Bessie HolmesAge: 49 years1868–1918
- Name
- Bessie Holmes
- Given names
- Bessie
- Surname
- Holmes
- Married name
- Bessie Arendell
 Birth | July 14, 1868 |
 Marriage | Falconer Benjamin Arendell — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 5 months)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 9 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Birth of a son#1 | Banks Holt Arendell October 1, 1895 (Age 27 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 29 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Death of a husband | Falconer Benjamin Arendell 1916 (Age 47 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 47 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 48 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 49 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
 Death | March 2, 1918 (Age 49 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Oakwood Cemetery |
| Family with Falconer Benjamin Arendell |
| husband |
Falconer Benjamin Arendell Birth: 1855 Death: 1916 — Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States |
| herself |
Bessie Holmes Birth: July 14, 1868 Death: March 2, 1918 — Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| son |
Banks Holt Arendell Birth: October 1, 1895 40 27 — North Carolina, United States Death: March 1, 1974 — Wake, North Carolina, United States |