Date of birth: 04 Dec 1896
Date of death: 1952

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0393-06
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

War/Campaign: WORLD WAR I

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Notes

Obituary
A. B. Holder Rites
Held In Lexington
Gulfport Citizen Was

Former Sheriff

Of Holmes County

Funeral services for Mr. A. B Holder, Gulfport citizen and former sheriff of Holmes county, were held Saturday morning at 10:30 at Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Lexington, with the Rev. R. G. Donaldson, rector, officiating. Burial was in Odd Fellows cemetery with Southern in charge of arrangements. He passed away Thursday at his home in Gulfport after an illness of pneumonia.

Mr. Holder, 56, was born in Memphis December 4, 1897[6], but lived in Lexington many years where he had a wide circle of friends. He had served as sheriff of Holmes county and was a member of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Lexington. He was a veteran of World War I.

After he left Lexington he had been working at the Merchant Marine base at Pass Christian from 1946 to 1950.

Surviving are one son, A. B. Holder. Jr. of Lexington; three daughters, Mrs. John Sharp Williams, IV, of Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. J. W. Humphries of Durant and Mrs. Richard E. Williams of Laurel. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. S. R. Burtron of Houston, Texas and Mrs. R. M. Bridgeforth of Pickens.

Pallbearers were W. A. Ramsey, L. L. McNeese, B. S. Beall, LeRoy Paris, R. O. Duke, Will Barrett, Claude Keirn, and E. B. Wall of Greenwood.

Family Relations of Andrew Bowles Holder, Sr.

Parents:
Sarah Burwell (Holder) Stewart

Spouse:
Missie Mariah Bridgeforth Holder

Children:
Harriett Holder Williams
Pauline Holder Humphries
Andrew Bowles Holder, Jr.
Virginia Bridgeforth Holder Williams

Research Notes
Middle name taken from son, Andrew Bowles Holder, Jr.

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