1692. Clara Evelyn Hollingsworth
In Halifax Harbour, a munitions ship collided with a steamer, by mistake or misunderstanding of signals. The munitions master was able to maneuver the ship to avoid a direct hit of the hold which contained the explosives cargo. At 9am on 7 Dec 1917 the ship blew up. The explosion was heard by ships at sea 50 miles distant. It leveled most of the northern sector of Halifax, two miles burned to the ground. A severe snow storm struck soon afterward, depositing 3 feet of snow which was a terrible hindrance to rescue work.
Mother killed, eight year old Evelyn Rice saves younger children. The following particulars regarding the death of Mrs. F. D. Rice (Clara Hollingsworth) are taken from the Winnipeg Free Pressw of Dec 20, 1917.The Free Press prints a group picture of the Rice family and a picture of the wrecked home where Mrs. Rice was killed. Winnipeg was formerly Lieut. Rice's home. Mrs. Frank D. Rice wife of Lt. F.D. Rice, of Winnipeg was killed in the recent explosion at Halifax, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hollingsworth of Picton, Ontario, formerly matron of the Methodist missionary hospital Hazleton, B.C., where Mr. Rice met her when on a government survey. They were married Christmas Eve., 1908. Lt. Rice was on duty at Sydney, N.S. when the explosion occurred, and he could not get any word. Knowing that their house was in direct line he started at once for Halifax, reaching there Friday evening. Then he learned that his wife was killed.
Fatality no.: 1161
Mrs Clara Rice of Dartmouth, NS. Died: 06 December 1917
other names Evelyn
gender female
religion Emmanuel Anglican, Dartmouth
buried Christ Church Cemetery, Dartmouth, NS
family Husband Lieut F D Rice
obituary Halifax Herald December 8, 1917 p2
sources ¤ City Directory 1918
¤ GANS list
¤ HRC: List
¤ Churches: Emmanuel
¤ Newspaper: Patriot: Dec22/17
Lt. Rice was the second in command with Canadian Engineers for the Maritime Provinces and was on duty at Sydney at the time. He has lived for the past 18 years in British Columbia, and practices his profession, provincial surveyor and civil engineer.
A brother of Lieut. Rice, Corp Hugh A. Rice is musketry instructor at Canadian headquarters, Shorncliffe. Another brother Lieut. Robert S. Rice was killed in September 1916 on the Somme and the youngest brother, a Signaler Frederick C. W. Rice is in the Masonic Hospital in London, England suffering from a shrapnel wound in the hip. Word was received yesterday that after being wounded he was in a wet trench for 24 hours. Then he was pout on a stretcher and carried by five stretcher bearers for a distance of 25 miles in relays of five miles each before he was put in an ambulance. He has been through the Vimy Ridge, Lens and Passachendaele and it was at the last mentioned place where he was wounded, on Nove 6th and reached the hospital in London on the 17th.
2273. Wallace Bruce Hollingsworth Jr. Lt.
Wallace was a Naval Aviator and died in an airplane crash flying a plane from the USS Tennessee to San Diego.
1710. John (Jack) Benjamin Hollingsworth
John Benjamin Hollingsworth was the oldest of the 23 grandchildren of Frederick and Elizabeth (Brown) Hollingsworth.
The farm where he spent the first five years of his life is now within the city limits of Rockford. Granddad, Frederick Hollingsworth traded his farm there in 1861 and later moved to Jasper County, Iowa.
Jack worked for M. Roeller, manufacturer of carriages and sleighs. He lived with his wife at 104 South High Street and gained the name "Fine-Line Jack" because of his skill technique in pin striping and decorating finished carriages with gold leaf or silver.
Mary came from one of the most devout of the Roman Catholic families of Ireland, anciently called "Magauran" an English form of a much more difficult Gaelic Clan. Jack's ancestors in Ireland were "Orangemen" so this was a odd combination.
Mary left the Catholic Church to conform to her husband's wishes. Some of their children were baptized in the Catholic Church but none were raised as Catholics.
Mary never returned to the Catholic Church, but when she was dying her spinster sister Kate McGovern, a devout Roman Catholic demanded a priest so the last right could be administered to Mary, Mary let her sister have her own way in this matter.
Mary true to her clan remained in full possession of her faculties up to the moment before her Grandson Harry Hollingsworth saw her die. She had developed bronchiel pneumonia as a result of a broken hip. She died in her own bedroom with the family overwhelmed as she bade them all "Goodbye".
She enjoyed drinking her whiskey with milk, a throwback to the old Irish drink called punch.
2277. Florence Hollingsworth
Florence was 12 pounds at birth, a rather large baby at birth.
