Individual Details

Lived most of his life in Pine Bluff AR; was Mayor several terms.

1900 Census. Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co, AR
Walnut St
Holderness, H. I. Lodger, b. Aug 1871, 28, married 6 years, b. AR, Undertaker.
Vida V., wife, b. Nov 1876, 23, 1 chid, b. AR
George, son, b. Dec 1895, 4, b. AR

1910 Census. Pine Bluff City (Part of), Jefferson Co AR, Hh 251
Harry I Holderness, 38, married one time for 15 years, b. AR, father b. TN, mother b. AR. Occupation: Funeral Director, Burying the Dead
Vida, wife, 34, 2 children, b. AR, father b. AR, mother b. NC
George S., son, 14
Vida M., dau, age 2
Sarah Strange, mother-in-law, age 54, widow, b. NC, parents b. NC
John Alexandra, servant, Black, age 72, widow, b. AR, Lawn
Sally Willson, Servant, Black, 25, b. AR, Cook

1920 Census. City of Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co AR, ED 138, p.4, Dwelling 69. Address was 810 West Second Avenue. Harry was age 50. Listed as born in AR, both parents b. in GA - an error as his father was born in NC, his mother born in AL. He was Proprieter of a Real Estate Office. His wife had apparently died as she's not listed with the family. Son George was 23, Vida May the daughter was 12. His mother-in-law, Sarah Strange, age 71, born in NC and widowed lived with him. Also Robert T. Holderness his nephew who was 23 and a Pharmacist in a Drug Store.

Found on GenealogyBank:
Ft Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar 1922
West-Holderness Wedding Announced.
Mrs. Lillian Callaway West and Mr. H. I. Holderness of Pine Bluff, Ark. were married Tuesday evening by Rev. M. E. Chappell of the Hemphill Presbyterian Church. The ceremony took place at the home of her sister, Mrs. H. W. Williams, Jr., 1200 Elizabeth Boulevard. Mr. and Mrs. Holderness will make their home in Pine Bluff.
[Mar 5th in 1922 was a Sunday - they must have married Feb 28th, if they married on Tuesday evening.]

By 1930, Harry had married Lillian. They are in the census in Pine Bluff. Harry's occupation is "funeral director, undertaking." His age is 59, b. AR, father b. NC, mother b. AL. Lillian C. was 46, b. Texas, father b. GA, mother b. VA. Vida was living at home at age 22. Lillian had been married before as she stated her age as 22 at her first marriage.

Pine Bluff City Directory, 1931, p.151
Holderness Funeral Home, Harry I. Holderness Pres. Lillian C. Holderness, Sec-Treas. Undertakers, Instant Ambulance Service, 320 W. 4th Ave., Tel. 160. Ads for the Funeral Home were also on the inside front cover, and p. 27
Holderness, Harry I (Lillian C), Pres Holderness Funeral Home, Mayor of Pine Bluff, Office City Hall. Tel 871. home 810 W. 2nd Ave, Tel 324
Holderness, Lillian C. Mrs. Sec-Treas Holderness Funeral Home, residence 810 W. 2nd Ave, Tel 324.

I believe Harry Holderness operated a Funeral Home in Pine Bluff for many years. I found mention of the home in various obituaries found online. Here is an example:
BILLY MUCKLEROY (3-17-1925 / 1-16-1939) Published January 18, 1939
Funeral Services for Billy Muckleroy, 12, of Star City, who died at a Dumas
Hospital Monday night, after being accidentally shot near his home Saturday
night, were held yesterday afternoon at the Star City Presbyterian church,
conducted by the pastor, the Rev. J. W. McCain. Burial was in Hickory Grove
Cemetery in charge of Holderness-South Mortuary. Billy was shot when a .22
rifle in the hands of a young companion, Perry Hunter, with whom he had been
horseback riding, was discharged as young Hunter was dismounting from his
horse. The bullet struck Billy, still on his horse, in the hip and ranged
upward, causing an injury which resulted in his death Monday night.
Note: Son of William Scott and Carrie Ann Raley Muckleroy.

1940 Census. Pine Bluff, Jefferson, AR, Hh 320
810 Second Avenue; lived there in 1935
Harry Holderness, 65, b. AR, owner, Mortuary
Lillian, wife, 55, b. TX

1947 Ft Worth, Texas City Directoy
Note: I have no information that they ever lived in Ft. Worth - perhaps owned property there that had belonged to Lillian's parents?
Harry I Holderness (Lillian), home: 1211 S. Henderson

Arkansas Death Certificate #3968
Harry I. Holderness died 9 Apr 1950 at the Convalescent Home, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co, AR, of heart diesease. He was born 20 Aug 1867 in Calhoun Co, ARK and was married. He was a rretired funeral director. Father - Dr. A. C. Holderness. Mother - Catherine Dixon. Mrs. Harry I. Holderness was the informant. Buried Graceland Cemetery, Pine Bluff om apr 11th.

