Rich Holmes's Chief Lines
John Cook HOLMES
Birth:17 Sep 1862 in South Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA 1
Death:25 Apr 1938 in Independence (600 2nd St. NW), Buchanan, Iowa, USA 1 6
Sex:M
Father:Jerome N. HOLMES b. 9 Oct 1834 in Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA
Mother:Ruth Oliva COLLINS b. 26 Oct 1833 in South Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA
  
Reference: 4.2
Census: 1865 Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA 2
Census: 1870 Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA 3
Census: 1875 Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA 4
Census: 1880 Hamilton, Madison, New York, USA 5
Burial: Independence (Oak Grove Cemetery), Buchanan, Iowa, USA 1
Occupation: Cheese and butter maker; feed store 6
Religion: Presbyterian 7
Changed: 8 Aug 1998

Spouses & Children
None

Notes
Individual:

"From what I learned from the Larkin sisters and my mother visiting them, I do not think John's family made it very pleasant for him."
Name: John Cooke Holmes
John Cook [Holmes]

Given that the Norwich Cooks appear to have not used the final "e", I find it slightly surprising that John's descendants say he did. Perhaps he changed it because he, like H. Ruth Cooke, believed "that was, without doubt, the original spelling of the name of this family, and those who omitted the e did it from want of thought, rather than from ignorance of it..."#418, p. 38
Birth date: Sept. 18, 1862
Sept. 17, 1862.
Age 2 9/12 in June 1865
Age 7 in 1870.
Age 12 in 1875.
Age 17 in 1880.
Age 23 on March 9, 1886.
Age 24 on next birthday after March 9, 1886.

Birth place: Madison Co., New York.
Madison Co.
Independence, IA [incorrect (based on a misreading of the Collins genealogy)].
Hamilton, New York.
New York.p. 38Hamilton, 2nd dist., family #325Hamilton, family #768Hamilton, 2nd dist., Family #84Hamilton, Family #141Hamilton, Family #141Hamilton, 2nd dist., Family #84Hamilton, 2nd dist., family #325Hamilton, family #768
Death date: age "about 80".
April 25, 1938.
April, 1938.

Cause: "a type of brain ailment"p. 4
According to Clarence HOLMES, he went to Elgin, IL at about age 20. Married "an Irish girl" there and soon moved to Independence, IA. Returned east only twice after he left home.

Living in Bloomingdale, Illinois when married in 1886.

Settled in Independence, Iowa 49 years before death in 1938; about 60 years before wife's death in 1953.p. 4
Father of 8 children. One child, Jay, visited Clarence HOLMES's family in Schodack Center on the way back from WWI. Another, Ruth, corresponded for a while. A third died of the flu on the way to WWI.p. 4


Sources
  1. Type: Newspaper
    Title: Unknown newspaper
    Date: Apr 28, 1938
    Text: Reproduced in Daniel L. McDonald, family history book, publishe
    d by the author (c/o Janette McDonald, 20 24th Ave SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1997), collection of Richard S. Holmes.
  2. Type: Census
    Title: New York State census population schedule
    Place: Madison County, part 1
    Date: 1865
    Media: microfilm #0408495
    Text: Hamilton, 2nd dist., family #325
  3. Type: Census
    Title: US census population schedule
    Place: Madison County, New York
    Date: 1870
    Media: microfilm #M593-967
    Text: Hamilton, family #768
  4. Type: Census
    Title: New York State census population schedule
    Place: Madison County, part 1
    Date: 1875
    Media: microfilm #0408497
    Text: Hamilton, 2nd dist., Family #84
  5. Type: Census
    Title: US census population schedule
    Place: Madison County, New York, part 2
    Date: 1880
    Media: microfilm #1254860
  6. Type: Book
    Author: Clarence E. Holmes
    Title: Reminiscences of Previous Years
    Publication: published privately
    Text: Written ca. 1950-1955.
    Text: p. 4
  7. Author: Daniel L. McDonald
    Title: information on John Cooke Holmes and family
    Date: May 17, 1997

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