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Children of Jesse and Mary (Holliway or Holloway) Hollingsworth include: Jesse Jr., Cornelius, James, and perhaps John, found int eh various records of Twiggs, Bibb, and other counties in court records and the Federal Census. In the History of Twiggs County, Georgia, (date not supplied), p. 32, a payroll of a detachment of militia on the frontier of Twiggs County dated 9 to 13th of Sep. 1813, lists as privates: James Hollingsworth, John Hollingsworth, James Smith, and others. Smith probably is one of the "children" named in the will of James Smith above. The 1804 Tax Digest for Jefferson County, Georgia, has Jesse Hollingsworth, #21, with 260 acres, land lying on Brushy Creek. James Smith has 250 acres adjoining Hollingsworth. A letter of April 7, 1967 from the Secretary of State, Atlanta, Georgia, Dept. of Archives & History, shows that William and Jessee (Senior) Hollingsworth appear in the Tax Digest for 1826 for Twiggs County, the last entry for Jesse. There is a Mary Hollingsworth turning up in the 1830 digest for Capt. Bostick's District. But the 1830 Census of Twiggs shows a Mary Hollingsworth, 30 to 40 years old, much too young to be Jesse's widow, Mary, nee Holloway. The 1820 Census of Twiggs County is missing! Therefore, we are deprived of gaining any insight on Mary's approximate age - let alone Jesse's. Neither can we learn if she had died prior to 1820. Probably the papers destroyed in 1901 in teh Twiggs Courthouse would have answered many, if not all of our questions. M O R E L A T E R ?? Gasconade County, Missouri Hollandsworth Records On your editor's most recent visit to the Genealogical Department of the L.D.S. Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, (Sept. 18-29) he discovered that most of the "usual records" for Gasconade County, Missouri had been microfilmed and are now ready for research there, or by inter-library loan, at any of the nearly 200 branches world wide. For many years we have waited for this opportunity. In our "cleanout" of the standard type of records, we looked over marriages, births & deaths, deeds and probate records. The microfilming teams do not usually go beyond this list, to the court cases, tax lists and more obscure documents. The reason: Costs! Original papers take months to film. They have to be unwrapped, spread out flat, catalogued and put in order, and then filmed. Much too expensive. Because of this, original papers will some day soon be a thing of the past, tossed out to make room for the current business! Think about it. Special repositories for these original files must be established before it is too late. This Gasconade County, Missouri series will continue until all the notes we took are published. The main discovery here is that William Hollandsworth appears to be the patriarch of both the Clay County, Kentucky, and the Gasconade County, Missouri, families of that surname.

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Children of Jesse and Mary (Holliway or Holloway) Hollingsworth include: Jesse Jr., Cornelius, James, and perhaps John, found int eh various records of Twiggs, Bibb, and other counties in court records and the Federal Census.

In the History of Twiggs County, Georgia, (date not supplied), p. 32, a payroll of a detachment of militia on the frontier of Twiggs County dated 9 to 13th of Sep. 1813, lists as privates: James Hollingsworth, John Hollingsworth, James Smith, and others. Smith probably is one of the "children" named in the will of James Smith above.

The 1804 Tax Digest for Jefferson County, Georgia, has Jesse Hollingsworth, #21, with 260 acres, land lying on Brushy Creek. James Smith has 250 acres adjoining Hollingsworth.

A letter of April 7, 1967 from the Secretary of State, Atlanta, Georgia, Dept. of Archives & History, shows that William and Jessee (Senior) Hollingsworth appear in the Tax Digest for 1826 for Twiggs County, the last entry for Jesse. There is a Mary Hollingsworth turning up in the 1830 digest for Capt. Bostick's District. But the 1830 Census of Twiggs shows a Mary Hollingsworth, 30 to 40 years old, much too young to be Jesse's widow, Mary, nee Holloway. The 1820 Census of Twiggs County is missing! Therefore, we are deprived of gaining any insight on Mary's approximate age - let alone Jesse's. Neither can we learn if she had died prior to 1820. Probably the papers destroyed in 1901 in teh Twiggs Courthouse would have answered many, if not all of our questions.

M O R E L A T E R ??

Gasconade County, Missouri Hollandsworth Records

On your editor's most recent visit to the Genealogical Department of the L.D.S. Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, (Sept. 18-29) he discovered that most of the "usual records" for Gasconade County, Missouri had been microfilmed and are now ready for research there, or by inter-library loan, at any of the nearly 200 branches world wide. For many years we have waited for this opportunity. In our "cleanout" of the standard type of records, we looked over marriages, births & deaths, deeds and probate records. The microfilming teams do not usually go beyond this list, to the court cases, tax lists and more obscure documents. The reason: Costs! Original papers take months to film. They have to be unwrapped, spread out flat, catalogued and put in order, and then filmed. Much too expensive. Because of this, original papers will some day soon be a thing of the past, tossed out to make room for the current business! Think about it. Special repositories for these original files must be established before it is too late.

This Gasconade County, Missouri series will continue until all the notes we took are published. The main discovery here is that William Hollandsworth appears to be the patriarch of both the Clay County, Kentucky, and the Gasconade County, Missouri, families of that surname.

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THE HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER

VOLUME 14, NUMBER 3.