October 16, 1979 Burnsville Sun reports: Ella Holman, 96 died August 29, 1979 at her home...Internment in Lebanon Township Cemetery. She as born September 5, 1882 in Lebanon Township to Mr. and Mrs. William Scott who settled in Lebanon in 1856. Her maternal grandfather was Captain Lewis Judd, whose ancestery goes back to the 1632 settlers of Hartford Conn...
After his service as a captain during the Civil War, Judd moved to Hastings, and then homesteaded on Crystal Lake where he built the turn of the century Judd Hotel. Ella and Herman Holman were married in 1905 and continued to operate the business as Holman's resort..
