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Note: Jesse Holmes: married1. Rebecca Hanna; two or three issue; widowed.
married 2. Mercy Lloyd; no issue; widowed.
married 3. Sarah Paxton; two issue.
Dr. Jesse Holmes, M.D. (1813-1885), was youngest child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hughes) Holmes. He was nearly four years old when his father died. He grew up within the compass of Goose Creek MM, Loudoun Co., VA and received his education at the Friends School there. He became apprenticed to a local tailor and then undertook a period of study under Benjamin Hallowell at a Friends' school in Alexandria, Virginia. When the separation of the Quaker faith took place in 1827, Jesse joined the majority of his family on the Hicksite side. He married Rebecca Hanna, an aunt of Mark Hanna (the Cleveland industrialist and manager of William McKinley's political fortune). In the 1830s, they moved to New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., Ohio and established a Friends' school there. Tragically, Rebecca died of consumption and the school failed. Jesse Holmes taught school for some time in Clark Co. and elsewhere in Ohio. He soon married Mary Lloyd, and she helped him to establish another Friends' School at Salem, Columbiana Co. It was sponsored by the local Monthly Meeting and operated as a boarding school, offering primary instruction and up to what we might consider junior college courses. The student body was drawn from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In 1848-49, the school boasted 65 male and 63 female students.
Jesse began to study medicine before 1850 and shortly thereafter removed to a farm in Clark Co., Ohio, where he began to practiced medicine. The family shows up in the 1850 Census in Clark County, Ohio: Jesse Holmes, 36 years, b. VA (Physician); Mercy L., 26 years, b. OH; Elizabeth H., 11 years, b. OH; Kersey O., male, 6 years, b. OH. The family was living near Bellefontaine in Logan County, Ohio where Mercy died, without issue (in the early 1850s).
Jessie married a third time to Sarah Morgan Paxton in 1854. Soon after, they moved to Iowa where they were members of Wapsinonoc (Hicksite) MM in Muscatine Co., Iowa. This Monthly Meeting also served Cedar Co., Iowa. It is a family tradition that, while living at West Liberty, Cedar Co., IA, Jesse Holmes M.D., a country doctor, attended the birth of his distant "cousin" and future President, Herbert Hoover at West Branch, Cedar Co., IA.
Jesse Holmes and his brother, Lot Holmes (1807-1880), were also active in the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Iowa.
Jesse, his wife Sarah, daughter Helen, and son, Jesse H. Holmes, removed to the area of Genoa MM in Nebraska, by certificate granted by Wapsinonoc MM 28 Feb. 1880.
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