The list has been quiet, but I need a new generation of Holmes kin for Christmas; any help appreciated. Earliest sighting of my James Shadrach Holmes is his marriage, ~1810 to Keziah Cox of Augusta, Richmond County, GA and Edgefield District, SC. The Columbia Co. GA newspaper listed a Shadrack Holmes as having a letter to pick up in 1799, but no proof this is my Shadrach. Many of us believe James Shadrach to be a son of either Gideon or Richard Holmes of Habersham County GA, but again, no proof! From where did this man spring? James Shadrach Holmes and family were in Conecuh Co. L prior to 1820, and in Butler Co. AL by 1824, slowing working westward where they settled in Rankin Co. S sometime during the 1840's. It appears they had a brief stop in Kemper Co. S on the way. James and Keziah Holmes had 13 children: Sarah A., Jane, Martha, George Washington, Ellen, William Decatur, Keziah, Josiah, Amanda Frances, Abigail Mary, James Shadrach, Jr., Edward Hillary, and Blanton Wilcox Holmes. James Shadrach remarried after Keziah's death in 1852, to Frances P. Howard, and fathered one child, Ada Frances Holmes. Lots to share downward, but this man remains lonely for a birth family. Anyone have a James Shadrach Holmes that fits the profile? Thanks. helen wall, houston, tx.