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BIOGRAPHY: Records provided to T.Mason by Jo-Anne (Yates) Nasser <ZOELOG@aol.com> on 17 Apr 2001. EXTRACT: While yet a youth it was his lot to be thrown with the family of the late Dr. Samuel West, of that same town, as a member of the household, remaining there some six years. Under the training he here received there was developed in him a spirit of self-reliance, self dependence and that independence which are so essential to success in life, traits of character which made a man of him. On leaving Dr West young Wordell worked on farms in different localities and for various persons until 1844, when he began farming for himself on rented land in the town of Tiverton, a pursuit he energetically followed until the discovery of gold in California, which, in 1849, lured so many persons of our land to the new West, he amoung them. There, in that far-off land he toiled and hoped through four years mining the greater part of the time, and in this he met only fair success. He, too passed some little time in the city of San Francisco. Returning to the East and to his old Rhode Island home after this experience by which he was broadened and the better equipped for the mission of life, he was then content to marry and settle down. On his return to Tiverton and after his marriage, he was for five years the superintendent and keeper of the Tiverton Insane Asylum, and in such capacity proved to be most capable and efficient. At the close of this period, he purchased the farm upon which he afterward lived and upon which he passed the end of rest of his life in comfort.
Mr. Wordell was affiliated with the Democratic Party and during the Civil War was what was called a "War Democrat", giving the government during that time his unstinted support, and he was liberal of his means and aid of the cause. His early religious training was in the Unitarian Church, though in later years his sympathies and support were given to the Congregational Church, in which he was treasurer for forty-two years. Having managed his own affairs successfully, as the years sped on through life he from time to time was called upon by his townsmen to the holding of various offices, the duties of which he performed with that exactness and care which characterized his own business affairs. For five years he was a member of the town council, and for several years a member of the board of assessors, and he also settled up a number of estates, amoung them the James H. Almy estate, in which connection he handed over $20,000 when the heirs became of age. Mr. Wordell was one of the founders of the Tiverton and Little Compton Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and had been its treasurer and agent, holding the office until his death, as well as being a director, and he never missed a meeting of the board. He was a member of the local Grange, as were his son and his wife. Although in his eighty-seventh year Mr. Wordell continued active and took an interest in the home farm, attending himself to all the details of his business up until the time of his death. He was kind and genial, and like his grandfather was bitterly opposed to anything that savored of dishonesty.
In 1903 they celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary.
Was a school teacher in Tiverton and Little Compton and died of typhoid fever.
Died of typhoid fever, unmarried.
