Bert James Holcomb

Brief Life History of Bert James

When Bert James Holcomb was born in 1868, in Ohio, United States, his father, Ephraim B Holcomb, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth C Wilder, was 26. He married Mary Jane Parker on 12 March 1888, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Linn, Iowa, United States in 1895. He died on 18 January 1897, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States.

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Bert James Holcomb
1868–1897
Mary Jane Parker
1868–1912
Marriage: 12 March 1888
Viola Elizabeth Holcomb
1889–1930
Holcomb
about 1892–1900
Harry Lyons Holcomb
1897–
Lucy Ella Holcomb
1894–1967
John William Holcomb
1895–1976

Sources (22)

  • Birdie Holcomb in household of Ephriam Holcomb, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Holcomb, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Bert Holcomb, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

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1868 · The Fourteenth Amendment

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

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Name Meaning

English (Surrey and Sussex): habitational name from any of several places called Holcombe (Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset), from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + cumb ‘valley’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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