Seeking any contacts desiring to share NH HOLMES data. Bob Glidden Sally Laurilla Holmes Jordan Obituary Posted By: Bob Glidden <jbgliden@scican.net> Date: Tuesday, 29 May 2001, at 9:50 p.m. "The Coos County Democrat," Lancaster, NH, Weds., June 19, 1912. The following obituary notice was listed on page 1. "MRS. SALLY LAURILLA HOLMES JORDAN" Was born November 5, 1838, at Jefferson Mills, NH. She was the second child of Reed and Betsey Holmes. She was brought up in the Baptist faith and joined the Baptists Sunday School at Riverton, then Jefferson Mills. In after years she united with the Congregational Church at Lancaster and was a member of that church at the time of her death. For many years she lived in Colebrook in the Kiddersville district, and as there was a Methodist Church in the east part of the town, she made her home there for many years, where she made herself useful both in and out of the church. She was married to Alvan Hibbard January 1, 1880, by Rev. C. E. Sumner. Mr. Hibbard had a daughter by a former marriage, whom she cared for and brought up as her own. In 1898 Mr. Hibbard was called to his heavenly home. For her second husband Mrs. Hibbard married Mr. Jordan, who survives to mourn the loss of so beautiful and helpful a woman. Mrs. Jordan was instrumental in organizing a Sunday School in the Young district near where she lived, and was the superintendent and leader of the work, and in the school a number of now prominent men and women got a large part of their religious training. A mite society and other useful work of this kind was organized by her, including a lodge of the order of Sons of Temperance, of which she was the Worthy Patriarch. She also founded a library, which now owns over 600 volumes of very useful reading. For more than twenty years Mrs. Jordan was the local superintendent of work among lumbermen in the WCTU, and on the statement of Mrs. W. A. Loyne, state and national superintendent, she was the most useful worker of any woman in the local department in any part of the country. The report of her work among the woodsmen is truly remarkable. Through the long winters she traveled to the camps many miles away from home. Many tons of reading matter and hundreds of comfort bags were distributed by her, and many a prodigal boy has received her blessing. She will not soon be forgotten by the men of the woods. "Being dead she yet speaketh." Mrs. Jordan leaves to mourn her loss, besides her husband and daughter, the following brothers and sisters: J. W. Holmes, Groveton; Asa H. Holmes, Holyoke, Mass; Sylvanus Holmes, Lancaster; J. N. Holmes, Lisbon; L. H. Holmes, Norway, Me.; Mrs. Georgiana Jewett, Meadows, NH; Mrs. J. H. Quimby, Island Pond, Vt; Emily W. Winslow, Casco, Me; Mrs. S. C. Howe, Lancaster. The funeral services were held at East Colebrook May 9, in charge of Rev. William Thompson, assisted by Rev. Mr. Frye. Mrs. Thompson rendered several hymns. The world is much poorer because of the home-going of Mrs. Jordan, for she lived for others rather than for herself. Such a life tells for the betterment of the world, and because of her death heaven is richer and more homelike. She is not dead but gone before.