He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education at the University of 
Southern Mississippi in 1948, Master of Arts in School Administration 
in 1950. He served in the Navy and the Marines from 1943 through 1946.
He began his teaching career at Lexie Hight in Walthall County in 1946.
In 1959 he was named principal of Lake High School and held that post 
until election as county superintendent in 1967. He also has held other 
posts and was a Kiwanis Club member at Forest, chairman of Scott County
Chapter, American Cancer Society, Honorary Chapter Farmer of the Morton
Future Farmers of America, and is a member of the American Association 
of School Superintendents and American Legion Post 9. He is a Mason and 
a Shriner, and a member of the First Baptist Church of Lake. His wife 
is the former Fannie Mae McDonald. They have a son and daughter.(Photo.)
(Harold Graham, donor.) In another edition of the same paper, an 
editorial "Commitment" deals more with Albert F. Hollingsworth's fruitful
career. A special election was to be held in November, 1986, to provide 
a permanent successor until the General elections of 1987.

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Grayson County, White Mound Cemetery Inscriptions Texas.
Correspondent Eileen Gray sent us a notice she founcd in the Genealolgical
Helper for May-June 1989, spotlighting new books, page 200 col 1.
White Mound Cemetery Inscriptions (1988) comp. by Donna Nell Hill and 
Burles Hall Allen. Order from Historical Reflections, P.O. Box 178, 
Tom Bean, Texas 75489. Soft cover, spiral bound, 8 1/2 x 11, 31 pages,
$3.75 plus $1.15 postage. The cemetery was started in 1856 by John 
Newton "Jim" Hollingsworth and Dick Flitch, who donated the land. 
Indexed. The Hollingsworth portions were published here many years ago.

    (1) Samuel Hollingsworth to Helen Stribling, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., 
on Nov. 17, 1852 at St Ann's P.E. Church, Brooklyn, with John Corbit 
and Emma Stribling, witnesses. LDS FILM F 2714.
    (2) Married - April 23rd (1862) in Gorey Church by the Rev. G. W.
Rooke, A.M., Mr. Warren Samuel Wright, of Athy, (Co. Kildare) to 
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Peter Hollingsworth, Gorey. From 
Gorey Correspondent, Co Wexford, Ireland, Sat Apr 26, 1862 microfilm
belonging to your editor, find of 1971. Hollingsworth was a Methodist lay
preacher in Gorey, but the marriage was in the (then) Established Church 
of England and Ireland. Peter Roe Hollingsworth is a distant cousin of 
your editor. (See letter of Frederic Attwood next issue.)
    (3) Local Los Angeles Number 7521 1934, Co. Recorder. Harry S. Keith,
26, resident of Inglewood, CA, 11029 Eucalyptus Avenue, born in Penna.,
white, male, son of Elias Keith and Emma Johns, both Penna., first 
marriage. Electrician at Biltmore Hotel. Berneice Victoria Randall,
age 21, of 3250 McKinley Avenue, Lennox, Ca., born Oklahoma, white,
female, single, daughter of Bert. Randall, born Oklahoma, and Minnie 
Quissenberry, born Nebraska. Newspaper reporter for Lennox Tribune.
Married 10 June 1934 by Clarence E. Dunn, minister, 271 S. New Hampshire
Avenue, Los Angeles. Witnesses: C1arence A. Honeywell, l0715 Maple Ave., 
Inglewood, and Eleanor Hollingsworth, Los Angeles. License issued 10 
June. Minister was of United Church of Christ of America.
(See above pages 62-64 for more details.)