Shelby County TN Archives Biographies.....Holmes, Robert April 28, 1806 - February 27, 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Paul W. Holmes http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008245 March 29, 2018, 9:57 pm Source: Sources at end Author: Paul W. Holmes Robert Holmes, the fourth son of Finley (b. 1765) and Jenny Downs Holmes (b. ~1770), was born in 1806 in South Carolina. He moved as a child with his mother and siblings - James Holmes, Catherine Holmes Bryan, and, William Thomas Holmes - to Georgia around 1818. The 1830 and 1840 census has him in Talbot County, Georgia; but he moved to Shelby County, Tennessee about 1844 and farmed there. He never married. In late December of 1883 he came to Valley Grove in DeSoto County, MS - the nearby plantation of Francis Holmes, his nephew, and told him that he was ill and unable to care for himself. He asked if he could stay at Valley Grove - "from that time up to his death [Francis] cared for him in his sickness and supplied all of his wants." Robert died late in February 1884. His land adjoined that on which Valley Grove stood. In total, he had 240 acres in Mississippi and 1157 acres in Tennessee near the river. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis in the Holmes plot on Lenow Circle along with his brother, Finley Holmes. References 1830 U.S. Federal Census, Talbot County GA - line 20 "Robert Holmes" with Slaves: 13 - same page as David Bryan - his brother-in-law. 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Talbot County GA - line 12 "Robert Holmes" with Slaves: 26. 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Shelby County TN - line 25 "Robt Holmes". 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules Shelby County TN - Slave Owner: "Robert Holmes" with Slaves: 33. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Census Shelby County TN - line 2 "Robert Holmes". 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules Drew County AR - Slave Owner: "Robert Holms [sic]" with Slaves: 5. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules Shelby County TN - Slave Owner: "Robert Holmes" with Slaves: 46. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules Talbot County GA - Slave Owner: "William T Holmes Agt [agent] for Robert Holmes" with Slaves: 2. 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Shelby County TN - line 33 "Holmes Robert". 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Shelby County TN - line 48 "Holmes Robert". Bryan, Mary Catherine Holmes March 18, 1800 - 1862. Files. Talbot County, Georgia, USGenWeb Archives. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios.html. Holmes, Finley 1765-1815. Files Richland County, SC, USGenWeb Archives. http://usgwarchives.net/sc/sca_rich.html. Holmes, Finley March 24, 1802 - September 24, 1884. Files. DeSoto County, Mississippi, USGenWeb Archives. http://usgwarchives.net/ms/desoto.htm. Holmes , Francis June 6, 1839 - April 1, 1916. Files. DeSoto County, Mississippi, USGenWeb Archives. http://usgwarchives.net/ms/desoto.htm. Holmes, James June 1794 - December 1854. Files. Talbot County, Georgia, USGenWeb Archives. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios.html. Holmes, William Thomas November 10, 1810 - August 28, 1888. Files. Talbot County, Georgia, USGenWeb Archives. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios.html. Robert Holmes, Shelby County Probate Court, File number 1880-05008 — 1884 - 1885. Registry Book, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, TN - Robert Holmes. __________________________________________________________________ Additional Comments: Text by Paul W. Holmes • holmesp at [i.e.,@] cofc.edu File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/shelby/bios/holmes24bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb