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OBITUARY

    (l) ATTENTION! Researcher Colleen Phillips, 0f Cincinnati, Ohio, has 
located the obituary of JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH of Ballinakill, Co. Wexford, 
Ireland, in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Wednesday, Jan 9, 1878, p. 8.
There is no need here to repeat it. See HR Dec 1987, p. 60, for the one 
from the Enquirer and Mar 1988 p. 15 item 4, for the shorter one 
from the Gorey Correspondent (and Arklow Standard). This
completes a research drive begun half a lifetime ago, which should have 
been accomplished almost at once, but for the &%$#*@.........! (You get 
the picture.) Some very choice expletives here deleted.

    (2) George H. Hollingsworth, Sr. - Trussville, Ala - 1988.
Funeral for George H. Hollingsworth, Sr., 84, Trussville, who died
yesterday, will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow, Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, 
burial Jefferson Memorial Gardens East.  Employee Stockham Valves and 
Fittings 44 years, member Masons, Order of Eastern Star, First Baptist 
Church, Trussville. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Ella R. Hollingsworth; two sons,
Charles L. Hollingsworth, Huffman, George H. Hollingsworth Jr., 
Trussville; 3 daughters, Mrs. Mary Madaris, Mrs. Ella Chandler, both 
Trussville, Mrs. Martha Dorough, Center Point; 2 brothers, A.B. 
Hollingsworth, Mobile, A. J. Hollingsworth, Center Point.
(Birmingham News, l988, received 25 May from Cousin June Farrell.)

    (3) Ruby Couch Hollingsworth, Memphis, Tennessee-1988.
MEMPHIS - Ruby Couch Hollingsworth, 92, died Friday (Feb 5, l988-Ed) 
at St. Francis Nursing Home in Memphis. She was a retired homemaker 
and a Methodist. Services were at 2 p.m. in Enon Primitive Baptist 
Church with the Rev. Morris Hollinsgworth (sic) and the Rev. Al Gaspard 
officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.  Survivors include 
5 sons, Thomas Couch Hollingsworth, Wayne Hollingsworth, Dewayne 
Hollingsworth and Ronold (sic) Hollingsworth all of Memphis, and James 
Robert "Killer" Hollingsworth of Houston; one brother, Travis Couch of
Houston; ll grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-
grandchildren. (!) (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, 
Mississippi, Mon. 8 Feb 1988, p. 10-A, kindly submitted by Neoia 
Cleveland, longtime subscriber.)

    (4) Miss Annie Carter Hollingsworth, Woodstook, Va. - 1933.
FINAL SUMMONS COMES TO ONE OF AN OLD FAMILY. Funeral Rites Held At
Woodstock for Miss Annie Hollingsworth. The funeral of the late Miss
Annie Carter Hollingsworth, member of one of the oldest families of
Winchester, whose death occurred last Thursday night (April 20th? 1933-Ed.)
at her home at Woodstock, following a stroke of apoplexy, took place 
from Emmanuel Episcopal Church, that town, Saturday afternoon.  Services 
were conducted by the rector, the Rev. Francis A.Brown, with interment 
in Massanutten Cemetery.
    She was born in 1854 at "The Hermitage," the Hollingsworth home 
near Winchester.  When just a child she with her parents, the late 
Isaac M. Hollingsworth and Mary Pritcard (sic) Hollingsworth, went to 
Woodstock to live. Later she moved with her family to a place known as 
"Riverside," 1ocated east of Woodstock where they conducted a fashionable
resort for many years.  With her sister, Miss Lucy Hollingsworth, she 
managed a tourist home on Spring street during recent years.
    Early in life she became a member of the Episcopal Church. At the 
time of her death she belonged to Emanuel (sic) Episcopal Church of 
Woodstock of which her father was vestryman for many years previous
to his death.  Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. John H. Grabill and Miss 
Lucy Hollingsworth, both of Woodstock; 3 brothers, Alfred Reese 
Hollingsworth, Woodstock, and Stephen P. and Edward Hollingsworth, of


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