Individual Details

Charles Sidney Holderness

(18 Jul 1874 - 10 Sep 1966)



The 1900 Census gives Charles' birth date as Jul 1875.

Dallas Morning News, 28 Aug 1905
Drug Store for sale; stock all new and well selected; good location, established trade, good paying business, invoices $1,200; population 1,000. Reasons for selling, death of proprietor. Address C. S. Holderness, Administrator, Cumby, Tex.
[Obviously in reference to his father's drug store in Cumby.]

Jefferson Jimplecute (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 13, Ed. 1, Friday, September 20, 1907
U.S. Jury List. The Jurors for the District and Circuit Courts of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Texas, holding session at Jefferson and drawn by Jury Commissioner.
Chas. Holderness, Cumby

The Galveston Daily News, 17 Jul 1909, p. 6, "Six New Examiners"
July 16. The commissioners of state banking today announced the appointment of the following additional bank examiners under the new laws passed by the Thirty-First Legislature.....C. S. Holderness of Cumby, Texas.
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Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1913
Anti-Trust Investigation at Paris
Oil Mill Managers and Ginners Testify Before Justice of Peace
Hon. Clyde A. Sweeton, assistant attorney general, and C. S. Holderness, an expert accountant, are here from Austin for the purpose of making an investigation to ascertain whether or not the oil mean and the gin men have been guilty of violating the anti-trust laws of the state.
....As far as been ascertained there was nothing very startling brought out during the day by the investigation.

El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Monday, October 4, 1915
But One Change is Made in State Bank Examiners
Austin, Texas, Oct 4. Concluding their quarterly conference with commissioner of insurance and banking Patterson, the state bank examiners today left for their various headquarters. It was announced that the examiners were reassigned to their old districts with but one change. O. Currin, of Cumby, was appointed to take the place of C. S. Holderness as a bank examiner, and was assigned to the Dallas district. Holderness was granted an indefinite vacation.

1916 Dallas, TX city Directory
Holderness, Chas S., bank examiner. residence: 302 N. Ewing Av

El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Monday, April 10, 1916
Assignments of Bank Examiners Announced
Austin, Texas, April 10. Assignments of state bank examiners for the quarter have been announced ....O. Currin, Greenville; C. S. Holderness, Dallas, south.

Charles registered for the World War I Draft on 12 Sep 1918. He gave his full name as Charles Sidney Holderness and signed the same. His address was 1512 Colorado, Austin, Travis Co, Texas. He was then age 44, born 18 Jul 1874. He was a Deputy Bank Commissioner for the State of Texas, employed at the Capitol in Austin. His wife was Nannie Eugene Holderness. He is described as of medium height, medium build, brown eyes, dark hair.

1920 Census. Greenville, Hunt Co, TX, Hh 16
2106 Stonewall St - multi-family ome
Chas. Holderness, 45, Phonograph Salesman, shop [I wonder if he gave this information?]
Eugenia, wife, 41

1930 Census, living in Greenville, Hunt Co TX. Occupation listed as Bank Examiner. Jean's age was given as 47, Charles was 55.

I found this interesting case from the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dated 28 Jan 1931. W. T. Dunn v. the State. Original opinion dated 2 Apr 1930. Overruled.
Dunn, while cashier of the Altoga State Bank, at a time he did not have $500.00 to his credit in the bank, and did not have that amount owing to him by said bank, gave a check for $500 on said bank and caused it to be paid out of bank funds.
It is clear he was a cashier at the time. He did not have said sum to his credit on 1 Oct 1926 as proved by Mr. Holderness, bank examiner. The check was for $500 to Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co of Dallas. Mr. Holderness swore that on Nov 22nd, after the bank burned, he went to see about it and the appellant gave him a $500 check drawn in favor of H.B.L.Co on 1 Oct 1926, which was endorsed by them to the Repulic National Bank of Dallas, appellant telling Mr. Holderness at the time the said check belonged to the bank and was being carried as cash.
The appellant maintained that the heads and managers of accounting deparments that had testified, could not know by personal contact as to the information that were testifying about and should not have been entered as evidence. There had been a motion for rehearing of the case but that was overruled.
Reporter: 117 Tex. Crim. 522


In 1931, Charles & Jean lived in Greenville as noted in the Diary of Joseph B. Haden. By 1934, diary entries of their visits to Joe B. mention that they came from Dallas.
Was a state bank examiner; assistant Attorney General; was also employed by the IRS for 15 years preceding his retirement at age 74. Had no children.

