-58- The Hollingsworth Twins...(continued)

First Grave: 1852.

William Smith Hollingsworth, son of Isaac Hollingsworth, twin brother of Mary Hollingsworth Riser, b 25 Feb (sic) 1806 South Carolina, d 13 June 1852.

Mr Shockley says there are many descendants of William Smith Hollingsworth listed on pp. 100 and 101.

But what puzzles us is all of that information given about those two people. HR is willing to bet (and it would be a surer bet than one on the Raiders in the Super Bowl this time) that the additional data there is either (1) Mrs. Landin's interpolations from other sources, or (2) that the stones are very recent erections, certainly not the originals. Whatever the story, there are interesting clues here.

Mr Shockley is also a descendant of Isaac Hollingsworth and his newly re-discovered wife Dorcas, and a subscriber and donor to the "Mystery Sam" project.

From Mother a Tear

A document like this one should also bring a tear to the eyes of many of our readers as it did to those of your editor. Cousin June Farrell of Homewood, Alabama, fell heir to her mother's papers when she (Madge Hollingsworth Sladek) and her husband were killed in a car accident in 1964. (See HR Dec 1980, page 74.) Mrs Sladek had sent your editor the poignant record of the 5 Frederick Hollingsworth Elizabeth Brown sons, Edward E., Jacob, Samuel, John and William Wallace, for copying, in 1960. Affixed to the single piece of stationery are five beautifully braded loops of hair, one for each boy, probably taken as these children got their first haircuts, or at least during their preteen days. John, the 4th son, died Aug 28, 1856, so this dates his loop at least before that. (See a facsimile of this in Number One, Apr. 1965, page 82-A.) But Mrs Sladek left to her daughter other items, including this poem, which she overlooked. Mrs. Farrell sent it to us.

Elizabeth (Brown) Hollingsworth was just 36 when she wrote this touching piece of verse. It is on a page of stationery 5 1/2 by 7 inches. It has 16 lines, 4 stanzas. On the reverse this is written:

"Riton (written) By Elizabeth Hollingsworth
After the deth of her little Boy
John Hollingsworth."

Some math scribblings are on this side of the page, upside down, not in Elizabeth's, but in a hand probably of a member of the family. The poem is clearly written, in Elizabeth's good handwriting. Her ability with spelling and the use of capital letters is better than some ancestors we know.

John Hollingsworth was born 28 Sep 1850 and was just 5 years and

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