Caroline Flucker Knox
(1791–1851)
BIRTH
1791
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NAME
Caroline Flucker Knox
DEATH
1851
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FAMILY
MOTHER
Lucy Flucker Knox
(1756-1824)
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Caroline Flucker Knox (1791–1851) was a daughter of Henry Knox and Lucy Flucker and one of their few children to reach adulthood. She married James Swan and, after his death, Maine lawyer and senator John Holmes. Surviving family letters cover Holmes’s courtship and their social life in Alfred and Washington. A March 1852 letter from her sister Lucy Knox Thatcher recalls Caroline’s recent death. The correspondence helps distinguish her from her mother and elder sister.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Caroline Flucker Knox Swan Holmes’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Caroline Flucker Knox Swan Holmes is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Caroline Flucker Knox Swan Holmes died in 1851. Caroline Flucker Knox was a daughter of Henry Knox and Lucy Flucker and one of their few children to reach adulthood. She married James Swan and, after his death, Maine lawyer and senator John Holmes. Surviving family letters cover Holmes’s courtship and their social life in Alfred and Washington. A March 1852 letter from her sister Lucy Knox Thatcher recalls Caroline’s recent death. The correspondence helps distinguish her from her mother and elder sister. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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