Pine Bluff Commercial; Monday, April 10, 1950, p. 1
Former Pine Bluff Mayor Dies Here
Harry I. Holderness, 82, retired busiess executive and three times mayor of Pine Bluff, died Sunday morning at 9 o'clock at the Convalescent home, following a lengthy illness.
Mr. Holderness was born in Cahmbersville, Calhoun county, on August 20, 1867, a son of Dr. A. S. and Catherine (Dixon) Holderness, both North Carolinians by birth.
His father, who was born in North Carolina and there spent his early life came to Arkansas at an early age, and was the original settler in what is now the town of Fordyce.
Mr. Holderness received his early education in the schools of Fordyce and came to Pine Bluff in 1867 and commenced the serving of a machinist apprenticeship in the Cotton Belt Railroad shops. He did not finish his apprenticeship in that field, however, but instead entered the employ of R. H. McFadden, funeral director. He continued with Mr. McFadden until he succeeded him as owner of the funeral firm in 1905.
For 11 years thenceforth, he had several partners and in 1916, he assumed full charge and complete ownership of the company, whereupon the name was changed to the H. I. Holderness Company.
In partnership with Dr. O. W. Clark, he was largely responsible for the building and the promotion of the Eden Park Addition, the Pine Bluff Country Club and the Memorial Part Natatorium. He served as president of the Graceland Investment Company, which owns the Graceland cemetery and was interested in many other enterprises of a civic nature, having served on the Board of Trustees at Arkansas A & M College for 20 years.
Mr. Holderness was one of the organizers of the Arkansas Funeral Director's Association and the first secretary of the group. Later he served several terms as its president, while he was also instrumental in forming the Arkansas State Board of Embalmers, of which he was, for 10 years, the president. he held embalmer's license No. !. He was likewise active in the National Funeral Directors' Association.
In 1928, he was elected mayor of Pine Bluff and served three terms. It was during this administration that the Pine Bluff drainage system was installed and the work was started on the levee that now protects Pine Bluff and Southeast Arkansas.
In addition to his work in the business and civic life of Pine Bluff and Arkansas, where he was widely known, Mr. Holderness was active in fraternal and club life. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he belonged to Pine Bluff Lodge No. 69, Lafayette Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, the Damascus Commandry of Knights of Templar, Albert Pike Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, the Sahara Temple, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Holderness was a member of the First Methodist Church of which he was a member of the Board of Stewards.
He wa first married in 1894, to the former Miss Vida Strange of Beebe, Ark., who died in 1910. To this union were born two children, George S. Holderness of New York city, and Mrs. Robert H. Baker of Little Rock, the former Vida May Holderness.
In 1922, Mr. Holderness was married to the former Mrs. Lillian West of Fort Worth, Texas, who survives him.
Besides his wife and two children he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. John R. Hampton of Little Rock and Miss Minnie Holderness of Fordyce, two brothers, Marvin E. Holderness and James Holderness of St. Louis, two grandchildren, Malcom Holderness of New York, and Miss Ann Baker, a student at Newcomb College, New Orleans, La., and other relatives.
Furneral services will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock from the chapel of Ralph Robinson and Son mortuary in charge of Rev. T. P. Devlin, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Burial will be in Graceland cemetery.

Camden News, Camden, AR, Monday 10 Apr 1950 (faded and difficult to read)
Pine Bluff. Former Pine Bluff Mayor Harry I Holderness, 82, died here ____after a long illness.
Holderness established the Holderenss funeral home here in 1867. He was elected mayor in 1928 and served six years, retiring from business when he left office. He also organied the Arkansas Funeral Directors Association in 19__.
He served on the board of trustees of the AM and N College for Negroes here for 20 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Holderness, a son George, New York, a daughter, Mrs. Robert H. Baker, Little Rock; two brothers, Marvin E. and James Holderness, St. Louis; and two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Hampton, Little Rock, and Miss Minnie Holderness, Fordyce.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

St.Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, 10 Apr 1950, Monday, p. 19
Harry I. Holderness Funeral to be at Pine Bluff, Ark.
Funeral services for Harry I. Holderness, retired Pine Bluff (Ark.) business man and former mayor of that city, will be at 11 am tomorrow at Pine Bluff. His brother, Marvin E. Holderness, who lives at 4954 Lindell Boulevard, is treasurer of the Municipal Theater Association of St. Louis and vice president of H. B. Deal & Co., general contractors.
Mr. Holderness, who died yesterday at Pine Bluff at the age of 82, was chariman of the board of the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College for Negroes at Pine Bluff, of which he had been a member for 20 years. He established the Holderness undertaking establishment there in 1887 and organized the Arkansas Funeral Directors Association in 1905.
Suviving besides his brother, are his wife, Mrs. Lillian Holderness; a son, George of New York, and a daughter Mrs. Robert H. Baker of Little Rock, Ark.

Birth	17 Aug 1868
Marriage	20 Sep 1893	Jefferson County, Arkansas - Vida Vivian Strange
Marriage	28 Feb 1922	Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas - Lillian Calloway
Death	9 Apr 1950	Jefferson County, Arkansas

Spouse	Vida Vivian Strange (1873 - 1919)
Child	George Strange Holderness (1895 - 1988)
Child	Vida May Holderness (1907 - 1994)

Spouse

Lillian Calloway (1881 - 1957)

Father	Algernon Sidney Holderness MD (1834 - 1904)
Mother	Catherine Barnes "Cattie" Dixon (1838 - 1928)
Sibling	George Dixon Holderness (1866 - 1891)
Sibling	Robert Thomas Holderness (1870 - 1910)
Sibling	Minnie Myrtle Holderness (1871 - 1950)
Sibling	William Thornton Holderness (1873 - 1889)
Sibling	Mariah Elizabeth "May" Holderness (1876 - 1904)
Sibling	Marvin Early Holderness (1877 - 1975)
Sibling	Dr. James Sidney Holderness (1879 - 1951)
Sibling	Sarah Virginia Holderness (1881 - )