DeSoto County MsArchives Biographies.....Holmes , Finley Vance September 18, 1867 - August 10, 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Paul Holmes holmesp@cofc.edu March 7, 2012, 9:48 pm Source: AS I REMEMBER THEM --- Author: Irene Beasley Finley Vance Holmes Born: 1867, September 18 in Hernando, MS Died: 1936, August 10 at Plum Point, MS on the old homestead of Valley Grove - buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN Father: Francis Holmes (b. 1839 at Plum Point, MS; d. 1916 at Plum Point, MS - buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN) Mother: Elizabeth Kelley Clarke Holmes (b. 1841 in Crittendon County AR; d. 1929 in Coahoma, MS - buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN) - step- daughter of Judge Joseph W. Vance, of Hernando, MS (Elizabeth's mother married the Judge about 1844 - four years after the death of Elizabeth's father) Siblings: Frank Clarke Holmes (Judge) (b. 1835, d. 1866), Lizzie Raines Holmes Fant (b. 1871, d. 1960), Johnnie Elmore Holmes (Judge) (b. 1875, d. 1935), Agnes Holmes Hathaway (b. 1877, d. 1965), Herbert Holmes (Judge) (b. 1878, d. 1960), Bertha Holmes Beasley (b. 1881, d. 1915) Wife: First marriage (February 8, 1891): Willie Casandra Harrison (b. 1872, d. 1927) daughter of Captain (CSA) William David Harrison (b. 1838, d. 1931) and Mary Louise Alsobrook Harrison (b. 1853, d. 1942) - Wille and her are parents buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN; second marriage (~1928 after the death of Willie) to Miss Evie Mcleary Holmes (b. 1884, d. 1982) - buried in Linwood Cemetery, Paragould, AR. Children: all from first marriage and all born at Valley Grove • Harrison Holmes (b. 1892; d. 1913 - buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN) • Finley Vance Holmes (b. 1894; d. 1956 - buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN) • Francis Holmes (b. 1900; d. 1953 - buried in Forrest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, TN) • James Elmore Holmes (b. 1902; d. 1998 - buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Shelby County TN) • Lucy Clarke Holmes Kendrick (b. 1910; d. 2000 - buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Bessemer, AL) Finley and his family lived at old homestead of Valley Grove. In the early days at Plum Point, MS, he was manager of the farmlands, the cotton gin, and Valley Grove's own general store, later became a planter. Notes: Plum Point, DeSoto County MS was located just below the Tennessee- Mississippi state line on Tchulahoma Road - so called because there was a plum tree grove there. In the early nineteen hundreds, there was a small general store which also housed the Post Office, a sign proclaimed the area as Plum Point, Mississippi. It was little more than a postal name, for this was countryside in every sense of the word, and houses were few and far between. Valley Grove was the home built by Finley Vance Holmes' grandfather (Finley Holmes, b. 1802). It was a house of Colonial design built between 1845 and 1852 on land located in DeSoto County Mississippi near the Tennessee-Mississippi state line on Tchulahoma Road. The house no longer stands, but the land is now just north of the Stateline Road in Tennessee! Additional Comments: Biographical material presented here has been enhanced by information from family records, bibles, interviews, newspaper accounts of weddings and deaths, and other public documents for wills, land transfers, etc. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/desoto/bios/holmes20gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb