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HOLMAN, FLACK, MOORE



Thomas P. HOLMAN, M. D., an influential farmer of Lincoln County, Tenn., is

a son of James W. and Jean (FLACK) HOLMAN, and was born March 3, 1834.  At

the age of sixteen he began teaching school, and followed that occupation

at irregular intervals for upward of six sessions.  He entered Union

University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., and graduated at the age of twenty-four

years.  He then became a follower of Aesculapius, and continued his studies

to the time of the late civil war.  In 1862 he joined Company C, Eleventh

Tennessee Cavalry, and participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Massy

Creek, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Dalton, Resaca, and numerous other

engagements of less note.  He was captured at Fayetteville in 1864, and

taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, but was exchanged at the end of six weeks, and

immediately rejoined his command.  He returned home in 1865 and taught

school one session, and then kept a hotel in Shelbyville for about one year

and a half.  In 1867 he entered the medical department at Washington

University at Baltimore, Md., and graduated as an M. D. in 1869.  He was

appointed resident physician of Bay View Asylum at Baltimore, but the

following year returned to Tennessee and began his practice at Mulberry.

January 5, 1875, he wedded Silena MOORE, daughter of Capt. Lewis MOORE, who

was killed at Jonesboro in 1864.  Mrs. HOLMAN was born in 1850, and has

borne her husband the following children:  Burke, Wayne, Leon, Fannie

Lynne, Ross and Moore.  Dr. HOLMAN owns 300 acres of land near

Fayetteville, to which he gives the most of his time and attention.  He met

with good success in his practice, but owing to his enfeebled constitution

was compelled to abandon it.  In politics he is a Prohibitionist in

principle and practice.  He belongs to the Freemasons, and his wife is a

member of the Christian Church.



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