HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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4. James, born 2 mo. 20, 1786, married 

 (tirstj Jane Eastburn .and (.secondj 

 Sarah Smith; died 10 mo. 7, 1839, with- 

 out issue. 



5. John, born 2 mo. 10, 1790, died un- 

 married. 



6. i\iary, born 6 mo. 19, 1791, died un- 

 married late in life. 



7. Amos T., born 4 mo. 25, 1793, mar- 

 ried Ann Chambers. 



8. Susanna, born 11 mo. 25, 1797, mar- 

 ried Amos Phipps, of Plymouth, Mont- 

 gomery county. 



Joseph Worstall, eldest son of Joseph 

 and Susanna (Hibbs) Worstall, was 

 born and reared in Newtown, and was 

 actively associated with his father in the 

 business enterprises established by the 

 latter. He was one of the proprietors 

 of the tannery at the time it was burned 

 in 1828, and suffered heavily in the finan- 

 -cial wreck. His remaining days were 

 spent in Newtown township on a farm 

 he purchased, and where he died April i, 

 1856. He married in 1808 Jane Heston, 

 daughter of Colonel Edward Heston, the 

 founder of Hestonville, Philadelphia, 

 who was a native of Makefield township, 

 Bucks county, being a son of Jacob and 

 Mary (Warner) Heston, and a grandson 

 of Zebulon Heston, an early settler in 

 Wrightstown. He was captain of the 

 Sixth Company, Seventh Battalion, 

 Philadelphia County Militia, in 1777, and 

 later was commissioned lieutenant- 

 ■colonel. 



The children of Joseph and Jane (Hes- 

 ton) Worstall were as follows: Sarah 

 Ann, who married Jacob Hibbs; Edward 

 H., see forward; Hannah C, who mar- 

 ried (first) Pearson Scarborough, of 

 Solebury, and (second) Henry Magill; 

 Joseph, who married Mary Ann Van 

 Buskirk, and lived and died in Warring- 

 ton; and Isaac H., of Solebury. who mar- 

 ried (first) Sarah Jane Ely and (sec- 

 ond) Amy Ely. 



Edward H. Worstall, eldest son of 

 Joseph and Jane (Heston) Worstall, 

 was born at the old homestead on Penn 

 street, Newtown, October 19, 181 1, and 

 was reared and educated in Newtown. 

 He married November i, 1838. Maria E. 

 Smith, daughter of Joseph and Mary 

 <Betts) Smith of Upper Makefield. The 

 descent of George Worstall in the 

 Smith line is as follows: i. William 

 Smith. 1684. Wrightstown, formerly of 

 Yorkshire, England, married Mary 

 Croasdale, 9 mo. 20, 1690, and had nine 

 children; his second wife was Mercy 



, by whom he had seven children. 



2. Thomas Smith married Elizabeth 

 Sanders, 6 mo., 1727, and they had eight 

 ■children; they were the first settlers pn 

 the Windybush farm. 3. Samuel Smith 

 married Jane Schofield, 1750. and they 

 "had ten children. 4. Thomas Smith 

 married Elanor Smith. 4 mo. 15, 1778. 

 and they had six children. 5. Joseph 



Smith married Mary Betts, 1808, and 

 they had five children. 6. Maria Smith 

 married Edward H. Worstall, 11 mo. i, 

 1S38, and they had five children. 7. 

 George C. Worstall. 



After his marriage Edward H. Wor- 

 stall located at the Smith tannery at 

 Windy Bush, in Upper Makefield, where 

 he resided until April i, 1842, when he 

 purchased the old tannery property in 

 Newtown, formerly his grandfather's, 

 that had been recently sold by the sher- 

 iff as the property of Thomas H. Buck- 

 man, and revived the old industry so 

 long conducted by his father and 

 grandfather. He purchased the follow- 

 ing year the house where his grand- 

 father lived and died, and subsequently 

 purchased much of the property that 

 had belonged to his grandfather, as well 

 as thirty-five acres of land, the greater 

 part of which had belonged to his un- 

 cle James Worstall. He operated the 

 tannery and farm until 1882, during 

 the last eleven years of the time having 

 associated with him his youngest son, 

 Willis G. Worstall. During the last ten 

 years of his life he lived retired in New- 

 town. He died February 18, 1891, and 

 his widow Maria E. on January ir, 1898, 

 Their children were: George C, the sub- 

 ject of this sketch; Lavinia. wife of 

 George C. Blackfan, of Newtown; Jo- 

 siah S., born September 7, 1843, died 

 March 3, 1883; Willis G., born July 9, 

 1846, married Lydia Croasdale, and is 

 now a m.ember of the firm of Worstall 

 Brothers & Co.; and Lettie, born Feb- 

 ruary 28, 1850,- wife of William Eyre, 

 of Newtown. Josiah was for a number 

 of years associated in business with his 

 brother George C, in Newtown; he mar- 

 ried Sarah J. Uber, and left two daugh- 

 ters, now residing in West Chester, 

 Pennsylvania. 



George C. Worstall was born in Up- 

 per Makefield, but his parents having 

 removed to Newtown when he was two 

 and a half years old he was reared in 

 that town and has spent his whole 

 life there. On his marriage in 1865 he 

 settled on a farm on the Yardleyville 

 turnpike, purchased for him by his fath- 

 er of Nicholas Willard, and resided there 

 until 1893. In 1868 in connection with his 

 brother Josiah, he started a brick and 

 coal yard thereon, which they conducted 

 until 1880, when they removed to the 

 present location of the firm of Worstall 

 Brothers, where they had started a hay 

 press in connection with their }'ounger 

 brother Willis G. a year previous. The 

 old tannery was abandoned in 1882 and 

 torn down in 1887, and the land laid out 

 in building lots and built upon. In 

 1880 the firm erected a feed mill, and 

 eight years later built a full roller pro- 

 cess flour mill, which with the brick 

 making, feed and coal business they 

 still conduct. The hay business was 



