1. Thomas was Private in the Revolutionary War.
2. Bobby R. Huggins book gives date and place of death as 26 May 1836, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, Georgia.
3. Probate left 640 acres to his heirs.
4. Thomas was a Justice of the Peach in Franklin County and he married his brother Benjamin & Joicey Jones.
1. Other source says James died in Georgia...
2. His Will was dated 2 Jul 1822.
1. Benjamin was a Justice of the Peace in Franklin County.
2. Benjamin's Will [proven in Calhoun County, Alabama, 7 Sep 1844] was written at his home in Walnut Springs, Alabama, just prior to going on a trip, 1 May 1841. His estate was not divided until after his wife's death in Rusk County, Texas, in 1858. [Just a personal thought from this writer....the Will was very well thought out] The distribution was quite lengthy.
3. Benjamin was a slave holder...10 in 1840, Benton County, Alabama. Inventory filed in January 1859 listed the following slaves: Henry, age 28, $1,500.00
Joe, age 24, $1,200.00
Caroline, age 25, $1,000.00
Harriett, age 22, $1,000.00
Hugh, age 5, $1,000.00----son of Caroline
Dilley, crippled, No value
1. Joicey's marker is about 5' high and reads:
"Sacred to the Memory of Joicey Hollingsworth"
Born Feb. 14, 1791 Died Aug. 6, 1858
"Friend after friend departs
Who has not lost a friend
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end
Were this frail world our final rest
Living or dying none were blest."
1. 1850 Rusk Co, Texas HH #78-78.
2. Occupation: Lawyer
3. Benjamin was a partner with Lynn T. "Tol" Barret in producing the first oil well in Oil Springs, Nacogdoches, Texas. Oil Springs is on Farm Road 226 thirteen miles East of Nacogdoches in Southeastern Nacogdoches County. Indians used oil seepage in the area for Medicinal purposes. As early as 1790 Spanish and Anglo settlers learned the Indians' use of the oil, and also applied it to their animals as a salve and used it to grease their axles and wheels.
In late 1859, Lyne Taliaferro Barret, perhaps inspired by Edwin Drake's 1859 discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, leased land at Oil Springs and began to drill.
On December 21, 1865, Barret, of Melrose, along with partners Benjamin P. Hollingsworth, Charles A. Hamilton, John T. Flint, and John B. Earle organized the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company. Three contracts had alread been made for the benefit of the company, including another one with Skollern heirs on October 9, 1865. Drilling began during the summer of 1866 and resulted in the first producing oil well in the state, which came in at a depth of 106' by September 12, 1866. The well, located at Oil Springs, produced about 10 barrels a day. Samples were forwarded to the Department of Emigration in New York, which pronounced the oil "superior in all its properties".
On the advice of oilmen in Shreveport, Barret went to New York and Pennsylvania to examine equipment before purchase. There he met John F. Carll, a civil engineer, and on March 1, 1867, Barret and others made financial obligations to Carll, who had agreed to run tests and assist in development of the property.
According to Barret, Carll's financial backer, Brown Brothers of Titusville, Pennsylvania, wrote on the day of the test that the low price of oil and the political unrest caused by Reconstruction made the development of the field unfeasible. Impatient investos wanted to sell their interest in the company but turned down Barret's offers of land and demanded cash.
Despite encouragement by Carll in 1868, when oil prices went up again, the field was never developed. Barret suffered extensive financial loss and returned to the mercantile business in Melrose.
Later he saw the field developed with an oil boom in 1887 at waht became known as Oil City.
1. John raised a large family [22 kids] 19 listed under mother of Matilda White and 1 under Eliza Mc Neill...
2. Lived on the Black Warrior River, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama..
3. Some of those kids were most likely from John's four marriages: (1) Susannah (2) Matilda White (3)
Eliza Mc Neill (4) Zilpha Galloway.4. CAUTION: This information is NOT documented. Help would be appreciated.
1. Barbara Petty reports that she is descended through Samuel's son Henry Hollingsworth who married Rachel Jones.
1. The 1850 Census, 284B, Boughchetta, lines 25-27 for 19 Nov 1850: Rachel Hollingsworth, 47, farms, $200, Georgia....
1. Enoch's father Samuel died in 1802, so, the year 1804 for Enoch's birth could not be correct.
2. Enoch got sick and died while the family was enroute "West" by wagon train...
3. The Enoch we show here as being born in 1804 is probably not the same Enoch that got sick and died enroute West.
4. Enoch of Georgia came to Columbia County, Arkansas, in the 1850's.