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Yvette Holmes

Yvette Smithson Holmes, a native of southern Christian County, is an avid researcher of local history and genealogy. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, she previously worked in nursing. She is married to Bradley Holmes. They have five adult children and a granddaughter.

Noah’s Spring: Silent witness to a once vibrant South Christian community

Straddling the state line on acreage that later became Fort Campbell, the community had ties to one of the biggest land scandals in early America, a nationwide religious movement and local families whose descendants still live in Christian County today.
By Yvette Holmes
Baptisms occurred in this area of Noah's Spring, a community in southern Christian County that disappeared after the federal government bought out land owners during World War II to create the Army camp that became Fort Campbell. (Photo by Yvette Holmes)

Before emancipation, a free man of color set the course for his family in Christian County

Elisha Wiggins, born about 1790 in North Carolina, was likely emancipated in 1833 in Trigg County — and several years later began buying land in Christian County.
By Yvette Holmes
Only two headstones are visible in a cemetery at the old Wiggins farm in South Christian. (Hoptown Chronicle photo by Jennifer P. Brown)

A deep dive into Christian County history reveals an Alexander Graham Bell connection

Minister and teacher Robert T. Anderson's work at a South Christian boarding school attracted the attention of Alexander Graham Bell and others more than a century ago, but the story was long forgotten until a New York writer began researching another branch of the Anderson family.
By Yvette Holmes
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