Jonathan Harriman Holmes
Jonathan Harriman Holmes (1806-1880) was born 11 Mar. 1806 in Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts. He was the son of Nathaniel Holmes and Sarah Harriman. He married Marietta Carter on 13 Apr. 1837 in Geauga Co., Ohio in the same ceremony that Wilford Woodruff and Phebe Whittemore Carter were married; widowed about Aug. 1840. He married Elvira A. Cowles on 1 Dec. 1842 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois; participated in plural marriage. He was baptized in 1832. He died 18 Aug. 1880 in Farmington, Davis Co., Utah Territory, and Wilford Woodruff spoke at his funeral.
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