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- The branch of Nathaniel which came in later, contained of five families. These were Isaiah and Sally, Jesseniah and Martha, Eliakim and __, and two daughters. Of these, Olive was the third child of Nathaniel. She first married a Mr. Allen, by whom she had two daughters, Laura, born February 8, 1811, who April 2, 1828 married Philip Minckler; and Phoebe, who married Nelson, brother of Philip. A daughter of Laura is Mrs. Helen, wife of Robert Jones, who lives a little east of the graveyard. Newton Minckler is the son of Nelson and Phoebe. After the death of Mr. Allen, Olive married James Robinson, and they had children.
The other daughter of Nathaniel Holmes was the youngest child, Phoebe. She was born November 9, 1796. October 27, 1814 she married Elnathan Mason Jr. (born August 12, 1791); familiarly known as “Squire Mason.” They lived about opposite the Baptist church, and their children were, Harriet Newell, Mary Ann, John R., Maria Z., and Adelia S. Squire Mason died October 11, 1855, his wife almost a quarter century later. November 8, 1879, at the home of her youngest child who had married Mr. David Fleming, and lived beyond Daysville, near the lake. Concerning her (Mrs. Mason), Mr. Roswell W. Holmes of Telluride, Colorado, wrote, “The dear, dear lady, she was always so clean spiritually, mentally, and physically,” a high testimony.
Of these five families of the Nathaniel Holmes branch the farthest lived hardly a mile from “The Mills;” and they with the sour of the other branch made nine Holmes families of the same generation which were living at one and the same time and for many years within a mile and a half of the mill dam, the center of the whole settlement. That gathering of nine families, living thus all at the same time there, who cleared off primeval forests, and laid the foundations of society in that place, is a very plain, and it seems to me conclusive reason why the village was fitly named Holmesville, and should always have borne that name.
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1760 - 1850 (89 years)
d. 8 Nov 1879, Richland Twp., Oswego County, New York