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From: "R Wever" <>
Subject: Re: Jacob Holderman
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:42:44 -0800


Thankyou for the obituary. I actually had a copy of it saved by his daughter
Barbara Ann Holderman at the time of he death.
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Subject: Re: Jacob Holderman


>
> Maybe his obituary would be helpful:
>
> From The Gospel Messenger, April l, 1911 p 197
>
> DEATH OF BRO. JACOB HOLDERMAN
>
> The subject of this sketch was born in Holmes County, Ohio, April 16,
1837,
> and died within the bounds of the Reedley congregation, Cal. He was in
the
> seventy-fourth year of his age. Bro Holderman was of Mennonite parentage,
> and at the age of eleven he moved with his parents to Elkhart County,
Ind.,
> where he united with the Mennonite church.
>
> Oct. 16, 1860 he was united in marriage to Catharine Miller. To this
union
> thirteen children were born. His faithful wife and eleven children
survive
> him.
>
> Early in life Bro Holderman was elected to the ministry in the Mennonite
> church, and served about a score of years in that capacity. He united
with
> the Church of the Brethren in the Mount Hope congregation, Okla, and in a
> short time was called to the ministry. For nearly twenty years he was an
> untiring and faithful worker, serving the church in the Mount Hope, Okla,
> and Fruitdale, Ala., congregations, thence to Ramona, Kans. From there he
> removed to Newberg, Oregon, and then to Northern California. He has been
> living at Reedley, Cal., for over four years.
>
> Bro Holderman had just returned from a long visit to his old home in
> Kansas, when he was stricken with paralysis, and was confined to his bed
> for eight weeks. He suffered intensely, yet he was patient through it
all,
> often saying, "I am glad
> I can suffer for Christ who suffered so much for me." Finally, on March
8,
> 1911. God called him to his reward. The young men of this congregation
> will miss his good counsel and kindly greetings. Services were held in
the
> Brethren church by our elder in charge, Bro. J. J. Brower. Text, 2 Cor.
5.
> Sent in by W.H.Johnson Reedley, Cal. March 16
>
> Ferne Baldwin
> Manchester College
>
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