Mitch Holder, is the adopted son of Kendrick Holder and the son of Frank and Laura Mae Clark Haught. Frank Haught died of horse accident when Mitch was a baby and when he was 4 years old Kendrick and Laura Mae married. Great grandparents and grandfather Sam Haught came from Texas to Gila County in the 1880s. Grandfather Clark first came from Texas to Pleasant Valley a single man in 1903 went back for a bride and returned to Arizona again in 1913. They bought the Bar X on Haigler Creek and that was where his parents, Frank and Laura Mae Haught were living when Mitch was born on the road to Miami Inspiration Hospital. After Frank Haught died, Laura Mae went to Goodyear to work in the War Industry as a "Rosie the Riveter" constructing B26, and met Kendrick Holder there.
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