Those surviving are Mr. Hollingsworth's wife, the former Nella G. Glenn;
daughters Marguerite, wife of Francis Houghton of Claymount, Del.; Jacqulyn,
wife of Leroy Burnett of Fairville; one son, Abner Hollingsworth Jr., of West
Chester RD 4; one sister Mrs. Fred Jackson of Elsmere, Del.; brothers Wilson
Hollingsworth of Brandywine Hundred; Maris Hollingsworth of Centerville;
Henry Hollingsworth and Levi Hollingsworth of Centerville, and five
grandchildren. - Relatives and friends ... are invited to attend the funeral
services at the Worrall Funeral Home, Kennett Square, on Tuesday, April 5, at
2 P.M. Interment Old Kennett Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home
Monday evening after 7 o'clock.
(Daily Local News, Apr 4, 1955.)
At her home in New Garden township (Chester County, Penna. - Ed.)
Tuesday morning, Anna L. wife of the late Maris M. Hollingsworth,
died. She had been in poor health for some time. She was 79.
Mrs. Hollingsworth was born near Doe Run, a daughter of the late Baker
and Susan Leonard. She was graduated from Darlington Seminary, then located
at Ercildoun, and taught school for some years in this county in New
Garden township and elsewhere. Her husband, whose death occured last
September, was a former member of the Legislature from Chester County.
She is survived by two children, Laura, wife of Josiah H. Hagerty, at home,
and James H. Hollingsworth, Newark, Delaware. There are three grandchildren.
A brother, Frank T. Leonard, Unionville, also survives.
Mrs. Hollingsworth was a member of the New Garden Friends' Meeting and of
the West Grove Farmers' Club. She was highly esteemed in the community.
(The Oxford Press, July 13, 1938.)
Mrs. Bertha L. Hollingsworth, 74, of 15 Mt. Airy Drive, Centerville, Del.,
wife of Everett Levi Hollingsworth, died Monday night at Riverside Hospital,
Wilmington, after a long illness. Mrs. Hollingsworth was a member of Emmanuel
Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the Centerville Home Demonstration Club.
She is survived by her husband; three sons, Irvin J., of Centerville, Henry L.,
of Findlay, Ohio, and Pierce of Wayland, Mass; a daughter, Mrs. George N.
Ford, Marshallton; two brothers, William R. Pierce, Mesohoppen, Pa., and
Frank C. Pierce, Wilmington; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the McCrery Memorial Funeral
Home, 3924 Concord Pike, Talleyville, where friends may call Thursday night.
Interment will be in Longwood Cemetery. The family requests that flowers be
omitted. (From Kennett News & Advertiser, Dec. 16, 1965. This and most of
the above are from the files of Chester County Historical Society's clippings,
sent to us by John V. Hollingsworth, Chadd's Ford, Pa.)
A. M. Hollingsworth, Former Atlantian, Dies in Charlotte. A. M.