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Alfred HOLMES |
b.24 Jun 1811, Virginia d.9 Jan 1876, Forest Hill,
Gratiot, Michigan
| married: BEERY, Catharine, 6 Feb 1810 16 May
1833, Fairfield Co, Ohio |
parents: HOLMES, John,
10 Jun 1776 NEALE, Chloe, 28 May 1776 |
children:
- HOLMES, Jacob, 28 Feb 1834
- HOLMES, William, 26 Jan 1838
- HOLMES, Nancy Jane, 27 May 1840
- HOLMES, Mioma, 15 Sep 1845
- HOLMES, Catharine Eleanor, 28 Mar 1849
| siblings of:
HOLMES
- HOLMES, Noah. 6 Dec 1799
- HOLMES, William, 2 Nov 1801
- HOLMES, Nancy, 9 Mar 1804
- HOLMES, Margaret, 24 Oct 1806
- HOLMES, Catherine, ca 1808
- HOLMES, Delusanna, 4 July 1814
- HOLMES, Delilah, 4 Apr 1817
- HOLMES, John, 31 Mar 1819
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fact sources and writings about this individual:
Alfred Holmes came to Gratiot with Ralph Ely, founder of Alma, in 1854.
His son Jacob Holmes came afterwards and settled in Section 9 east of the
Parkinson settlement, one mile north of Forest Hill. A son of Jacob,
Alfred Holmes, recalls spending many nights in the Parkinson brick house,
the only remaining building of a once thriving settlement. Two old
families came together when Alfred Holmes married Frances Fraer, a
daughter of Frank Fraer. Frank Fraer served four years in the Civil War
with a company of sharp- shooters. He located on 120 acres in Sections
13,14 and 24. After the war he became active in township affairs and
served several years as highway commissioner. The Fraer farm is now in
the names of twin great grandsons of Alfred Holmes, Sr., William and
Truman Holmes, whose children are in the fifth Holmes Generation. (Gratiot
County Herald 18 August 1955)
Alfred Holmes, a former resident on section 4, Pine River Township, now
deceased, was a native of Pennsylvania. His parents were born in
Virginia. Mr. Holmes was a pioneer of Gratiot county in 1855. He bought
320 acres of land, on which he resided and continued to improve until his
death, which occurred January 9, 1876. He was married in Ohio of
Catherine Beery. Mrs. Holmes is a native of the Buckeye State. Of six
children born to her marriage to Mr. Holmes, four are living, Jacob,
Nancy, Naomi and Ellen.
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