Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Hannah Mary HOLMES ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Hannah Mary (PETERSON) HOLMES Surnames: HOLMES, PETERSON From the Adams County Press, Sept 29, 1900, Page 5 DIED--HOLMES--At her home in the town of Big Flats, on Monday, September 17, 1900, Hannah Mary HOLMES, aged 36 years, 3 months and 25 days. Mrs. HOLMES, whose maiden name was Hannah Mary PETERSON, was born in Lolland: in the Kingdom of Denmark, on the 23rd day of May, 1864, and it was there she lived and grew to young womanhood. At the age of 18 years she came to America, and to friends living in Big Flats. On the 7th of March, 1886, she married Rossiter P. HOLMES, a highly respected citizen of that town. This union proved a pleasant one. Mrs. HOLMES' inclinations and tastes were of a highly domestic character, and the home became her kingdom and the one great object of her care and solicitude. Mrs. HOLMES was the mother of four children--the youngest of whom at the age of three-and-a-half months, died on September 7th, only ten days before the mother was called hoem to Heaven. Three children and the husband survive to mourn the irreparable loss. >From infancy the deceased had been an exemplary member of the Danish Lutheran church, and she died in the faith, and with the blessed hope and trust of the pure in heart. The funeral was on Saturday, the 22nd, from the family residence, and was attended by a delegation and members of the Forum in Friendship, of which the deceased had been an esteemed member, and many people from the surrounding country. The procession is estimated to have been composed of at least one hundred carriages, and extended more than a full mile in length. With such an expression of the respect and esteem for the memory of the dead it is but repeating what all must realize as true, that the tenderest sympathies of the whole community go out to the little ones left motherless, to the husband bereft of a faithful wife; and to the aged mother who can but feel that the death that robbed her son of a wife also took from her a faithful daughter.