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Photos and snapshots taken of Martha (Lewis) Holmes, her Holmes family, and locations and places or events from her life.

Martha Lewis Holmes 80th Birthday

Mama Visits at The Woods Resort

Visit to Aunt Alma - Dad's Sister

Martha Homes and Anna Belle Van Tassel

Martha Holmes in Kentucky

Emery & Martha Holmes with Aunt Belle

Ira Briggs house in Jungletown

Hammonton, California Town Reunion

Valley View School Reunion

Lewis Sisters, Martha & Lula

Martha Lewis Marries Emery Holmes

Emery Holmes

Life in Sheridan, Sacramento Riverboat ride

Life in Sheridan, Picnic with Mattie Lewis

Valley View School Class Sheridan, CA

Mattie Lewis of Sheridan

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In 1877, in the year that Martha (Lewis) Holmes was born, on March 2nd, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 was ended with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner. Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote in November 1876 but 20 votes in the electoral college were in dispute. An informal agreement was made in which Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, ending Reconstruction in the South. So, on March 4th, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.

In 1893, on March 4th, Grover Cleveland became the 24th President of the United States. On July 1st, President Cleveland was operated on for a non-cancerous tumor in his mouth. He chose to have the operation secretly because he didn't want to worsen the financial depression that was occurring at the time.

In 1908, unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

In 1977, on January 21st, President Carter pardoned "draft dodgers" - men who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War. He fulfilled a campaign promise with the pardon. But it only applied to civilian evaders - the estimated 500,000 to 1 million active-duty personnel who went AWOL were not included.