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Lewis H. Holmes

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Lewis H. Holmes

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
28 May 1887 (aged 57)
Alabama, USA
Burial
Henry County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Lewis H. Holmes was born 05 Jul 1829 in NC and died 28 May 1887 in AL. He was the oldest son of Bryant and Mary Holmes of Lawrenceville, Henry Co., AL. He married Mahala Malinda Richards on 28 Apr 1852 in Barbour Co., AL. He was the father of 9 children: Laura Holmes Ray, William B. Holmes, Henry Lewis Holmes, Mary M. Holmes, Ella Malinda Holmes, Marcella Holmes, Robert W. Holmes, Douglas D. Holmes, and Elizabeth Holmes Justice.

Sources include:
Godfrey, Marie., Early Settlers of Barbour County, Alabama, (Easley, SC : Southern Historical Press, 1979.), 271.
Alabama Censuses 1860, 1866, 1870, 1880

In the book "Marriage & Death Notices From Alabama Newspapers & Family Records 1819-1890" there is this notice for Thursday, June 2, 1887, "Mr. Lewis Holmes, an old citizen of Barbour County, died at his home near Eufaula on Friday, " (p. 164). This notice ran in the Eufaula Weekly Times & News 1887.


Lewis H. Holmes was born 05 Jul 1829 in NC and died 28 May 1887 in AL. He was the oldest son of Bryant and Mary Holmes of Lawrenceville, Henry Co., AL. He married Mahala Malinda Richards on 28 Apr 1852 in Barbour Co., AL. He was the father of 9 children: Laura Holmes Ray, William B. Holmes, Henry Lewis Holmes, Mary M. Holmes, Ella Malinda Holmes, Marcella Holmes, Robert W. Holmes, Douglas D. Holmes, and Elizabeth Holmes Justice.

Sources include:
Godfrey, Marie., Early Settlers of Barbour County, Alabama, (Easley, SC : Southern Historical Press, 1979.), 271.
Alabama Censuses 1860, 1866, 1870, 1880

In the book "Marriage & Death Notices From Alabama Newspapers & Family Records 1819-1890" there is this notice for Thursday, June 2, 1887, "Mr. Lewis Holmes, an old citizen of Barbour County, died at his home near Eufaula on Friday, " (p. 164). This notice ran in the Eufaula Weekly Times & News 1887.




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