Henry Spencer Worthington

1840 Census: Ogden, Monroe Co, New York
Note: 2 males under 5, 1 male 5-9, 1 male 20-29, 1 person employed in agriculture, 3 free white persons under 20, 2 free white persons 20-49, total free white persons 5, totall all persons 5.

1850 Census: 21 SEP 1850
Place: Heartland, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Fanny, and 5 children are living in household.

Birth of Son: 24 Oct 1856 
Name: Ide Deloss Worthington
Place: Fowlerville, Livingston, Michigan

1860 Census: 14 JUL 1860
Place: Heartland, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Fanny, and 3 children are living in household.

1870 Census: 27 JUN 1870
Place: Heartland, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Fanny, one child and two farm laborers are living in household.

Occupation: 1872
Place: Handy Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: Was a Justice of the Peace.

Platt Map: 1875
Place: Handy Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan

Occupation: 1876
Place: Handy Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: Was a Justice of the Peace.

1880 Census: Handy, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Fanny, is also living in household.

2nd Marriage: 03 JUL 1888 to Jane Westervielt Thayer
Place: Locke, Ingham Co, Michigan

Death: 04 MAR 1900
Place: Hope, Midland Co, Michigan

Note: Died of paralysis after a two-week illness.

Burial: Coffey Cemetery, Handy Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: His funeral was officiated by Rev. J. C. Brown in Hope Twp, Midland Co, MI. He had purchased his burial plot, No. 120 on 02 APR 1887 for $4.00.

Click here for parents: Justin Worthington and Sarah Sparrow

Henry Spencer Worthington moved to Hartland Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan with his family in 1842.  In those days it took three days to move from Detroit to Hartland by ox team.  He lived in Handy Twp from early 1865 to spring of 1888 and then moved to Hope, Midland Co, Michigan.  “He was a very peculiar man and rather eccentric in life but a man of strict honesty and integrity and upright in all dealings with his fellowman.  He was a great leader and always kept posted on the questions of the day.  He was an ardent Democrat and held various offices in the gift of the township at various times.”  He was Township School Inspector and Justice of the Peace several times in both Handy and Hartland Twps and a member of the Livingston County Pioneer Society.

Fanny Loomis Woodward

Birth: NOV 1813
Place: Connecticut
Note: She was named after her Aunt Fanny and Uncle John Loomis. She and Henry were fifth cousins one generation removed.

Death: 27 SEP 1884
Place: Handy Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan
Note: According to her death record, she died of a function of the limb. The best guess of a physician is that means she died of a stroke. Her parents are A. G. and Harriett Woodward

Obituary

Burial: Coffey Cemetery, Handy Twp, Livingston Co, Michigan

Click here for parents: Asahel G. Woodward and Harriet House

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