Robert Scott Holmes

Birth Date

1820-03-18

Death Date

1869-03-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Holmes II and Sarah "Sally" Hosick Holmes. Married to Lucy Osgood Adams on March 24, 1837, in Harrison County, Kentucky. Father of Lucy Oldham Holmes Yelton. Married to Elizabeth R. Adams Holmes on December 10, 1849 in Harrison County, Kentucky. Father of Lucina Holmes Rawlins, Wellburn H. Holmes, George Holmes, Hester Stella Holmes Drake, George Waldo Holmes, and Ella S. Holmes Ellis. Farmer in Harrison County in 1850. Farmer in Harrison County in 1860. Employed John T. Beckett as a farm hand in Harrison County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 113A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 684.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216886.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216886.
"Robert S. Holmes (1820-Death 1869)," Find A Grave, Memorial #19903780, accessed April 14, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19903780.

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