Dallas Morning News, 6 Nov 1932
Will Make Home in Dallas
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Holderness of Greenville will come to Dallas soon to make their home here. They have completed a two-story brick home at 6245 Richmond. the contract was handled by Mullins Brothers. Mr. Holderness is a State bank examiner.

1940 Census. Justice Prec 1, Dallas City, Dallas, TX, Hh 177
6247 Richmond Ave - lived in the same place in 1935
C. S. Holderness (value of home - $12,000), 65, b. TX, Banker
N. E., wife, 57, b. TX

Dallas Morning News, 4 Jan 1941
First Income Tax Payment
The first Federal income taxpayer of the year was C. S. Holderness, left [there was an accompanying picture], 6247 Richmond, vice-president of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, who is pictured here paying the taxes for the association to Internal Revenue Collector W. A. Thomas, Friday. Individual blanks were placed in the mail during the night Thursday and individual payers will begin paying in a few days, Thomas predicted.
Note: The two men were first cousins once removed.

1950 Census. Dallas, Dallas Co, TX, Hh 266
6247 Richmond
Charles S. Holderness, 75, b. TX
Nannie E., wife, 68, b. TX

Date of death found in Texas Death Index

Online Texas Death Certificates:
Name: Charles Sidney Holderness
Death date: 10 Sep 1966
Death place: Greenville, Hunt, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 92 years
Estimated birth year:
Birth date: 18 Jul 1874
Birth place: Texas
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name:
Father name: R. C. Holderness
Father birth place:
Mother name: Virginia Thomas
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Banker
Residence: Greenville, Hunt, Texas
Cemetery name: Hillcrest Mausoleum
Burial place: Dallas, Texas
Burial date:
Additional relatives: X
Film number: 2118406
Digital GS number: 4030072
Image number: 547
Reference number: cn 60191
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Unidentified newspaper clipping:
C. S. Holderness
Funeral services for Charles Sidney Holderness, 92-year-old longtime county resident, were at 10 am Monday at Sorrells & Sons Funeral Home Chapel.
The Rev. Fred Hambrick of Oklahoma City officiated. Burial was in Hillcrest Mausoleum in Dallas.
Mr. Holderness died Saturday night in a Greenville nursing home.

Another Clipping
Services Set Today for Holderness
Funeral services for Charles Sidney Holderness, 92, of Greenville, Former vice-present and director of the First Federal Savings & Loan Co. of Dallas, will be held at 10 am Monday in Sorrells & Sons Funeral Chapel in Greenville. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum in Dallas.
Mr. Holderness had lived in Dallas for many years before moving to Greenville last year. He was a native of Hopkins County.
He entered the banking business in Dallas in 1901, served as a state bank examiner from 1908 to 1932, during which time he also served as chairman of the State Banking Commission.
Mr. Holderness had also served in the state attorney's office and was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Shortly before retiring at the age of 72, he was associated with the Internal Revnue Service in the social security and withholding tax division. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Dallas.
Survivors: Three nephews, J. Ive Holderness of Greenvilee, and Dr. W. Harris Connor and Robert Wright of Houston; and four nieces, Mrs. Virgie R. Thomas of Commerce, Mrs. Delilah R. Kopenhagen and Mrs. Eddie Hannan of Medill, Okla., and Mrs. Virginia Lachnett of Los Angeles, Calif.

Events

Birth18 Jul 1874Texas
Marriage12 Jun 1903Hopkins County, Texas - Nancy Eugenia "Jean" Hooker
Death10 Sep 1966Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

Families

SpouseNancy Eugenia "Jean" Hooker (1879 - 1954)
FatherDr. ROBERT CHARLES HOLDERNESS (1827 - 1905)
MotherVIRGINIA ELIZABETH THOMAS (1836 - 1894)
SiblingRebecca Sarah Holderness (1856 - 1929)
SiblingRobert N. Holderness (1858 - 1905)
SiblingJunius I. Holderness (1860 - 1896)
SiblingELIZABETH ECHOLS "Bettie" HOLDERNESS (1863 - 1950)
SiblingGeorge Washington Holderness MD (1867 - 1945)
SiblingThomas Brooks Holderness (1869 - 1952)
SiblingVirginia Ann "Jennie" Holderness (1872 - 1954)
SiblingWillie Richmond Holderness (1877 - 1963)
SiblingMary Katherine Holderness (1879 - 1908)

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