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Kevin Bacon

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Artemas Lawrence Holmes

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Kevin Bacon — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Holmes 
  • Mother:
  • Sally Hoar   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1814 
  • Birth Location:
  • Peterborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Nov 1871 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Margaret Bloomer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Jul 1848 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jo Daviess County, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Artemas Henry Holmes (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  • Notes: 

  • Artemas Lawrence Holmes married Eliza Bloomer of Galena, Illinois, and after her decease he married her sister Mary Margaret Bloomer.

    Some sources give the birth location of Artemas L. Holmes as East Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

• Additional marriages for Artemas Lawrence Holmes

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  • Spouse:
  • Eliza Jane Bloomer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Jan 1845
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jo Daviess County, Illinois

• Sources for Artemas Lawrence Holmes

  • ¹ Federal Census, MO, St. Louis (Independent City), 1860, Ward 5, p. 207, Image 207 of 307.
  • ² Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Marriage record for Artemas L Holmes and Eliza Jane Bloomer.
  • ³ Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Marriage record for Artemas L Holmes and Mary M Bloomer.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 273, p. 167, Marriage record for son Artemas H. Holmes and Elizabeth J. Allen.
  • ⁵ New York, Marriages, 1686-1980, Marriage record for son Artemas Henry Holmes and Lillian Stokes.
  • ⁶ Bell, Charles, H., The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire: Including Biographical Notices of Deceased Judges of the Highest Court . . ., Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1894), 445.
  • ⁷ Leonard, John W., editor, Who's Who in New York City and State: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 4th Bienniel Edition, New York City: L. R. Hamersly and Company (1909), 680.
  • ⁸ Morrison, Leonard Allison, The History of the Allison or Allison Family in Europe and America, A.D. 1135 to 1893; Giving an Account of . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Published by Damrell and Upham (1893), 78-79.
  • ⁹ Smith, Albert, M.D., History of the Town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire . . ., Boston: Press of George H. Ellis (1876), 112, 127.

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