that "there is a hazy tradition that they (the Hollingsworths before 
Frederick) were Catholics..." Our subsequent research - not to mention 
family stories told long before your editor was a gleam - tells us that 
nothing could ever be more light-years from the truth than that state-
ment.) Or perhaps she felt that she had contributed as much as she could
and other things had claimed her interest.
    Her help was of immense value.  Never a day goes by if we are think-
ing about our own Hollingsworth research, that we do not think of Gladys 
H. Smith and her loving contributions to our knowledge. Unfortunately, re-
cent letters from her step-son's wife, Mrs. Norman L. Smith, indicate 
that neither the dictionary nor the collection of photographs are to be 
found among the material Gladys left behind. It is doubly a miracle, then,
that all of them were copied, and the data in the book has been published
here and at least one of the photos as well (HR Apr 1965, p. 40 et seq.;
Sept., 1972 facing page 92; Picture gallery and pp. 3-4, March 1984; and 
gallery, June, 1987, picture of person believed to be Edward Earl Hol-
lingsworth (1838-1902) Frederick's eldest son, editor's great-grandfather,
from Gladys's picture collection.)
    Gladys Hollingsworth's remains were cremated and interred in Glen-
dale Cemetery, Okemos, Michigan. (Mrs. Norman L. Smith is to be thanked 
for the death and burial information.  She reported that Gladys suffered 
very little, though her illness lasted some time, and she died in her own
home under the care of her step-granddaughter, an intensive care R.N. We 
published pictures of Gladys and Evert Smith in our gallery in HR June, 
1988.)

    Mr Scott E. Bosecker of Fairburn, Georgia, came up to your editor in 
the library a few weeks back. He said he was a Hollingsworth descendant.
He is a cousin of former correspondent Jeanne Coan, of Bruceville Ind.,
who is now in a convalescent home, unable to continue any more of her 
wonderful genealogical work which she shared with HR in the 1960s. Mr 
Bosecker subsequently sent us a family record he located in Jeanne's col-
lections which are now in the Lewis Historical Library located on the cam-
pus of the Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana.  At first the little
pamphlet was misfiled, but is now in the Coan-Hollingsworth collection. 
It is a hand-written record of the family of Thomas Hollingsworth (1766-
1841) and wife Mary Ann Sartor (1769-1841) . Thomas5; Abraham4; Joseph3;
Thomas2; Valentine1; Henry HollinworthA). As Mr Bosecker advises, it is 
a later record than the events recorded, but the death records for Thomas
and "Ann" (Mary is left off-Ed.) are contemporary.  The record appears to
be written onto several blank pages in a small book, the printed pages 
having long since been discarded, except the title page: The Discipline 
of the Society of Friends, of Ohio Yearly Meeting: printed by Direction
of the Meeting: held at Mountpleasant, in the year 1819. Printed by Elisha
Bates, Mountpleasant, Ohio.
    We have arbitrarily arranged the entries, most of which are written
in one hand:
    (1) Thomas Hollingsworth Borne the 30 of November in the year of our
Lord  --- 1766.
    (2) Anna his wife was Borne the September the 8 Day in the year of 
our Lord 1769.
    (3) and was Married in the year of our Lord 1790 June the 17 Day--

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