Cumberland-Bladen County NcArchives Obituaries.....Worth, Fatima January 10, 1898
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Fayetteville Observer, Thursday Evening January 13, 1898 Vol. II Number 296
IN MEMORIAM
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	Mrs. Fatima Worth, widow of the late Joseph Addison Worth, died on 
yesterday morning at her residence on Haymount, in the 74th year of her age.
	She came here with her husband in the early fifties, having four 
children: Albert H.; Miriam, who afterwards married the late Duncan O’Hanlon; 
John, and Lou, the latter marrying Edwin Anders, of Bladen, and dying a year or 
two ago.  After coming here, there were born to her: Stephen; Kate, now Mrs. 
Thomas Murphy, of Salisbury; Irene, now Mrs. John S. Moody, of Rockland, Me., 
and Augusta, wife of N. A. Sinclair, Esq, Mrs. Worth’s maiden name was Walker, 
and her people, of Randolph, were of Quaker origin.
	As memory treads the path between this next door neighbor’s and the 
writer—well-trodden these forty years—it finds no places to step over.  Her 
tastes, pleasures and work in life were all domestic; work was to her a 
pleasure, and she pitied those, too proud, too lazy, or too good to work.  Her 
word about household affairs was authority; an helpmeet was she to her husband, 
and home and its belongings filled her ideas of wifely duty.  Mrs. Worth had 
full measure of woman’s crowning grace.  She had as lief wear a fashionable 
bonnet as serve on a public committee.
	Blest with a sweet voice, gentle manners and a kindly heart, the last 
guest who came to her house (oftimes crowded to overflowing) received as hearty 
a welcome as the first.  Having a keen sence of the ludicrous, she heartily 
enjoyed a joke, but was never so happy as when giving pleasure to those around 
her.  Her eye fell instinctively upon the weakling, and he or she was sure to 
receive her delicate attentions.  The sick will miss her cheerful presence; the 
poor will miss her liberal hand.
	A useful life has run its allotted race; a sheaf of golden grain, full 
ripe, has fently bowed its head, and had its rich fruitage first threshed, then 
garnered by the reaper.
	And now strong, robust, rugged manhood—hindered in other ways – would 
pay this feeble tribute to her memory.  B. Fayetteville, Jan. 11.

Additional Comments:
Joseph Addison Worth was the son of David Worth, and a brother of Governor 
Jonathan Worth, and Barzilli Gardner Worth, a Wilmington, NC businessman.  
According to one source, J. A. Worth was the agent for the Cape Fear Steamboat 
Lines, in Fayetteville, NC during 1866-‘7.

Albert H. Worth married Almeda “Meda” Hurt, the daughter of Captain A. P. Hurt 
and Morgiana C. Erambert of Fayetteville.  In 1873, Captain A. H. Worth 
replaced Captain Samuel W. Skinner as pilot for the river steamer, “A. P. 
Hurt.”  Shortly before the Great Fire of Wilmington, in 1886, that destroyed 
the steamer, “River Queen,”  Captain A. H. Worth had retired to his plantation 
on the Cape Fear near Kelly’s Cove.

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