born to John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale
married Lucy Jane Harmison 30 April 1872, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, USA, Illinois, Marriages, 1851-1900
to this union;
Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Worth (1873-23 September 1891)
Jesse Worth (February 1876-)
Clara Belle (Worth) Duke
Melissa A M Worth (20 August 1880-?) Mrs Cuby L Hutchings
Isaphine (Worth) Strandtman
Ethel Claire Leona (Worth) Older
Margaret Worth
this record will stand as where he is born until a burial record can be found. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Chesterfield Worth was born in 1850 in Rush County, Indiana. He probably was born between June 28th and July 12th. The US Census for Indiana 1850, enumerated 4 September lists Chesterfield D Worth as 1 year old. The US Census for Indiana 1860, enumerated 12 July lists Chester F D Worth as 10 years old. The US Census for Illinois 1880, enumerated 28 June lists Chesterfield Worth as age 29. The census records for 1850 and 1860 indicate Chesterfield Worth had a middle initial of "D". Chesterfield was the son of John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale. John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale were married 5 June 1837, in Rush County, Indiana. According to the US Census for Indiana 1850, John and Julia Ann Worth were the parents of at least 6 children, all born in Indiana: Seth, James, John C, Mary J, Elizabeth, and Chesterfield Worth. Julia Ann (Drysdale) Worth died 10 April 1856 and was buried in the Old Boggstown Cemetery (now Gallagher Cemetery) at Boggstown, Shelby County, Indiana. John and Julia Worth may have had other children between the time of the 1850 census and the date of Julia's death in 1856.
John Worth married Mary Jane (Lemon) Stephens in Shelby County, Indiana on 1 January 1857. The US Census for Indiana 1860 for the John and Mary J Worth household probably includes children from both of their previous marriages. Chesterfield Worth married Lucy Jane Harmison. She was the daughter of Isaiah Harmeson and Melissa Perkins. Lucy Jane Harmison was born in April 1851 in the state of Indiana. A marriage record for Lucy Harmison and Doctor Dillon was found in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, with a 8 September 1872 marriage date. The 1st child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, Elizabeth Ann Worth, probably was born in 1873. Isaphine Worth, a daughter of Chesterfield and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth, gave her father's name as "Dock Worth" on her marriage license application in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison were the parents of 7 children: Elizabeth Ann, Jesse, Clara Belle, Mellisa (Melessia M), Margaret, Isaphine, and Ethel Leona Worth. Annie Worth (Elizabeth Ann Worth) died at age 18. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, on September 23, 1891.
Chesterfield Worth apparently died in 1892 at Terre Haute, Indiana, probably sometime after March of that year. The 1892 Terre Haute City Directory lists Lucy Worth as the widow of Chesterfield. Ethel Leona Worth, the youngest child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, was born 8 January 1893 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Both the death certificate and the social security application form of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older show that her father was Chesterfield Worth and that her mother was Lucy Jane Harmison. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Lucy Jane Harmison, the only wife of Chesterfield Worth, remarried on 9 June 1896 in Terre Haute, Indiana to Jesse Lewellen Jr. Jesse was the widower of Elizabeth Ann Worth, a sister of Chesterfield. Jesse Lewellen and Elizabeth Worth were married in Montgomery County, Indiana, on 17 November 1864. "The proper Consent having been 1st filed by Jesse Lewallyn & John Worth a resident of said county." Jesse Lewallyn was the father of Jesse Lewellen, and John Worth was the father of Elizabeth Worth, Chesterfield's sister. The 1896 Vigo County marriage record proves Jesse Lewellen was the same man who married Elizabeth Ann Worth in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana. Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen died sometime after 25 March 1888 and before June 1896.
There is no reason to doubt Jesse Lewellen and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth knew each other many years before they married in 1896. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth named 2 of their children after Jesse and Elizabeth Lewellen. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, indicates the 1st female child of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth was named Elizabeth. Their 1st male child was named Jesse. A number of census records connect various members of the Worth and Lewellen families with Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan Lewellen, perhaps a cousin of Jessie Lewellen, married Martha A Worth, a sister or step-sister of Chesterfield Worth, on 21 April 1869, in Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan and Martha A (Worth) Lewellen are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana.
George Horn married Mary Jane Worth, a sister of Chesterfield, on 14 May 1866, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. In the same wedding ceremony, John C Worth, a brother of Chesterfield, married Matilda Horn, a sister of George Horn. John C Worth served in the 120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Records in his service file clearly identify him as a son of John Worth in Montgomery County, Indiana.
