Isaac Hollingsworth

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26639041/isaac-hollingsworth

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Notes for Isaac Miller "Big Isaac" Hollingsworth, Sr.:

Quoted from "The Hollingsworth and McCoy Families" found in the Kokomo Public Library, in Kokomo, Howard County, IN, written by Hulda A. Wright.

Isaac was called "Big Isaac" because of his great physical strength. During the Revolutionary War a British Officer approached his corn-crib, but was forbidden entrance.

The officer drew a threatening sword, and Big Isaac took the sword from him, saying, "Thus far shalt thou go, but no farther."

Another incident in his history is given: While on the road moving to Ohio he was one day sitting on a log while his horses were eating. A man came along and asked where he was moving. He answered: "I am not moving; I am sitting still."

"Well, where are you bound?" "I am not bound at all," said he; "I am a free man." The discomfited man passed on. When reprimanded by his daughter for his discourteous answers, he naively said he "did not know that it was any of that man's business where he was going."

With all his exterior rudeness, he had a good and tender heart, more internal than external piety. He used to say that his crops never grew better than when Susie, his wife, was away from home, preaching. He and his family were members of the Friends Church.

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Isaac was appointed an overseer at Bush River MM, in SC, partially because of his big size.

In later years a boot in the rear by "Big Isaac" accompanied by his words, "The Friends have no further need for thee", was all one needed to hear to know that he of she had been disowned.

He had an excellent heart. once an Irishman applied to him for work, when he put him to work at removing a pile of rocks, which task completed he had him carry them back, after which he paid him for his labor.

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According to "The Hollingsworth Families of Miami County, OH":

He led the vanguard of Quakers to OH in 1804.

More About Isaac Miller "Big Isaac" Hollingsworth, Sr.:

• Burial: 1809, West Branch Meeting Grave Yard, Miami County, OH
• Cause of Death: pleurisy
• Moved 1: 10 Oct 1805, Miami County, OH
• Moved 2: 1767, Petersburg, SC
• Residence 1: 1767, Wateree, Calhoun County, SC
• Residence 2: 1767, Hopewell MM, Frederick County, VA
• Residence 3: Bef. 1805, Bush River Meeting, Newberry County, SC

More About Isaac Hollingsworth and Susanna Wright:

Marriage: 12 Dec 1770, Frederick County, VA