No tombstone. Buried next to his daughter, according to his obituary, who doesn't have a tombstone either.
Death of Dr. J. M. Holcombe
Dr. Holcombe died, last Tuesday evening, at forty minutes past seven o'clock. He had been confined to his bed for about three weeks with Bright's disease of the kidneys, which caused his death. A suitable obituary notice will appear in our next.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 6, 1880
Page 1
DIED
HOLCOMBE-In this city, at twenty minutes to eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening; May 4th, 1880, DR. JAMES MOSELY HOLCOMBE.
"Leave me; thou com'st between my heart and Heaven!
I would be still, in voiceless prayer to die!
Why must our souls thus love and then be riven!
Return! Thy parting wakes mine agony.
Oh, yet awhile delay!"
DR. HOLCOMBE was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, in 1839, and was therefore, at the time of his death, about 41 years of age. In 1858 he attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medical College and graduated at the Medical College in New Orleans with high honors in 1859.
In 1860 he removed to Arkansas, and settled in El Dorado, Union County, where he at once entered into the practice of medicine and surgery. During the war he was on the side of his native south and was a surgeon of some note east of the Mississippi River, and subsequently Gen. Dockery's brigade surgeon in the trans Mississippi department. As a surgeon he gained considerable reputation as can be attested by the hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of wounded and sick soldiers who were under his treatment. The war which ended so disastrously to the South left him penniless.
In 1867 he removed to Pine Bluff and engaged in the practice of his profession, and in a short time built up a large and lucrative practice.
About two months ago his health began to fail him, and he started for San Antonio, Texas, with the hope of receiving benefit, and ultimately a permanent cure. He reached Mobile, and was taken so ill that he found it impossible to continue his journey; and as soon as he was able to travel again, he started on the backward track for home, where he arrived about four weeks before his death. He went to his bed, and never left it until his remains were carried to Bellwood Cemetery, and there, beside the remains of a dear departed daughter, lies the cold form of one we had known for sixteen years and loved so dearly.
His funeral was a very large one-how could it be otherwise when all so highly esteemed him while living? He was buried by the Masons, Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Royal Areanum, and the Foresters.
DR. HOLCOMBE was well-known all over Arkansas, and, indeed, he had thousands of friends and acquaintances in every State in the Union. He was a perfect specimen of a man-about six feet two inches in height; a well-rounded and properly proportioned form, and had a very large, full-developed head. He had been President of the Arkansas Medical fraternity; had been once Mayor of Pine Bluff and came within one vote of defeating Col. Slemons for the nomination for Congress from this District in 1874. He was a brave man and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. Rarely has death's stern decree gone forth under more distressing circumstances. His many social qualities, his uprightness of intention and excellence of heart, could not fall to endear him to all wit-spent h whom he came in contact. He always elicited the confidence of everyone he met and retained it up to the hour of his death. Truly, a good man has gone. He leaves a widow and five children, four girls and a boy-who, in common with us all, deeply deplore his death. In the several weeks of intense suffering, he exhibited a perfect example of resignation to the will of his Heavenly Father, in whose mansions we trust he is now reaping the reward of his short but well-spent life.
There, on the shores eternal,
His spirit, beckoning, stands;
Still guiding on his loved ones
To join the heavenly bands.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 13, 1880
Page 1
Death of Dr. J. M. Holcombe
Dr. Holcombe died, last Tuesday evening, at forty minutes past seven o'clock. He had been confined to his bed for about three weeks with Bright's disease of the kidneys, which caused his death. A suitable obituary notice will appear in our next.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 6, 1880
Page 1
DIED
HOLCOMBE-In this city, at twenty minutes to eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening; May 4th, 1880, DR. JAMES MOSELY HOLCOMBE.
"Leave me; thou com'st between my heart and Heaven!
I would be still, in voiceless prayer to die!
Why must our souls thus love and then be riven!
Return! Thy parting wakes mine agony.
Oh, yet awhile delay!"
DR. HOLCOMBE was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, in 1839, and was therefore, at the time of his death, about 41 years of age. In 1858 he attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medical College and graduated at the Medical College in New Orleans with high honors in 1859.
