Married Marrietta Carter, 13 Aug 1837, Kirtland, Geauga, OH
Married Sarah Ingersoll Harvey, 29 Nov 1862, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sarah is the daughter of Isaac Harvey & Dorcus Curtis. Her first husband was Enoch Floyd who died in 1855 in Mass.
Married Elvira Annie Cowles, 1 Dec 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Died, at 3 o'clock a.m., August 18, 1880, at Farmington, Davis County, JONATHAN H. HOLMES.
Deceased was born March 11, 1806, in Georgetown, Essex County, Massachusetts; was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John F. Boynton, in 1832; gathered with the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1834; made his home with Joseph Smith and was much beloved by the Prophet and everybody else who knew him. He remained with Joseph and was married at his house, April 13th, 1837, to Miss Rosetta Carter; Wilford Woodruff was married to Miss Phebe Whitamore Carter at the same time. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Frederick G. Williams, and both couples were blessed by the Patriarch Father Joseph Smith. Brother Holmes remained with the gathered Saints until their expulsion from Nauvoo. While on his way to the mountains, he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and served through the campaign. When he was discharged he rejoined his family at Salt Lake City. He resided at Farmington over thirty years, and was a member of the High Council in the Davis County Stake of Zion. He left a wife and four daughters (all of whom were at the funeral), also twenty grand-children and on great grand-child.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Marrietta Carter, 13 Aug 1837, Kirtland, Geauga, OH
Married Sarah Ingersoll Harvey, 29 Nov 1862, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sarah is the daughter of Isaac Harvey & Dorcus Curtis. Her first husband was Enoch Floyd who died in 1855 in Mass.
Married Elvira Annie Cowles, 1 Dec 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Died, at 3 o'clock a.m., August 18, 1880, at Farmington, Davis County, JONATHAN H. HOLMES.
Deceased was born March 11, 1806, in Georgetown, Essex County, Massachusetts; was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John F. Boynton, in 1832; gathered with the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1834; made his home with Joseph Smith and was much beloved by the Prophet and everybody else who knew him. He remained with Joseph and was married at his house, April 13th, 1837, to Miss Rosetta Carter; Wilford Woodruff was married to Miss Phebe Whitamore Carter at the same time. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Frederick G. Williams, and both couples were blessed by the Patriarch Father Joseph Smith. Brother Holmes remained with the gathered Saints until their expulsion from Nauvoo. While on his way to the mountains, he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and served through the campaign. When he was discharged he rejoined his family at Salt Lake City. He resided at Farmington over thirty years, and was a member of the High Council in the Davis County Stake of Zion. He left a wife and four daughters (all of whom were at the funeral), also twenty grand-children and on great grand-child.
* Mormon Battalion members
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