Isabella Worth 1804-1886

Isabella Worth is my 5th great-grandmother on my paternal side. She was born on 27 January 1804 in Tuscarawas, Ohio. Her parents are unknown at this time. On 4 October 1821, Isabella married Absolom Kent in Harrison County, Ohio; she was 17 years old. In the 1850 census she is listed as the wife of Abraham Kent, most likely a transcription error. She had 7 children living with her at the time ranging in age from 2 years old to 22 years old.

Norma Faller from ancestry.com provides this bit of history on the Kent family:

"When Sally Dugan Kent met her husband, George Clabaugh, both were living in Owen County, Indiana.  They married there and spent some months there before moving north to St. Joseph/Marshall County Line.  At the end of her life, Isabella Worth Kent (mom) came to live with Sally and George and when they buried Isabella in the Fair Cemetery, they made sure she got one of the largest tombstones there.  It's entirely possible that Isabella herself asked that her daughters, Margaret and Sally, who were all living together in this one small farmhouse, to make sure her father had a nice tombstone over his grave.  The Clabaugh's themselves seemed to take great pride in the tombstone which was to cover their final resting place.  Isabella has a "Plinth" or "Oblisk", I'm not sure how you would describe it.  It's made from that ubquitious white sandstone which is the bane of all modern genealogists as it wears down so fast and I've been told it's not very readable today." Her memorial is pictured below.

Isabella Worth Kent died on 11 January 1886 in Marshall County, Indiana. She was two weeks shy of her 82nd birthday.