I live in Oklahoma. My great great grandfather Urial R. Holmes and his wife, Sallie E. J. Harris Holmes moved to the Jackson County MO, area from Tennessee in the time between 1850 and 1860. Urial died in Kansas City in 1855 and is buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery there. I do have a picture of his tombstone. Urial's widow Sallie Holmes outlived him by many years, and spent her remaining life there. Their children were: Harold Holmes, Samuel Frank Holmes, Richard Holmes, Joseph Holmes, John H. Holmes, Urial R. Holmes (2nd) Mary Ellen Holmes, (my great grandmother), who married William L. Hays, and Sallie Holmes. Most of the sons of this family served in the confederate cavalry, and one of them (Joseph), served both in the confederate and union cavalry. The second Urial R. Holmes served as school superintendent for a time in Kansas city, and the families seemed to live for the most part in the Hickman Mills area. Sometime around the turn of the 20th century, most of this family began to move further west, to the area of Johnson County, Kansas. I stay on this list, although the current offerings are all too late for my families, but there is always hope for the future. I would be happy to correspond with anyone else researching these families. And I want to put in a big THANK YOU, JOHN for the amazing amount of work you do to keep this list growing! Jacque