Katherine was the daughter of Charles Edward Brown and Lucy Elizabeth (Frances) Brown.
Katherine married Lewis Alexander Holley (17 Dec 1894 - 4 Oct 1918) on 3 July 1918 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. He died of Pneumonia in the Naval Hospital at Brest, France.
In the 1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. Censuses, Katherine was living with her mother in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Her daughter, Louise Elizabeth Holley (born c.1919), was living with her.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
16 Dec 1929
HOLLEY, Mrs. Katherine B., Hedgesville, is on the list of those eligible to go abroad sometime in 1930 as part of a pilgrimage to visit their loved one’s graves. Her husband, Lewis A. HOLLEY, died in World War I and is buried at Olse-Aisne.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
18 July 1935
RAMER, Fred R., Martinsburg, president of the State Teachers’ association, Mrs. Matilda GREENE, Martinsburg, and Mrs. Kathryn HOLLEY, Hedgesville, will be attending the annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools as state delegates.
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Information provided by #47514618:
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1999/summer/gold-star-mothers-1.html
On the evening of August 14, 1930, Katherine Bell Holley, an African American schoolteacher from Hedgesville, West Virginia, boarded the train at the Baltimore and Ohio station at North Mountain, outside the small town. At Martinsburg, she transferred to a train to New York, where she boarded the SS American Merchant for France. She arrived by train at Les Invalides in Paris on August 26.1 Holley traveled to France as part of a Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage, a United States government program that paid the travel expenses to the grave sites for mothers and widows whose sons and husbands had died overseas as members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the war.
Katherine Holley made the journey to France to visit the grave of her husband, Pvt. Lewis A. Holley.
Katherine married Lewis Alexander Holley (17 Dec 1894 - 4 Oct 1918) on 3 July 1918 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. He died of Pneumonia in the Naval Hospital at Brest, France.
In the 1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. Censuses, Katherine was living with her mother in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Her daughter, Louise Elizabeth Holley (born c.1919), was living with her.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
16 Dec 1929
HOLLEY, Mrs. Katherine B., Hedgesville, is on the list of those eligible to go abroad sometime in 1930 as part of a pilgrimage to visit their loved one’s graves. Her husband, Lewis A. HOLLEY, died in World War I and is buried at Olse-Aisne.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
18 July 1935
RAMER, Fred R., Martinsburg, president of the State Teachers’ association, Mrs. Matilda GREENE, Martinsburg, and Mrs. Kathryn HOLLEY, Hedgesville, will be attending the annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools as state delegates.
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Information provided by #47514618:
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1999/summer/gold-star-mothers-1.html
On the evening of August 14, 1930, Katherine Bell Holley, an African American schoolteacher from Hedgesville, West Virginia, boarded the train at the Baltimore and Ohio station at North Mountain, outside the small town. At Martinsburg, she transferred to a train to New York, where she boarded the SS American Merchant for France. She arrived by train at Les Invalides in Paris on August 26.1 Holley traveled to France as part of a Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage, a United States government program that paid the travel expenses to the grave sites for mothers and widows whose sons and husbands had died overseas as members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the war.
Katherine Holley made the journey to France to visit the grave of her husband, Pvt. Lewis A. Holley.
Katherine was the daughter of Charles Edward Brown and Lucy Elizabeth (Frances) Brown.
Katherine married Lewis Alexander Holley (17 Dec 1894 - 4 Oct 1918) on 3 July 1918 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. He died of Pneumonia in the Naval Hospital at Brest, France.
In the 1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. Censuses, Katherine was living with her mother in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Her daughter, Louise Elizabeth Holley (born c.1919), was living with her.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
16 Dec 1929
HOLLEY, Mrs. Katherine B., Hedgesville, is on the list of those eligible to go abroad sometime in 1930 as part of a pilgrimage to visit their loved one’s graves. Her husband, Lewis A. HOLLEY, died in World War I and is buried at Olse-Aisne.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
18 July 1935
RAMER, Fred R., Martinsburg, president of the State Teachers’ association, Mrs. Matilda GREENE, Martinsburg, and Mrs. Kathryn HOLLEY, Hedgesville, will be attending the annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools as state delegates.
_____
Information provided by #47514618:
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1999/summer/gold-star-mothers-1.html
On the evening of August 14, 1930, Katherine Bell Holley, an African American schoolteacher from Hedgesville, West Virginia, boarded the train at the Baltimore and Ohio station at North Mountain, outside the small town. At Martinsburg, she transferred to a train to New York, where she boarded the SS American Merchant for France. She arrived by train at Les Invalides in Paris on August 26.1 Holley traveled to France as part of a Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage, a United States government program that paid the travel expenses to the grave sites for mothers and widows whose sons and husbands had died overseas as members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the war.
Katherine Holley made the journey to France to visit the grave of her husband, Pvt. Lewis A. Holley.
Katherine married Lewis Alexander Holley (17 Dec 1894 - 4 Oct 1918) on 3 July 1918 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. He died of Pneumonia in the Naval Hospital at Brest, France.
In the 1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. Censuses, Katherine was living with her mother in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Her daughter, Louise Elizabeth Holley (born c.1919), was living with her.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
16 Dec 1929
HOLLEY, Mrs. Katherine B., Hedgesville, is on the list of those eligible to go abroad sometime in 1930 as part of a pilgrimage to visit their loved one’s graves. Her husband, Lewis A. HOLLEY, died in World War I and is buried at Olse-Aisne.
The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, Virginia
18 July 1935
RAMER, Fred R., Martinsburg, president of the State Teachers’ association, Mrs. Matilda GREENE, Martinsburg, and Mrs. Kathryn HOLLEY, Hedgesville, will be attending the annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools as state delegates.
_____
Information provided by #47514618:
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1999/summer/gold-star-mothers-1.html
On the evening of August 14, 1930, Katherine Bell Holley, an African American schoolteacher from Hedgesville, West Virginia, boarded the train at the Baltimore and Ohio station at North Mountain, outside the small town. At Martinsburg, she transferred to a train to New York, where she boarded the SS American Merchant for France. She arrived by train at Les Invalides in Paris on August 26.1 Holley traveled to France as part of a Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage, a United States government program that paid the travel expenses to the grave sites for mothers and widows whose sons and husbands had died overseas as members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the war.
Katherine Holley made the journey to France to visit the grave of her husband, Pvt. Lewis A. Holley.
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