Macon Telegraph, Georgia
11 April 1920
(Viewed online at GenealogyBank.)
EASTMAN CENTENARIAN DEAD
Ante-Bellum Negress Was Beloved by White People of Dodge County.
EASTMAN, April 10 -- Caroline Holmes a negro woman 105 years old, died at her home here on the premises of Dr. J. D. Harrison on yesterday.
Aunt Caroline was probably the oldest person, either white or colored, in this section, and was the ante-bellum type of negro, now fast disappearing, but dear to the hearts of all Southerners. She was born near Deactur, in DeKalb county, and was carried to Laurens county before the Civil war, where she entered the service of the Herrman family, at that time residing in Dublin. She had been in the employ of that family for over forty-five years and during her old age has been provided with a home by Dr. J. B. Herrman of this city. In her early days, prior to the Civil War, she traveled as a washer-woman with the Jim Robinson's Circus, the predecessor of the well-known present-day John Robinson's Circus. Her funeral held here today was attended by quite a number of white people.
[I re-checked this to be sure - the surnames are typed here as found in the obituary (re: Harrison / Herrman). Posted per this blog's topic, as well as A Friend of Friends.]
