... Nickels "Nick" John Holmes, second child of Rev. Z. L. and Catherine Nancy (Nickels) Holmes, born Sept. 9th, 1847, married Lutie Simpson, eldest daughter of Governor and Chief Justice Simpson, who was a son of John Wells Simpson. They have no children. Rev. N. J. Holmes, for the 12 and 15 years after reaching manhood, was a successful lawyer at Laurens, S. C., having graduated at Edinburg, Scotland, University. He, after this time, became a Presbyterian preacher, and is now one of the most earnest consecrated ministers I ever knew. ...