George and Mary Jane (Worth) Horn are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Franklin Township, Montgomery County. John C and Matilda (Horn) Worth and Jesse and Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen, are listed on the same page in the US Census for Indiana 1880 for Shannandale, Montgomery County. The father of Jesse Lewellen also was named Jesse Lewellen. He is listed in the US Census for Indiana 1870 Montgomery County, Franklin Township, with a post office of Shannandale. Lucy Jane (Harmison) (Worth) Lewellen died 30 January 1908 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Because she was impoverished, she was given a county burial. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, where her grave has no tombstone.
The following list provides information about the 7 children of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison:
1) Elizabeth Ann Worth was born in 1873 and died at age 18. According to records at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was buried September 23, 1891. She has no tombstone because she was impoverished and received a county burial. Elizabeth was named after Chesterfield Worth's sister who married Jesse Lewellen in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana.
2) Jesse Worth was born in February 1876 in Vermilion County, Illinois. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, lists Jesse in the Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth household as age 4, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana. The US Census for Indiana 1900 Vigo County, Jesse Lewellen household, lists Jessie Worth as born February 1876, age 24, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana.
The 1894 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a laborer at the J Hanley Mfg Co with residence at 22 Chesnut. The 1896 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a tobacco maker at Fred J Biel and a residence at 426 S Water.
Jesse Worth married Ida Mae Luther in Terre Haute, Indiana on 10 August 1901. Jesse Worth murdered his wife Iva May on 23 March 1925, a Monday. She was beaten to death and her body thrown on a river bank 3 miles south of Terre Haute. The Terre Haute Tribune on page 1, 24 March 1925, carried a gruesome picture of the murdered wife and the location where her body was found. An article also on page 1 of the paper indicates Jesse killed his wife at their home and grocery store at 1008 South 13th Street early Monday morning. The dead woman had been identified by a sister who telephoned (Jesse) Worth that his wife was in the morgue. A picture also appears on page 1 of the paper entitled "The Slayer", which presumably is a picture of Jesse Worth about the time of the murder. The 1930 Indiana census lists the home of a Jesse Worth, age 53, born about 1876, as Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana. The location is presumed to be that of an Indiana state prison.
3) Clara Belle Worth was born May 2, 1878, in Illinois. She married William H Duke. Clara Belle died 11 January 1967 in Long Beach, California. She was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Long Beach. Aunt Clara helped raise Ethel Leona Worth after the death of Chesterfield.
4) Mellisa (Melessia M) Worth married Cuby V Hutchings on 11 April 1898. She was erroneously listed as a son, not daughter, of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth on her birth record in Champaign County, Illinois. The birth record also gives Chesterfield Worth's middle initial as S.
5) Margaret Worth died in Norwalk, California. She married 1st: Weisenberg; 2nd: Riley. Bruce Weisenberg, a son, changed his name to Worth during World War II. Bruce Weisenberg had 2 daughters. His last known address was in Simi Valley, California.
6) Isaphine Worth was born in January 1885. She 1st married Herbert Kiefner on 29 July 1903. She later married a man with a last name of Strandtman in Houston, Texas. Helen Strandtman, a daughter, lived in Houston.
7) Ethel Leona Worth was born 8 January 1893, in Terre Haute, Indiana. She married Roy Burton Older on 1 March 1911 in Decatur, Illinois. Roy and Ethel were the parents of Truxton James, Wilma Jane, and Robert Burton Older. Ethel Leona (Worth) Older died at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Ventura County, California, 26 December 1976 at age 83. She is buried next to her husband at Springhill Cemetery in Danville, Illinois.
Pictures of Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth and the brothers and sisters of Ethel Leona Worth, excepting Melissa Worth, are in the possession of Curtis Lynn Older. Curtis is a grandson of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older. He obtained the pictures from Wilma Jane (Older) Zillman, a daughter of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older.
