Thomas Holmes, Jr.
Thomas Holmes, Jr., a son of the above, was born in Harrison County, O., in 1814. When twelve years of age he came with his parents to Orange Township. At the death of his father, in 1831, he left home and worked by the month until 1834, when he married Dorcas Blue, with whom he has raised a family of ten children, with names as follows: Jane, Jemima, Elizabeth, Catharine, Mary E., Louisa B., Raper, Alice, Celia, and William. In 1835 he returned with his wife to Orange and located on the old homestead of his father, where he has lived to the present time.
History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883