This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Worthy, Perry, Shirley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/79.1.1 Message Board Post: Fleming John Worthey was the 2nd child of Greenbury and Elizabeth (Perry) Worthy. Sarah was born Jan1839 and he was born Nov1839. Not to be confused with a John Fleming Worthy who "may" or "may not" have been an uncle. And yes, Elizabeth and James were the youngest two children and were living with Elizabeth's parents, Jeremiah and Frances (Shirley) Perry (shown as Peny on some of the indices for 1860) after GB died, Elizabeth remarried, and then she died in 1857. The family history says that the children, guided by John who was only 16, fled in the middle of the night to their grandparents to escape from the stepparent. However, in 1857 John would have been 17 going on 18 rather than 16. And I'm not certain how her remarriage works with her dying the same year the baby of her first husband was born. I don't know where the other children all ended up, as I can't find them on the 1860 census. John, however, was someplace close to Pontotoc Co because he signed up for the CSA in Apr1861 in Pontotoc Co (Cherry Creek Rifles) and signed the Oath of Allegiance 7Aug1865. He was in Texas by 1868 when he married Virginia Josie "Jo" Carraway. Family lore from several different sources says that he killed a drunk Yankee soldier who was threatening his grandmother at her own home in Pontotoc Co MS, and then fled to Texas to avoid Yankee retribution. Not sure how that fits with him signing the Oath in 1865. His brother Asa allegedly wrote John a letter vowing to join him in TX after his own discharge from the CSA, but never arrived. John never returned to MS.