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OBITUARY Vernal Express, March 22, 1951
VALLEY PIONEERS ANSWER CALL AFTER LIFETIMES OF SERVICE
Funeral services will be conducted by Harold Hullinger in the Vernal Second Ward Chapel Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Friday at 2 p.m. for Charles Holmes, 78, who died at his home here Monday, March 19 at 5:45 p.m. after a lingering illness.
Friends may call at the Vernal Mortuary all day Thursday and at the family home Friday prior to services. Burial will be in the Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Holmes was born in Salt Lake City, November 6, 1872, the son of Charles and Martha Ann Haslem Holmes.
He came to Ashley Valley at the age of fourteen years, leaving the home of his paternal grandfather in Big Cottonwood Canyon and traveling with John Neilson and others coming to the Uintah Basin.
He herded sheep for S. R. Bennion until he was 21 at which time he took up a homestead on Ashley Creek and engaged in farming and livestock raising, trading his produce for supplies at the local stores.
He bagan freighting between Price and Vernal from 190 until 1925 when the stores paid "store pay" and freighters slept under the snow in their bed rolls. Mr. Holmes had many interesting and exciting experiences during this period.
Mr. Holmes met Emma Southam while she was living on the homestead of her mother, Mrs. Catherine Southam, on Ashley Creek. They were married March 21, 1898 in Vernal. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Surviving besides his widow are four daughters, Mrs. Nelson Weeks, Mrs. Sterling Rasmussen, Vernal; Mrs. Victor Bascom, Jerome, Idaho; Mrs. Venice Coltharp, Rangely, Colorado; three sons, George A. Holmes, William Kenneth Holmes, Vernal; James Lynn Homes, Cameron, Montana; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Harnish, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Bessie Mowrey, Yakima, Washington; two brothers, William Holmes, Sr., Vernal; George Holmes, Nampa, Idaho; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
-Vernal Express, March 22, 1951, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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OBITUARY Vernal Express, March 22, 1951
VALLEY PIONEERS ANSWER CALL AFTER LIFETIMES OF SERVICE
Funeral services will be conducted by Harold Hullinger in the Vernal Second Ward Chapel Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Friday at 2 p.m. for Charles Holmes, 78, who died at his home here Monday, March 19 at 5:45 p.m. after a lingering illness.
Friends may call at the Vernal Mortuary all day Thursday and at the family home Friday prior to services. Burial will be in the Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Holmes was born in Salt Lake City, November 6, 1872, the son of Charles and Martha Ann Haslem Holmes.
He came to Ashley Valley at the age of fourteen years, leaving the home of his paternal grandfather in Big Cottonwood Canyon and traveling with John Neilson and others coming to the Uintah Basin.
He herded sheep for S. R. Bennion until he was 21 at which time he took up a homestead on Ashley Creek and engaged in farming and livestock raising, trading his produce for supplies at the local stores.
He bagan freighting between Price and Vernal from 190 until 1925 when the stores paid "store pay" and freighters slept under the snow in their bed rolls. Mr. Holmes had many interesting and exciting experiences during this period.
Mr. Holmes met Emma Southam while she was living on the homestead of her mother, Mrs. Catherine Southam, on Ashley Creek. They were married March 21, 1898 in Vernal. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Surviving besides his widow are four daughters, Mrs. Nelson Weeks, Mrs. Sterling Rasmussen, Vernal; Mrs. Victor Bascom, Jerome, Idaho; Mrs. Venice Coltharp, Rangely, Colorado; three sons, George A. Holmes, William Kenneth Holmes, Vernal; James Lynn Homes, Cameron, Montana; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Harnish, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Bessie Mowrey, Yakima, Washington; two brothers, William Holmes, Sr., Vernal; George Holmes, Nampa, Idaho; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
-Vernal Express, March 22, 1951, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
Family Members
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John Holmes
1874–1939
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William Wallace Holmes Sr
1875–1961
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Lilly May Holmes Simpson
1877–1931
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Mary Elizabeth Holmes Richens
1878–1919
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George Holmes
1881–1961
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David Henry Holmes
1883–1938
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Martha Caroline "Carrie" Holmes Harnish
1889–1964
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Chloe Elzina Holmes Richens
1892–1937
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Bessie Estella Holmes Mowrey
1894–1969
