Martha White was Alfred's second wife. Guessing that she died at Palding Ga. Ivor Holcombe left home as his mother requested if his father remarried after her death.
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See also:
Jane Childers as told to me by mother Lillie Mae Holcombe Chastain
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLLS-W66 : accessed 30 July 2015), Marthy Holcomb in household of J Alfred Holcomb, Eutah, Paulding, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 122, sheet 1A, family 6, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,220.
"Georgia Deaths, 1928-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJH1-TCW : accessed 30 July 2015), Martha White Holcombe in entry for Holcombe, John Alfred, 10 Sep 1928; citing Rockmart, Paulding, Georgia, United States, certificate number 34009, Georgia Archives, Morrow.
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