Biographical Sketch of P. R. Worsham, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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P. R. Worsham, a retired farmer, residing at Mountain Grove, Mo., was
born in East Tenn., May 18, 1827, his parents being Joseph and Melvina
(Lewis) Worsham.  They were born, reared and married in Virginia, after
which they immigrated to Tennessee, locating in the eastern portion of
the state, where the father died.  He was the father of five children,
four of whom lived to maturity, and after his death his widow, in 
company with her son, P. R. Worsham, came to Missouri, and died at her
son's home, in Texas county, in 1880, aged seventy-seven years.  P. R.
Worsham grew to manhood in Tenn., and was there married to Miss Nancy
Scott, who was born in East Tennessee in 1825, and is a daughter of
William and Susan (Parker) Scott.  Their union was blessed in the birth
of eleven children, the following of whom are living:  Sarah J., wife
of John W. Wallace; Mary E., wife of G. W. Hunter; Henderson; Susan,
wife of James Cardwell; Catherine, wife of F. Cardwell; Cordelia, wife 
of Grant Seburn; Alice, wife of James Mabon, the present treasurer of
Wright county.  The children deceased are Eliza (Mrs. Mitchell), who
died at the age of eighteen years; William, at the age of eleven 
months; David, at the age of two months, and Oliver, aged fourteen
months.  Mr. and Mrs. Worsham have also reared a grandson, Columbus
Mitchell, who is now a student in Mountain Grove Academy.  Mrs. 
Worsham's father was of Scotch-Irish descent, a farmer by occupation, 
and in 1841 immigrated from his native state of Tennessee to Missouri,
and died in St. Louis county.  Mr. Worsham came to Missouri in 1853,
locating first in Wright county, afterward in Texas county, making the
latter his home until 1886, when he concluded to retire from active
business life, and moved to Mountain Grove, but still retains his farm,
which consists of 340 acres.  He also has thirty-seven acres one mile
west of Mountain Grove, but lives in town.  He is a Republican in 
politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Masonic
fraternity.  For twenty years he was postmaster of Pleasant Ridge, and
holds his commission as justice of the peace.
 
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