Hollingsworth and his wife Florence (Jones), who were also the parents of
our second cousin, Mrs. Rachel Higginbotham of Yucaipa, CA.
    Card parties were frequent in those days, and had been a nice habit 
since Bert moved to McKinley Avenue (now 109th Street) prior to 1921, 
the year he erected his "country grocery store." He was also a deputy 
marshal for his area, and remembered the famous Ku Klux Klan debacle, 
which shamed Inglewood in the early twenties. On Apr 22, 1922, the local 
Klansmen raided the home of a Mexican named Fidel Elduayen at Pine and 
Freeman Avenues - not far from your editor's home. The law arrived, and a 
shootout ensued in which one Klansman was shot to death. Constable Frank 
Woerner had fired the fatal shots. When the Klan hood had been removed 
from the dead man, he turned out to be Day Constable M.B. Mosher! 
(Inglewood Community Book (1949), p. 61.)
Oddly, none of the Inglewood News for that period survives. I wonder why?
The exact story was told to me by Bert's mother, my Grandmother, Mary 
Agnes (McGovern) Hollingsworth, long before I researched it. If Albert A.
Hollingsworth was among the lawmen at the raid that night, I have no 
information about that. This area did not become part of Inglewood until 
the 1950s. Mosher's widow was an object of both admiration and pity, 
depending on whether you were Klan or anti-Klan of Inglewood. In one 
issue of the News is a boast that Inglewood had no Negroes! In the late 
1970s it was nearly 90% black. Uncle Bert didn't live to see it. The 
card parties had ended for him in a divorce from Minnie, she taking over 
the grocery, and he moving back with his mother. Your editor thereby 
became heir to all his personal effects after she died on 20 Dec 1948.

    South Carolina Colonial Deeds, 1768-1786, pp. 400-401. 26 Feb 1771.
Abraham Hollingsworth of the Parish of St. Mark, Province of South 
Carolina, planter, to James Hawkins, planter, of same place, for L150 
South Carolina Currency. 145 acres in the county of Mecklenburg on the 
South Side of Broad River on both sides of Cane Creek, granted to 
Abraham Hollingsworth 11 Aug 1763.
                                          Abrm Hollinsworth  (SL)
Witnesses: Elias Hollingsworth, JP.       Emey Hollingsworth (SL)
           John Hawkins (Jurat)
           Isaac Freiger (?) I his mark
Recorded in April Term 1771.
NOTE: This land later fell into South Carolina, but at the time of
this sale it was in North Carolina. This is from Brent Holcomb, Tryon-
Lincoln Deeds, etc., North Carolina, p. 30. The land may be the same
tract of 145 acres in Mecklenburg County on SS Broad River and both sides
of Cane Creek "below his own land," which Arthur Dobbs, the Royal 
Governor of North Carolina, granted to Abraham Hollinsworth on 15 Feb 
1764, as per Patent Book 17, North Carolina, p. 40. The conflict in 
dates may be explained that a survey date and a patent date are both 
involved here. This Abraham was the son of Joseph and Martha (Houghton) 
Hollingsworth, mentioned above on page 58. His wife was Amey, many times 
styled "Emme" in records, maiden surname unknown. If anyone has other 
data on Abraham which is not already in Hollingsworth Register, please 
advise.