This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GRIFFITH, HOLMES, RASP Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4467 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, June 1, 1911, Volume L, Number 22, Page 3, Column 4, “JOHN HOLMES.” [Transcribed 11 April 2002 from a digital photo of the original newspaper contained in the records of the Recorder of Greene County, Court House, Bloomfield, Indiana.] John HOLMES born in Nottingham, England, December 14, 1826, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Agnes GRIFFITHS, in Linton Saturday morning. Funeral services at his residence at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Interment at Fairview. He was one of the oldest miners in Indiana, having worked in the mines nearly 79 years. — NOTES—RLJ: (1) INDEX TO MARRIAGE RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1939, WPA, Index Page 107: HOLMES, John to Margaret A. RASP, 14 Jan 1877, Book K, Page 136. (2) CEMETERIES OF WESTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Volume III, Fairview Cemetery, Page 23: John H. HOLMES, 14 Dec 1832—28 May 1911; Margaret HOLMES, 16 Jan 1840—5 Dec 1914; Andrew HOLMES, 2 Apr 1873. (3) DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, E. Spring Street, Bloomfield, Indiana, Book CH0-5, Page 21, #33: John HOLMES, B. 14 Dec 1826, England, died 28 May 1911 in Linton, age 84 Yrs 5 Months 14 days. Father was Thomas HOLMES, b. England; Mother unknown, b. England, buried in Fairview Cemetery 30 May 1911.