Biography: Leonidas DeKalb Hollingsworth of Monroe County, Mississippi Source: Rowland, Dunbar, ed. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1904. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of the Brandon Printing Company, 1904. Pages 551-552. Copied for use in the USGenweb Project Archives by Lori Thornton . ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ MONROE COUNTY. Population, 1900 - 31,216. LEONIDAS DeKALB HOLLINGSWORTH, of Beeks, was born October 31, 1846, in Monroe County, Miss., and is the son of William Hollingsworth, who was a native of North Carolina. Mr. Hollingsworth attended the public schools of Monroe County; left school in 1863 and joined the Confederate Army; served in Morgan's Company, Sixteenth Alabama Cavalry, from 1863 to 1865. He is a farmer; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1873, and served to 1876; elected to the House of Representatives from Monroe County in 1884; re-elected November 3, 1903. Mr. Hollingsworth is a Democrat and Prohibitionist; was a member of the County Executive Committee in the campaign of 1876; member of the Methodist Church; licensed to preach in 1869; is a Mason; was married February 8, 1866, to Clarinda Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Alford Monroe Smith and wife, Helena Smith, of South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth have seven children: Alice ( Hollingsworth) Nix, William Alford, Martha (Hollingsworth) Cockerham, Wiley Newton, Lonnie T., Cleveland and Lee.