Rev. Holmes L. Harvey





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.

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

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

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