Daily Republican., 1889-09-17
MRS. ANN WORRILOW.
A PERSONAL SKETCH OF HER
HISTORY.
Where Born, Where She Lived and Her
DeatIl-AIember OF the NJ. Il. Church
Over Seventy Years-A Quiet
Christian Life.

Mr.. A. @. Brintop, of this city. con-
tributes the following In regard to the
life and death of Mrs. Ann Farra Worri-
low, who died at Chester, Pa, Tuesday,
September 10th, and was buried at Mt.
Hope Cemetery the following Saturday,
after hearing the remarks OF Rev, Father
Hance, the pastor of Mt. Hope Church,
and Friend P. Miles Frame. The de-
ceased was 97 years, 10 months and 2G
days old.
Father Hanoe, near her age. and Mrs.
Worrilow had been classmates In their
early Christian life 10 years ago, aud
keeping up tho acquaintance ever since,
was able to tell as no others could the
standing ot the sister as a Methodist. He
referred to bis long acquaintance with
the sister, who had been one OF the con-
Meeting links between the present and the
past for nearly one hundred years. He
also referred to what had been accom-
pitched In that time, Of the bright pros
pscts ahead, and what would have been
the results II the religion Of our Lord
Jesus Christ had been lived up to as the
early Methodists started out to do, over
one hundred and twenty years ago, at
Bethel hamlet In 1769. Tho following is
a brief account Of the family of Ann
EaIra Worrilow;
Her forefathers on her mothers side
were Mennonites or Hernhutters, who
settled in Montgomery county in 1884.
On her fathers side they were members
OF the church OF England. John Farra
and Susanna Dsnnet were married by
the Episcopal minister at Whitemarsh
township, Montgomery county, Pa, in
the fort part Of 1859 and Joined tie Epis-
rnnal Oh, hp Eo a
miller by trade and rented q mill In the
neighborhood and remained there until
one child was born. Then they moved to
Chester county near the Brandywine
Manor Church to mill, where they
lived some time. Then they moved to
Reg ynoids' mill on Mill Greek, New Gas.
tie county, Delaware where they re-
mained awhile, and then they leased and
removed to Reece's mill (Kiamensi)
just below Hersey's mill on Red Clay
Creek, now The village Of hIarshalton.
Here they remained for several years and
had the families Of Isaac and Solomon
Hersey for their peiRhbors, they being
the leading Methodist peop!o In that Sec
tion and very good and consistent
Christian people. Solomon Hersey, EN-.
ployed ON the DAILY REPUBLICAN sta6,
is the only direct descendant OF the
Hersey family now In Delaware, bui
there arc several residing in Yorb
county, Pa. Benjamin Hersey, the
grandfather of the Wilmington Jour
nalist, lived where B. r. Duncan now
livee, and Solomon Hersey, the grea'
grandfather, lived In Bohemia Manor.
Bishop Francis Asbury and the othei
old fathers OF Methodism made preach
| ing stations at both their homes, and 1
am not mistaken Mr.. Hersey In thi
city has tie bible out OF which B!shoI
Asbury preached.
The following were John and susanni
Farra's children:
Daniel, born at Whitemarsh, Mont
gome.Y County, January 10, 1890.
Ann, born In Chester County, Novem
ber z, 1791.t
susanns. born 10 Chester County, No
ycmb7i y, 1705.
,ohn G., born In Delaware, Februar!
g, 1908.
Charles, born in Delaware. juno IA
1900.
While at Kiamensi the family ATTENDED
and were members Of st. james Episco
pal Church, near Stanton.
In 1907 John Farra bought the old
mill OF T. s. J. Gibson iu Beaver Valley
ard moved there and soon afterward
Joined st. Johns Episcopal Church q
Concord, Delaware County, and con
tinued to be members as long as the
lived, and Daniel and John @. and thei
families sill are members Of that de
nomination.
But Charles, the youngest son, in hi
10Th year, went to a Methodist CAM
meeting In Talley's woods, Brandywln
| .uA he Nd II
converted at the same meeting, and Join
1919, and they were as intimate as broth
ers while Charles Farra lived.
Coon after Charles Joined the Netho
dists at Bethel, Ann, the sister, was con
verted and Joined, and her ard he
brother Charles and Samuel Hance al
belonged to the same olas, at the sam
time.
Susanna married a Keithite, neithe
! Quaker nor Episcopalian but sect be
tween the two. But IN 1883 she joinet
the BraudywIne Baptist Church, re
naming a sincere Christiana until sh,
died, July %, 1885, aged 80 years,
months and 26 days
John G. Farra died In 1871, but BIZ
family resides In Wilmington aud ar,
members of the Epitcopal church.
Charles Farra, already alluded 70, mar
| ried Ann Carey, live Methodist, ant
| they novel to Wilmington, where b,
died 10 les. When he removed to VII
mington he Joined Asbury NJ. E. Church
and was an active live membsr. TIL,
| Carey family are still bonored member
| of the Methodist churches 10 Whining
| ton.
Ann Farra, :who married Benjamin
| WorriIow, and who was buried last Sat
urday, was the mother OF nine children
four OF whom survive her, Franklin Wor
rilow, OF Phi'adeiphia; Mrs. Susar
keenan,, John +. Worrilow, of Willis
town, Chester County, and Mrs. Z. A.
Hall, Village Green, Delaware County
Daniel Farra, well. known In this city,
Is a nephew OF the deceased, and Thomst
| Worrilow, also well known, Is a nephew
| on her mothers side. The summary Of
her living progeny foots up four children,
twenty grandchildren and thirty We
great grandchildren.
Having christian parents she began the
| christian lie early. She could read the
new testament when che was but four
| years old, and since has been grea,
reader OF christian books, as well as the
news Of the day.
To converse with her two or three
years ago 1t might be thought that she
remembered all she read since she was
| four years old. She retained her mind
| and memory In remarkable degree, and
| could converse with her friends intelll.
gently until within few weeks of her
| death, when O throat trouble prevented
her from talking, She was remarkable
woman, aboundirg In the perfection oi
christian graces. We'll may Father
| Hance, VITO is iu- his 92d year, and who
| h al knnun her inilnnatelv AZ a Inpnah bar