Caroline
Elizabeth
Tift
Born in Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Amos Chapman Tift
and Phebe (Harding) Tift
Sister of
Henry Harding Tift I, William Orville Tift, Helen Louise Tift, Eliza (Tift) Noyes, Edmund Harding Tift and Annie Mallory (Tift) Buckley
Wife of
William Kemp Holmes
— married
16 Nov 1865 [location unknown]
Mother of
Charles Denison Holmes
Died
at age 95
in Mystic, New London county, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Oct 2011
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Biography
Caroline Tift married 16 Nov 1865 William Kemp Holmes. They had 6 children:
- William Kemp Holmes Jr., b. 2 Jan 1867
- Harry H. Holmes, b. 4 Sep 1868; married Mary Tift Spencer; d. 30 Dec 1943
- Charles Denison Holmes (1870-1935); married Bertha (Miner) Langworthy; d. 28 Feb 1935
- Jeremiah Holmes III, b. 20 Apr 1873; married Julia Park Avery
- Ellen Tift Holmes, b. 14 Jan 1884; married George F. Costello; d. 16 Mar 1957
- Raymond M. Holmes, b. 12 Aug 1888; married 1) Sarah E. McDonald; 2) Helen Tibbetts
Caroline E. (Tift) Holmes died 22 Sep 1940.
Sources
- Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993]: no. 2439-1: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/460/mode/1up
- Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA:
Profile History
WikiTree profile Tift-88 created through the import of Rankin-Ridgdill Family Tree.ged on Oct 4, 2011 by Elizabeth Rankin.
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