Shelby County TN Archives Obituaries.....Holmes, Finley Vance August 10, 1936
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Memphis  Commercial Appeal 
Finley Holmes Dies; Planter

Brother of Late Judge Had Lived Whole Life in Ancestral Home

Finley Vance Holmes, one of Shelby County's best known planters
and active Methodist Church worker, died at his home at 6:30 p.m.
yesterday at his home on Chulahoma Road, Whitehaven, after a 
months's serious illness.  He was 68.

Mr. Holmes died in the home in which he was born and in which he
had live all his life the ancestral home, full of historic memories,
built two years before the Civil War.

Brother of the late Judge Elmore Holmes, prominent Memphis attorney,
Mr. Holmes had   ...   the estate and wide farm ...     interest of
his home.  He had lived in active health until a year ago.  

He was the son of Francis and Lizzie K. Holmes.  His first wife, Mrs. 
Willie Harrison Holmes, died in 1927.  He had been superintendent
of the Longstreet Methodist Church for almost 50 years.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Evie Holmes; a daughter, Miss Lucy Clark 
Holmes, Whitehaven; three sons, Finley V. Holmes Jr., Whitehaven; 
Francis Holmes; and Dr. J. E. Holmes, Memphis; two brothers, Clark 
Holmes, Hernando Miss., and Herbert Holmes, Senatobia, Miss.; two 
sisters, Mrs F. M. Fant, Coahoma, Miss., and Mrs. A. H. Hathaway, 
Mountain View, Okla.

Mr. Holmes also was the uncle of Irene Beasley, well known singer, 
and was the stepfather of Andrew Collingsworth.

Services conducted by Rev. C. A. Riggs and Dr. H. S. Sptagins, were 
to be held at 4 p.m. today at National Funeral Home.  Burial was to 
be in Bethlehem Cemetery, near Capleville, Tenn.

Active pallbearers are:                 
    E. M. Fant          E. W. Smith
    W. L. Harrison      D. L. Harrison
    C. H. Harrison      J. W. Vance
    E. E. McLeary
Honorary pallbearers are:
    E. W. Hale          C. R. Elam
    J. H. Van Hook      Dr. A. G. Hudson
    Dr. M. L Bearden    A. C. Hassel
    A. H. Bowe          J. R. Thurman
    W. D. Gooch         Fred Wilson
    John E. Elam        Dr. F. M. Malone
    S. B. Jol...        S. T. Fogg

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