Individual Details

Kate was trampled by horses as a toddler. Her mother carried her around on a pillow for sometime afterward. She eventually grew better although she remained mentally handicapped. Spent some time in a nursing home before her death.

Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 2, 1901
Coming and Going (society column)
Luke Kee, the Chinaman incarcerated in the Claude jail charged with a heinious crime committed in this town some time ago, is to come up before Judge Wallace for trial at the term of court held at Claude next week, his case being called for Monday. The following witnesses have been subpoenaed from here: Mrs. Robert Humphrey, Mrs. M. P. Finnicum, Katie Holderness, Dr. E. W. Tinsley, Dr. R. M. Johnson, Jack Harwell, and Sheriff T. J. Inmon.

The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, CO, Sun. 29 Mar 1942, p.3
Katie Holderness, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jemius [sic - Junius], of Eagle, passed away Friday night in a local hospital, following an extended illness. The body is now at the Gardner-Kinsey Funeral Home, from where private services will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning with the Rev. J. J. Hutcinson officiating. Burial will be made in Orchard Mesa Cemetery.
Deceased was born June 1, 1888, at Anson, Tex., and came to Colorado with her parents 17 years ago. She is survived by the parents and a sister, Mrs. Clarence Fair, also of Eagle. Mr. & Mrs. Holderness and Mr. and Mrs. Fair are in the city, called by her serious illness and death. [Is Mrs. Fair Jessie Finnicum? Her father, Junius Holderness had been dead since 1896. Her mother had remarried to Mark Finnicum in 1900.

Buried Orchard Mesa Cemetery, Grand Junction, Mesa Co, Colorado

Birth	2 Jun 1888	Texas
Death	27 Mar 1942	Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado

Father	Junius I. Holderness (1860 - 1896)
Mother	Ina Humphrey (1872 - 1948)
Sibling	Robert D. Holderness (1887 - 1887)
Sibling	Roy Holderness (1890 - 1923)
Sibling	Elizabeth "Beth" Holderness (1894 - 1910)