Joel Haworth was born near New Market, North Carolina, later to become Tennessee, on 4th month (April) 17, 1786. He was born on his parents' farm located on a bend on the Holston River some 25 miles above Knoxville, Tennessee. The place became known as Haworth Bend. His birth is recorded in the minutes of Lost Creek Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
He married Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grassy Valley Meetinghouse in Jefferson County, Tennessee on 4th month 11th, 1811. Elizabeth was a daughter of Hugh Maxwell and Elizabeth McLenden. After his marriage to Elizabeth Maxwell he carried on a farm situated on an island in the Holston River.
By the time they decided to go to Indiana in 1817, they had several children, both boys and girls. On 3rd month 13, 1818 Joel and sons John & Laban were received by certificate at Silver Creek Monthly Meeting in Wayne (now Union) County, Indiana from Lost Creek Monthly Meeting in Tennessee. Joel died in Indiana on December 4, 1854 and Elizabeth on July 30, 1866 in Salem, near the town of Liberty, Union County, Indiana. Both are buried in the old Salem Friends Burying Ground near Cottage Grove in Union County.
Joel Haworth's home was a station on the Underground Railroad for a number of years. In Levi Coffin's "Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad" published in 1876 Joel's activity of giving safe harbor to runaway slaves was noted on page 364 in a chapter devoted entirely to the escape of a woman named Ellen and her husband Louis. This event occurred in the year 1847 or later. On that page it states: "It was thought safer for Louis and Ellen to go out of the city (Cincinnati), and a few evenings afterward they were conveyed to the house of Joel Haworth, a well-known abolitionist, living in Union County, Indiana. Here they remained several weeks, awaiting results."
OBITUARY
"DIED-At his residence in Union Co., Indiana, on the 4th day of the 12th month, 1854, JOEL HAWORTH, of Flux and chronic affection of the bowels, aged 68 years, 7 months, and 16 days.
The deceased was confined to his bed in his last illness, three weeks. During a considerable portion of this time, his sufferings were very great, all of which was borne in much patience, calmness and christian fortitude. He seemed to be strongly impressed from near the commencement of his sickness that he would not recover, of which he spoke during several interviews with his family, saying that he felt a calmness to cover his mind that was not usual. Though at times he thought he would like to live a while longer, that he might have been able to have been with his dear companion and friends in the attendance of religious meetings. He was an affectionate husband and tender father, and ever had a sympathetic feeling for suffering humanity of whatever complexion or clime. In his death the Religious Society of Friends has lost a devoted member, his family a guardian protector, and the community in which he had lived for more than a third of a century, a member whose place will be hard to fill."
He married Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grassy Valley Meetinghouse in Jefferson County, Tennessee on 4th month 11th, 1811. Elizabeth was a daughter of Hugh Maxwell and Elizabeth McLenden. After his marriage to Elizabeth Maxwell he carried on a farm situated on an island in the Holston River.
By the time they decided to go to Indiana in 1817, they had several children, both boys and girls. On 3rd month 13, 1818 Joel and sons John & Laban were received by certificate at Silver Creek Monthly Meeting in Wayne (now Union) County, Indiana from Lost Creek Monthly Meeting in Tennessee. Joel died in Indiana on December 4, 1854 and Elizabeth on July 30, 1866 in Salem, near the town of Liberty, Union County, Indiana. Both are buried in the old Salem Friends Burying Ground near Cottage Grove in Union County.
Joel Haworth's home was a station on the Underground Railroad for a number of years. In Levi Coffin's "Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad" published in 1876 Joel's activity of giving safe harbor to runaway slaves was noted on page 364 in a chapter devoted entirely to the escape of a woman named Ellen and her husband Louis. This event occurred in the year 1847 or later. On that page it states: "It was thought safer for Louis and Ellen to go out of the city (Cincinnati), and a few evenings afterward they were conveyed to the house of Joel Haworth, a well-known abolitionist, living in Union County, Indiana. Here they remained several weeks, awaiting results."
OBITUARY
"DIED-At his residence in Union Co., Indiana, on the 4th day of the 12th month, 1854, JOEL HAWORTH, of Flux and chronic affection of the bowels, aged 68 years, 7 months, and 16 days.
The deceased was confined to his bed in his last illness, three weeks. During a considerable portion of this time, his sufferings were very great, all of which was borne in much patience, calmness and christian fortitude. He seemed to be strongly impressed from near the commencement of his sickness that he would not recover, of which he spoke during several interviews with his family, saying that he felt a calmness to cover his mind that was not usual. Though at times he thought he would like to live a while longer, that he might have been able to have been with his dear companion and friends in the attendance of religious meetings. He was an affectionate husband and tender father, and ever had a sympathetic feeling for suffering humanity of whatever complexion or clime. In his death the Religious Society of Friends has lost a devoted member, his family a guardian protector, and the community in which he had lived for more than a third of a century, a member whose place will be hard to fill."
