Solomon E. "Saul" Holcomb was the son of Henderson and Matilda (Harris) Holcomb. Solomon marries Elizabeth Frazier on December 7, 1876, in Letcher County, KY. They had at least six children: Cordelia (Holcomb) Hall, Matilda Holcomb, Lizzie (Holcomb) Brown, Dishman Holcomb, Andrew Jackson Holcomb, and Alberta (Holcomb) Meyers. The 1910 Letcher County, KY, census shows that Elizabeth had a total of seven children with five still living at the time of the census. The 1900 Letcher County, KY, census lists Solomon's birth date as Apr 1856.
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The obituary of Solomon E. Holcomb as published in the May 10, 1934, issue of The Mountain Eagle newspaper:
S. E. Holcomb Dies At Age Of 78 Years
Again the few remaining in the ranks of Whitesburg's citizenship of forty-five years ago has been lessened, and a long-remaining and well known figure is removed. Last Saturday night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the tired life of Uncle Sol Holcomb arose from its body of clay and took its flight to than mansion not "made with hands" in that realm where there is no death and no pain.
Solomon E. Halcomb was born into the pioneer family of that name on the head of Line Fork in this county seventy-eight years ago. Like all the boys born in that period just before the Civil War, he had but little opportunity to attain an education but grew up with the average educational attainments and became a farmer. When a young man, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Solomon Frazier, living on Kingdom Come. The couple moved to Kings Creek where they lived until about forty-five years ago when they located at Whitesburg, where they lived to the present. Children born into the family were: boys, Dishman, residing now in Oregon, and Andrew, living now with his parents at the old home; girls, Mrs. Cordelia Hall, living near Whitesburg, Mrs. Lizzie Brown of Detroit, nad Mrs. Alberta Meyers of Miami, Florida. All the children except Mrs. Brown and Dishman were at the bedside of their father when he passed away. Besides these he leaves his life companion, Aunt Elizabeth, who is now seventy-eight and very feeble.
Uncle Sol, as his many friends knew him, was a fine, honest and up-right citizen. Though he had never attached himself to any church he had long claimed a hope in Christ, and was an ardent believer in the doctrines of the old Baptist church. He lived the simple life and died in the triumphs of faith.
On Monday after funeral services were conducted at his home in twon by Elds. Tilden Wright, Lloyd Webb, the remains were laid away at the old Hargis graveyard in the upper end of the city. The Eagle offers sympathies to Aunt Elizabeth, the children and all who mourn his loss.
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The obituary of Solomon E. Holcomb as published in the May 10, 1934, issue of The Mountain Eagle newspaper:
S. E. Holcomb Dies At Age Of 78 Years
Again the few remaining in the ranks of Whitesburg's citizenship of forty-five years ago has been lessened, and a long-remaining and well known figure is removed. Last Saturday night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the tired life of Uncle Sol Holcomb arose from its body of clay and took its flight to than mansion not "made with hands" in that realm where there is no death and no pain.
Solomon E. Halcomb was born into the pioneer family of that name on the head of Line Fork in this county seventy-eight years ago. Like all the boys born in that period just before the Civil War, he had but little opportunity to attain an education but grew up with the average educational attainments and became a farmer. When a young man, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Solomon Frazier, living on Kingdom Come. The couple moved to Kings Creek where they lived until about forty-five years ago when they located at Whitesburg, where they lived to the present. Children born into the family were: boys, Dishman, residing now in Oregon, and Andrew, living now with his parents at the old home; girls, Mrs. Cordelia Hall, living near Whitesburg, Mrs. Lizzie Brown of Detroit, nad Mrs. Alberta Meyers of Miami, Florida. All the children except Mrs. Brown and Dishman were at the bedside of their father when he passed away. Besides these he leaves his life companion, Aunt Elizabeth, who is now seventy-eight and very feeble.
Uncle Sol, as his many friends knew him, was a fine, honest and up-right citizen. Though he had never attached himself to any church he had long claimed a hope in Christ, and was an ardent believer in the doctrines of the old Baptist church. He lived the simple life and died in the triumphs of faith.
On Monday after funeral services were conducted at his home in twon by Elds. Tilden Wright, Lloyd Webb, the remains were laid away at the old Hargis graveyard in the upper end of the city. The Eagle offers sympathies to Aunt Elizabeth, the children and all who mourn his loss.
