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Submitted by James T.  Worthy (need updated email please)

John H Worthy was born 1817 Putnam Co Georgia to parents of William Worthy and Mary Polly Respess.  Mary was

the daughter of Richard Respess a former Revolutionary War soldier from North Carolina living in Putnam Co.   When

John H was 5 years old the two families of Worthy and Respess migrated west into the Indian territory of what is

present day Upson County Georgia.  They established plantations near the Flint River forming the boundary line of

Talbot/Upson counties, on the Waymanville  Rd. 12 miles from Thomaston.    At 18 years of age John H joined the

Georgia Mounted Militia during the Creek Indian Wars.   He advanced in rank from Private to Sergeant and
eventually in 1840, to Captain.   During this time period he met and married Mary Margaret Jones of Fayette Co 

Georgia October 9 1838.    In the mid 1850s John H moved his family to Haralson County near Buchanan Georgia. 

There began courtships and intermarrying of the Worthy siblings and those of  John Kellett Holcombe.   On 25 March

1862 John H was enlisted in the Confederate Army at 45 years of age.    He was assigned to the 35th Ga Haralson

Brown Guards, and attached to Gen A. P. Hill's Light Infantry under Gen . Stonewall Jackson's command fighting

 in Virginia.  John H was on the field of battle when his Son in Law, Reuben Holcomb was killed at Seven Pines, Virginia

May 31, 1862.   Reuben was the 22 year old Son of John Kellett Holcomb, married to John H's daughter Martha,    

John H was also on the field of battle when the other Son, William Martin Holcomb, was killed at Cedar Mountain, Va.

September 7, 1862.  After a couple of years the 30 mile over night marches made by Gen Jackson, and the fighting of

his brigades the next day, without benefit of sleep or food, began to wear down the 45 year old  John H.   He was given

 a medical discharge due to failing night vision and rheumatism on 25 October 1864.   John H returned to his farm

outside Buchanan.

Baby held by John W is one of three daughters born to John W and Isabell Willis
This picture taken in 1894

John W Worthy
B: May 1853 Upson Co Georgia
Son of John H Worthy & Mary M Jones
M: 1st Emily Hannah Holcombe
Dau. Of John K Holcombe and Rachel C Morris 2nd Isabell Jacob/Willis Widow of John Willis
D: ca 1923 Haralson Co Buried in Macedonia Cemetery
Buchanan, Georgia

Robert Edward Worthy
B: 1882 in Haralson Co.
Son of John W Worthy and Emily Hannah Holcombe
M: 1 st Sarah Elizabeth Bollen
Dau of Thomas and Alvina Bollen of Buchanan
2nd Julia Wesson of Cedartown Georgia
D: 1975 Griffm Georgia

John H Worthy
B: 1817 Putnam Co Georgia
Son of William Worthy and Mary Polly Respess M: Mary Margaret Jones Fayette Co Ga.
D: ca 1895 Haralson Co.

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