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editor's grandfather's uncle. (See page 14 of the March issue.)
    (2) Addy (Vandyke) Hollingsworth, Green Bay, Wis. - 1928.
MRS. HOLLINGSWORTH VICTIM OF STROKE.  WELL KNOWN GREEN BAY WOMAN PASS-
ED AWAY WEDNESDAY.
    Mrs. Addy F. Hollingsworth, widow of the late Dr. J. S.  Hollings-
worth, passed away at her home, 343 South Roosevelt Street, Wednesday 
night.  Her death was due to a paralytic stroke.  She had been confined 
to her home for the past five years but death came unexpectedly. 
    Mrs. Hollingsworth has lived in Green Bay continuously for 57 
years, coming from Iowa.  She was born in Brandon, Vermont, 81 years 
ago*.  A charter member of the Women's Relief Corps she is the last 
of the organizing members of that lodge which was created here in 
1882.  Surviving her are a son and daughter, Mrs. Olive Wallace and W.
R. Hollingsworth both of Green Bay.  Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Findeisen And Greiser's cbapel
with the Reverend Adolph Baldon and the Women's Relief Corps in charge.
Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. (Green Bay Press-Gazette, Thu
Nov 22, 1928 typed from the hard bound books by staff at Kellogg Pub-
lic Library.)
*Brandon, Vermont is apparently incorrect.  Editor's later research, 
after receiving this in 1962, showed John Vandyke and family, Addy's 
folks, lived at other locations, including New York and New Hampshire. 
The family bible record shows Addy was born Mar 6, 1844 and, hence, was 
84 years old.  Her parents were John and Hannah (Johnson) Vandyke.
Both died within a month of each other in the autumn of 1858.  Thus,
Addy was orphaned and how she got out to Jasper County, Iowa, in time 
to meet Sam Hollingsworth is still not known.  Her right name was Fid-
elia Addy Vandyke, but in later life she changed it around. Samuel 
was said to have taken his little deceased brother's name (John) and 
added it to his own as a sort of memorial to him.  But as a business-
man in Green Bay, the "J.S." sounded more businesslike.  He packed a 
.45 in his medicine wagon! He also used to go aboard "orphan cars" 
on trains and take a poor, dirty child home and raise it as his own. 
The late Miss Margaret Olsen of Bellingham, Washington, said that the 
couple had thus raised or partially raised, at least eleven such 
children.  The two survivors, William and Olive were not their own. 
All their own children died young without issue.
     
    (3)Elwanda B. Hollingsworth, Kennett Square, Pa - 1989. 
     Elwanda B. Hollingsworth, 67, of Kennett Square, died Monday in
the Southern Chester County Medical Center, West Grove, following a 
stroke.  She was the wife of Walter C. Hollingsworth.  Born in Salts-
ville, Va., she was a daughter of the late Franklin and Artie Stike 
Blevins.  She lived in Kennett Square most of her life, moving from 
Virginia at the age of 6. Mrs. Hollingsworth retired in 1984 after 
owning and operating a day care center for over 29 years in Kennett 
Square.  She was also a LPN and was a private duty nurse in many area 
residences over the years.
    She was a member of Kingdom Hall, Chatham, an active member of
the Kennett Area Senior Center, a member and past president of the 
Professional Business Women of West Grove and a member of the New 
Century Club of Kennett Square.
    In addition to her husband she is survived by four sons, Charles 
D. of Albuquerque, N.M., George W. of Philadelphia, Gerald R. of 
Reeds Spring, Mo. and Merrill A. of Avondale: two daughters, Dorothy

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