BIO: Sarah Worley, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

573  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  SARAH WORLEY, Shepherdstown, is a daughter of George and Anna M. 
Daugherty, one of the old and prominent families of York County, Penn., 
where they were born and bred, and reared a family of nine children:  
Sarah, Ann, Maria, John, George, William H., Emma J., Rachael E. and 
Thomas L.  Though these children were all born in York County, all live 
in Cumberland County except Emma and Thomas L.  Our subject was born 
April 23, 1828.  March 26, 1854, she was married to William W. Kline, a 
son of William and Jane (Goudy) Kline.  They commenced housekeeping 
near Siddensburg, where Mr. Kline, a millwright by trade, worked at his 
business for some time.  They came to Shepherdstown in 1855 and took 
charge of the only hotel in the place, and there prospered.  To Mr. and 
Mrs. Kline were born five children:  Mary H., born January 28, 1855???, 
is the wife of John E. Acker, of Mansfield, Ohio; Benjamin, married to 
Ella T. Brubaker, manages a hotel at Hogestown, this county; Jane A., 
William R. and Ella M.  W. W. Kline entered the army in 1861, served 
nine months, and then re-enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and 
Ninetieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  He participated in 
the thickest of the fight at the bloody battle of Gettysburg, and in 
many a hotly contested skirmish of the Virginia campaign.  While his 
regiment was guarding the railroad at Weldon, N. C., it was captured by 
the rebels and the men confined in Libby prison, the name of which is 
yet spoken of with horror by everyone who was unfortunate enough to 
experience the sufferings entailed upon the miserable victims confined 
within its walls.  Three months after his captivity, November 25, 1864, 
the veteran soldier, kind husband and loving father was borne from that 
miserable place an emaciated corpse.  Death had released him from 
suffering further privations; hunger, thirst and cold were remembered 
no more; of wife and children were his last thoughts.  In 1868 Mrs. 
Kline was again married, this time to J. B. Worley, a well known 
business man of this county, and after their marriage again engaged in 
hotel business in New Cumberland, and prospered.  No children were born 
to this union.  In 1875 [?] Mr. Worley died, leaving his widow and 
step-children well provided for.  The mother of Mrs. Worley, who still 
lives with her son George, has attained the ripe old age of eighty 
years.