Chesterfield Worth is listed in the John Worth household in the US Census of Indiana 1850 and 1860. Chesterfield was not found in the US Census of Indiana or Illinois 1870. He did not live in the John Worth household in 1870. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth are in the US Census of Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township.(53)
married Lucy Jane Harmison 30 April 1872, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, USA, Illinois, Marriages, 1851-1900
to this union;
Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Worth (1873-23 September 1891)
Jesse Worth (February 1876-)
Clara Belle (Worth) Duke
Melissa A M Worth (20 August 1880-?) Mrs Cuby L Hutchings
Isaphine (Worth) Strandtman
Ethel Claire Leona (Worth) Older
Margaret Worth
this record will stand as where he is born until a burial record can be found. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Chesterfield Worth was born in 1850 in Rush County, Indiana. He probably was born between June 28th and July 12th. The US Census for Indiana 1850, enumerated 4 September lists Chesterfield D Worth as 1 year old. The US Census for Indiana 1860, enumerated 12 July lists Chester F D Worth as 10 years old. The US Census for Illinois 1880, enumerated 28 June lists Chesterfield Worth as age 29. The census records for 1850 and 1860 indicate Chesterfield Worth had a middle initial of "D". Chesterfield was the son of John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale. John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale were married 5 June 1837, in Rush County, Indiana. According to the US Census for Indiana 1850, John and Julia Ann Worth were the parents of at least 6 children, all born in Indiana: Seth, James, John C, Mary J, Elizabeth, and Chesterfield Worth. Julia Ann (Drysdale) Worth died 10 April 1856 and was buried in the Old Boggstown Cemetery (now Gallagher Cemetery) at Boggstown, Shelby County, Indiana. John and Julia Worth may have had other children between the time of the 1850 census and the date of Julia's death in 1856.
John Worth married Mary Jane (Lemon) Stephens in Shelby County, Indiana on 1 January 1857. The US Census for Indiana 1860 for the John and Mary J Worth household probably includes children from both of their previous marriages. Chesterfield Worth married Lucy Jane Harmison. She was the daughter of Isaiah Harmeson and Melissa Perkins. Lucy Jane Harmison was born in April 1851 in the state of Indiana. A marriage record for Lucy Harmison and Doctor Dillon was found in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, with a 8 September 1872 marriage date. The 1st child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, Elizabeth Ann Worth, probably was born in 1873. Isaphine Worth, a daughter of Chesterfield and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth, gave her father's name as "Dock Worth" on her marriage license application in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison were the parents of 7 children: Elizabeth Ann, Jesse, Clara Belle, Mellisa (Melessia M), Margaret, Isaphine, and Ethel Leona Worth. Annie Worth (Elizabeth Ann Worth) died at age 18. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, on September 23, 1891.
Chesterfield Worth apparently died in 1892 at Terre Haute, Indiana, probably sometime after March of that year. The 1892 Terre Haute City Directory lists Lucy Worth as the widow of Chesterfield. Ethel Leona Worth, the youngest child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, was born 8 January 1893 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Both the death certificate and the social security application form of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older show that her father was Chesterfield Worth and that her mother was Lucy Jane Harmison. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Lucy Jane Harmison, the only wife of Chesterfield Worth, remarried on 9 June 1896 in Terre Haute, Indiana to Jesse Lewellen Jr. Jesse was the widower of Elizabeth Ann Worth, a sister of Chesterfield. Jesse Lewellen and Elizabeth Worth were married in Montgomery County, Indiana, on 17 November 1864. "The proper Consent having been 1st filed by Jesse Lewallyn & John Worth a resident of said county." Jesse Lewallyn was the father of Jesse Lewellen, and John Worth was the father of Elizabeth Worth, Chesterfield's sister. The 1896 Vigo County marriage record proves Jesse Lewellen was the same man who married Elizabeth Ann Worth in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana. Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen died sometime after 25 March 1888 and before June 1896.
There is no reason to doubt Jesse Lewellen and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth knew each other many years before they married in 1896. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth named 2 of their children after Jesse and Elizabeth Lewellen. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, indicates the 1st female child of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth was named Elizabeth. Their 1st male child was named Jesse. A number of census records connect various members of the Worth and Lewellen families with Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan Lewellen, perhaps a cousin of Jessie Lewellen, married Martha A Worth, a sister or step-sister of Chesterfield Worth, on 21 April 1869, in Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan and Martha A (Worth) Lewellen are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana.
George Horn married Mary Jane Worth, a sister of Chesterfield, on 14 May 1866, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. In the same wedding ceremony, John C Worth, a brother of Chesterfield, married Matilda Horn, a sister of George Horn. John C Worth served in the 120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Records in his service file clearly identify him as a son of John Worth in Montgomery County, Indiana.
