born to Joseph R Worth (1781 – 1812) and Lettice Petty (1785 – 1829)

married Paulina Johannah Eldridge 1826 in Indiana, USA

Their children;

Eliza Jane Worth
1829 – 1868

Lewis William Worth
1831 – 1916

Paulina Worth
1834 –

Julia Ann Worth
1837 – 1850

Mary Elizabeth (Worth) Peoples
1839 – 1906

Joseph Zeno Worth
1848 – 1885

1810 United States Federal Census about Z Warth
Name: Z Worth
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 3
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2
Number of Household Members Under 16: 5
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 12

1830 United States Federal Census about Zeno Worth
Name: Zeno Worth
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Orange, Indiana
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5

1840 United States Federal Census about Zeno Wath
Name: Zeno Worth
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Lawrence, Indiana
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Persons Employed in Manufacture and Trade: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 6

U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 about Zeno Worth
Name: Zeno Worth
Issue Date: 1 Jul 1823
Acres: 80
Meridian: 2nd PM
State: Indiana
County: Parke, Vermillion
Township: 17-N
Range: 9-W
Section: 9
Accession Number: IN0880__.205
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Terre Haute
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number: 711

I'm assuming that the death information from other trees I have found is correct. I have not found any death records or burial records, so if you find it, please advise.

This family endured terrible tragedy. Zeno and Paulina both died young (from disease) and their children were split up and separated and some endured terrible treatment by the hands of their new caregivers. I believe it was Joseph Zeno, the youngest boy that was taken by a preacher's family temporarily. He cried for his mother so hard one night that the Mrs. threw him out of the house. He spent the night in the house he grew up in, cold, lonely, hungry and crying throughout the night for his mother. He was only about 3. When his older sister found out about it later, she asked her new "mother" to take him out of that home and find a better home for him. In her letters she says that this woman did take him out of that home and found him a more suitable home, but the sister never saw her brother again. :( The other children were kept separated for YEARS. Hopefully they did reunite in their latter years.

Son Lewis William moved his family from Indiana to Nauvoo, Illinois whose children survived the terrible violence that took place about 1847.