The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-21
College has also stated that most coat Of arnis
now used In America, nro claimed on cons!
- MANI = ~
Worsharn.
a demand for something OF this old family
Is here complied with SO far as our statistics

is here complied with SO far as our statistics
/: 1t als,n pity we cannot head this sketch wish
the arms OF tho family, which they deserve
as OF English descent, though some say they
thirteenth century from Worthe Or wnrth. as
a farmstead. rho name Is frequently met with
as Workman and Worsham,t both evidently de-
rived from the Same origin. G3 & n Re
The first to come to Virginia during tho:
his name no
but his children were Samuel, William,
Thomas, John. who went to North Carolina,
Martha Faerer, and settled near Petersburg,
where he owned and lived at q place called
Ricketts," Their children were Daniel, born
y 12f, and died 1908. Anne married Joseph Row.
lett; Thon,aa died at the age of nineteen; VIII
liam married Anne Trotter There may haye
been other children in both these generations
which have not been recorded.
Dahlel Worshnm married Elizabeth Branch
Woraham, widow OF his cousin. John Worsham
sham were only two. Martha, who married
Abran Matiry, and Daniel. who married -. ...----.
The ehidrsa Of Branch snd her first
major In Revolution army, and died in SERVICE
aged twenty-five; William. his brother was
: Robertson; Lucy. who married a Scott; Henry,
who was mortaly wounded at the battle OF
cowpers, and Thomas Martin Worsham. who:
married Major Abram Maury,8 moved to Ten
nessee in l79-;$ their children were Elizabeth
Branch Maury. who married first Majo John;
lteiu, ald-ue-cAlnp 10 General AnQre" ~ Ack-s
of John Reid; Matthew Fontaine Maury, died
young; Daniel Worsham Maury never married; I
Abrarn Pondexter Maury. married Mary Clai.
horne; Martha Fontalne Maury. married Cary
Harris; William Henry Maury, married q
Worsh1m; 2eberlons NJ. Pike Maury, married
+ Virginia. Ashton: Elizabeth Branch Maury5
Z Reid, and Dr. Brnnois Reid. hnve many de-
scendants scattered over tho South and West:
the Worshams, too ( are to be found In North
Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, II Indiana
and Kentucky, and many other States. beside
Virginia and Maryland, where the first
rs We also gather the following from St. Johns
parish records as to the first OF the family:3
Y, Thomas Watkins Of Cumberland uni ei county,
! his ancestry lis not clearly known. II SON,
4 13enjamn Watkins. first clark Of Chesterfield.
benjamin Watkins, first clerk Of Chesterfield
was Frances Watkins, who married w liam
Kinney (or& F1nnle), OF Amelia county, From
this Watkins Finney} marriage, arc descended
the Worshams." But how ", the +; name ' 81 aWor.
state. We find, however, that 92s,'A Mrs Francs
Watkins 4Finney. was aunt Of theScele1rated
benjamin Watkins Leigh, a a name E1lnap7
n Turning again to the Henrico records Of early:
date, we find many names OF both orsham'
and "Worthnrn.'' John Worsha1n was church
warden and vestry1nnn Y, in the church at
| called Captain John iWorshnIn and we may
Spresum6 he was in the Cont !nental army. WE
find also Joseph and w lllan, w reham IN
name name, & showing they descended from, the
"nobility.,' and entitled \ to coat -ar1nor but
Though we do not find any nrlnor described
to them, yet they could claim y through the
From this, Captain John Worsham and his
children. are descended the iWorsham's OF
Richmond, where they have always had some
representative OF high standing and worth.
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