George and Mary Jane (Worth) Horn are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Franklin Township, Montgomery County. John C and Matilda (Horn) Worth and Jesse and Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen, are listed on the same page in the US Census for Indiana 1880 for Shannandale, Montgomery County. The father of Jesse Lewellen also was named Jesse Lewellen. He is listed in the US Census for Indiana 1870 Montgomery County, Franklin Township, with a post office of Shannandale. Lucy Jane (Harmison) (Worth) Lewellen died 30 January 1908 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Because she was impoverished, she was given a county burial. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, where her grave has no tombstone.
The following list provides information about the 7 children of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison:
1) Elizabeth Ann Worth was born in 1873 and died at age 18. According to records at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was buried September 23, 1891. She has no tombstone because she was impoverished and received a county burial. Elizabeth was named after Chesterfield Worth's sister who married Jesse Lewellen in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana.
2) Jesse Worth was born in February 1876 in Vermilion County, Illinois. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, lists Jesse in the Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth household as age 4, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana. The US Census for Indiana 1900 Vigo County, Jesse Lewellen household, lists Jessie Worth as born February 1876, age 24, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana.
The 1894 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a laborer at the J Hanley Mfg Co with residence at 22 Chesnut. The 1896 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a tobacco maker at Fred J Biel and a residence at 426 S Water.
Jesse Worth married Ida Mae Luther in Terre Haute, Indiana on 10 August 1901. Jesse Worth murdered his wife Iva May on 23 March 1925, a Monday. She was beaten to death and her body thrown on a river bank 3 miles south of Terre Haute. The Terre Haute Tribune on page 1, 24 March 1925, carried a gruesome picture of the murdered wife and the location where her body was found. An article also on page 1 of the paper indicates Jesse killed his wife at their home and grocery store at 1008 South 13th Street early Monday morning. The dead woman had been identified by a sister who telephoned (Jesse) Worth that his wife was in the morgue. A picture also appears on page 1 of the paper entitled "The Slayer", which presumably is a picture of Jesse Worth about the time of the murder. The 1930 Indiana census lists the home of a Jesse Worth, age 53, born about 1876, as Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana. The location is presumed to be that of an Indiana state prison.
3) Clara Belle Worth was born May 2, 1878, in Illinois. She married William H Duke. Clara Belle died 11 January 1967 in Long Beach, California. She was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Long Beach. Aunt Clara helped raise Ethel Leona Worth after the death of Chesterfield.
4) Mellisa (Melessia M) Worth married Cuby V Hutchings on 11 April 1898. She was erroneously listed as a son, not daughter, of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth on her birth record in Champaign County, Illinois. The birth record also gives Chesterfield Worth's middle initial as S.
5) Margaret Worth died in Norwalk, California. She married 1st: Weisenberg; 2nd: Riley. Bruce Weisenberg, a son, changed his name to Worth during World War II. Bruce Weisenberg had 2 daughters. His last known address was in Simi Valley, California.
6) Isaphine Worth was born in January 1885. She 1st married Herbert Kiefner on 29 July 1903. She later married a man with a last name of Strandtman in Houston, Texas. Helen Strandtman, a daughter, lived in Houston.
7) Ethel Leona Worth was born 8 January 1893, in Terre Haute, Indiana. She married Roy Burton Older on 1 March 1911 in Decatur, Illinois. Roy and Ethel were the parents of Truxton James, Wilma Jane, and Robert Burton Older. Ethel Leona (Worth) Older died at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Ventura County, California, 26 December 1976 at age 83. She is buried next to her husband at Springhill Cemetery in Danville, Illinois.
Pictures of Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth and the brothers and sisters of Ethel Leona Worth, excepting Melissa Worth, are in the possession of Curtis Lynn Older. Curtis is a grandson of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older. He obtained the pictures from Wilma Jane (Older) Zillman, a daughter of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older.
