Melzar Lorin WORTHLEY

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Hannah F. WHITNEY

(1) Sedgeley, Geo. B., Micah Whitney, Revolutionary Soldier and His Twelve Children Settled Early in Philips, Maine

  1. Alphonso WORTHLEY
  2. Elbridge Thaxter WORTHLEY
  3. Millie WORTHLEY
  4. Hannah Emma WORTHLEY
  5. Helen WORTHLEY
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Notes

Updated May 12, 2013. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips: August 21, 1850.

Melzar L WORTHLEY is head of household, married to Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY. He is 37 years old, and a farmer born in Maine with real estate valued at $450. Children in the household are Alphonso, Elbridge and Milla F. WORTHLEY.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips, Phillips Post Office; Page 10 June 19, 1860.

Melzar L. WORTHLEY is head of household, married to Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY. Children in the household are Alphonso C., Elbridge, Hannah E., and Hellen WORTHLEY.

- Age: 47.
- Estate: $100 in Real Estate, $600 in Personal Estate
- Birthplace: Maine
- Occupation: House joiner

(3) 1870 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips (Phillips Post Office): page 5; June 11, 1870.

Melzar L. WORTHLEY (spelled "Worthly") is head of household, married to Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY. He is 56 years old, born in Massachusetts and a carriage maker with $900 in personal estate. Their daughter Helen M. WORTHLEY resides with them.

(4) 1880 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Farmington: Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 70; page 41; June 25, 1880.

Melzar L. WORTHLEY is head of household, married to Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY. He is 66 years old and is a cooper. He was born in Maine as was his mother (his father's birthplace is not listed.

(5) Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Melzar Laring WORTHLEY
- Gender: Male
- Age: 84 years, 5 months
- Birth Date: abt 1812
- Death Date: 7 Aug 1896
- Death Place: Farmington
- Cause of Death: Old Age
- Registration Place: Farmington, Franklin
- Father: Thomas WORTHLEY (a farmer)
- Mother: Hannah TURNER
- Occupation: Carpenter

(6) Sedgeley, Geo. B., Micah Whitney, Revolutionary Soldier and His Twelve Children Settled Early in Philips, Maine; Jacob and Joseph Whitney Came to Phillips 1792; Salmon Whitney Appeared in Letter E Plantation 1810 (Farmington, Maine: The Knowlton & McLeary Co., Printers, 1943), pages 28-29.

"Hannah… married Lorin WORTHLEY; lived in Phillips in the house where Whitman TOOTHAKER lives... used the house on the rock near the river for a wood-working shop and cooper shop; was living in the Dr. CURRIER house in 1869 freshet, then moved to Farmington."

"Children, order of birth not known, except that Helen was the youngest: (I) Thaxter WORTHLEY, came home on a cot from the Civil War; died soon after; (II) Alphonso WORTHLEY, went to California; (III) Millie WORTHLEY, married Edward GLEASON, lived in Mexico; four children; had one pair twins; (IV) Emma WORTHLEY, married Charles B. BANGS, lived in Farmington, Maine, for a time, then removed to Massachusetts, Bangs was a native of Salem, Maine, had five children; (V) Helen WORTHLEY, born about 1860; married Edward C. MERRILL, dentist, of Farmington, Maine; had six children, one pair of twins, resides in Farmington."

(7) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 87.