Pleasant Hill

On this picture, starting on the top left: Ingeborg (Fredrikson), Elizabeth Holmes, Nels Holmes (sitting), Carl Oscar Holmes, - continuing around in a circle - Hesel Holmes, Fred Holmes, Anna (Holmes) Sprint, Ida Marie Holmes, and Henry Holmes is the youngest standing on a chair in the center. Alice and Agnes were twins, and they had not been born yet.

Cindy Pickard writes: My great grandfather was Nels Christian Holmes. My mom was just starting to write down memories before she died. I really appreciate some of the stories. This is one passage that she had about her grandfather, Nels Christian Holmes.

"I also have a memory of my grandfather Holmes. He lived in Colorado but came to stay in Elkhorn with us following surgery. He’d tell us stories of his youth. He was seventeen when he came to the United States from Denmark. He was sponsored by a Turnquist family in South Omaha who signed to care for him until he could support himself. He couldn’t speak English and all he knew how to order was coffee and doughnuts - and lived on them from New York to Omaha. Times have changed and there are agencies to help in a person’s transition now."

Just this last week I have made contact with people that have information about his brother Soren Holmes. One of his daughters was Oda (Holmes) Marecek, who is buried at Graceland Park Cemetery at Omaha, Nebraska.

Nels Christian Holmes was married to Ingeborg Fredrikson. They had 9 children: Elizabeth Holmes, Carl Oscar Holmes, Hesel Holmes, Anna (Holmes) Sprint, Christian Fredrick "Fred" Holmes, Ida Marie Holmes, Nels Henry Envole Holmes, Alice (Holmes) Horning, and Agnes (Holmes) Steckelberg.