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Jacob Henderson Holmes

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Jacob Henderson Holmes

Birth
Morgan County, Alabama, USA
Death
1908 (aged 85–86)
Burial
Eva, Morgan County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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His grave is unmarked. His grave is reported to be to the right of Mariah Elizabeth Holmes and to the left of Nancy E. Holmes.

TAKEN FROM 1907 CULLMAN CO, AL CONFEDERATE CENSUS
Holmes, Jacob Henderson, born 23 Apr 1822, at Cooper's School House, Morgan County, Alabama; first entered the service as a private Oct 1863 at Falkville, Alabama in Company E regiment not reported. Continued service until discharged May 1865 at Flint Creek, Alabama.

Jacob was born in a log cabin in Holmes Gap, that also served as the train station for the L & N Railroad. He married Elizabeth Speakman in 1842. Elizabeth passed away and Jacob married again, to Mariah Elizabeth Oden, a daughter of Thomas B. and Nancy (Miller) Oden and a niece of his brother Zachary's wife, in 1849. Mariah was a member of the Harmony Primitive Baptist Church, Then later went to Rock Creek Baptist after a disagreement.

In 1867 Jacob was listed as a founding member of the Rock Creek Baptist Church, where he served as a Deacon and a Moderator.

Elizabeth died of consumption (TB) in June of 1890 in Morgan County. In 1900 Jacob is living with his son James Huston Holmes in Joppa Town, Cullman County, Alabama. It is said that Jacob died in 1908 of Pneumonia he contacted after digging up stumps in bad weather. Jacob and Elizabeth are both supposedly buried at the Lawrence Cove Cemetery (according to the Bible of Mabel Burks), but no stone marks their grave.
His grave is unmarked. His grave is reported to be to the right of Mariah Elizabeth Holmes and to the left of Nancy E. Holmes.

TAKEN FROM 1907 CULLMAN CO, AL CONFEDERATE CENSUS
Holmes, Jacob Henderson, born 23 Apr 1822, at Cooper's School House, Morgan County, Alabama; first entered the service as a private Oct 1863 at Falkville, Alabama in Company E regiment not reported. Continued service until discharged May 1865 at Flint Creek, Alabama.

Jacob was born in a log cabin in Holmes Gap, that also served as the train station for the L & N Railroad. He married Elizabeth Speakman in 1842. Elizabeth passed away and Jacob married again, to Mariah Elizabeth Oden, a daughter of Thomas B. and Nancy (Miller) Oden and a niece of his brother Zachary's wife, in 1849. Mariah was a member of the Harmony Primitive Baptist Church, Then later went to Rock Creek Baptist after a disagreement.

In 1867 Jacob was listed as a founding member of the Rock Creek Baptist Church, where he served as a Deacon and a Moderator.

Elizabeth died of consumption (TB) in June of 1890 in Morgan County. In 1900 Jacob is living with his son James Huston Holmes in Joppa Town, Cullman County, Alabama. It is said that Jacob died in 1908 of Pneumonia he contacted after digging up stumps in bad weather. Jacob and Elizabeth are both supposedly buried at the Lawrence Cove Cemetery (according to the Bible of Mabel Burks), but no stone marks their grave.

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