S. B. HOLYCROSS

    S. B. Holycross is a son of David and Phoebe Fenner Holycross, natives Virginia and Rhode Island, respectively, who settled in this county when they were married.  Nine children were born to them, seven of whom are living.  One son, Perry, enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga and subsequently died in a hospital.  The subject of this sketch is the oldest son, and was born in Madison County, Ohio, in 1838.  He served in the one hundred days' service in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment Ohio National Guards.