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Rev. Holmes L. Harvey

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Rev. Holmes L. Harvey was born about 1831 in Lanett, Chambers County, Alabama, and died on January 5, 1884, in Atalanta, Georgia.  He was a Presbyterian Minister.  He married Sarah Frances Dodon, daughter of John J, and Martha Watkins Dodson of Virginia, who had immigrated to Alabama when she was five years old. 

Rev. Harvey and family joined the group of colonists bound for Saterem, Brazil - organized by Major Lansford W. Hastings,  sailing on the "Margaret" in July 1867 out of Mobil, Alabama.  The family consisted of the Rev. and Mrs. Harvey and two very young children.  In Brazil, they would have several more children who did not survive.  One who did survive was Ruth, but she died as an infant from "cutting teeth" shortly after the return of the family in 1870 to their new home in Springfield, Illinois where she was buried. 

 

While in Illinois for three years, the Rev. Harvey preached to a colony of Portuguese immigrants in their native tongue The family, including Daughter Florida and son Arthur, then relocated to Atlanta where Rev. Harvey started a private school., but was in severe declining health - finally dying in 1884 after much suffering at the age of 55.  His son Arthur, would die the next year of tuberculosis at the age of 19.  In 1892, her eldest died, and then in 1884, the remaining daughter died.  Sarah Frances Harvey, Rev. Harvey's wife, who was a school teacher, would die in 1884.

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Departure Port   Pará, Brazil

Destination   USA

Arrival Date   19 Jan 1870

Arrival Port   New York, New York, USA

Ship Name   Chas Thompson

Taken from "Fear God and Walk Humbly": The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877 By James Mallory. Source: C. Macchia

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HARVEY

Rev Holmes L Harvey

1831–1884

BIRTH 1831 • Lanett, Chambers, Alabama, USA

DEATH 5 JAN 1884 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA

Married:  31 Oct 1859 • Chambers County, Alabama, USA

Sarah Frances Dodson

1832–1894

BIRTH 1832 • Buckingham County, Virginia, USA

DEATH 3 AUG 1894 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA

Daughter of John J Dodson and Jane Watkins

CHILDREN:

1.

Florida Newell Harvey

1862–1892

BIRTH 1862 • Lanett, Chambers, Alabama, USA

DEATH 11 SEP 1892 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA

Married:  6 Jul 1890 • Fulton County, Georgia, USA

Hawkins Hodges "Buddy" Nunn

1842–1899

BIRTH ABT 1842 • prob Americus, Sumter

County, Georgia, USA

DEATH 8 MAY 1899 • Columbus, Muscogee,

Georgia, USA

Son of Hawkins H. Nunn and Elizabeth L Busey

CHILDREN:

1.

Floyd Walker Nunn

1892–1976

BIRTH 3 SEP 1892 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA

DEATH 01 MAY 1976 • Warner Robins, Houston, Georgia, USA

Married"  17 Jan 1934 • Worth, Turner, Georgia, USA

Mattie Mae Harper

1906–1993

BIRTH 18 OCT 1906 • Madison, Madison, Florida, USA

DEATH 10 JUL 1993 • Clayton County, Georgia, USA

Daughter of William Henry Harper and Martha Theodotia "Mattie" " Dotia" Noegel

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2.

Arthur Holmes Harvey

1865–1885

BIRTH ABT 1865 • Alabama, USA

DEATH 2 NOV 1885 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA

Died at age 19 of Consumption

3.

Marion Sarah Harvey

1867–1880

BIRTH ABT 1867 • Alabama, USA

DEATH AFT. 16 APR 1894 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA

 4.

Ruth Harvey

1869–1870

BIRTH JULY 1869 • Santorum, Para, Brazil

DEATH 5 SEP 1870  •  Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA

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Born in South America; died at age 1y 3m of "cutting teeth"

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