Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Martha E. HOLMES

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OBITUARY

Mrs. Martha E. Holmes was born in Colosse, Oswego Co. N. Y. January 17,
1834, and died in Evansville, Wisconsin, October 30, 1908 at 11 p.m. Mrs.
Holmes was the oldest child of Truman and Patty Maria Case Rood, her father
being the firs white child born in that county. Of a family of six
children, three sisters and two brothers, two survive her, Mrs. Oscar
Parkhurst and Miss Theada A. Rood, both of Escondido, Cal. As a girl Mrs.
Holmes showed marked proficiencey in her studies and at the early age of
sixteen she began to teach district school, boarding around as was the
custom. She continued teaching in her native county until her marriage. She
was married to John N. Holmes, Jr., at Fulton, N. Y., August 8, 1857. To
this union were born five children, the two oldest dying in infancy. Those
who survive are W. Newton Holmes, assistant examiner in the U. S. patent
office, Washington, D. C.; John L. Holmes, superitendent of the Chicago
Concentrating company of Chicago, and Frank R. Holmes of his city. She is
also survived by two grandchildren, Grace R. and John L. Holmes, of
Chicago.

Left in 1870 with three small children to look after, she devoted to their
care and education fifteen of the best years of her life. Breaking up her
home in 1895, she spent the last years of her life with her sons.

The funeral services were held at the home of her son in this city Monday
afternoon, Rev. J. L. Webster, preaching the funeral sermon, after which
the remains were laid to rest in Maple Hill cemetery.

November 4, 1908, The Enterprise and The Tribune, p. 1, col. 7, Evansville,
Wisconsin