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Nimrod Brooks Hollingsworth

BAKER, BROOKS, BROWN, HIATT, HOLLINGSWORTH, TILLSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 8/13/2004 at 14:05:40

“History of Madison County Iowa and Its People”
Herman A. Mueller, Supervising Editor
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1915

N. B. Hollingsworth, deceased, was the owner of about five hundred acres of excellent land in Madison county. He was born in Grant county, Indiana, on the 9th of March, 1840, a son of James and Mary (Brooks) Hollingsworth. The father was a native of North Carolina and the mother of Preble county, Ohio. They removed to this county, where both passed away.

N. B. Hollingsworth was eighteen years of age when he came to this county and purchased a forty-acre claim near the old town of Peru in Walnut, township, entered his land and resided there for two years. He then began the improvement of forty acres on section 34, Scott township, which his wife had inherited from her father. He proved unusually successful as an agriculturist and gradually added to his holdings until he became the owner of about five hundred acres of land, most of which was situated in Walnut township. He used the latest machinery in his work, was alert and energetic and continued to operate his farm until two years before his death.

Mr. Hollingsworth was married on Christmas Day, 1862, to Miss Eveline Hiatt, a native of Grant county, Indiana, born November 5, 1840. Her father, Aaron Hiatt, was a native of Preble county, Ohio, but when but a boy was taken to Grant county, Indiana, where in early manhood he was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda Roberts, a native of Grant county. She passed away in that county. Mr. Hiatt, who later married Sarah Tillson of Darke county, Ohio, came to Madison county in 1857 and became the owner of two hundred and sixty acres in Walnut township. He died in Colorado. The children of his first marriage were: Mrs. Mary A. Brown, of the state of Washington; Mrs. N. B. Hollingsworth; Sylvanus, who died in the Civil war; Elam, a veteran of the Civil war, who is now living in Oklahoma; and Stephen, who enlisted in the Union army when a boy of sixteen and is a resident of Holt county, Nebraska. The five children of the father's second marriage were as follows: one who died in infancy; Nancy Alice, who died in childhood; Molancy, now Mrs. Baker; Arthur W., of Peru, Iowa, who formerly conducted a hotel there; and Leslie P., of Payette, Idaho. To Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth were born four children : Calvin Sherman and Myra, who died in childhood; Darius; and D. E., a farmer of Scott township.

Mr. Hollingsworth was a republican and served acceptably for one term as county supervisor. He was one of the leading members of the Christian church in his locality. He passed away on the 22d of July, 1914, and is survived by his widow, who resides on the old home place on section 34, Scott township. Their son Darius was born upon the homestead and received his education in the common schools of Winterset and at Le Grand, Iowa. He taught school for a time but now cultivates a fine farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres in Walnut township which he owns. It is a part of the farm on which his grandfather Hiatt settled in 1851.

There was much sincere grief at the death of Mr. Hollingsworth as he had resided in this county for many years and his life had resulted in much good to his community. He was not only scrupulously honest in all the relations of life but was a man of public spirit and cooperated heartily in movements that promote the general welfare. As a farmer he was very successful and aided not a little in the agricultural development of his county.


 

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