This site is dedicated to my Grand-ma, Mary Elizabeth VanDeGrift Holeton. She  was the kindest, most wonderful person I ever knew.
 I will have to give credit to my cousin Harold Apple for a lot of the  information on my VanDeGrifts.
 For all intents and purpose, I am using the 
 spelling "VanDeGrift" for the  VANDEGRIFT's , as used by my Grandma and her  immediate 
 family.   My uncle John had started on the 
 Holeton/Holten/Holton side, but with the children being sent to the orphanage  at such young ages, there is very little information on them, but I am going to  keep on trying...........I am following every lead  as they become available to  me, so be patient.If any one recognizes any of the names I have been able to  find in my family and you think you may have some information, no matter how  trivial you think it may be, please contact me....my e-mail address is on the  site. Have fun, enjoy, and let me know what you think. I welcome any and all  constructive information and critisism.Also, I will do any look-ups for any one  if you need help in the ohio area.I will do what I can , as best I can, but  mostly in the Darke, Shelby, Logan, Champaign and Miami county area.  Happy  Digging!!!!!!
  Just so there is no confusion, as I get ANY information on the  HOLETON,HOLTEN,HOLTON names, I will add it to my webpage. This is not to say  that the people I am adding are my relatives,MOST will be, and so far, all are  my relatives, but I have an awlful lot of information that I came across,  during my search that IS NOT my direct line, and rather than waste the  information, I will share it. I just want this to be a place where any one  searching the names can come and hopefully find a connection. If you veiw this  and 
 see some one you think may be your connection, and you want to contact the  person I 
 got the information from, I will e-mail asking their permission for the  contact.I am currently adding all the burials located at Forest Hill,,  Johnston, and Cedar Hill cemeterys(located in Piqua, Miami county Ohio.and  phtographing all headstones and markers onto Findagrave.com The link is added  below. I have a few for the Houston Cemetery(Shelby county)That project will be  finished at a later date. I am concetrating on the ones in Piqua first. If you  look at my CAMPBELL's, you may notice a small "m)" or a small "d)" beside some  of the dates. That is mostly for me. I have CAMPBELLs on both my Father and  Mothers sidesso the "m" and the "d" are for me so I dont confuse myself.