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Sources consulted for the biography of:Joseph R. Holmes (ca. 1838–1869)
Primary Sources
- John H. Marshall estate inventory in Charlotte Co.Will Book, 12:201, 205.
- 1868 property purchase in Charlotte Co. Deed Book 33:117.
- References to widow and children in United States Census Schedules, Charlotte Co., 1870, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., and widow's 1872 second marriage in Marriage Register, Charlotte Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Death Register, Charlotte Co. (with names of parents and age thirty-one in 1869), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Charlotte Co., Va Criminal Judgements, 1869/1871, Committee for Holmes, Jos. Dec'd vs. Morris, M.C.
- Charlotte Co.Order Book, 37A (1869), 116, 117, 118, 125, 126, 129, 131.
Secondary Sources
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 21–22.
- H. C. Williamson Sr., Memoirs of a Statesman, ed. C. Fred Thompson (1964), 15.
- Gene Hile McKinney, "Shooting in Charlotte Court House," Southsider 13 (1994): 26–34.
- Lisa Y. Henderson, "The Life of Joseph R. Holmes, radical," Scuffalong: Genealogy blog, accessed 2017.
- Kathy Liston, "A Murder in Charlotte Court House," Charlotte Gazette, Feb. 17, 2020.
Convention of 1867–1868
- Holmes's nomination in Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 15, 1867.
- Holmes's election (with incomplete returns) reported in Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 25, 1867.
- Votes in Journal of the Constitutional Convention (1867 [i.e., 1868]), 4, 225, 389.
- Introduction of resolutions in Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868), 117 (second quotation), 196, 485 (third quotation).
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 482.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 360 (first quotation).
Newspapers
- Edward Nelson and John R. Holmes to editor, June 25, 1867, in Daily Richmond Whig, June 27, 1867.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 5, 1869 (fourth quotation).
- Richmond Daily Whig, May 5, 1869.
- Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, May 5, 1869; May 7, 1869.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, May 10, 1869.
- Indiana (Pa.) Messenger, May 19, 1869 (reprint of Richmond Daily State Journal account of Holmes's death).
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