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Capt. Marion C. Holmes, ex-county court clerk, is a native of Gibson County, Tenn., born October 15, 1832, son of William and Nancy (Easton) Holmes, who were born in Georgia. The father came to Tennessee in 1820 and located in Gibson County, where he followed farming until his death in 1856 or 1857. Marion C. was reared on a farm and received a fair education. After reaching man’s estate he followed clerking and general trading in Texas, having gone to that State in 1853. He remained there until the breaking out of the war when he started home, but hearing of the intended capture of Washington, D. C., he started for that place but got no further than Richmond, Va., from which place he enlisted in the Fourth Regiment Texas Infantry, and served with the same until the second battle of Bull Run, where he lost his right leg. He was promoted to first lieutenant of his company, and was acting in command at the time he was wounded. He remained in Richmond, Va., and North Carolina until one year after the war, when he returned home and clerked until 1870, when he was elected county court clerk and filled the office by re-election until 1882, making an efficient and trustworthy officer. Capt. Holmes now gives his attention to the real estate business, having an agency and owning considerable land in the county. He is also connected with the abstract title office of Trenton. He is a Democrat and a member of the I. O. O. F., and is a stockholder in cotton and oil mills of Trenton. November 9, 1876, he married Martha J. Herron, of Gibson County, and by her is the father of four children: Katie D., Marion H., William E. and Frank.