When Calvin Harrison Holcomb was born on 7 November 1888, in Yadkin, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Isaac Holcomb, was 24 and his mother, Eunice Catherine Hinshaw, was 27. He married Ethel Mae Maddy on 1 August 1912, in Henry, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Cadiz MM, Henry, Indiana, United States in 1940 and Greensboro, Greensboro Township, Henry, Indiana, United States in 1950. He died in August 1969, at the age of 80, and was buried in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle, Henry, Indiana, United States.
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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’.
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