James Eli Holmes 
James Eli was born about 1860 in Kanawha Co.1 James Eli's father is William T Holmes and his mother was Elizabeth Kennedy. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Reuben Joseph, Burl Emmett and Lena M.General Notes
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Eli was the son of William and Elizabeth Holmes. William was killed inthe civil war and his wife remarried and was the second wife of JohnReuben Jenkins,making Eli the stepson of John.
