James Holmes

Notes:

His identity appears to be clouded in unsorted genealogical confusion. We don't know if this amounts to a clue, but he and his wife appear to have bestowed a very unusual name on a daughter born at Warwick on 11 Sep 1799: Czarina Holmes.

James married Milly Rawson on 30 Jun 1796 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. Milly (daughter of Josiah Rawson and Hannah Bass) was born on 19 Dec 1775 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 16 Jun 1809 in Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Hill Cemetery, Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She came to Utah with her second husband William Garner in the Harmon Cutler Company, 1852.

Her obituary in the Ogden Herald (citation details below) has a phrasing that is interesting in light of the family history transcribed from The Stowell Genealogy in our entry for her first husband Augustus Oliver Artemas Stowell. It says "In 1848 she reached Council Bluffs, where she married Wm. Garner (her first husband is dead); remained there until 1852, when she crossed the plains to Salt Lake valley, arriving in Salt Late City in the fall of the same year." Note that although the overall sentence is in past tense, the parenthetical doesn't say "her first husband was dead" or "her first husband having died"; it says "her first husband is dead", which was literally the present-tense case in 1885 when this obituary was written. Augustus A.O. Stowell wasn't dead in 1848, nor had she and he divorced; from what we can discern in The Stowell Genealogy, it would appear that they parted ways over his refusal to continue in the Mormon church and her determination to do so. But no official divorce appears to have taken place -- a fact papered over, evidently deliberately, by the Herald's brief change of tense.

Mary married Augustus Oliver Artemas Stowell in 1820. Augustus (son of Oliver Stowell and Abigail Strickland) was born on 4 Jun 1783 in Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 23 Aug 1860 in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York; was buried in Ripon Corners Bethel Cemetery, Ripon, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 23 Jan 1822, Solon, Cortland, New York
• Alternate death: 30 May 1901, Colonia Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico

Notes:

From The Stowell Genealogy (citation details below):

Resided in Nauvoo, Ill.; Council Bluff, Iowa; Provo, Fillmore, Bingham's Fort and Ogden, Utah. Was a farmer. Went to Colonia Juarez, Mexico in 1889.

Went to Nauvoo with the Prophet Joseph Smith and shared in all the trials coming to the Valley in 1848. Was a Pioneer, Indian Scout and Capt. of a Mormon Company in all the battles with the Indians. Was a Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints until his death, having held previously all the other minor offices in suecession. All his family have remained in the Church.

William married Sophronia Kelly on 9 Oct 1855 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Sophronia (daughter of Alexander Kelley and Mary Holmes Davis) was born on 15 Jul 1826 in Potton, Richelieu, Quebec; died on 24 Jan 1907 in Franklin, Franklin, Idaho; was buried in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Jackson on 22 Nov 1887. Joseph (son of William Jackson and Mary Argyle) was born on 2 Apr 1852 in England; died on 13 Apr 1935 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]