THIRD GENERATION

William L. Worth (c1830-c1878) and Temperance "Tempa" Sapp (1835-1888)

William L. Worth was born about 1830 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, the son of James Worth and Elizabeth McKenny. Moving with his parents to Irwin County, Georgia shortly after his birth, about 1847 William married Temperance Sapp (1835-1887), daughter of Enoch Sapp and Ruthy Barrow. William and Tempy had seven children in Irwin and later Clinch Counties before the outbreak of the Civil War

During the war William served two tours of duty in Georgia units, first enlisting in Savannah on October 1, 1861 for a 12-month tour in Company E (later Company H, the "Alapaha Guards") in the 29th Regiment of Georgia Volunteer Infantry, where he was stationed along the Georgia coast on Sapelo Island and near Savannah. Although he saw now battlefield action during his first year, William later enlisted in Company I of the 4th Regiment of Georgia Cavalry under Colonel Duncan L. Clinch at Waynesville, Ga. on March 18, 1863. Under the command of General G.T. Beauregard, William's unit saw action during the enemy occupation of Jacksonville, Florida, and along the Georgia coast at Brunswick, Darien, and St. Marys. On February 24, 1864, William also fought in the Battle of Olustee in northern Florida, during which Colonel Clinch and 3 other men were killed.

After the war, William remained in Coffee County until about 1873, when he relocated his entire family to central Florida in Manatee County, where William died about 1878. Tempy died a decade later in Hardee County. 

1. James L. Worth, born February 5, 1848; partner of Frances "Fannie" Cato c1865-71 in Coffee Co., Ga., married 1st Elizabeth Rebecca Underhill on August 6, 1872 in Manatee Co., Florida (divorced 1882), married 2nd Celia Stokes on May 6, 1884 in Manatee Co., Florida; died March 9, 1913 in Manatee Co., Florida
2. Wilson H. Worth, born c1850; married Diey Anna _______ in 1870 in Ware Co., Ga.
3. Sarah "Sally" Worth, born March 11, 1853; died March 11, 1908 in Coffee Co., Ga.
4. John Hamilton Worth, born July 8, 1854; married Scina Page Sparkman on October 7, 1880 in Manatee Co., Florida; died October 7, 1923 in Polk Co., Fla.
5. Henry Rohan Worth, born March 25, 1857; married Virginia _______ c1883 in Florida
6. Elizabeth Worth, born c1859; married Solomon W. Hunter on April 7, 1881 in Manatee Co., Florida; died May 30, 1887 in Manatee Co., Fla.
7. William Worth, born April 9, 1861; married Mahala Whidden on January 14, 1886 in DeSoto Co., Florida; died May 2, 1934 in Hillsborough Co., Fla.
8. Daniel Layton Worth, born May 18, 1866; married Alice C. Williams on July 31, 1884 in DeSoto Co., Florida; died August 1, 1923 in Highland Co., Florida
9. Enoch Edward Worth, born March 27, 1868; married Frances E. "Fannie" Sapp on August 10, 1893 in Coffee Co., Ga.; died December 15, 1944 in Oneco, Florida

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: As is the case with the vast majority of the family bio pages on this site, some of the information and details regarding this family are derived from the voluminous research of my uncle Daniel Worth, now available online at my father Gene Worth's web site Worth and Solomon Genealogy. My aunt Iva Yeager also shared her own related research with me more than two decades ago, which first sparked my interest in genealogy. Additional details have been added from the research of Katherine Worth in Florida.

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