Thomas S. Worthington
Thomas S. Worthington, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Joseph and Harriet Worthington, whose biography appears elsewhere in this book. He was born in Fairfield Township, Highland County, Ohio, August 18, 1829. At the age of seventeen, he was placed by his father in charge of his large farm, on tlie waters of Rattlesnake Creek, in this township. Here he remained, and continued to work for his father, until he was twenty-seven years of age, when he married Sarilda Parey, daughter of Samuel Parey, of Highland County. She died in one year and six months after her marriage. Mr. Worthington married for his second wife, Mrs. Margaret Spencer (formerly Margaret Persinger), by whom he had two children Joseph Burnell, now married, and living on his father's farm, and Harriet, also married, and living on the home farm.
Mr. Worthington's farm contains some fifteen hundred acres of as rich, fertile land as can be found in the county, all in one body, being on the east side of Rattlesnake Creek, reaching up to the Snow Hill pike, and situated on both sides of the Charleston road. The entire farm is under fence, and in a good state of cultivation. Much of it is used for meadow and grazing purposes. Our subject confines himself strictly to his business, giving personal attention to the varied interests of this large farm.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County