• General Notes

  4/5/1997--HRG: JUANITA PEELER, GAFFNEY,S.C. SHOWS .b.1728 IN VIRGINIA;
  d.1771. m. ANN GORDAN, 1752. JOHN WORTHY WAS ONLY ABOUT 43 YEARS OLD
  WHEN HE DIED.
  ANN GORDON WORTHY, WIDOW OF JOHN WORTHY, WAS APPOINTED ADMINISTRATRIX OF
  HER HUSBAND'S ESTATE. HE OWNED NO REAL ESTATE AND HIS PERSONAL ESTATE
  WAS SMALL, SO THE COURT ASSIGNED TO THE WIDOW THE ENTIRE ESTATE. THE
  COURT MENTIONS CHILDREN, BUT MENTIONS NO NAMES OR NUMBER OF CHILDREN.
  THEY MIGRATED TO NORTH CAROLINA AFTER THE SETTLEMENT OF JOHN WORTH'S
  ESTATE IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. NO MORE IS HEARD OF ANN GORDON
  WORTHY UNTIL THE 1790 CENSUS OF CHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE
  SHE APPEARS ON A ROLL. SHE IS LISTED AS A WIDOW WITH (3) THREE BOYS
  IN THE HOME EACH BOY OVER 16 YEARS OF AGE. NEXT TO HER ON THIS ROLL
  IS LISTED WILLIAM WORTHY, WHO IS LISTED AS OVER 45 YEARS OF AGE IN 1810,
  AND BETWEEN 70 AND 80 IN 1830.
  JOHN WORTHY DIED INTESTATE AND WITHOUT REAL PROPERTY , IN 1771. IN JULY
  OF 1771, ANN WORTHY, WIDOW OF JOHN WORTHY, WAS APPOINTED ADMINISTRATRIX
  OF HER HUSBAND'S ESTATE. HE OWNED NO REAL ESTATE, HIS PERSONAL ESTATE
  WAS SMALL, SO THE COURT ASSIGNED TO THE WIDOW THE ENTIRE ESTATE.THIS IS
  THE LAST RECORD WE HAVE OF ANN IN VIRGINIA. SHE LATER ARRIVES IN CHESTER
  COUNTY, S.C. IN THE CENSUS OF 1790. HER SON, WILLIAM, WAS IN CASWELL
  COUNTY, N.C. WHERE HE SERVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. HE MOVED BACK
  TO HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. SEE A SPECIAL CENSUS OF 1782 FOR
  VIRGINIA, THEN ANN AND WILLIAM SHOWED UP IN CHESTER COUNTY, S.C. IN THE
  U.S. CENSUS OF 1790*
  * REMEMBER, THE U.S. CENSUS FOR VIRGINIA OF 1790 WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE BY
  BRITISH SSOLDIERS ABOUT 1812. SO A SUBSTITUTE 1782 AND 1785 SPECIAL
  CENSUS WAS USED FOR VIRGINIA AS 1790 CENSUS SUBSTITUTE. THE ORIGINAL TAX
  LIST OF LUNENBURG COUNTY, 1748 SEE PAGE 5 OF WORTHY FAMILY HISTORY,
  WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THE CROSBY FAMILY HISTORY FILE.
  1/13/1997--HRG: THERE IS A ANN WORTHY LISTED IN THE GEORGIA CENSUS OF
  1850. SHE IS LISTED AS LIVING IN MACON COUNTY, DISTRICT 543, PAGE 109.
  4/5/1997--HRG: JUANITA PEELER OF GAFFNEY SAYS ANN WAS A GORDO

Details of John's family with Elizabeth Riddle