James Holmes 
Married Mary Bryan in ~1812 and later married Jane Gaither in 1847.
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Husband:
James Holmes Born: 1794, Jun 27 - Columbia, Richland County, Camden District, SC Died: 1854, Dec - Talbot County GA Father: Finley Holmes Mother: Jane (Jenny) Downs [Downes] Holmes James Holmes, born in 1794, was the first child of Finley (b. 1765) and Jenny Downs Holmes (b. ~1770). He was born and raised in Columbia, SC. At the age of 21 his father died and the family decided to move to Georgia. James was in charge of settling the estate. It took a year or two to do the inventory of the household items and farmlands and to sell everything. Shortly afterward he was buying land near Macon, Georgia, for the move by the family. He, along with his mother and her other children, then moved to Georgia. James, around 1812, married a Georgia girl, Mary "Polly" Bryan, and in 1817 his sister, Mary Catherine, married David Bryan - brother to Polly. At some point the families relocated to Talbot County, Georgia. Talbot County, established in 1827, is in the west central portion of Georgia 30 miles north east of Columbus, Georgia. The families of James and his sister, Mary Catherine, lived in adjoining plantations in the county. James and Polly had five children. Polly died about 1831. Around the same time, James built a plantation house in Talbot County and remained in that house until 1852. He then moved to a farm at Pleasant Hill (east of Woodland, Georgia, in Talbot County) near the plantation of his brother, William Thomas Holmes. After Polly's death, he remarried in 1847 to Jane C. Gaither, a widow. They had two children together, Oliver Skinner Holmes and James F. Holmes. For most of his life, James farmed the land. At his death late in 1854, James Holmes estate included 60 slaves valued at over $30,000, and the plantation lands of more than 1400 acres were appraised at $9800. Add in furnishings of the plantation house, other at other items around the plantation including crops, and cash on hand, it totaled to over $50,000. According to his will, James passed on to Jane the plantation land and house and 405 acres of adjoining land. He also bequeathed to her slaves, household items, the family carriage and horses, and other various plantation items. Each of the children were bequeathed slaves. Jane lived until sometime after 1870. She is shown in the Talbot County census for 1860 and 1870, but not in the 1880 census. All of James' children by Polly and by Jane were born in Georgia and, as adults, could be found in Georgia, Alabama, or Mississippi.
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Wife: first: Mary "Polly" Bryan Born: 1785, 3 May in GA Died: ~1831 in Talbot County GA Father: David Bryan Mother: Dorcas Stokes Bryan |
Children By Polly
Child 1:
Sarah Bryan Holmes [Quinn] CarterBorn: 1810, 10 Mar Died: 1898 in MS Spouse: Married in 1826 1st William Graham Quinn (b. 1792, d. 1850 in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County AL - Find A Grave Memorial #126515275); married 2nd John T. Carter Children: by Quinn: William Bryan Quinn (b. 1829 in Bibb County GA, d. 1905 in Noxapater, Winston County MS - Find A Grave Memorial #75489774), James Henry Quinn (b. 1827, d. 1872 in Winston County MS - Find A Grave Memorial #130896614), Mary Frances Quinn (b. 1831, d. 1918 buried in Sturgis, Oktibbeha County MS - Find A Grave Memorial #35605845), John Blackstone Quinn (b. 1831 in Chester County SC, d. 1910 in Neshoba County MS - Find A Grave Memorial #39469935), Capt (CSA) Silvanus Jackson Quinn (b. 1837 in GA, d. 1910 in Fredericksburg, VA - Find A Grave Memorial #16258772 & 5225387), Thomas Jefferson Quinn (b. 1832 in AL, d. 1918 in TX - Find A Grave Memorial #20254727), David Monroe Quinn (b. 1835 in MS), Narcissus Susan Jane Quinn (b. 1848, d. 1851), by Carter: John Carter Jr - probably: Find A Grave Memorial #23535135 b. 1845 in Water Valley, Yalobusha County MS
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Child 2:
Narcissa Jane Holmes [Thorp] [Talton] Burke Born: 1815, Feb in GA Died: 1859 Spouse: Married 1st Madison Thorp, m. 2nd ? Talton (born in GA), m. 3rd James Burke (b. ~1820 in GA) Children: John Holmes Talton (b. 1842 in GA), Mary Burke (b. ~1846 in GA), Ernest Burke (b. ~1847 in AL)
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Child 3:
David Monroe Holmes Born: 1820 in GA Died: 1855 Spouse: Martha Robert Holmes Children: William Holmes (b. ~1841), Robert Holmes (b. ~1843), John Holmes (b. ~1845), Mary Holmes (b. ~1847)
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Child 4:
William Durwell Holmes Born: 1821 in GA Died: 1884 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA - buried in Webster Parish, LA Spouse: 1st Martha Culpepper Holmes (b. 1828, d. 1868 - buried in Webster Parish, LA) - m. Houston County GA ~ 1846: 2nd spouse: Susan Paul Holmes (b. 1830, d. 1915 - buried in Webster Parish, LA) Children (all byMartha Culpepper): Mary Emily Holmes Hargrove (b.1847, d. 1879 - Find A Grave Memorial #90672639), Joseph J. Holmes (b. 1848, d. 1919 - Find A Grave Memorial #125536568), Cora Holmes Miller (b. 1851, d. 1937 - Find A Grave Memorial #20661347), Charles Holmes (b. ~1853), and John Holmes (b. ~1859)
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Child 5:
Finley David Holmes Born: 1820 - 1829 Died: 1854 Spouse: Martha Smith Holmes Children: James Finley Holmes, Mollie Holmes |
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Wife: second: Jane O. Gaither Holmes - married in 1847 Born: 1811 in GA Died: Father: Mother:
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Child 6:
Oliver Skinner Holmes Born: 1851 in GA Died: 1927, 16 Jan in Russell County AL Spouse: Ella B. Harp (b. 1863 in GA, d. 1920) - m. 1883 in Cusseta, Chattahoochee County GA Children:
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Child 7:
James F. Holmes Born: 1852 in GA Died: Spouse: Children:
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Sources:
United States Federal Census data
Family Records, unpublished records of the Holmes family - correspondence, Bibles, interviews, etc.
Newspaper accounts of weddings and deaths, and other public documents for wills, land transfers, etc.
Beasley, Irene. (1973). AS I REMEMBER THEM ---. (Memoirs of the Holmes' family - printed for family distribution)
Davidson, W. H. (1983). A rockaway in Talbot: travels in an old Georgia county, Vol 1, 2, 3, and 4. West Point, GA.: Hester Printing.
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