William Reece HOLMES
William Holmes family information was taken from (1) Holmes family Bible owned by Dorothy Holmes (Lola Dot Holmes) of Troy, Missouri and (2) from Lincoln County, Missouri U. S. census of 1870 page 160. Item (1) was obtained by correspondence. Death information on child 5 was obtained from Socia l Security death records. Child 5, Lola Dot, never married.
Pricie Lee married (1) Jodicia Beshears who died about 1917. Price married (2) Stella Whitson. Pricie had one son by his first wife, Joseph Lee Holmes, known as "Jay" Holmes. Pricie had no children by his second wife.
Pearl Robert Holmes married Ida L. Clark on 3 June 1917 and had one daughter, Dorothy Elizabeth Holmes, born in Mexico, Missouri on 13 Sep 1914. (Note: marriage was in 1917 and daughter was born in 1914.)
Lola Dot Holmes went by the name of Dorothy. Her death informati on was obtained from the Social Security death records.
He married Elsie Eugenia Barley 20 Oct 1880 at Hawk Point, Lincoln, Missouri . Elsie Eugenia Barley was born at Chain of Rocks, Lincoln, Missouri, Usa 14 Aug 1862 daughter of David Evans Barley and Catherine Ellen Pollard .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Pricie Lee Holmes
born 8 Aug 1881.
Dela Charles Holmes
born 10 Jun 1884.
Pearl Robert Holmes
born 10 Mar 1886.
Reacy Eugene Holmes
born 24 Apr 1887.
Lola Dot Holmes
born 15 Sep 1889.
William Reece Holmes died 1 Jul 1946 at Troy, Lincoln, Missouri .
Elsie Eugenia Barley died 30 Sep 1940 at Troy, Lincoln, Missouri .