This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Worthen, Lapp Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1AC.2ACI/14.1 Message Board Post: A. Charles Franklin Worthen b. May 14, 1837, d. March 21, 1926 B. Lucy B. Williams b. February 21, 1859, d. April 18, 1922 C. Mary Laura Boyd b. November 05, 1840, d. May 03, 1913 Charles served in the miltary as a private in Company H, 15th Regiment, Vermont Voluntary Infantry. Listed in the book entitled "Bulletin of Whatcom Genealogical Society, Early Settlers of Whatcom County Natives of Vermont", page 34, (US/CAN 979.773 Bw2) located at Mormon Archives, Salt Lake, UT. According to an article prepared by Elsie Worthen Mock and Elva Carey Worthen for Clam Diggers, November 8, 1980, Charles lived on a farm in West Charleston, Vermont for many years. In 1905 he moved to Whatcom County, Washington where he farmed for a few years at the corner of the Kammand-Northwood Road, just south of the old Indian Cemetery. He later moved to Lynden, Washington, and built a large home on the corner of Second and Grover Street, which in more recent years was torn down to make way for apartments. He was not entitled to be a Clam Digger on his own, but his family was. He had twelve children, seven boys and five girls, and of these, five sons and two daughters lived in Whatcom County before he did. A third daughter, Viola, came five years later and lived there for twenty years. AB: Unfortunetly, I have no information about Charles' and Lucy's marriage. AC: Charles and Mary, married October 12, 1858, had 12 children: AC1. Charles William Worthen - b.June 30, 1859 - d.June 25, 1901 AC2. George Washington Worthen - b.January 08, 1862 - d.1940 AC3. Mary V.W. Worthen - b.1864-d.1888 AC4. Frank L. Worthen - May 28, 1866 - d.1884 AC5. Samuel Willis Worthen - b.June 1870 - d.1937 AC6. Charles Alfred Worthen - b.1871 - d.July 11, 1903 AC7. Edith Lydia Worthen - b.October 08, 1873 - d.unknown AC8. Naomi Leona Worthen - b.1875 - d.1910 AC9. Viola Myrtle Worthen - b.January 14, 1878 - d.unknown AC10. Edward Worthen - b.January 19, 1880 AC11. Ethel Worthen - b.January 19, 1880 - d.June 10, 1904 AC12. Ralph Boyd Worthen - b.January 10, 1883 - d.1905