Joel Haworth was born near New Market, North Carolina, later to become Tennessee, on 4th month (April) 17, 1786. He was born on his parents' farm located on a bend on the Holston River some 25 miles above Knoxville, Tennessee. The place became known as Haworth Bend. His birth is recorded in the minutes of Lost Creek Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
He married Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grassy Valley Meetinghouse in Jefferson County, Tennessee on 4th month 11th, 1811. Elizabeth was a daughter of Hugh Maxwell and Elizabeth McLenden. After his marriage to Elizabeth Maxwell he carried on a farm situated on an island in the Holston River.
By the time they decided to go to Indiana in 1817, they had several children, both boys and girls. On 3rd month 13, 1818 Joel and sons John & Laban were received by certificate at Silver Creek Monthly Meeting in Wayne (now Union) County, Indiana from Lost Creek Monthly Meeting in Tennessee. Joel died in Indiana on December 4, 1854 and Elizabeth on July 30, 1866 in Salem, near the town of Liberty, Union County, Indiana. Both are buried in the old Salem Friends Burying Ground near Cottage Grove in Union County.
Joel Haworth's home was a station on the Underground Railroad for a number of years. In Levi Coffin's "Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad" published in 1876 Joel's activity of giving safe harbor to runaway slaves was noted on page 364 in a chapter devoted entirely to the escape of a woman named Ellen and her husband Louis. This event occurred in the year 1847 or later. On that page it states: "It was thought safer for Louis and Ellen to go out of the city (Cincinnati), and a few evenings afterward they were conveyed to the house of Joel Haworth, a well-known abolitionist, living in Union County, Indiana. Here they remained several weeks, awaiting results."
OBITUARY
"DIED-At his residence in Union Co., Indiana, on the 4th day of the 12th month, 1854, JOEL HAWORTH, of Flux and chronic affection of the bowels, aged 68 years, 7 months, and 16 days.
The deceased was confined to his bed in his last illness, three weeks. During a considerable portion of this time, his sufferings were very great, all of which was borne in much patience, calmness and christian fortitude. He seemed to be strongly impressed from near the commencement of his sickness that he would not recover, of which he spoke during several interviews with his family, saying that he felt a calmness to cover his mind that was not usual. Though at times he thought he would like to live a while longer, that he might have been able to have been with his dear companion and friends in the attendance of religious meetings. He was an affectionate husband and tender father, and ever had a sympathetic feeling for suffering humanity of whatever complexion or clime. In his death the Religious Society of Friends has lost a devoted member, his family a guardian protector, and the community in which he had lived for more than a third of a century, a member whose place will be hard to fill."
He married Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grassy Valley Meetinghouse in Jefferson County, Tennessee on 4th month 11th, 1811. Elizabeth was a daughter of Hugh Maxwell and Elizabeth McLenden. After his marriage to Elizabeth Maxwell he carried on a farm situated on an island in the Holston River.
By the time they decided to go to Indiana in 1817, they had several children, both boys and girls. On 3rd month 13, 1818 Joel and sons John & Laban were received by certificate at Silver Creek Monthly Meeting in Wayne (now Union) County, Indiana from Lost Creek Monthly Meeting in Tennessee. Joel died in Indiana on December 4, 1854 and Elizabeth on July 30, 1866 in Salem, near the town of Liberty, Union County, Indiana. Both are buried in the old Salem Friends Burying Ground near Cottage Grove in Union County.
Joel Haworth's home was a station on the Underground Railroad for a number of years. In Levi Coffin's "Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad" published in 1876 Joel's activity of giving safe harbor to runaway slaves was noted on page 364 in a chapter devoted entirely to the escape of a woman named Ellen and her husband Louis. This event occurred in the year 1847 or later. On that page it states: "It was thought safer for Louis and Ellen to go out of the city (Cincinnati), and a few evenings afterward they were conveyed to the house of Joel Haworth, a well-known abolitionist, living in Union County, Indiana. Here they remained several weeks, awaiting results."
OBITUARY
"DIED-At his residence in Union Co., Indiana, on the 4th day of the 12th month, 1854, JOEL HAWORTH, of Flux and chronic affection of the bowels, aged 68 years, 7 months, and 16 days.
The deceased was confined to his bed in his last illness, three weeks. During a considerable portion of this time, his sufferings were very great, all of which was borne in much patience, calmness and christian fortitude. He seemed to be strongly impressed from near the commencement of his sickness that he would not recover, of which he spoke during several interviews with his family, saying that he felt a calmness to cover his mind that was not usual. Though at times he thought he would like to live a while longer, that he might have been able to have been with his dear companion and friends in the attendance of religious meetings. He was an affectionate husband and tender father, and ever had a sympathetic feeling for suffering humanity of whatever complexion or clime. In his death the Religious Society of Friends has lost a devoted member, his family a guardian protector, and the community in which he had lived for more than a third of a century, a member whose place will be hard to fill."
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