Brief Life History of Oscar Vivion
When Oscar Vivion Holmes was born about November 1848, in Georgia, United States, his father, Washington H. Holmes, was 49 and his mother, Martha W Harvey, was 30. He married Martha Lee about 1869, in Fulton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Resaca, Gordon, Georgia, United States in 1870 and Plainville, Gordon, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 24 July 1928, in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Alpharetta, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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- Osker Holmes in household of Washington Holmes, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Oscar Vivion Holmes - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Oscar Vivion Holmes
- Oscar Holmes, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Cherokee, Georgia, United States 1858: Milton, Georgia, United States 1932: Fulton, Georgia, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: either from the plural form of Holme , or else a variant of Holme or Home , with excrescent -s (see Holm ).
Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald (Ayrshire), or possibly from another place so called in the barony of Inchestuir (Angus). Both placenames likely derive from the plural form of Middle English, Older Scots holm ‘islet, raised land in a marsh’ (see Holm ).
Scottish and Irish: adopted for Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Thómais, Mac Thómais (see McComb ). In parts of western Ireland, Holmes is also a variant of Cavish, from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas . Early bearers in Ireland were probably immigrants from Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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