BIO: HOLLINGSWORTH, Milton, s/o Bernard & Nancy A. (McKee) Hollingsworth

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HOLLINGSWORTH  McKEE   MARTIN   CHAMBERS   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Puablishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Washington Twp., page 427

MILTON HOLLINGSWORTH one of the farmers of Washington Township, is a son of
Bernard and Nancy A. (McKee) Hollingsworth.  The father was born in 1791,
in South Carolina.  The mother, a native of Kentucky, was born in 1798. 
Both came to this county when young and their matrimonial rites were
solemnized in 1816.  After marriage they settled in Washington Township,
where they spent the remainder of their days.  By occupation the father was
a farmer, being quite a large landowner.  During his entire life he was an
industrious and energetic worker.  When a young man he joined the Baptist
Church, but afterward became a member of the Christian Church.  He was a
Republican.  In 1876 the father wa called from among the living,  The mother
died two years before.  Our subject was born in 1842 in Washington Township.
In boyhood he had very ordinary advantages for education, having to walk two
miles to school.  In 1861 when the dissolution of the Union was threatened,
Milton, though only nineteen years of age, enlisted in Company H, Fifty-
first Indiana Infantry.  At Stone River, Shiloh, Corinth and Nashville, he
with the other brave boys of Company H fought manfully for home and country.
After the last named engagement they were ordered to San Antonio, Tex.,
where they remained until the close of the war.  At Stone River he received
three wounds, and as a partial compensation receives $2 per month from the
Government.  Having served his country faithfully for over four years he
returned, bearing an honorable discharge.  In 1868 he was married to Martha
A. Martin, born in 1850, in Washington Township.  She is the daughter of
James P. and Martha (Chambers) Martin.  To Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth eight
children were born:  Ulysses G., William S., Ellis H., James U., Urania G.,
John, Anna and Logan.  Mrs. Hollingsworth is a member of the Christian
Church.  Mr. Hollingsworth is a stanch Republican and cast his first vote
for Lincoln.  At the death of his father our subject received 138 acres of
land, of which about 100 acres are under cultivation.  As a farmer, he has
been quite successful, and is considered one of the first citizens of the
county.
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