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Seth B. HOLMAN

West Park (aka Hereford) Cemetery
Deaf Smith County,
Texas

Seth B. Holman
1882-1933

Ann Hill Holman
1888-1965


*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell


*Obituary Seth B. Holman
Seth Baker Holman, owner of the Hereford Band died at his home. His father died when Seth was 18 months old, his mother soon afterward. Under the care of relatives, Seth Holman attended high school, later entering Texas A&M College, taking his degree at the age of 21. After graduation, his first work was with the Rock Island Railroad in Fort Worth. Leaving the Rock Island, he worked with the Fort Worth Star, later he worked with the Fort Worth Record.

At an early age, and while yet in school, he became a member of the Presbyterian Church, which membership he retained through life.

On 15 November 1907, he married Miss Ann Hill at Houston, Texas. To this union was born on child, Seth Baker Holman, II, who died in infancy on 12 September 1920.

Mr. and Mrs. Holman moved to Hereford in 1909 and he was secretary of the Hereford Chamber of Commerce for 18 months before the moved to Comanche, Texas. He served as secretary of the Comanche Chamber of Commerce for 18 months before moving to Amarillo, Texas. At Amarillo, he was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and advocated the Colorado to Gulf Highway.

Mr. Holman became associated with the Hereford Brand newspaper in 1917 and was active in conducting the business until 1920 when the sold the paper to Nunn-Warren Company. After an extended vacation, he and his wife returned to Hereford and he took the editorship of a farm paper for Nunn-Warren Company and later became editor of the Farm page of the Amarillo News-Globe. In 1932, he again assumed ownership of the Hereford Brand, and was actively engaged in its management until a few weeks ago, when he health forced him to remain in bed. From childhood, Seth Holman had been ill. Beset with pain, in agony much of the time, he carried on, and until the last kept up the fight.

Seth Holman was laid to rest in the West Park Cemetery.

Survived by his wife.

The Hereford Brand - Page 1
July 20, 1933
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Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
Name: Seth B Holman
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 15 Nov 1907
Marriage Place: Harris, Texas, United States
Spouse: Annie Hill
FHL Film Number: 000025230

Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
Name: Seth B. Holman
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 15 Nov 1907
Marriage Place: Harris, Texas, USA
Spouse: Annie Hill
Document Number: 15437

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Seth Baxer Helman
[Seth Baker Holman]
Race: White
Birth Date: 23 May 1880
Residence Place: Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Relative: Ann Hill Helman
Relative's Relationship: Wife

U.S., WWI Civilian Draft Registrations, 1917-1918
Name: Holman, Seth Baker
Birth Date: 23 May 1880
City/County: Deaf Smith
State: TX
Ethnicity: W

Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Seth B. Holman
Death Date: 20 Jul 1933
Death County: Deaf Smith
Certificate: 31723


*Obituary Ann Hill Holman
HEREFORD - Mrs. Seth B. Holman, 77, former publisher of The Hereford Brand and a former president of the Panhandle Press Association, died Wednesday afternoon in Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.

Funeral services were to be conducted at 4 p.m. today in the First Presbyterian Church of Hereford with the Rev. Russell Wingert, pastor, and the Rev. James R. Carroll, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Amarillo, officiating.

Burial was to be in West Park Cemetery under direction of Gilliland Funeral Home.

Mrs. Holman had lived in Amarillo since 1949 when she sold her remaining interest in The Hereford Brand to Jimmie Gillentine, the present publisher. She was a native of Jones County and was living in Fort Worth when she was married in 1906 [sic] to Seth B. Holman, a newspaperman.

The couple bought The Hereford Brand in 1918, and Mrs. Holman joined her husband in operation of the paper until 1929 when he sold The Brand to the Nunn-Warren Publishing Co. and took a job as farm editor with the Amarillo Globe and Daily News. After a reorganization of the Nunn-Warren Company, the Holmans returned to Hereford to resume publication of The Brand, and Mr. Holman died here in July, 1933.

From that time until 1949, Mrs. Holman was active as publisher, the last several years in partnership with Gillentine, who had joined the company in the late 30's.

Surviving are sisters, Mrs. Mary Baird of Hereford, Mrs. Cubie Laird of Amarillo and Mrs. Katia Alexander of Dimmitt.

(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - 17 Jun 1965, Thu - Page 51)
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Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
Name: Annie Hill
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 15 Nov 1907
Marriage Place: Harris, Texas, United States
Spouse: Seth B Holman
FHL Film Number: 000025230

Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ann Holman
Death Date: 16 Jun 1965
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
Marital status: Widowed

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Ann Hill Holman
[Ann Hill Hill]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 77
Birth Date: 12 Feb 1888
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Death Date: 16 Jun 1965
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: John Hill
Mother: Fannie Baughn

Contributed on 6/23/22 by neldapat
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Submitted: 6/23/22 • Approved: 6/25/22 • Last Updated: 6/28/22 • R521095-G521095-S3

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