Biography of William Worrell, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 186

William Worrell, stockman and farmer, was born in Tennessee in 1839, and is
the tenth of twelve children born to Peter and Martha Nancy Worrell, who were born,
reared and married in Virginia, and emigrated to Madison County, Tenn., in 1833. They
purchased a farm of 103 acres, which they improved and made their home until their
respective deaths. The father died in 1874 at the age of seventy-four years, and the
mother when her son William was a child. The latter was reared to farm labor and
attended the public schools until the age of twenty, then renting land and farming
for three years. In 1862 he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Tennessee Infantry,
Confederate States Army, and was in the battles of Belmont, Richmond and
Murfreesboro, where he was captured and sent to Camp Douglas, at Chicago, and there
he took the oath of allegiance and returned home, where he was almost an invalid for
three years. In 1864 he purchased a farm of 303½ acres, where he resided until 1871,
making many improvements, then sold out and came to Greene County, Ark., settling
near Gainesville, where he lived for two years, later moving to a tract of 360 acres,
which he had previously purchased. Here he cleared [p.186] about 150 acres, erected
good buildings, set out orchards, and now has one of the most pleasant homes in the
county, but owns only eighty acres, having sold the rest. He has given considerable
attention to stock raising, and raises a good grade of Berkshire hogs. March 20,
1888, he purchased a fine Norman-Percheron stallion, named George, which weighs 1,660
pounds, and is finely marked in all points. This animal has an excellent record from
Indiana where it was raised, and shows a fine grade of colts from last season. It is
undoubtedly one of the best horses in Northeast Arkansas. He also owns another horse
named Brick, which has an enviable record. On the 7th of July, 1859, Mr. Worrell was
united in marriage to Miss Ann Eliza Freeman, a native of Tennessee, and a daughter
of William and Nancy Freeman, who were also Tennesseeans, coming to Northeast
Arkansas in 1859. To Mr. and Mrs. Worrell have been born the following children: John
Isaac, who is married and resides in Greene County, and Loueza, wife of J. R. Hicks,
also of this county, being the only ones living. Those deceased are Newson, who died
at the age of twenty years; Lulu Bell, who died when eighteen: Willie, at the age of
sixteen; Savannah, who died in infancy, and Eveline, at the age of eight years. The
family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Worrell taken considerable
interest in the culture of bees, and has forty stands, all doing well.