FREDERICK HOLLINGSWORTH FAMILY

THE HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER, VOLUME I., NUMBER 2.

JULY, 1965

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In the last issue we presented the first installment dealing with the personal information about Frederick Hollingsworth. We continue
with a documented summary, and begin a biographical record of the second generation and a series of articles will follow. (For Part one, refer to volume 1, No.1)



GENERATION ONE  FREDERICK¹ HOLLINGSWORTH, (probably son of Samuel & Anne (Earl) 
Hollingsworth, Ballinakill), the immigrant, born 1802/3, Ballinakill, Parish of 
Ballycanew, Co. Wexford, Ireland; died Feb. 2, 1869, Independence township, 
Jasper Co., Iowa, U.S.A., aged about 66 years; supposed buried in "Our Silent City," 
Kellogg, Jasper Co. Iowa, without a marker.  Farmer, Miller, (Soldier?)

MARRIED, Apr. 17, 1836, near Door Village, LaPorte Co., Indiana, ELIZABETH BROWN,
eldest child of Jacob & _______ Brown, natives of New Jersey.  She was born June 20, 1820,
"New Lisbon", Pennsylvania; died Oct. 15, 1892, Kellogg, Iowa, aged 72; buried, with 
a marker, in Our Silent City.

Emigrated from Ireland between June 4, 1823 - Feb. 8, 1835, (perhaps via
Canada across the Great Lakes into Indiana.)  Entered tract of 160 acres, "the
S.E. Quarter, Section 10, Township 42 North; Range 2 East of the 3rd Principal
Meridian," now called Cherry Valley township, but then called Butler Precinct,
Winnebago Co., Illinois, Oct. 11, 1839, patented to him Nov. 10, 1841 (Dixon Land
Dist. Tract Book 3, p. 49) at $1.25 per acre (Total cost $200.00) under the Pre-
Emption act of 1838.  In his application, supported by his father-in-law, Jacob
Brown Sr., and Joseph P. Griggs, founder and first settler of Cherry Valley, Illi.,
he stated that he had actually settled on said tract as of May 28, 1837.  He sold
this tract along with 40 acres he had acquired later, for the sum of Four Thousand
dollars, (Book 38 of Deeds, page 2, Recorder, Rockford) Apr. 8, 1856, to David
S. Penfield, Esq.  On June 2, 1856, he purchased 192.51 acres in Section 28, 
Township 43 North; Range 1 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, on the banks 
of the Kishwaukee river, in New Milford township, (now Rockford City) Winnebago 
Co., Ills. from James & Sylvina Works, for the sum of Four Thousand, Three 
Hundred dollars. (Book 38, ibid, page 85.) This was sold to John Edwards on 
Feb. 16, 1861, and for the price of $3,465.00.  Elizabeth Hollingsworth purchased 
from the same John H. Edwards, and Marie, his wife, of Winnebago Co., Ills., 
the S.W. Quarter of Section 1, Township 81 North, Range 20 West of the 5th 
Principal Meridian, (Independence Twp., Jasper Co., Iowa), 160 acres, for the sum
of $800.00 on January 24, 1861. (Recorded on Mar. 23, 1861, Book 16, page 425, Deeds, Newton,
Iowa, Court House.)  This she sold after Frederick's death, to sons Samuel & Edward
Hollingsworth, & C.B. Mendenhall, & Levina W. Bond, for the sum of over $1500.00, in 
1869. (Books 54, pp. 197, 269, 270, 512, & 60, page 462, ibid.) The family moved to Iowa
on Nov. 3, 1864.

ISSUE:	1. EDWARD EARL², b. June 26, 1838. Continued below.
	2. JACOB², b. June 5, 1842; d. July 23, 1917. Married twice. 6ch. (#)
	3. SAMUEL², b. Oct. 12, 1845; d. Nov. 3, 1917. 7 children. (#)
 	4. JOHN², b. Sept. 28, 1850, Cherry Valley Twp., Winnebago Co., Illinoise;
                             d. Aug. 28, 1856, New Milford Twp., Ibid, aged 5 years, 11 months;
                             burried New Milford Cemetery with a marble upright slab, marker.
        5. WILLIAM WALLACE², b. Feb. 19, 1858; d. March 25, 1912. 1 child. (#)
        (#) To be continued later.

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