Solomon E. "Saul" Holcomb was the son of Henderson and Matilda (Harris) Holcomb. Solomon marries Elizabeth Frazier on December 7, 1876, in Letcher County, KY. They had at least six children: Cordelia (Holcomb) Hall, Matilda Holcomb, Lizzie (Holcomb) Brown, Dishman Holcomb, Andrew Jackson Holcomb, and Alberta (Holcomb) Meyers. The 1910 Letcher County, KY, census shows that Elizabeth had a total of seven children with five still living at the time of the census. The 1900 Letcher County, KY, census lists Solomon's birth date as Apr 1856.
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The obituary of Solomon E. Holcomb as published in the May 10, 1934, issue of The Mountain Eagle newspaper:
S. E. Holcomb Dies At Age Of 78 Years
Again the few remaining in the ranks of Whitesburg's citizenship of forty-five years ago has been lessened, and a long-remaining and well known figure is removed. Last Saturday night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the tired life of Uncle Sol Holcomb arose from its body of clay and took its flight to than mansion not "made with hands" in that realm where there is no death and no pain.
Solomon E. Halcomb was born into the pioneer family of that name on the head of Line Fork in this county seventy-eight years ago. Like all the boys born in that period just before the Civil War, he had but little opportunity to attain an education but grew up with the average educational attainments and became a farmer. When a young man, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Solomon Frazier, living on Kingdom Come. The couple moved to Kings Creek where they lived until about forty-five years ago when they located at Whitesburg, where they lived to the present. Children born into the family were: boys, Dishman, residing now in Oregon, and Andrew, living now with his parents at the old home; girls, Mrs. Cordelia Hall, living near Whitesburg, Mrs. Lizzie Brown of Detroit, nad Mrs. Alberta Meyers of Miami, Florida. All the children except Mrs. Brown and Dishman were at the bedside of their father when he passed away. Besides these he leaves his life companion, Aunt Elizabeth, who is now seventy-eight and very feeble.
Uncle Sol, as his many friends knew him, was a fine, honest and up-right citizen. Though he had never attached himself to any church he had long claimed a hope in Christ, and was an ardent believer in the doctrines of the old Baptist church. He lived the simple life and died in the triumphs of faith.
On Monday after funeral services were conducted at his home in twon by Elds. Tilden Wright, Lloyd Webb, the remains were laid away at the old Hargis graveyard in the upper end of the city. The Eagle offers sympathies to Aunt Elizabeth, the children and all who mourn his loss.
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The obituary of Solomon E. Holcomb as published in the May 10, 1934, issue of The Mountain Eagle newspaper:
S. E. Holcomb Dies At Age Of 78 Years
Again the few remaining in the ranks of Whitesburg's citizenship of forty-five years ago has been lessened, and a long-remaining and well known figure is removed. Last Saturday night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the tired life of Uncle Sol Holcomb arose from its body of clay and took its flight to than mansion not "made with hands" in that realm where there is no death and no pain.
Solomon E. Halcomb was born into the pioneer family of that name on the head of Line Fork in this county seventy-eight years ago. Like all the boys born in that period just before the Civil War, he had but little opportunity to attain an education but grew up with the average educational attainments and became a farmer. When a young man, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Solomon Frazier, living on Kingdom Come. The couple moved to Kings Creek where they lived until about forty-five years ago when they located at Whitesburg, where they lived to the present. Children born into the family were: boys, Dishman, residing now in Oregon, and Andrew, living now with his parents at the old home; girls, Mrs. Cordelia Hall, living near Whitesburg, Mrs. Lizzie Brown of Detroit, nad Mrs. Alberta Meyers of Miami, Florida. All the children except Mrs. Brown and Dishman were at the bedside of their father when he passed away. Besides these he leaves his life companion, Aunt Elizabeth, who is now seventy-eight and very feeble.
Uncle Sol, as his many friends knew him, was a fine, honest and up-right citizen. Though he had never attached himself to any church he had long claimed a hope in Christ, and was an ardent believer in the doctrines of the old Baptist church. He lived the simple life and died in the triumphs of faith.
On Monday after funeral services were conducted at his home in twon by Elds. Tilden Wright, Lloyd Webb, the remains were laid away at the old Hargis graveyard in the upper end of the city. The Eagle offers sympathies to Aunt Elizabeth, the children and all who mourn his loss.
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