Tombstone Tuesday - Grizel Holmes

These head and foot stones are located at Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire.

ERECTED

IN MRMORY OF

Mrs. GRIZEL HOLMES

wife of

Eldr. JOHN HOLMES

who departed this life

Febr. Ye 25th 1788

Aged 78 years

Retire my friends, dry up your tears

all life when Christ appears

Grizel Givean was the wife of Elder John Holmes of Londonderry, New Hampshire.  She was born about 1712 in Northern Ireland.  John Holmes was born in Aghadowey, Londonderry, Northern Ireland about 1709 and he died on 7 December 1777.  He signed the Association Test in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1776.  This was written by the New Hampshire Committee of Safety, and required that all adult males take up arms against the British, and to collect the names of those who refused to sign.

On page 277 of Rev. E. L. Parker's History of Londonderry, 1851 (in the genealogy section of the book there is a chapter on Abraham Holmes, father of John Holmes).

"His son, John, who was ten years old when he came to this county, was also an elder in the same church, during the long ministry of the Rev. Mr. Davidson.  He settled on the farm now owned and occupied by William M. Holmes, in Londonderry.  He married Grizel Givean.  They had nine children, three sons and six daughters; namely, Sarah, Margaret, Abraham, Eleanor, Robert, Mary, Thomas, Mary Ann, and Martha..."

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To Cite/Link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday - Grizel Holmes", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 10, 2012, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/01/tombstone-tuesday-grizel-holmes.html: accessed [access date]).