sentences:  In contrast, his stepfather Edgar was an alcoholic who would come home inebriated, stumble about the house and even vomit on the children.As a child, Holmes enjoyed a reprieve from his turbulent home life when he visited his maternal grandparents, John W. and Bessie (née Gillenwater) Barton.Mary divorced Edgar when Holmes was a toddler and moved with her children to Columbus, where they lived in a low-income apartment project with a friend of Mary's and her own two children.