Bio  Jacob Holderman - Logan County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gwynn Hayden  gmh92835@yahoo.com 
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Jacob Holderman

Jacob was born 4-16-1837 in Holmes County, Ohio.  He married Catherine 
Miller of Somerset County, PA 10-16-1860 in Joshen, Elkhart County, 
Indiana.  They had 12 children.  My grandmother, Eva Dell born 1-3-1879, 
was their 10th child.  She later married William Beverly Holliday, son of 
James Mitchell & Sarah J. Holliday.  Jacob was ordained to the Mennonite 
Ministry and he preached in English.  He was a farmer as well a minister in 
the Mennonite Church in Richardson County, NE, moved from Nebraska to 
McPherson County, Kansas where he was at the Spring Valley Church.
They moved to Harper, Kansas where he was minster at the Pleasant Valley 
Mennonite Church then on to Logan County, Oklahoma Territory where he 
served as minister.  They then moved to Reedley,  CA where he died 3-8-
1911.