjarnason
Son of John Holladay Bjarnason
Son of Ida Florence Holladay
Daughter of John Daniel Holladay, Jr.
Jaredgb0306@aol.com
John Holladay (his son is John Daniel as is his grandson (see the holographic record of John Daniel Holladay, son of john, for clarification of the name.
John and Catherine Holladay are not bureied at Spring Creek which is in Salt Lake Co, but at Holladay Springs (it is on the map) north of Santaquing where their house and farm were located. Their gravestones were moved in the 1970s to the Santaquin cemetery, the bodies were left in the old burial ground which was plowed over. June Ferre Brewer, who is still living remembers the old graveyard and house which stood until the late forties when it was demolished by one of the Holladays who owned the land at the time (Howard Holladay?)
John Daniel sr. Son of John Died in 1914 and his son John Daniel Jr. died in Pima, Arizona in the early 1920s. His descendants still live in the Gila Valley. He moved there in 1879 with his Uncle Thomas and family.
John Daniel Holladay was a leader of groups of Latter-day Saint pioneers, emigrating to Utah. There is a photo and further documents available about him on the website,
www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneer company
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