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Zebulon Worrall
(1795-1866)

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Zebulon Worrall

Born: 6 May 1795, Marple, Delaware, Pennsylvania
Marriage: Martha Ratcliffe on 1 Apr 1819 in Short Creek mm, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, Ohio ¹ ²
Died: 6 Jul 1866 at age 71

bullet General Notes:

442 - HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY, OHIO.
Zebulon Worrall was born in Pennsylvania in 1797. He learned the tailor's trade in Philadelphia, and when a young man emigrated to Jefferson County, Ohio. There he married Martha Ratcliff :and remained until 1837; then with quite a large family of children moved to what is now Morgan County, settling on a piece of land in Marion Township, adjoining the village of Chester Hill. He settled in an almost unbroken forest and cleared and improved his land. After a few years he engaged in the raising of fruit trees. This business he followed many years, introducing into Morgan and adjacent counties many choice varieties of fruit. Thousands of trees now bearing fruit stand as monuments to his industry and enterprise. Mr. Worrall died in 1866.

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1830, Short Creek Township, Harrison, Ohio. Page 116

• Census, 1870, Linn, Iowa, USA.

Zebulon married Martha Ratcliffe, daughter of Isaac Ratcliff and Margaret Crew, on 1 Apr 1819 in Short Creek mm, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, Ohio.¹ ² (Martha Ratcliffe was born in 1802 in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA and died on 18 Sep 1887.)

1 William Wade Hinshaw, The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930, Vol IV, Short Creek Monthly Meeting, Page 266.

2 William Wade Hinshaw, The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930, Vol IV, Short Creek Monthly Meeting, Page 307.

Zebulon Worrall

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