Hollingsworth, George M.

HOLLINGSWORTH, CORRELL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/5/2013 at 07:13:29

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

HOLLINGSWORTH, GEORGE M.—Deep River Twp—pg 733. Section 7, P.O. Deep River. His father (Abner) was born in Pennsylvania in 1809; is a farmer in Morrow county, Ohio, where he settled in 1839. Here George was born March 29, 1840, and educated. He remained there until October 2, 1862, when he was drafted and placed in company F, of the Forty-third Ohio, receiving his discharge August 18, 1863. The following month he emigrated from his native place to Iowa, spending the first winter with his brother-in-law, and the next spring he rented a farm south of Dresden from George Cox, where he remained until the following December. He then returned to Ohio, where he remained until June, 1865, when he drove a team to this county again, after traveling twenty-one days. He then sold his team and 80 acres of unimproved prairie he had bought before leaving, and purchased 40 acres of his present place, to which he moved March 1, 1866. Mr. H. married April 27, 1867, Miss Frances Correll, of Deep River township, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1840. Their children are: Mary E. (born February 12, 1868), William A. (born March 31, 1869), Ettie L. (born December 18, 1870), Lloyd M. (born July 17, 1873), George Roy and Rolla Francis (twins, born May 11, 1877). Mr. H. owns 160 acres of well improved land.