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MAKING OF A TOWNSHIP
Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of
FAIRMOUNT TOWNSHIP GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1829-1917
Edgar Baldwin Printing Company, 1917
Page 254 with photo

        JOHN B. HOLLINGSWORTH.  Retired monument dealer, was born in Hudson
County, Ohio, August 5, 1836. His grandparents were natives of Pittsburgh,
as were his parents, William Hollingsworth, born June 25, 1811, and
Lucinda, born May 8, 1814. William and Lucinda Hollingsworth were the
parents of six children, namely: Wesley B., John B., Gilmore, Mariah,
Isabel and William. In 1856 John B. Hollingsworth came to Fairmount
Township with his parents, locating in Fairmount, then a village of about a
dozen houses. The father opened the first cabinet shop in the township,
making household furniture, of all kinds by hand, and supplying pioneers
with coffins for their dead. John B. went to school at White Hall and also
at Summitville, He started to learn the carpenter trade with his uncle,
William Wellington, then living at Summitville, remaining with his relative
about one year, then returning to Fairmount and working at odd jobs until
the spring of 1861. On april 23, 1861, he enlisted Company K, Eighth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for the three months' service, remaining with
this regiment until the command was mustered out on August 6, 1861. He,
with Smith Kelsay and Isaac Smithson, were the first three Fairmount
Township men who at the outbreak of war responded to President Lincoln's
call for troops. October 1, 1861, Hollingsworth enlisted in Company H,
Eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years, or until the close of
the war. The Eighth was mustered out June 14, 1865. He was with his
regiment at the battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia, July 12, 1861.
During his second enlistment his regiment was on guard duty, being
stationed near Sharpsburg, Maryland, guarding the Potomac River. During his
third enlistment he saw hard service with the Eighth Indiana Infantry,
participating with his command in the battles of Blackwater, Missouri, Port
Gibson, Champion Hills, Jackson, Big Black, Vicksburg, second battle of
Jackson, Hall Town, Oppequon, New Market, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill. At
Cedar Creek, on October 19, 1864, just before Gen. Phil Sheridan arrived to
rally his demoralized army, Hollingsworth met Harry Norton, who was then
sick. Hollingsworth helped his comrade along as far as Norton was able to
go. The Confederates had at this point flanked the Union forces and it was
a case of every man for himself. Norton insisted that Hollingsworth go on
and take care of himself, explaining, after much effort, that he was too
sick and too weak to go farther. Hollingsworth reluctantly left his
comrade. The Confederates were upon them. Hollingsworth wheeled around,
fired at his pursuers as he retreated, and took to his heels, making his
escape to the Union lines as bullets were "throwing up dirt all about him."
Norton fell into the hands of the Confederates, and was taken to Libby
Prison, where he died. In June, 1865, Hollingsworth returned home and for
many years successfully carried on a monument business in Fairmount. On
February 17, 1876, he was married to Mrs. Hary Hall Hathaway, daughter of
William and Hannah (Stanfield) Hall, who was born February 11, 1844, in
Fairmount Township. To this union four children were born, namely: Martin
L., Morton, Joseph B. and Sarah L., all deceased except Morton.


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