Irene was the daughter of Eli Graves and Bathsheba Cooper. Her paternal grandfather was Randall Graves, a Mass. soldier in the Revolution. Her maternal grandfather was Lamberton Cooper, also a Mass. soldier in the Revolution. He was a minuteman at the Lexington Alarm. As an early settler of Kansas, she overcame primitive and dangerous conditions. The Holley family story is found in "Cutler's History of Kansas."
Her obituary follows:
The Thayer News, Nov. 1, 1907
Death of Grandma Holley
O.L. Holley and wife went to Erie the latter part of last week, to see his mother who was very sick. She died Monday morning at two o'clock, aged 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
She had been sick for the past two years and during the last few days of her life, suffered very severly. Her death was caused by a complication of diseases coupled with old age.
Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in Erie, Tuesday, and the body tenderly laid to rest in the Erie cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Holley returned home Wednesday, accompanied by his aged father, who will visit here awhile and then return to Erie, and make his home with his son there.
Irene S. Graves was born in Oneida, Co., New York, and moved with her father to Ohio, her mother having died when she was but three years old. In Ohio, Miss Graves grew to womanhood, later going to Lansing, Michigan, where she met and married Joseph Holley, July 10th, 1855. To this union were born three sons, Frank Z. of Ada, Okla., Edward I. of Erie, Kansas, and Owen L. of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Holley remained in Lansing about two years, coming on west into Illinois, where they resided until the fall of 1868, when they started for Kansas, in a covered wagon, stopping to winter about eight miles the other side of Kansas City, coming on in the spring to this county, where they took up a claim, where they lived oontinuously ever since, with the exceptions of the last 19 years, of which time their residence has been Erie, Kansas.
Mrs. Holley united with the M.E. church when but 15 years old, and has lived a devoted Christian life all these years. After moving to Erie, Mrs. Holley, along with her husband, put their memberships in the Presbyterian church.
Grandma Holley, as she was later called, went through the early days of privations and hazardous living-a one room box house, made of green cotton wood lumber, the hot sun and rains beating upon it in summer rendering it very unfit for the wintry blasts, inviting the snow and icy winds through the large openings. The wild "Red Man" and the prairie fire was a dread to the family. The only support the family had was by the father freighting from Kansas City to (Osage Mission) now St. Paul. Every night the mother gathering her three sons around her knee, asked God a protecting care over them and the safe return of the father.
Grandma Holley died at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
Her obituary follows:
The Thayer News, Nov. 1, 1907
Death of Grandma Holley
O.L. Holley and wife went to Erie the latter part of last week, to see his mother who was very sick. She died Monday morning at two o'clock, aged 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
She had been sick for the past two years and during the last few days of her life, suffered very severly. Her death was caused by a complication of diseases coupled with old age.
Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in Erie, Tuesday, and the body tenderly laid to rest in the Erie cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Holley returned home Wednesday, accompanied by his aged father, who will visit here awhile and then return to Erie, and make his home with his son there.
Irene S. Graves was born in Oneida, Co., New York, and moved with her father to Ohio, her mother having died when she was but three years old. In Ohio, Miss Graves grew to womanhood, later going to Lansing, Michigan, where she met and married Joseph Holley, July 10th, 1855. To this union were born three sons, Frank Z. of Ada, Okla., Edward I. of Erie, Kansas, and Owen L. of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Holley remained in Lansing about two years, coming on west into Illinois, where they resided until the fall of 1868, when they started for Kansas, in a covered wagon, stopping to winter about eight miles the other side of Kansas City, coming on in the spring to this county, where they took up a claim, where they lived oontinuously ever since, with the exceptions of the last 19 years, of which time their residence has been Erie, Kansas.
Mrs. Holley united with the M.E. church when but 15 years old, and has lived a devoted Christian life all these years. After moving to Erie, Mrs. Holley, along with her husband, put their memberships in the Presbyterian church.
Grandma Holley, as she was later called, went through the early days of privations and hazardous living-a one room box house, made of green cotton wood lumber, the hot sun and rains beating upon it in summer rendering it very unfit for the wintry blasts, inviting the snow and icy winds through the large openings. The wild "Red Man" and the prairie fire was a dread to the family. The only support the family had was by the father freighting from Kansas City to (Osage Mission) now St. Paul. Every night the mother gathering her three sons around her knee, asked God a protecting care over them and the safe return of the father.
