Descendants of John Henry Carver

Notes


Jonathan L. Ridgeway

Birth 1817 8m 13d


Marriage Notes for Thomas A. Raley and Minnie Ormiston

1916 10m 7d


16. Phebe Raley

birth date: 1d 9m 1834


31. Glen Hollingsworth

Mr. Hollingsworth is next to youngest of seven children (three brothers and four sisters) of  Stephan and Phoebe Hollingsworth.  The family moved from Iowa to Kansas when he was a small boy, where his parents took up homestead there. He then went, as a small boy, to Black Hills, S. Dakota and worked as a teamster and bull wacker around Custer City and Deadwood. He then went to Mile City, Colorado (May, 1893) working punching cows for Guy Whitbeck, wagon Head of the Bow and Arrow outfit on Sunday Creek north of Miles City working there for six years. Then he worked for LU on Little Dry, and then for Dave Clair with CK outfit on Prairie Elk (1904 or 1905) where he became wagon boss and quit the range work in 1910. He was foreman at the DK ranch for two years before starting to work for Hank Cusker, Wolf Point, in 1912. He filed on a homestead on West Fork of Sand Creek where he ranched until 1925.  Then he went to work for Jim Montgomery at the 14 Ranch on Redwater, south of Poplar. He then took a job riding fence line at one of their camps on Box Elder Creek, 20 miles north of Poplar.  When Frye's shipped their cattle, he went to Split Rock, Wyoming and spent about a year with two nephews Lester and Loran (sic) Radclif.  From there he took a trip back home and visited relatives in Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee.  He wound up in California and spent the winter with his sister. In 1933 he returned to Montana and moved to Mick Custer's bunk house where he lived since.  He never married and leaves a host of nieces and nephews in Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee.  he worked the open ranges of Montana for 17 years and was admitted to Trinity Hospital on Sept 30 and died on Oct 3.