Chesterfield Worth is listed in the John Worth household in the US Census of Indiana 1850 and 1860. Chesterfield was not found in the US Census of Indiana or Illinois 1870. He did not live in the John Worth household in 1870. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth are in the US Census of Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township.(53)
born to John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale
married Lucy Jane Harmison 30 April 1872, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, USA, Illinois, Marriages, 1851-1900
to this union;
Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Worth (1873-23 September 1891)
Jesse Worth (February 1876-)
Clara Belle (Worth) Duke
Melissa A M Worth (20 August 1880-?) Mrs Cuby L Hutchings
Isaphine (Worth) Strandtman
Ethel Claire Leona (Worth) Older
Margaret Worth
this record will stand as where he is born until a burial record can be found. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Chesterfield Worth was born in 1850 in Rush County, Indiana. He probably was born between June 28th and July 12th. The US Census for Indiana 1850, enumerated 4 September lists Chesterfield D Worth as 1 year old. The US Census for Indiana 1860, enumerated 12 July lists Chester F D Worth as 10 years old. The US Census for Illinois 1880, enumerated 28 June lists Chesterfield Worth as age 29. The census records for 1850 and 1860 indicate Chesterfield Worth had a middle initial of "D". Chesterfield was the son of John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale. John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale were married 5 June 1837, in Rush County, Indiana. According to the US Census for Indiana 1850, John and Julia Ann Worth were the parents of at least 6 children, all born in Indiana: Seth, James, John C, Mary J, Elizabeth, and Chesterfield Worth. Julia Ann (Drysdale) Worth died 10 April 1856 and was buried in the Old Boggstown Cemetery (now Gallagher Cemetery) at Boggstown, Shelby County, Indiana. John and Julia Worth may have had other children between the time of the 1850 census and the date of Julia's death in 1856.
John Worth married Mary Jane (Lemon) Stephens in Shelby County, Indiana on 1 January 1857. The US Census for Indiana 1860 for the John and Mary J Worth household probably includes children from both of their previous marriages. Chesterfield Worth married Lucy Jane Harmison. She was the daughter of Isaiah Harmeson and Melissa Perkins. Lucy Jane Harmison was born in April 1851 in the state of Indiana. A marriage record for Lucy Harmison and Doctor Dillon was found in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, with a 8 September 1872 marriage date. The 1st child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, Elizabeth Ann Worth, probably was born in 1873. Isaphine Worth, a daughter of Chesterfield and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth, gave her father's name as "Dock Worth" on her marriage license application in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison were the parents of 7 children: Elizabeth Ann, Jesse, Clara Belle, Mellisa (Melessia M), Margaret, Isaphine, and Ethel Leona Worth. Annie Worth (Elizabeth Ann Worth) died at age 18. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, on September 23, 1891.
Chesterfield Worth apparently died in 1892 at Terre Haute, Indiana, probably sometime after March of that year. The 1892 Terre Haute City Directory lists Lucy Worth as the widow of Chesterfield. Ethel Leona Worth, the youngest child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, was born 8 January 1893 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Both the death certificate and the social security application form of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older show that her father was Chesterfield Worth and that her mother was Lucy Jane Harmison. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Lucy Jane Harmison, the only wife of Chesterfield Worth, remarried on 9 June 1896 in Terre Haute, Indiana to Jesse Lewellen Jr. Jesse was the widower of Elizabeth Ann Worth, a sister of Chesterfield. Jesse Lewellen and Elizabeth Worth were married in Montgomery County, Indiana, on 17 November 1864. "The proper Consent having been 1st filed by Jesse Lewallyn & John Worth a resident of said county." Jesse Lewallyn was the father of Jesse Lewellen, and John Worth was the father of Elizabeth Worth, Chesterfield's sister. The 1896 Vigo County marriage record proves Jesse Lewellen was the same man who married Elizabeth Ann Worth in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana. Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen died sometime after 25 March 1888 and before June 1896.
There is no reason to doubt Jesse Lewellen and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth knew each other many years before they married in 1896. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth named 2 of their children after Jesse and Elizabeth Lewellen. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, indicates the 1st female child of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth was named Elizabeth. Their 1st male child was named Jesse. A number of census records connect various members of the Worth and Lewellen families with Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan Lewellen, perhaps a cousin of Jessie Lewellen, married Martha A Worth, a sister or step-sister of Chesterfield Worth, on 21 April 1869, in Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan and Martha A (Worth) Lewellen are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana.
George Horn married Mary Jane Worth, a sister of Chesterfield, on 14 May 1866, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. In the same wedding ceremony, John C Worth, a brother of Chesterfield, married Matilda Horn, a sister of George Horn. John C Worth served in the 120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Records in his service file clearly identify him as a son of John Worth in Montgomery County, Indiana.