1715. Anna "Annie" Elizabeth Hollingsworth
Annie's only child was born while she was living with her adoptive mother. She went out to visit her real parents in California and stayed, only returning when her adoptive mother Sarah Hoover became illand died in 1901, Annie brought little Frank with her.
Her marriage to Joseph Vezion was very unhappy and they divorced.
Annie met Henry Belden, he was a fine man and her life with him for 25 years was happy.
Joseph Edward Vezion he was a barber
She had a very unhappy marraige with Joseph Vezion, probably because of the child she had out of wedlock living with them.
2285. Franklin Ross Hoover
Franklin died when he fell from his room in the upstairs of a rest home to the sidewalk below.
Rose Aurellia(DeMattei) Orchetti a widow
Harry made a note that she was a beautiful lady.
1719. John Frederick "Fred" (Hambrick) Hollingsworth
Believed to be the son of Ann's first husband Frank Hambrick. Jacob adopted him as his own son.
1721. Jacob Ellerton Hollingsworth
Jacob was the true child of Jacob and Lizzie Castner Hollingsworth. On 9 Jul 1898 he was sued for divorce by his wife Georgia.
Jacob was accused of violating his marriage vows, becoming addicted to habitual drunkenness and of cruel and inhuman treatment as to endanger the petitioner. He would also commonly curse her in the presence of the children using language too indecent to incorporate for the record.
Georgia was granted the divorce along with permanent alimony, all household goods of every kind in the house and ownership in fee simple of the cemetery lot.
Jacob moved to Green Bay to live with his brother Samuel. A reconciliation occurred and Jake re-married Georgia there. The couple returned to Newton and lived out the rest of their days there. They are all buried in the Newton Union Cemetery.
1728. Olive Joy Hollingsworth Real surname "Livings"
Olive Joy Hollingsworth married Franklin P. Wallace June 10, 1910 and they had 5 children: 4 boys - Daniel, Stanley, John and my father Richard; 1 girl - stillborn or died shortly after birth. All 4 brothers are now deceased, my dad being the last of them on March 7, 2003. They all served in WWII but my dad was the only one of them that made a career of the Army.
Olive Joy Hollingsworth: Adopted by Addy (Vandyke) Hollingsworth and Dr.
J. S. Hollingsworth (Samuel John, for his deceased little brother).
Addy was actually Fidelia Addy Vandyke, born Mar 6, 1844 to John and
Hannah (Johnson) Vandyke.
Olive is my fathers mother.
OLIVE WALLACE 27 Jul 1886 Jun 1967 54305 (Green Bay, Brown,
WI) (none specified) 396-03-7307 Wisconsin
View Record Frank Wallace name city, Brown, Wisconsin
abt 1887 location race relation.Olive's real name was "Olive Livings".
Hi Tom!
Yep, still out here. This is from our own domain so unless something very drastic happens this email will be good for a very long time. I hope. ;-)
I'm not sure how much I'd told you about my research. I did find that my grandmother, Olive Hollingsworth was in fact part of the Matthews family from Black River Falls. Livings was her mother's married name. She was a missing piece they'd been searching for for some time. *Her* mother had sent Olive and her younger brother to the Sparta Childrens home within a few days of losing her husband, Olive's father. Olive's mother promptly remarried. Olive kept in touch with her 1/2 brother for some time but they eventually had a falling out and that's when they lost track of Olive. Olive's brother died very young from an accidently self- inflicted gunshot wound to the stomach. Her mother had another child, a daughter named Roxie whom Olive kept in tough with for awhile at least. The stories I'd been told by my dad and my sister were not anything even close to what the truth was. Fascinating stuff! And it turns out my family is quite a mixture. Maybe my dad couldn't accept that he was part Indian and that's why the stories were so different. Who knows. It's not like I can ask him...
Now of course, anyone that would remember any of this stuff is long gone. So the above is just what we've gathered from the info we've found. We, being my distant cousin Cynthia Matthews and me. :-)
The wall I'm up against now is my dad's father, Frank Wallace. I did find him in the Census and his WWI draft card but he came from Germany and even Honey Bee (Olive) didn't know anything about his parents. He had no brothers or sisters either that anyone was aware of. And Wallace with that spelling is not typical of German Wallaces. More the Scotts and Irish connection.
And of course I'm still trying to track down info about my own birth-father. I suspect and have for some time, that it's very possible my birth-father is actually my adoptive dad. One of these days when I can afford it I'll have DNA testing done between my son and his cousin.
I've had the best time looking for all this info. The only drawback and the most frustrating part has been the fact that ancestry.com has a monopoly on all the best info and it's so expensive to have a subscription. LDS has been interesting and helpful but their records are limited. Ah well...one of these days.
How's everything going with you? It's so wonderful to hear from you! :-)
Barbara Wallace Jarrett (March 27, 2009)