Town of Worth

Directory:

1. Brief History

2. Revolutionary Veterans buried in the Town of Worth

3. Business Directory 1866-67

4) Rising Cemetery

5) Stears Corners Cemetery

The town of Worth was known in the old records as town No. 2 of Boylston's Tract and separated from Lorraine on April 12, 1848. It was named in honor of Gen. W.J. Worth. The general surface of the town is wavy and elevated. The altitude is greater than any other town in the county. The south branch of Sandy Creek flows through the town. It has numerous tributaries, including Chloe and Abijah Creeks, named after Chloe Wilcox and Abijah Gillett. The soil is underlaid by a shale rock and a finely adapted to grazing. The surface was covered with a fine growth of timber, mostly beech, maple, hemlock and pine. The principal industries in the early years were logging and farming. Among the 1st to settle in the town were Asaph Case and Leonard Bullock who came in the fall of 1802. Mr. Bullock's 1st house was built entirely of logs. There was no floor, door or window in any part of it. The roof was made of hollow basswood logs, split and laid so that every alternate one formed a trough to carry away the water. A blanket hung up served as a door and the ground smoothed down and covered with leaves was the floor. The following year Joseph Wilcox came in March, by way of Redfield, with an ox team hitched to a sled. There were no roads or bridges and their only guide was blazed trees. Mr. Wilcox built a log house with a puncheon floor, bark roof and for a window a sheet of oiled paper allowed light in. In 1830 the residents were: Joseph, Sterling & Daniel Wilcox; Asaph, Abel & John Case; E. West, John Russell, Chester Bushnell, Andrew Craig, John Wilson, Paul Pryor, Peter Wakefield, Joseph & Venus Rising; Joseph Totten, James Potter, Zadoc Hale; Henry, Erastus & Richard Lyon; Leonard & Alanson Bullock; Joel Overton; Boomer, Charles & Lyman Jenks; William, Simeon & James Houghtaling; Eli, Elihu, David & George Gillett; Leonard Parker; Daniel & Joseph Caulkins and Nathan Mattoon.

Revolutionary War Veterans buried in the town of Worth:

Rising Cemetery - Joseph Wilcox

Stears Corners Cemetery - Joel Caulkins (1/27/1760-2/7/1848)

Worthville Cemetery - Levi Smith (5/22/1755-9/4/1848)

Businesses in the Town of Worth in 1866-67

(From the Jefferson County Business Directory for 1866-67)

Population of the entire town - 611

Blacksmiths - Albert Harrington, Francis D. Frederick

Boot & Shoe Shop - Alex LaClair

Carriagemaker - David H. Atkins

Carpenter - Charles E. Vallier

Clergyman - Alex LaClair, Methodist

Collector of Taxes - Stephen A. Grimshaw

Constables - Stephen A. Grimshaw, Horace Streeter, Leonard Bullock

Cooper - Alfred W. Tiffany

General Merchant - Albert S. Gillett

Gristmill - Solomon W. Kellogg

Hotel - Horace Streeter

Justice of the Peace - Henry Hitchcock, Carlton C. Moore, Solomon B. Stears, Gordon C. Tabor

Land Agent - Albert S. Gillett

Mason - Isaac Sloan

Planing Mill - Abel Case

Postmaster - Albert S. Gillett

Sawmills - Abel Case, Solomon W. Kellogg, Jonathan M. Ackley, Edward Cornell, Levi G. Potter

Supervisor - Carlton C. Moore

Town Clerk - Henry Hitchcock

Rising Cemetery, Worth, NY - located on Loomis Road, about one half mile east of County Route 189 (inactive)

Kellogg, Sarah - d. 5/4/1844 22y, wife of Harry Kellogg

Rising, Abner - d. 7/6/1825 16y

Wilcox, Charles Delos - d. 6/12/1829 8m20d, son of Sterling Wilcox

Wilcox, Gilbert - d. 2/4/1850 12y, son of Sterling Wilcox

Wilcox, Joseph - d. 12/30/1849 88y, War of 1812 vet.

Wilcox, Hannah (Banning) - d. 1841 76y, wife of Joseph

Stears Corners Cemetery, Worth, NY - located midway between Stears Corners and Fredericks Corners on County Route 95 (inactive)

Caulkins, Joel - d. 7/7/1848 88y, Rev. War vet.
Caulkins, Bethia (Barrass) - d. 1/27/1835 70y, wife of Joel
Lyon, Dorastus - d. 4/4/1844 37y
Mattoon, Nathan Sr. - d. 7/4/1845 78y
Mattoon, Hannah (Chase) - d. 8/25/1851 62y, wife of Nathan Sr.
Mattoon, Nathan Jr. - d. 1/18/1865 43y, Civil War