George and Mary Jane (Worth) Horn are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Franklin Township, Montgomery County. John C and Matilda (Horn) Worth and Jesse and Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen, are listed on the same page in the US Census for Indiana 1880 for Shannandale, Montgomery County. The father of Jesse Lewellen also was named Jesse Lewellen. He is listed in the US Census for Indiana 1870 Montgomery County, Franklin Township, with a post office of Shannandale. Lucy Jane (Harmison) (Worth) Lewellen died 30 January 1908 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Because she was impoverished, she was given a county burial. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, where her grave has no tombstone.
The following list provides information about the 7 children of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison:
1) Elizabeth Ann Worth was born in 1873 and died at age 18. According to records at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was buried September 23, 1891. She has no tombstone because she was impoverished and received a county burial. Elizabeth was named after Chesterfield Worth's sister who married Jesse Lewellen in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana.
2) Jesse Worth was born in February 1876 in Vermilion County, Illinois. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, lists Jesse in the Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth household as age 4, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana. The US Census for Indiana 1900 Vigo County, Jesse Lewellen household, lists Jessie Worth as born February 1876, age 24, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana.
The 1894 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a laborer at the J Hanley Mfg Co with residence at 22 Chesnut. The 1896 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a tobacco maker at Fred J Biel and a residence at 426 S Water.
Jesse Worth married Ida Mae Luther in Terre Haute, Indiana on 10 August 1901. Jesse Worth murdered his wife Iva May on 23 March 1925, a Monday. She was beaten to death and her body thrown on a river bank 3 miles south of Terre Haute. The Terre Haute Tribune on page 1, 24 March 1925, carried a gruesome picture of the murdered wife and the location where her body was found. An article also on page 1 of the paper indicates Jesse killed his wife at their home and grocery store at 1008 South 13th Street early Monday morning. The dead woman had been identified by a sister who telephoned (Jesse) Worth that his wife was in the morgue. A picture also appears on page 1 of the paper entitled "The Slayer", which presumably is a picture of Jesse Worth about the time of the murder. The 1930 Indiana census lists the home of a Jesse Worth, age 53, born about 1876, as Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana. The location is presumed to be that of an Indiana state prison.
3) Clara Belle Worth was born May 2, 1878, in Illinois. She married William H Duke. Clara Belle died 11 January 1967 in Long Beach, California. She was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Long Beach. Aunt Clara helped raise Ethel Leona Worth after the death of Chesterfield.
4) Mellisa (Melessia M) Worth married Cuby V Hutchings on 11 April 1898. She was erroneously listed as a son, not daughter, of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth on her birth record in Champaign County, Illinois. The birth record also gives Chesterfield Worth's middle initial as S.
5) Margaret Worth died in Norwalk, California. She married 1st: Weisenberg; 2nd: Riley. Bruce Weisenberg, a son, changed his name to Worth during World War II. Bruce Weisenberg had 2 daughters. His last known address was in Simi Valley, California.
6) Isaphine Worth was born in January 1885. She 1st married Herbert Kiefner on 29 July 1903. She later married a man with a last name of Strandtman in Houston, Texas. Helen Strandtman, a daughter, lived in Houston.
7) Ethel Leona Worth was born 8 January 1893, in Terre Haute, Indiana. She married Roy Burton Older on 1 March 1911 in Decatur, Illinois. Roy and Ethel were the parents of Truxton James, Wilma Jane, and Robert Burton Older. Ethel Leona (Worth) Older died at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Ventura County, California, 26 December 1976 at age 83. She is buried next to her husband at Springhill Cemetery in Danville, Illinois.
Pictures of Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth and the brothers and sisters of Ethel Leona Worth, excepting Melissa Worth, are in the possession of Curtis Lynn Older. Curtis is a grandson of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older. He obtained the pictures from Wilma Jane (Older) Zillman, a daughter of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older.