In 1860 he removed to Arkansas, and settled in El Dorado, Union County, where he at once entered into the practice of medicine and surgery. During the war he was on the side of his native south and was a surgeon of some note east of the Mississippi River, and subsequently Gen. Dockery's brigade surgeon in the trans Mississippi department. As a surgeon he gained considerable reputation as can be attested by the hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of wounded and sick soldiers who were under his treatment. The war which ended so disastrously to the South left him penniless.
In 1867 he removed to Pine Bluff and engaged in the practice of his profession, and in a short time built up a large and lucrative practice.
About two months ago his health began to fail him, and he started for San Antonio, Texas, with the hope of receiving benefit, and ultimately a permanent cure. He reached Mobile, and was taken so ill that he found it impossible to continue his journey; and as soon as he was able to travel again, he started on the backward track for home, where he arrived about four weeks before his death. He went to his bed, and never left it until his remains were carried to Bellwood Cemetery, and there, beside the remains of a dear departed daughter, lies the cold form of one we had known for sixteen years and loved so dearly.
His funeral was a very large one-how could it be otherwise when all so highly esteemed him while living? He was buried by the Masons, Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Royal Areanum, and the Foresters.
DR. HOLCOMBE was well-known all over Arkansas, and, indeed, he had thousands of friends and acquaintances in every State in the Union. He was a perfect specimen of a man-about six feet two inches in height; a well-rounded and properly proportioned form, and had a very large, full-developed head. He had been President of the Arkansas Medical fraternity; had been once Mayor of Pine Bluff and came within one vote of defeating Col. Slemons for the nomination for Congress from this District in 1874. He was a brave man and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. Rarely has death's stern decree gone forth under more distressing circumstances. His many social qualities, his uprightness of intention and excellence of heart, could not fall to endear him to all wit-spent h whom he came in contact. He always elicited the confidence of everyone he met and retained it up to the hour of his death. Truly, a good man has gone. He leaves a widow and five children, four girls and a boy-who, in common with us all, deeply deplore his death. In the several weeks of intense suffering, he exhibited a perfect example of resignation to the will of his Heavenly Father, in whose mansions we trust he is now reaping the reward of his short but well-spent life.
There, on the shores eternal,
His spirit, beckoning, stands;
Still guiding on his loved ones
To join the heavenly bands.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 13, 1880
Page 1
No tombstone. Buried next to his daughter, according to his obituary, who doesn't have a tombstone either.
Death of Dr. J. M. Holcombe
Dr. Holcombe died, last Tuesday evening, at forty minutes past seven o'clock. He had been confined to his bed for about three weeks with Bright's disease of the kidneys, which caused his death. A suitable obituary notice will appear in our next.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 6, 1880
Page 1
DIED
HOLCOMBE-In this city, at twenty minutes to eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening; May 4th, 1880, DR. JAMES MOSELY HOLCOMBE.
"Leave me; thou com'st between my heart and Heaven!
I would be still, in voiceless prayer to die!
Why must our souls thus love and then be riven!
Return! Thy parting wakes mine agony.
Oh, yet awhile delay!"
DR. HOLCOMBE was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, in 1839, and was therefore, at the time of his death, about 41 years of age. In 1858 he attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medical College and graduated at the Medical College in New Orleans with high honors in 1859.
In 1860 he removed to Arkansas, and settled in El Dorado, Union County, where he at once entered into the practice of medicine and surgery. During the war he was on the side of his native south and was a surgeon of some note east of the Mississippi River, and subsequently Gen. Dockery's brigade surgeon in the trans Mississippi department. As a surgeon he gained considerable reputation as can be attested by the hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of wounded and sick soldiers who were under his treatment. The war which ended so disastrously to the South left him penniless.
In 1867 he removed to Pine Bluff and engaged in the practice of his profession, and in a short time built up a large and lucrative practice.
About two months ago his health began to fail him, and he started for San Antonio, Texas, with the hope of receiving benefit, and ultimately a permanent cure. He reached Mobile, and was taken so ill that he found it impossible to continue his journey; and as soon as he was able to travel again, he started on the backward track for home, where he arrived about four weeks before his death. He went to his bed, and never left it until his remains were carried to Bellwood Cemetery, and there, beside the remains of a dear departed daughter, lies the cold form of one we had known for sixteen years and loved so dearly.
His funeral was a very large one-how could it be otherwise when all so highly esteemed him while living? He was buried by the Masons, Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Royal Areanum, and the Foresters.
