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Robert Scott Holmes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer)

b. 1820-03-18 d. 1869-03-19

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Holmes, Robert Scott. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202049 (November 12, 2026).

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