Yuba County
Biographies
THOMAS
E. HOLMES
THOMAS E. HOLMES. A thorough-going, skillful farmer, orchardist
and stock-raiser, living about six miles south of Yuba City, Thomas E.
Holmes is actively identified with the agricultural growth and prosperity of
this section of the state, his home farm being that portion of General Sutter’s
estate known as the “Hock ranch” and on it a part of the walls of the old fort
are still standing. A son of Elias
Holmes, he was born December 29, 1859, in Washington county,
Md., near Hagerstown.
Elias Holmes, a native of Maryland,
belonged to a family noted for its longevity, his father living to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.
He was a shoemaker by trade, but worked a part of the time in the iron
works. Late in life he removed to
Pennsylvania, just across the line from his former home, and there resided
until his death, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He married Mary Freydinger,
who was born in Maryland, and died in Pennsylvania at the age of fifty-nine
years. She bore him twelve children –
Thomas E., the subject of this sketch, being the eleventh in order of birth.
Brought up at home, and obtaining a
common-school education, Thomas E. Holmes began work at Fairview, Pa.,
entering McCormick’s iron works, where he learned the nail-maker’s trade, which
he followed for seven years. Pushing his
way westward in 1877, he arrived in Woodland, Yolo county, Cal., on the second
day of May, and for nearly ten years thereafter he worked as a farm laborer,
receiving day wages, in Yolo, Colusa and Sutter counties, but has since been
engaged in ranching for himself.
August 14, 1886, Mr. Holmes married
for his first wife Mrs. Mary E. Smith, who at the time of their
marriage owned the ranch on which he now resides. She died November 8, 1896, leaving two
children, Dora May and Roy, twins.
January 20, 1898, Mr. Holmes married for his second wife Mary
Dena Kettman, of San Jose, Cal., and of this union
four children have been born, namely: Mildred, Adele, Louise and Marie
Evelyn. Mr. Holmes has three
hundred and seventy acres of land in his ranch, sixty acres of which are
devoted to the raising of fruit, his orchard being mainly set out with peach
trees, although he raises a few pears, apricots and prunes. The remainder of his farm he devotes to
grain, or to the pasturing of stock, raising cattle and horses. Politically Mr. Holmes is a loyal
adherent of the Democratic party, and religiously he
and his family are members of the Catholic Church.
[Inserted by D.
Toole.]
Thomas E. Holmes
1896
May 4, Harrisburg Daily Independent, P8, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania
West
Fairview
Special
Correspondence
Mr.
Elias Holmes was 81 years old last week.
He is evidently the oldest gentleman in town.
1898
Feb 13, The San Francisco Call, P30, San Francisco,
California
Thomas
E. Holmes and bride are home from Southern California.
1899
May 24, The Record-Union, P6, Sacramento, California
Fruit
Men Organize
<snipped>
Who
Are Members
The
following pledge [c]ard names of signers were read,
showing who were members: Sacramento,
May 23, 1899 <snipped> Thomas E. Holmes, Yuba City; <snipped>
1920
May 25, San Francisco Chronicle, P14, San Francisco,
California
Mrs.
Hanna Chandler, Mrs. Thomas Holmes and Mrs. William Jones are other
Californians added to the already long list who are to pass the summer months
in Europe. They left here last Wednesday
and will visit in England, Norway and Sweden.
Findagrave Memorial:
Thomas
E. Holmes
Birth:
1859
Death:
1920
Family
links:
Children:
Louise E. Holmes Carlin (1901 - 1981)*
*Calculated
relationship
Burial: Praise Chapel Mausoleum, Yuba City, Sutter
County, California, USA
Created
by: Tim Hammill
Record
added: Dec 01, 2011
Find
A Grave Memorial# 81352926
1920
Dec 11, Woodland Daily Democrat, P1, Woodland, California
Brother
of Yolo Woman Leaves $200,000 Estate
The
will of the late Thomas Holmes, owner of the Hock Farm in Yuba county, brother
to Mrs. P. S. Lincoln, who died at Harrisburg, Pa., while visiting the Eastern
states with his wife, has been filed for probate by his widow, Mary D. Holmes,
in Yuba county. Specific bequests in the
document name the College of Notre Dame of Marysville and the rector of St.
Joseph’s Catholic church in that city as beneficiaries
in the sum of $500 each. To Roy Holmes
and Mrs. Dora May Willard, children by his first wife, the sum of $5000 each is
left. To Henry Heidoting
and Joseph Heidoting, sons of his former wife, the
sum of $5 each is left. Mary O’Neill and
Mamie Kerrigan, relatives by marriage, also receive $5 each. Phillip Holmes, son of deceased, is willed
his watch and chain. One half of the
rest and residue of the estate, which is estimated at $200,000, is left to the
widow, the other half to go to his children, Mildred, Adele, Louise, Marie and
Phillip. Mrs. Holms[sic]
is named as executrix, to serve without bonds.
The will was executed October 18th of this year, the day before deceased
and his wife left on their eastern trip.
1935
Aug 12, Oakland Tribune, P1, Oakland, California
Sutter
County Fruit Grower is Stricken
At
Yuba City, Roy Holmes, prominent Sutter county fruit grower, died after being
overcome while driving a truck in the heat.
In Southern California and the interior of the State the prediction was
for continuing warm weather. At
Sacramento the temperature rose to 109 degrees, the hottest day of the year,
while other interior cities reported near record temperatures.
1936
Jan 25, The Petaluma Argus-Courier, P3, Petaluma,
California
Mrs.
Ivancovich Entertaining
Mrs.
Marie Fox of Modesto and Mrs. Louise Carlin of Oakdale are spending the week
here with their relative, Mrs. Clara B. Ivancovich,
at her home on Walnut street.
1945
May 3, Sacramento Bee, P9, Sacramento, California
Requiem
is Set for Mrs. Mary D. Holmes
Marysville
(Yuba Co.), May 3 – Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Dena Holmes, widow of Thomas
E. Holmes, identified with agriculture and horticultural since 1877 in Sutter
County, will be held at 10 A.M. tomorrow in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The rosary will be recited at 8 o’clock tonight
in the Lipp & Sullivan chapel. Entombment will be in the Yuba City
Mausoleum. Mrs. Holmes died Tuesday in
the Mercy Hospital in Sacramento, where she had been ill for a month. The Holmes’ Sutter County ranch was known as
Hock Farm, a portion of the historic holdings of General Sutter. Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. George
Kettman of San Jose, early settlers of California,
who settled in Sutter County in the early 50s.
Mrs. Holmes was the mother of Mrs. Raymond David of Portland,
Mrs. Adele Da Cosse
of Sutter County; Mrs. Louise Carlin of Hammonton; Mrs. Marie
Gallagher of Rio Oso and Philip Holmes of
Berkeley. Seven grandchildren also
survive.
Death
of Louise Holmes Carlin:
FamilySearch:
Name: Louise Emily Carlin
Event
Type: Death
Event
Date: 25 Feb 1981
Event
Place: Yuba, California, United States
Birth
Date: 07 Sep 1901
Birthplace: California
Gender: Female
Father's
Name: Holmes
Mother's
Name: Kettman
Citing this
Record: "California Death Index,
1940-1997," database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGBN-C1W : 26
November 2014), Louise Emily Carlin, 25 Feb
1981; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
Transcribed by Donna Toole.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 504-507. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2017 Donna Toole.
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