Garry Holcomb (1853-1925)

HOLCOMB, BAINTER, BUKER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/4/2022 at 15:59:18

From Nevada Evening Journal March 9, 1925 (page 1)

PIONEER MAN WAS LAID TO REST

GARRY HOLCOMB, HAD LIVED IN ILLINOIS GROVE AS A BOY

Special to the Journal.
Zearing, March 9-Funeral services for Garry Holcomb, 71, pioneer of this neighborhood, who died March 1, at Whittier, Calif., were held Friday afternoon, from the Evangelical church, after which interment was in the Zearing cemetery. The services were in charge of Rev. F. R. Blakely.

Garry Holcomb, a son of William and Lyda Bainter-Holcomb was born in Ohio, April 2, 1853 an died as stated, at Whittier, Calif. March 1, age 71 years, 10 month and 29 days.

He came out to Iowa with his parents in the early "fifties" and lived in Illinois Grove as a boy. He was married to Ida May Buker and to them one son, Asa Holcomb, was born to them and survives the parents, the wife and mother passing away July 30, 1917. He also leaves three brothers and a number of nephews and nieces.

Mr. Holcomb was one of the real pioneers of the Illinois Grove neighborhood, northeast of here, coming out from Ohio in 1855 and locating over the line in Marshall county. The death of Mr. Holcomb leaves but four of the boys who came out from Ohio in that year and settled in Illinois Grove with their people.

He was educated in the pioneer schools of that day, attending the old log school house. In 1873 he bought a farm in Hardin county, north of town, and settle there. He remained on the farm until about 1905 when he moved to Zearing settling in the north part of town. After the death of his wife in 1917, he went to California, and liking that state sold his property here and moved there in 1918.

He has visited in Iowa many times since and planning to sell his California property and return to Zearing to make his home when he was overtaken by death.

He had been a sufferer for some time from Brights disease and Sunday morning he passed away.