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George W. WORL, GAR, Township Trustee & Lydia Ann RIPLEY

Husband: George W. WORL, GAR, Township Trustee

   Born: 30 Aug 1836 in Wayne County, Indiana
Married: 19 Jul 1857 in Delaware County, Indiana
   Died:
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   Wife: Lydia Ann RIPLEY

   Born: Aug 1841 in Montgomery County, Ohio
   Died:
 Father: William C. RIPLEY
 Mother: Minerva JOHNSON
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George W. WORL, GAR, Township Trustee:

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GORGE W. WORL, Township Trustee of Monroe Township, Randolph County, Indiana, was born in Wayne County, Indiana, August 30, 1836, and is a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Daugherty) Worl. The father was born in Kentucky in 1805, and the mother in Greene County, Ohio, in 1813; they were married near College Corner, Butler County, Ohio, in 1830, located in Wayne County, Indiana, and there Robert Worl engaged in brick making until 1840, afterward moved to Miami County, engaged in brick making, and several years later started for California but died on the way in 1852. They were the parents of nine children, viz: Thomas E., Joseph, George W., William H. (killed in the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia), Lucinda, Henry, Marion, Melissa and Mary C. Worl. The parents were members of the Methodist church and led lives in accordance with its teachings. Mr. Worl was a Whig in politics. He spent his money with a lavish hand but made it easy, being quite successful in business. He was a man of quick temper, but also a man of forgiving nature and genial disposition.

George W. Worl was reared in the village of Peru, Miami County, Indiana, until sixteen years of age, and later assisted in his father's brick yard until eighteen years old, when he found employment as a boatman on the Wabash & Erie Canal, between Vincennes and Toledo, for three years; next he became a porter in a hotel in Peru for two years, and next worked at farm labor and carpentering until 1858, when he commenced farming on rented land, and so continued until 1870, when he bought fifteen acres in Stony Creek Township, Randolph County, and by his industry was enabled to add to it until he owned forty acres, which he cultivated until his removal to Farmland, in 1884, since which time he has devoted his time to his duties as Township Trustee.

Mr. Worl was married July 19, 1857, in Delaware County, Indiana, to Miss Lydia A. Ripley, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in August, 1841, and is a daughter of William and Minerva (Johnson) Ripley, natives of Maryland and Owens County, Indiana, respectively. Their union was rewarded by the birth of four children, viz: Mary E., widow of John W. Clevenger; Emma A., wife of Alfred Oren, of Farmland; William W., of Richmond Indiana; and Ulysses S., at home. Mr. Worl has had his war experience, which was a severe and long one. He enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry for three years, and took part in the following battles: Stone River, Chickamauga, where he was four times wounded - in the head, the neck, the leg, and the hollow of the foot - Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and also was in the Atlanta campaign. He was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, September 22, 1864. In politics Mr. Worl is a Republican, and in 1870 was elected Assessor for two years; subsequently as an Appraiser for two years, then was appointed by the County Commissioners for two more years, thus serving four years in that office, and was a Trustee of Stony Creek Township for four years; in 1888 he was elected Trustee for Monroe Township, and is now the incumbent of that office. Mr. and Mrs. Worl are members of the Christian Church, and in 1867 he was made a Mason; he is also a member of the G.A.R. and the Black Hawk Tribe, No. 79, of the Improved Order of Red Men. Mrs. Worl is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps of the G.A.R., and both he and she are constant workers for the good of the society, and the advancement of the interests of the community in general.

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