Almira Clarissa Holman LAST NAME: Holman FIRST NAME: Almira MIDDLE NAME: Clarissa NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 29 Apr 1846 DIED: 20 Sep 1869 BURIED: Sep 1869 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  1860 Census of S. Salem, Marion Co., OR, pg 401, shows a Holman family [Jas. Should be Jos. For Joseph Holman]; a dau. A [Almira Clarissa] was age 14 and b. in Oregon, is listed. OBITUARY:  Almira Clarissa Holman was born in Salem, Oregon, April 29, 1846, and died September 20, 1869; aged twenty-three years and five months.  She resided here until 1861 when the family moved to Massachusetts, where Miss Holman graduated at the Wilbraham Academy in 1864. She had previously attended the Willamette University for seven years.  The family returned to Salem in 1864, and here she was resided ever since, taking part as a Sabbath School Teacher, and always active in religious efforts.  She was to have been married Sept. 8th to Mr. Jason R. Royal, but the event was deferred by her illness, and this fact adds a sadder interest to the announcement of her decease.  In character Miss Holman was unassuming and consistent. The last time she met her Sabbath class, of which the child of the writer was one, she improved the lesson to show the certainty of death and the necessity to be prepared for it. Her remarks made a deep impression and the class remembers now that she told them she, herself, was not afraid of death, but thought of it with pleasure. They, not she, then realized that her words would so soon be verified, as they were the other evening when told that she was dying, and her answer was that she felt as if going to sleep. She met death cheerfully, as she thought she should, and with all the hopes in her heart that love and expectation can cherish, she met the dread destroyer with a smile.  Weekly Oregon Statesman 24 September 1869 3:1 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  WOS 24 September 1869 3:1 CONTACTS:  LOT: 094 SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: