Our cousin, Gladys H. Smith died Mon 12 May 1986, at Lansing, Michigan, at
the age of 87 years 6 months, 8 days.  She was born 4 Nov 1898 at Kellogg,
Jasper County, Iowa, only child of William Wallace Hollingsworth (1858-
1912) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stolte (1863-1932), and granddaugh-
ter of our immigrant ancestor, Frederick Hollingsworth (1802-1869) and 
his wife Elizabeth Brown (l820-1892).  She was the last living grandchild
of Frederick Hollingsworth, and the youngest as well.  She was raised in 
Kellogg and Newton, Iowa, where her father owned partnerships in a music
store chain in both towns, and in a drugstore.  He was also a piano tuner,
baritone soloist, violinist, cornetist and at one time leader of the Kel-
logg Brass Band.  Due to Gladys's illness in childhood, the family gave up
all of that to move out to San Diego, California.  That was 1907. But Wal-
lace had an accident, which brought on tuberculosis, from which he died at
age 54.  His body was returned to Kellogg where he was laid to rest beside
his mother in the Our Silent City cemetery.  His widow chose to remain in
San Diego where she was herself in business.  Gladys reimained as well, un-
ti11 her own marriage.
    Gladys was also a proficient musician, and became the regular organ 
recitalist at the Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park, San Diego, from 1927 to
1932 when her mother died.  Although no reader of HR would recall her work
there may indeed be many in the city by the sea who well remember her
concerts.  Those were the good old days when nice music was a regular diet
in public parks, when no "officials" (dirty little bureaucrats) would
squawk about, "attendance figures," or "budget problems." She was also an
avid reader of good literature and her letters are a joy to read.
    While living in California, she met Lieutenant Commander Evert Owen 
Smith, a widower, son of Joseph and Eliza (McWright) Smith, natives of 
Louisiana and Georgia, respectively.  He was born 3 Aug 1886, at Forest 
Hill, Rapides Parish, LA. and died 3 Dec 1964, in Michigan.  Gladys and 
her naval officer married 1 Sept 1934, at San Diego. Shortly thereafter 
they moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Due to Evert's illness, the fam-
ily went to Lansing, Michigan, to be near his son, Dr. Norman L. Smith. Af-
ter her husband's death, Gladys lived for a time with her step-son, and
remained in the Lansing area thereafter.
    Your editor contacted her through a cousin, Merle Auten, of Arcadia, 
Calif., who had known Gladys back in Iowa. We first had seen her name in
letters from Grand Aunt Anna (Hollingsworth) Belden, dated in the 1950s,
when Anna was trying to write the family history. In less than a year, 
early in 1960, Gladys was quick and kind in lending us her collection of 
old family photographs which belonged to her parents. Some of these are 
still unidentified, and will probably be so until the General Resurrection.
    In 1961 Gladys found and sent to us on loan, Frederick Hollingsworth's
1828 dictionary which listed four of his five sons' births, in his own
hand, as well as a pencilled note by another: "F. Hollingsworth, Wexford,
Ireland," which confirmed our already on-going research as correct.
Unfortunately, we left off correspondence in 1966, after we had sent
her several issues of HR. If we published anything offensive to her we do
not know. It never occurred to us until later that she may have been un-
aware of the "Orange-ism" in her lineage, which HR so vehemently expostul-
ated upon, issue after issue. (In her first letter, 11 July 1960, she said

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