Joshua Newton Holbrook
BIRTH
27 Dec 1851
North Carolina, USA
DEATH
17 Feb 1892 (aged 40)
Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Roaring River Baptist Church Cemetery
Traphill, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
MEMORIAL ID
110899870 · View Source
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He was the son of Ralph Holbrook (1808-1883) and Nancy Spicer (1915-1910) and the husband of Alice Ida Bryan (1860-19230. Father of Walter Eugene Holbrook, Charles Winfrey Holbrook, Lillie Belle Holbrook Joines, Ralph Andrew Holbrook, Arthur John Holbrook, and Margaret Blanche Holbrook Tharpe.
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Alice Bryant Holbrook
1861–1923
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I'm a Christian, and I'm a daughter of Allan B. Holbrook, now in heaven. My married name is Debby Stevens. My parents, Allan and Marie, were devout Christians, and had 10 children. They were both school teachers, but Mom quit teaching at public school after marriage. But both Mom and Dad home-schooled us all - starting when I was in 1st grade - that's when they came to the decision to home-school us.
Dad earned an income through being an English teacher here in Traverse City, for man years.
Dad started some Bible meetings that took place in the homes of friends of ours and in our own. He was the main teacher in it, and it was in a discoursing style - he would talk about spiritual things with the fathers of the families, each time, and all the children of the families would sit and listen to it all.