Grandma Holley died at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
Irene was the daughter of Eli Graves and Bathsheba Cooper. Her paternal grandfather was Randall Graves, a Mass. soldier in the Revolution. Her maternal grandfather was Lamberton Cooper, also a Mass. soldier in the Revolution. He was a minuteman at the Lexington Alarm. As an early settler of Kansas, she overcame primitive and dangerous conditions. The Holley family story is found in "Cutler's History of Kansas."
Her obituary follows:
The Thayer News, Nov. 1, 1907
Death of Grandma Holley
O.L. Holley and wife went to Erie the latter part of last week, to see his mother who was very sick. She died Monday morning at two o'clock, aged 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
She had been sick for the past two years and during the last few days of her life, suffered very severly. Her death was caused by a complication of diseases coupled with old age.
Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in Erie, Tuesday, and the body tenderly laid to rest in the Erie cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Holley returned home Wednesday, accompanied by his aged father, who will visit here awhile and then return to Erie, and make his home with his son there.
Irene S. Graves was born in Oneida, Co., New York, and moved with her father to Ohio, her mother having died when she was but three years old. In Ohio, Miss Graves grew to womanhood, later going to Lansing, Michigan, where she met and married Joseph Holley, July 10th, 1855. To this union were born three sons, Frank Z. of Ada, Okla., Edward I. of Erie, Kansas, and Owen L. of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Holley remained in Lansing about two years, coming on west into Illinois, where they resided until the fall of 1868, when they started for Kansas, in a covered wagon, stopping to winter about eight miles the other side of Kansas City, coming on in the spring to this county, where they took up a claim, where they lived oontinuously ever since, with the exceptions of the last 19 years, of which time their residence has been Erie, Kansas.
Mrs. Holley united with the M.E. church when but 15 years old, and has lived a devoted Christian life all these years. After moving to Erie, Mrs. Holley, along with her husband, put their memberships in the Presbyterian church.
Grandma Holley, as she was later called, went through the early days of privations and hazardous living-a one room box house, made of green cotton wood lumber, the hot sun and rains beating upon it in summer rendering it very unfit for the wintry blasts, inviting the snow and icy winds through the large openings. The wild "Red Man" and the prairie fire was a dread to the family. The only support the family had was by the father freighting from Kansas City to (Osage Mission) now St. Paul. Every night the mother gathering her three sons around her knee, asked God a protecting care over them and the safe return of the father.
Grandma Holley died at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
Her obituary follows:
The Thayer News, Nov. 1, 1907
Death of Grandma Holley
O.L. Holley and wife went to Erie the latter part of last week, to see his mother who was very sick. She died Monday morning at two o'clock, aged 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
She had been sick for the past two years and during the last few days of her life, suffered very severly. Her death was caused by a complication of diseases coupled with old age.
Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in Erie, Tuesday, and the body tenderly laid to rest in the Erie cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Holley returned home Wednesday, accompanied by his aged father, who will visit here awhile and then return to Erie, and make his home with his son there.
Irene S. Graves was born in Oneida, Co., New York, and moved with her father to Ohio, her mother having died when she was but three years old. In Ohio, Miss Graves grew to womanhood, later going to Lansing, Michigan, where she met and married Joseph Holley, July 10th, 1855. To this union were born three sons, Frank Z. of Ada, Okla., Edward I. of Erie, Kansas, and Owen L. of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Holley remained in Lansing about two years, coming on west into Illinois, where they resided until the fall of 1868, when they started for Kansas, in a covered wagon, stopping to winter about eight miles the other side of Kansas City, coming on in the spring to this county, where they took up a claim, where they lived oontinuously ever since, with the exceptions of the last 19 years, of which time their residence has been Erie, Kansas.
Mrs. Holley united with the M.E. church when but 15 years old, and has lived a devoted Christian life all these years. After moving to Erie, Mrs. Holley, along with her husband, put their memberships in the Presbyterian church.
Grandma Holley, as she was later called, went through the early days of privations and hazardous living-a one room box house, made of green cotton wood lumber, the hot sun and rains beating upon it in summer rendering it very unfit for the wintry blasts, inviting the snow and icy winds through the large openings. The wild "Red Man" and the prairie fire was a dread to the family. The only support the family had was by the father freighting from Kansas City to (Osage Mission) now St. Paul. Every night the mother gathering her three sons around her knee, asked God a protecting care over them and the safe return of the father.
Grandma Holley died at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 17 days.
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