Chesterfield Worth is listed in the John Worth household in the US Census of Indiana 1850 and 1860. Chesterfield was not found in the US Census of Indiana or Illinois 1870. He did not live in the John Worth household in 1870. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth are in the US Census of Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township.(53)
married Lucy Jane Harmison 30 April 1872, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, USA, Illinois, Marriages, 1851-1900
to this union;
Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Worth (1873-23 September 1891)
Jesse Worth (February 1876-)
Clara Belle (Worth) Duke
Melissa A M Worth (20 August 1880-?) Mrs Cuby L Hutchings
Isaphine (Worth) Strandtman
Ethel Claire Leona (Worth) Older
Margaret Worth
this record will stand as where he is born until a burial record can be found. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Chesterfield Worth was born in 1850 in Rush County, Indiana. He probably was born between June 28th and July 12th. The US Census for Indiana 1850, enumerated 4 September lists Chesterfield D Worth as 1 year old. The US Census for Indiana 1860, enumerated 12 July lists Chester F D Worth as 10 years old. The US Census for Illinois 1880, enumerated 28 June lists Chesterfield Worth as age 29. The census records for 1850 and 1860 indicate Chesterfield Worth had a middle initial of "D". Chesterfield was the son of John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale. John Worth and Julia Ann Drysdale were married 5 June 1837, in Rush County, Indiana. According to the US Census for Indiana 1850, John and Julia Ann Worth were the parents of at least 6 children, all born in Indiana: Seth, James, John C, Mary J, Elizabeth, and Chesterfield Worth. Julia Ann (Drysdale) Worth died 10 April 1856 and was buried in the Old Boggstown Cemetery (now Gallagher Cemetery) at Boggstown, Shelby County, Indiana. John and Julia Worth may have had other children between the time of the 1850 census and the date of Julia's death in 1856.
John Worth married Mary Jane (Lemon) Stephens in Shelby County, Indiana on 1 January 1857. The US Census for Indiana 1860 for the John and Mary J Worth household probably includes children from both of their previous marriages. Chesterfield Worth married Lucy Jane Harmison. She was the daughter of Isaiah Harmeson and Melissa Perkins. Lucy Jane Harmison was born in April 1851 in the state of Indiana. A marriage record for Lucy Harmison and Doctor Dillon was found in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, with a 8 September 1872 marriage date. The 1st child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, Elizabeth Ann Worth, probably was born in 1873. Isaphine Worth, a daughter of Chesterfield and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth, gave her father's name as "Dock Worth" on her marriage license application in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison were the parents of 7 children: Elizabeth Ann, Jesse, Clara Belle, Mellisa (Melessia M), Margaret, Isaphine, and Ethel Leona Worth. Annie Worth (Elizabeth Ann Worth) died at age 18. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, on September 23, 1891.
Chesterfield Worth apparently died in 1892 at Terre Haute, Indiana, probably sometime after March of that year. The 1892 Terre Haute City Directory lists Lucy Worth as the widow of Chesterfield. Ethel Leona Worth, the youngest child of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth, was born 8 January 1893 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Both the death certificate and the social security application form of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older show that her father was Chesterfield Worth and that her mother was Lucy Jane Harmison. No will or estate papers have been found for Chesterfield Worth nor is it known where he is buried.
Lucy Jane Harmison, the only wife of Chesterfield Worth, remarried on 9 June 1896 in Terre Haute, Indiana to Jesse Lewellen Jr. Jesse was the widower of Elizabeth Ann Worth, a sister of Chesterfield. Jesse Lewellen and Elizabeth Worth were married in Montgomery County, Indiana, on 17 November 1864. "The proper Consent having been 1st filed by Jesse Lewallyn & John Worth a resident of said county." Jesse Lewallyn was the father of Jesse Lewellen, and John Worth was the father of Elizabeth Worth, Chesterfield's sister. The 1896 Vigo County marriage record proves Jesse Lewellen was the same man who married Elizabeth Ann Worth in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana. Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen died sometime after 25 March 1888 and before June 1896.
There is no reason to doubt Jesse Lewellen and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth knew each other many years before they married in 1896. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth named 2 of their children after Jesse and Elizabeth Lewellen. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, indicates the 1st female child of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth was named Elizabeth. Their 1st male child was named Jesse. A number of census records connect various members of the Worth and Lewellen families with Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan Lewellen, perhaps a cousin of Jessie Lewellen, married Martha A Worth, a sister or step-sister of Chesterfield Worth, on 21 April 1869, in Montgomery County, Indiana. Jonathan and Martha A (Worth) Lewellen are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Montgomery County, Indiana.
George Horn married Mary Jane Worth, a sister of Chesterfield, on 14 May 1866, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. In the same wedding ceremony, John C Worth, a brother of Chesterfield, married Matilda Horn, a sister of George Horn. John C Worth served in the 120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Records in his service file clearly identify him as a son of John Worth in Montgomery County, Indiana.
