Silas Leonard Holman was born at Dixfield, Maine in 1820, the son of Ebenezer Waters Holman Sr and Sarah Sally Knapp.
Silas married Ellen M. Carlton on 18 Aug 1850 at Dixfield, Maine. They were the parents of nine known children He ran the town farm for the poor.
He died at Dixfield, Maine in 1886 and is buried there at the Riverside Cemetery.
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VS-PZ6 : 22 December 2020), Silas L Holman in household of Ebeneza Holman, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-S49T : 22 July 2021), Silas L Holman and Ellen M Carlton, 18 Aug 1850; citing Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF3Y-T5P : 14 January 2022), Silas Holman, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQF-C68 : 2 March 2021), Silas L Holman, 24 Mar 1896; citing Dixfield, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107500946/silas-leonard-holman), memorial page for Silas Leonard Holman (4 Apr 1820–24 Mar 1886), Find a Grave Memorial ID 107500946, citing Riverside Cemetery, Dixfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA .
Holmans in America: concerning the descendants of Solamon Holman, who settled in West Newbury, Massachusetts in 1692-1693; Fourth Generation, page 31.
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