John Starling Holmes

BEEM, HOLMES

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/7/2004 at 12:33:34

John S. Holmes, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. Winterset; born in Jackson county, Indiana, March 28, 1821, and was raised there; March 18, 1843, he married Miss Elizabeth Beem; she was born in the same county; in the spring of 1855, they started for Iowa in a wagon, and after being on the road for thirty days they located where they now live, and have been highly respected citizens of this county ever since; owns a well improved farm of 540 acres; they have a family of five sons and five daughters: Roselba, Solomon M., Michael B., Novilla, Nancy A., Jacob N., Polly O., Elizabeth, John W. and Ellsworth G.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 584