George and Mary Jane (Worth) Horn are listed in the US Census for Indiana 1880 in Shannandale, Franklin Township, Montgomery County. John C and Matilda (Horn) Worth and Jesse and Elizabeth (Worth) Lewellen, are listed on the same page in the US Census for Indiana 1880 for Shannandale, Montgomery County. The father of Jesse Lewellen also was named Jesse Lewellen. He is listed in the US Census for Indiana 1870 Montgomery County, Franklin Township, with a post office of Shannandale. Lucy Jane (Harmison) (Worth) Lewellen died 30 January 1908 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Because she was impoverished, she was given a county burial. She was buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, where her grave has no tombstone.
The following list provides information about the 7 children of Chesterfield Worth and Lucy Jane Harmison:
1) Elizabeth Ann Worth was born in 1873 and died at age 18. According to records at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was buried September 23, 1891. She has no tombstone because she was impoverished and received a county burial. Elizabeth was named after Chesterfield Worth's sister who married Jesse Lewellen in 1864 in Montgomery County, Indiana.
2) Jesse Worth was born in February 1876 in Vermilion County, Illinois. The US Census for Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township, lists Jesse in the Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth household as age 4, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana. The US Census for Indiana 1900 Vigo County, Jesse Lewellen household, lists Jessie Worth as born February 1876, age 24, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Indiana.
The 1894 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a laborer at the J Hanley Mfg Co with residence at 22 Chesnut. The 1896 Terre Haute City Directory lists Jesse Worth as a tobacco maker at Fred J Biel and a residence at 426 S Water.
Jesse Worth married Ida Mae Luther in Terre Haute, Indiana on 10 August 1901. Jesse Worth murdered his wife Iva May on 23 March 1925, a Monday. She was beaten to death and her body thrown on a river bank 3 miles south of Terre Haute. The Terre Haute Tribune on page 1, 24 March 1925, carried a gruesome picture of the murdered wife and the location where her body was found. An article also on page 1 of the paper indicates Jesse killed his wife at their home and grocery store at 1008 South 13th Street early Monday morning. The dead woman had been identified by a sister who telephoned (Jesse) Worth that his wife was in the morgue. A picture also appears on page 1 of the paper entitled "The Slayer", which presumably is a picture of Jesse Worth about the time of the murder. The 1930 Indiana census lists the home of a Jesse Worth, age 53, born about 1876, as Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana. The location is presumed to be that of an Indiana state prison.
3) Clara Belle Worth was born May 2, 1878, in Illinois. She married William H Duke. Clara Belle died 11 January 1967 in Long Beach, California. She was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Long Beach. Aunt Clara helped raise Ethel Leona Worth after the death of Chesterfield.
4) Mellisa (Melessia M) Worth married Cuby V Hutchings on 11 April 1898. She was erroneously listed as a son, not daughter, of Chesterfield and Lucy Worth on her birth record in Champaign County, Illinois. The birth record also gives Chesterfield Worth's middle initial as S.
5) Margaret Worth died in Norwalk, California. She married 1st: Weisenberg; 2nd: Riley. Bruce Weisenberg, a son, changed his name to Worth during World War II. Bruce Weisenberg had 2 daughters. His last known address was in Simi Valley, California.
6) Isaphine Worth was born in January 1885. She 1st married Herbert Kiefner on 29 July 1903. She later married a man with a last name of Strandtman in Houston, Texas. Helen Strandtman, a daughter, lived in Houston.
7) Ethel Leona Worth was born 8 January 1893, in Terre Haute, Indiana. She married Roy Burton Older on 1 March 1911 in Decatur, Illinois. Roy and Ethel were the parents of Truxton James, Wilma Jane, and Robert Burton Older. Ethel Leona (Worth) Older died at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Ventura County, California, 26 December 1976 at age 83. She is buried next to her husband at Springhill Cemetery in Danville, Illinois.
Pictures of Lucy Jane (Harmison) Worth and the brothers and sisters of Ethel Leona Worth, excepting Melissa Worth, are in the possession of Curtis Lynn Older. Curtis is a grandson of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older. He obtained the pictures from Wilma Jane (Older) Zillman, a daughter of Ethel Leona (Worth) Older.
Chesterfield Worth is listed in the John Worth household in the US Census of Indiana 1850 and 1860. Chesterfield was not found in the US Census of Indiana or Illinois 1870. He did not live in the John Worth household in 1870. Chesterfield and Lucy Jane Worth are in the US Census of Illinois 1880 Vermilion County, Oakwood Township.(53)
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