The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-18
For Mount Airy, n. j., Holcombe ReunIo

HOLCOMBE RHYMES.
For Mount Airy, N. j., HoIcombe Reunion
RY DIR. wM FREDERIC noLcoMBE.
OF NEW YORK.
The Holcombes who by birth or name
Greet each other here this day.
Have come from North, South, East and West,
To Holcombe-Clan, respect to pay.
CHORUS.
(Tune-" Yankee Doodle")
Yankee Holcombe come to town
With Holeombe rhymes so handy,
Jersey Holcombes looking fine,
And Southern Holcombes, dandy.
On Mount Airy's slopes they gather,
Not because they seek for fame,
Ihey come not here to praise themselves,
But to honor Holcombe name.
Aware are we that few there are
Who their great grand sires' names can tell,
But Holcowbes here will not deny
That great grand sires for them did we'll.
But who of us all, Holcombes here,
Can feel that honor with us rests,
Unless we honor our grand sires,
And obey their last behests?
Let them In our memories live,
Let all of us their lives revere,
Let the H0lcombes e'er delight
To honor fathers, Mothers dear.
Not honor them for promise given
On the page OF Sacred Writ,
Not to have our days prolonged,
Since all Holcombes ought to do it.
For other reasons we are here
SO that all Holcombes can explain
How they Holcombe father had,
Or how Holcombe mother came.
The Smiths the Browns, the Grays, the Greens
From Adam came, rs they believe;
But the College of Arms shows that
Holcombes the first were Adam and Eve.
OF many Adam Hocombes you've heard.
Though know not one that has swung,
And we hope the future will find
All of the Holcombes unhung.
Who came here from England with Penn,
Were filed with true brotherly love.
Were brothers indeed, and good men.
From Tiyerton, near 0evonshire,
These two Hocombe brothers hailed
They left their English kindred dear,
And for Philadelphia sailed
These ancient Quaker Holcombes came
To Cheltenham and Arlington,
To Buckingham and Coryell's Ferry
And to Amwell and Mount Airy.
AT Coryell's Ferry* you are aware,
Washington crossed the Delaware,
That Richard Holcombe owned the land
Ou WHICH ms beauQuhrters stand.
Thus did your sires to this region
Come, near two hundred years ago,
And from them have sprung legion
Of the Holcombe name you know
Mary was the wife of Jacob,
Elizabeth, of Holcombe John;
Jacob had but one son, Thomas,
But daughters seven to dote on.
Samuel and Richard Holcombe
We're the names of sons of John,
OF daughter three, as you eau see,
In Johns last will are spoken.
Thus through the Quaker Holcombes came,
by their three sons and daugh tiers ten,
All who live here and bear the name,
And legions of maternal kin.
Doctors say that Mothers make men u
This being true, it quite explains
How X. z. Ely, whom we greet here
From Grandmother Holeombe has brains,
George Holcombe Larson, all excaim,
Has, from his Hocombe mother BRAIN"
For else how could he practice and preach,
And into the mazes of history reach?
A host fmore names recall
OF men, by the maternal line;
would like TO mention them all,
FOR all 1olcombe mothers are fine.
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viii see that they are not forgotten,
And all Hocombes themselves will please
Record descendants begOtten.
Jersey Holcoinbes are a tough race,
As all other Hocombes allow,
Holeomhes down East, and Hocombes South, :
And Holcombes all over avow.
Jersey skeeters - bite and bleed them
Such small trifes they heed never;
Then the " Jersey lightning strikes them,
But Jersey Holcombes Tween ever.
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In the name of the Yankee-Clan
Who from Thomas Hocombe of Devonshire,
Have descended, TO Il man.
In sixteen hundred and thirty,
Thomas Holeombe, the Pilgrim, came;
With his good wife, Elizabeth,
First founded then the Holcombe name.
John Wareham and his Pilgrim band
On cold Nantasket Beach did land,
With Thomas Holcombe, and others there,
They founded the town of Dorchester
In sixteen hundred thirty-fve
Thomas HolcOmbe to Windsorf went
Where sons three and daughters five
Are recorded by Matthew Grant.
Then he to Poquonock the next year went,
Four miles from the Windsor Stockade,
Where Indians then In plenty dwelt,
And with Thomas Hocombe did trade.
From this Thomas Holcombe and wife
All New England Holcombes descend:
From them, In response to your call,
] come, as III olcombe and friend
For our Southern Holeombe cousins
Let me now say word ofcheer,
For we can reckon them by dozens
Throughout the South, both FAR and near,
They all descended, MS Pve seen,
From John land NJ ISIS Grimes l,of King and Queen
Dear old Virginia gave them birth
| know HolcOmbcS of more worth,
OF the good outhern Holcombes, we note
Henry, the great Baptist Preacher,
Who died In the "Cily OF Penn"
Where he was a Gospel teacher.
Would you see the best man of this Clan?
Go to New Orleans, II you can;
DR.. Holcombet there rejoices
All. as does his " Southern Voices"
OF all well-kn0wn Jersey Holc0mbes,
Not single H0lcombe's son
Excelled In real sterling worth
Your own" King Solomon"
Near twenty years ago came
TO see" King Sol In his full prime,
For he dwelt upon Mount Airy
Solomon Holcombe, at seventy-nlne.
Let all the Holeombes here to-day
Respect to him and his ife pay
Catharine Ba rber was her name
They gave TO all Mount Airy fame.
The ITolcombes here will scan themselves,
And not tn ese Holcombe Rhymes, pray,
But all uphold the Hocombe-Clan,
Who on Mount Airy meet this day.
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Henry.
The exercises closed with "Auld Lam
Syne," and the first reunion of the Hol
combe Family was over. Hundreds ling
cred for an hour or two talking owe
family affairs.
Dangerous Medicines.
In the town of Blank, Ind, is dudisi
little dapper fellow, who styles himself M
d. and has sheepskin," or diploma, o
his own make and issuing, gotten up by
self-graduation, and oath to five years
Notwithstanding to Indiana law. No
long ago wag met the young doctor, who
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