Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

Ruth Coffin Worth

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• • Grandmother of O. Henry — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • David Worth 
  • Mother:
  • Eunice Gardner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Jun 1805 
  • Birth Location:
  • Centre (near Polecat Creek), Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Aug 1890 
  • Death Location:
  • Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sidney Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1824 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Centre (near Polecat Creek), Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina 
  • Children:
  
  

  Algernon Sidney Porter (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  David Worth Porter

  Emily Rosaline Porter

  John Porter

  Evelina Maria Porter

  William Clarkson Porter

  Oscar Lusk Porter

  Charles Edward Porter

  Henry Milton Porter

• Sources for Ruth Coffin Worth

  • ¹ Daily State Chronicle (Raleigh, North Carolina), 20 AUG 1890, p. 5, Obituary for Ruth Porter.
  • ² Family Tree for Family of Sidney Porter and Ruth Coffin Worth, (original in the possession of Kathy Russell-Regan, descendant of Sidney's brother Romanta, OCT 2021).
  • ³ Federal Census, NC, Guilford County, 1880, Greensboro, E.D. 127, p. 38, Image 37 of 42.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, NC, Guilford County, 1870, Morehead, p. 5, Image 29 of 48.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, NC, Guilford County, 1860, North Division, p. 168, Image 168 of 182.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, NC, Guilford County, 1850, Northern Division, Image 2 of 157.
  • ⁷ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 7322, Membership application for Horace Waldo Porter.
  • ⁸ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 20124, Membership application for Francis Logan Porter.
  • ⁹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/08/2020).
  • ¹⁰ North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979, Marriage record for Sidney Porter and Ruth C Worth.
  • ¹¹ North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979, FHL No. 102170509, Image 411, Marriage of son William C Porter and Sarah R Sloan.
  • ¹² North-Carolina Free Press (Halifax, North Carolina), 14 MAY 1824, p. 3, Wedding of Sidney Porter and Ruth Worth.
  • ¹³ The Daily Evening Patriot (Greensboro, North Carolina), 02 OCT 1888, p. 4, Obituary for son Dr. A. S. Porter.
  • ¹⁴ Homans, James E., The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 8, New York: The Press Association Compilers, Inc. (1918), 371.
  • ¹⁵ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 05/08/2020).
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 206.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 52.
  • ¹⁸ Smith, C. Alphonso, O. Henry Biography, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company (1916), 33-41.