The point isn’t that huckleberry and huckleberry bearer sound similar, especially when you take into account regional dialects. The point is that there is no reference of huckle ever being the name of the handle on a casket. Moreover, there is no evidence, except for a single chain mail story- repeated ALOT- that huckle bearer was ever a term. But, there is evidence that huckleberry was used durig the time to mean essentially “the object of one‘s desires.” And, the available evidence shows a trend of this use of huckleberry spanning across the Atlantic (and several centuries) to Great Britain.
I‘m going to go ahead and burst another bubble for you. Those folksy aphorisms, like “don’t throw out the baby with the bath water” and “doesn’t have a pot to piss in?” Well, the former does not come from the (non)fact that babies were washed last in community bath water that was so murky you could lose a submerged toddler. And, the latter does not come from the (non)fact that poor people would sell urine to the tanning industry. There was a thread about these, right here in the bear pit a while back (maybe a couple of threads). Someone cut and pasted The contents of a chain letter. Unfortunately, the contents were erroneous.
Besides, Holiday was from Georgia...