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George Washington Worley

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Birth	:	19 Dec 1855 Ashland County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	22 Jul 1944 Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA
Burial	:	Fairmont Cemetery, Fairmont, Robeson County, USA
Coordinate	:	34.4926000, -79.0988600
Description	:	George married Anna Mary Liggett on Sep. 16, 1886. They had three children: Beryl Elisha and Lucile E. and one that died in infancy. G. W. WORLEV. George W. Worley, county superintendent of schools of Kosciusko county, Indiana, and now residing in the city of Warsaw, is a native of the Buckeye state and was born in Ashland county. December 19, 1855, but has lived in Kosciusko county, Indiana, since his tenth year, his parents. Elisha R. and Mary J. Worley. having come to the county in 1865. The father for six years was engaged in the drug business at Silver... Read More	George married Anna Mary Liggett on Sep. 16, 1886. They had three children: Beryl Elisha and Lucile E. and one that died in infancy. G. W. WORLEV. George W. Worley, county superintendent of schools of Kosciusko county, Indiana, and now residing in the city of Warsaw, is a native of the Buckeye state and was born in Ashland county. December 19, 1855, but has lived in Kosciusko county, Indiana, since his tenth year, his parents. Elisha R. and Mary J. Worley. having come to the county in 1865. The father for six years was engaged in the drug business at Silver Lake and then settled on a farm in Lake township, where his wife died in 1884, and where he still lives, at the age of seventy five years. He is a Republican in politics and a Lutheran in religion and aided in founding the First Lutheran society at Silver Lake and financially in erecting the church edifice. The children born to Elisha R. and Mary J. Worley are two in number. namely: Dora, wife of Benjamin F. Van Camp, of Warsaw, and G. W.. whose name opens this biographical memoir. George W. Worley was educated fundamentally in the common schools at Silver Lake, but was so well instructed that he was able at the youthful age of sixteen years to enter upon the vocation of teacher. His first school was known as No. 2, of Seward township, and his pupils were nearly all older than himself. But he proved to be fully adequate for the position, and his great success led him to decide upon teaching as his future pursuit in life. Many of his earlier pupils have also become teachers or members of other professions, some of them being quite prominent in their various callings. Mr. Worley's plan as an instructor was to mingle freely with his pupils and thus become familiar with their individual dispositions and win their confidence, a plan that proved to be fraught with satisfactory results and which he still adheres to. During vacations Mr. Worley attended the North Indiana Normal Institute at Valparaiso and resumed teaching when the summer season had passed. With the exception of six years when engaged in the manufacture of brick and tile at Silver Lake. Mr. Worley has taught school continuously. For three years he was principal of the school at Brookston, White county, but the remainder of the time has been devoted to the schools of Kosciusko county, six years of this time as principal at Silver Lake. He has always taken much interest in the educational work of the county and attends all teachers' meetings and society gatherings. In December, 1895, Mr. Worley was elected county superintendent of schools and assumed the duties of the position at once, succeeding Prof. E. J. McAlpine, who died in office. Since entering upon his official duties Mr. Worley has been an enthusiastic friend of high schools and within the past seven years has encouraged their organization, six of which have been organized under his instrumentality, making fourteen in all, five being township high schools at Oswego, Sidney, Beaver Dam, Claypool and Burket, all others being; joint schools, or mixed high and common. Any county pupil may now secure a high-school training and be fully prepared to enter college. The attendance at the high schools has increased one hundred per cent. There are one hundred and sixty-six country schools in the county, in which are two hundred and twelve teachers, of whom about twenty-live per cent, have had normal training. An institute held each fall is counted as a part of the school year, and a teachers' association holds a session of two days at each Thanksgiving vacation. About ninety-five per cent, of the teachers attend both. The abandonment of small schools and better work in central schools, with closer grading, or better preparation for high school, is now the prevailing idea. Prof. G. W. Worley was united in marriage in 1886 at West Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Anna Liggett, who had been one of his pupils in Kosciusko county and had finished her education in the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary. Of the three children born to this marriage Beryl is now nine years old, Lucy is seven, and one child died in infancy. Fraternally Prof. Worley is a member of the Masonic brotherhood, is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, a Red Man and a member of the Tribe of Ben Hur. He has passed all the chairs in the Odd Fellows subordinate lodge, has sat in the grand lodge and is a member of the grand encampment. In politics he is active as a Republican and has served as a delegate to various conventions of his party, while socially he and his wife stand deservedly as favorites.

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George Washington Worley's memorial is located at: Fairmont Cemetery, Fairmont, Robeson County, USA.
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George Washington Worley death on 22 Jul 1944 in Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA
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Latitude: 34.4926000
Longitude: -79.0988600

Family Members:

Parent

Elisha Rig Worley

(1826 - 1906)

Mary Jane Rowland Worley

(1828 - 1885)

Spouse

Anna Mary Liggett Worley

(1864 - 1946)

Siblings

Children

Ralph Lewis Worley

(1887 - 1888)

Beryl Elisha Worley

(1892 - 1971)

Lucile E. Worley Fulk

(1894 - 1958)

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Coordinate: 34.4926000, -79.0988600

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Coordinate: 34.4901581, -79.0622529

18. Andrews Family Cemetery
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19. Mount Zion Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery
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23. Atkinson Family Cemetery
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24. Spring Branch Baptist Church Cemetery
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