Richard Holt (1865–1946) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftbliss.asp.  He was born in Danville, Virginia. Holt moved west, found work as a laborer in Chicago, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1884. Private Holt served in Troop E, 10th Cavalry for five years. The 10th Cavalry was one of the segregated regiments established for black soldiers when the army reorganized at the close of the Civil War; these men were known as Buffalo Soldiers. Holt was honorably discharged at Fort Grant, Arizona, and remained in the Southwest for the rest of his life. He married and moved to Sonora, Mexico, where his son was born in 1900. However, by the mid-1910s Holt returned to Arizona, seemingly on his own, and settled in Tucson where he worked as a carpenter. He died there on May 8.  http://www.concordiacemetery.org/Buffalo-Soldiers-Names.html.
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