Robert Raines Holmes MD 
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Robert Raines Holmes MD Born: 1826 Died: 1878 - buried in Bellwood Cemetery, Jefferson County, AR Father: Finley Holmes Mother: Emily Goodwyn Raines Holmes Robert Raines Holmes was born in Georgia on the last day of the year 1826. Robert move with the family to Mississippi and in 1844 enrolled in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1846 with a medical degree. Shown in the 1860 Mississippi census for DeSoto County is "R R Holmes" (age 34), listed as a physician, born in Georgia - no wife or children listed. The census was taken after early September, 1860. Robert fathered a child in 1860 with Susan Glover Williams, a slave at the family home, Valley Grove. Susan was born in Georgia in 1840, died in 1905, and is buried in Memphis. The child was Joseph Robert Holmes, born in 1860 at Valley Grove. He became a teacher and farmer living in the Capleville/Whitehaven area near Memphis. The 1850 census shows "Robert R. Holmes" (age 23) visiting at the household of William B. Holmes in Fairfield County, South Carolina. William B. Holmes is the son of William Holmes (cousin to Finley Holmes) who traveled from Ireland with Finley Holmes, the first Finley Holmes in America. Robert lived off and on at Valley Grove, at Desha County, and, perhaps, Drew County in Arkansas. Robert died in 1878 in Jefferson County, Arkansas; and is buried in Bellwood Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas near his brother, Laurentius Holmes .
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Father with: Susan Glover Williams
Born: 1840, Aug in GA Died: 1905 - buried in Burdette Church Cemetery, Shelby County, TN Father: b. in VA Mother: b. in GA or VA
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Child by Susan
Child 1:
Joseph Robert Holmes Sr Born: 1860, Sep 11 in Plum Point, MS Died: 1935, Mar 28 in Whitehaven, TN - buried in Burdette Church Cemetery, Shelby County, TN Spouse: Gertrude M. Tuggle Holmes (b. 1883, d. 1971 - buried in Burdette Church Cemetery, Shelby County, TN ) - married 1906 in Shelby County, TN Children: by Lou Bonner (b. 1887, d. 1969): William Franklin Holmes (b. ~1896 in MS, d. 1961 in AR); by Eliza Plunkett (b. 1872, d. 1906): Joseph Robert Holmes Jr (b. 1896, d. 1966), Louis Fernandez Holmes (b. 1899, d. 1956); by Henrietta Dillard (b. 1864): Frank Holmes (b. 1897 in TN, d. 1980 in TN), Minnie Belle (Maybelle) Dillard Holmes (b. 1904 in TN, d. 1990); by Gertrude Mabel Tuggle Holmes (b. 1883, d. 1971): Malcolm Quinton Holmes (b. 1909 in TN, d. 1993 in AR), Martha (Mattie) Eliza Holmes Hunt (b. 1911 in TN, d. 1982), John Thornton Holmes (b. 1914 in TN, d. 1971), Charles Elmore Holmes (b. 1916 in TN, d. 1958 in TN), Beatrice Amiel Holmes McHenry (b. 1919 in TN, d. 2000 in KY), Ferdinand Jack Holmes (b. 1921 in TN, d. 1991), Emma Ruth Holmes Mims (b. 1925 in TN, d. 2012 in TN) - three other children by Gertrude Mabel Tuggle Holmes died at birth or in infancy.
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Child by Unknown mulatto
Child 2:
Emma Rainey Holmes Havis LeachBorn: 1865 in AR Died: 1948 Spouse: 1st Ferd (Ferdinand) Havis (b. 1847, d. 1918), 2nd John R. Leach (b. ~1857, d. 1931) Children: Ferd Havis Jr (b. 1892, d. 1960), Joseph Havis (b. 1899), Irma Leach (b. ~1912 - adopted daughter)
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Note about another Robert Holmes - this one in Drew County, AR:
There is listed in the 1860 US Federal Census a Robert Holmes born ~1927 in Georgia. He was a farmer and lived in Barehouse, Drew County, Arkansas. His wife is shown as Jane Holmes, born ~1822 in South Carolina and they had three children: Mary A Holmes, born ~1942 in Mississippi, William Holmes born ~1946 in Mississippi and Martha A Holmes born ~1949 in Mississippi.
These Holmes are not related to Robert Raines Holmes or to his father, Finley Holmes, born in 1802.
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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)
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