Enoch Holcomb

Description

Enoch Holcomb (1799 – 1852) owned property within what is now Tyson Research Center according to plat maps from 1838 and 1846. No records have yet been found indicating that Holcomb or members of his family were enslavers.

Bio

Enoch Holcomb was born in Missouri in 1799 and died in 1852. Holcomb’s father was Nathaniel Holcomb VI and his mother was Hannah (Brown) Holcomb. His siblings were Azariah Holcomb, Esther Jamison, Isaac Holcomb, Nathaniel Holcomb Jr., Phoebe Holcomb, and Hannah Holcomb. In 1818, four years after Nathaniel Holcomb VI died, Titus Strickland, another early Missouri settler, was made the legal guardian of the Holcomb children. Enoch Holcomb married Anna Ware and remained in St. Louis County. They may have had two children, E. W. Holcomb and Elizabeth Holcomb, who were reported on an 1850 census, but neither appeared on Enoch Holcomb’s will after his death in 1852. Doctor’s charges among Holcomb’s probate papers suggest that both Enoch and Anna died from cholera during a St. Louis epidemic between 1849-1852. In a plat map from 1838, Holcomb is listed as a property owner within what is the border of Tyson today. No records have yet been found indicating that Holcomb or members of his family were
enslavers.

Birth Date

1799

Death Date

1852

Sex

Male

Child of

Nathaniel Holcomb VI

Hannah Brown Holcomb

Spouse of

Anna Ware

Sibling of

Azariah Holcomb

Esther Jamison

Isaac Holcomb

Nathaniel Holcomb Jr

Phoebe Holcomb

Hannah Holcomb

Enslaver

No records of relation to enslavement yet identified.

Dates of Tyson Land Ownership

1838