Edinburg. Another brother was the late Dr. C. M. Hollingsworth, who
for years a well-known Harrisonburg physician (sic). She has a large
number of relatives in Woodstock and Frederick county who survive her.
Miss Hollingsworth was a descendant of Abraham Hollingsworth, who
owned an immense estate in the suburbs of Winchester, and who was among
the first settlers in this section of Virginia. Local historians
record that he was killed on his estate by a buffalo when the now almost
extinct animal roamed the Shenandoa Valley long before the Revolution.
(From a Winchester paper, Apr 24, 1933 (Mon) sent to us by Correspondent
Schuyler Hollingsworth, Chestnut Holl, Mass, found by him in a copy of
Stewart!s book he purchased recently. You will note our emphasis above,
where the story of the death by bison charge is in connection with
Abraham3 Hollingsworth, not his father, Thomas, who definitely was
not killed "in 1733" in Virginia, since he died in New Castle Co.,
Delaware, in 1727. New information?)
(5)William Bryant Hollingsworth - Gordo, Alabama - 1988.
William Bryant Hollingsworth, long time subscriber to H.R. and an able
historian and genealogist, died Saturday, 23 April 1988 at the Druid
City Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, aged 71 years, 6 months and 1 day.
He was born on Sun. 22 Oct 1916, son of William (Willie) Marshall
Hol1ingsworth and wife Ollie V. Walker. His lineage, as he worked it
out, painstakingly over many years, is Wm. B.10; Wm. M.9; Wm. Jesse8;
Israel7; John6; Jesse5; Zebulon4; Stephen3; Henry2; Valentine1; HenryA
Hollinworth of Ballyvickcrannell, Parish of Seagoe, Co Armagh, Ireland.
His first letter to your editor was Oct. 20, 1969, and we have all his
letters. His sister, Lucille House, who had the sad duty to notify us of
William's passing, also had previously written to us on Aug 6, 1968,
when she was proprietor of Ma'Cille's Museum of Miscellanea at Route
Four, Gordo, Alabama. She had been given our address by Everett B.
Hollingsworth, then of New Mexico. And so it goes. Mr Hollingsworth
produced, it the early 1970s, his "Hollingsworth Family of Pickens
County, Alabama," 18 pages of typescript, containing some of our data,
for which we were very appreciative, indeed. We also published a picture
of Israel and Diana (Story) Hollingsworth, a copy of which he sent to us.
Several poignant and interesting Civil War letters are to be found in HR,
also thanks to W.B.H.
He was a fine looking man, in youth and older age, as his picture
published here, and another (not sharp enough, unfortunatly, for our
format) taken many years ago, testify. (Back Cover Gallery.)
Mrs House has herself published Hollingsworth-Walker (The Joining
Together of Two families), dedicated to William's memory. Her address:
Gordo, AL 35466.
We send our condolences to his wife, Mildred (Lowe) Hollingsworth.
They married 20 July 1940; on that day your editor celebrated his 9th
birthday and this is his 57th as this piece is being typed.