Caldwell County MO Archives History .....SAMUEL WORTHINGTON FAMILY IN MILL CREEK DISTRICT 
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THE SAMUEL WORTHINGTON FAMILY IN MILL CREEK DISTRICT
	HAMILTON TOWNSHIP 1874
	Narrator:  William Worthington, 69

     William Worthington is a son of Samuel J. Worthington, who settled near 
Hamilton in 1874.  He was born in England as was his wife.  They came to 
America and for 14 years, he was a printer in or around New York City.  He had 
several boys, and he desired to raise them in the country instead of the 
city.  He met a man named Roland in N.Y. City and they traded; in the trade 
Worthington got a farm in Caldwell county southwest of Hamilton.  He took it 
sight unseen, as many people did then.
     When they arrived, they found a house, half log and half frame in which 
Charley Streeter was living.  Mr. Worthington was not a farmer by nature and 
the boys did the work.  He worked in town as a printer, was a printer for Wm. 
Morton when he started the old Hamiltonian in 1879.  The boys had to hitch up 
a horse for their father, he was so ignorant of farm ways at first.  He and 
his wife are buried in Highland cemetery in Hamilton.
     S.J. Worthington had as neighbors in the Mill creek district the Simpson, 
Farabee, Tatershall, Doddridge and George Gibson families.  He owned 160 acres 
and at his death, it was divided among his children.  William Worthington just 
recently sold his part to his nephew, so the Worthington homestead is still in 
Worthington hands.  William came into the county when he was 8 years old and 
has seen the town change much.  He has quite a reputation as a local old 
fashioned fiddler, and knows many of the old tunes.  However, he plays by note 
and not by ear.
     Interview  1935.


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