DR. HOLCOMBE was well-known all over Arkansas, and, indeed, he had thousands of friends and acquaintances in every State in the Union. He was a perfect specimen of a man-about six feet two inches in height; a well-rounded and properly proportioned form, and had a very large, full-developed head. He had been President of the Arkansas Medical fraternity; had been once Mayor of Pine Bluff and came within one vote of defeating Col. Slemons for the nomination for Congress from this District in 1874. He was a brave man and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. Rarely has death's stern decree gone forth under more distressing circumstances. His many social qualities, his uprightness of intention and excellence of heart, could not fall to endear him to all wit-spent h whom he came in contact. He always elicited the confidence of everyone he met and retained it up to the hour of his death. Truly, a good man has gone. He leaves a widow and five children, four girls and a boy-who, in common with us all, deeply deplore his death. In the several weeks of intense suffering, he exhibited a perfect example of resignation to the will of his Heavenly Father, in whose mansions we trust he is now reaping the reward of his short but well-spent life.
There, on the shores eternal,
His spirit, beckoning, stands;
Still guiding on his loved ones
To join the heavenly bands.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 13, 1880
Page 1
Death of Dr. J. M. Holcombe
Dr. Holcombe died, last Tuesday evening, at forty minutes past seven o'clock. He had been confined to his bed for about three weeks with Bright's disease of the kidneys, which caused his death. A suitable obituary notice will appear in our next.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 6, 1880
Page 1
DIED
HOLCOMBE-In this city, at twenty minutes to eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening; May 4th, 1880, DR. JAMES MOSELY HOLCOMBE.
"Leave me; thou com'st between my heart and Heaven!
I would be still, in voiceless prayer to die!
Why must our souls thus love and then be riven!
Return! Thy parting wakes mine agony.
Oh, yet awhile delay!"
DR. HOLCOMBE was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, in 1839, and was therefore, at the time of his death, about 41 years of age. In 1858 he attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medical College and graduated at the Medical College in New Orleans with high honors in 1859.
In 1860 he removed to Arkansas, and settled in El Dorado, Union County, where he at once entered into the practice of medicine and surgery. During the war he was on the side of his native south and was a surgeon of some note east of the Mississippi River, and subsequently Gen. Dockery's brigade surgeon in the trans Mississippi department. As a surgeon he gained considerable reputation as can be attested by the hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of wounded and sick soldiers who were under his treatment. The war which ended so disastrously to the South left him penniless.
In 1867 he removed to Pine Bluff and engaged in the practice of his profession, and in a short time built up a large and lucrative practice.
About two months ago his health began to fail him, and he started for San Antonio, Texas, with the hope of receiving benefit, and ultimately a permanent cure. He reached Mobile, and was taken so ill that he found it impossible to continue his journey; and as soon as he was able to travel again, he started on the backward track for home, where he arrived about four weeks before his death. He went to his bed, and never left it until his remains were carried to Bellwood Cemetery, and there, beside the remains of a dear departed daughter, lies the cold form of one we had known for sixteen years and loved so dearly.
His funeral was a very large one-how could it be otherwise when all so highly esteemed him while living? He was buried by the Masons, Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Royal Areanum, and the Foresters.
DR. HOLCOMBE was well-known all over Arkansas, and, indeed, he had thousands of friends and acquaintances in every State in the Union. He was a perfect specimen of a man-about six feet two inches in height; a well-rounded and properly proportioned form, and had a very large, full-developed head. He had been President of the Arkansas Medical fraternity; had been once Mayor of Pine Bluff and came within one vote of defeating Col. Slemons for the nomination for Congress from this District in 1874. He was a brave man and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. Rarely has death's stern decree gone forth under more distressing circumstances. His many social qualities, his uprightness of intention and excellence of heart, could not fall to endear him to all wit-spent h whom he came in contact. He always elicited the confidence of everyone he met and retained it up to the hour of his death. Truly, a good man has gone. He leaves a widow and five children, four girls and a boy-who, in common with us all, deeply deplore his death. In the several weeks of intense suffering, he exhibited a perfect example of resignation to the will of his Heavenly Father, in whose mansions we trust he is now reaping the reward of his short but well-spent life.
There, on the shores eternal,
His spirit, beckoning, stands;
Still guiding on his loved ones
To join the heavenly bands.
Pine Bluff Weekly Press
May 13, 1880
Page 1
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