Eliza Elizabeth CHANCELLOR, daughter of, Abraham CHANCELLOR and Elizabeth BLACKWELL, was born in Autauga County, Alabama on Feb.02, 1821.    Eliza was the fifth of eleven children . She was the granddaughter of Jeremiah CHANCELLOR, born abt. 1760, in England.  Jeremiah came to America in 1775; just as the Revolutionary War was breaking out.  He died in  Autauga County, in November of 1831.

On Dec. 24, 1840,in Coosa County, AL, Eliza married Kinchen Thomas WORRELL. Kinchen was the son of Bryant Worrell and Dorcas Byrd. He was born in 1822, in Shiloh, Sumter County, South Carolina.  Their marriage license reads: 
  The State of Alabama, Coosa County
 To any ordained Minister of the Gospel, Judge of the Circuit and
County Court, or any Justice of the Peace for said county,
             Greetings:
You are hereby authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony between
 Kinchen T. Worrell and
 Eliza E. Chancellor
And this shall be your sufficient authority for doing so.  Given under
my hand this 19th day of December A.D. , 1840 and of the American Independence
the 65th year.
 R.W. Clendand, Register

The Rights of Matrimony Solemnized between the within named parties by me on the 24th  of December, 1840. 
Henry W. Cox, J.P.

( The wording above was copied and given to me by Arthur Worrell, of San Antonio, Tx.)

 In true pioneer spirit, the young couple left their home in Alabama for Texas.  It is unclear exactly when they arrived.  I find them in Smith County as early as 1846.  Kinchen and Eliza had 10 children.  Thomas Jefferson WORRELL, born in Alabama, 1841, John Brown WORRELL, born in Alabama, 1844, Emily J. WORRELL, born in Alabama, 1845, George Decale WORRELL, born in Texas ,1847, Benjamin Franklin WORRELL, born in Texas, 1850, Lewis Napoleon WORRELL, born 1853, Nancy E. WORRELL, born 1854, Martha E. WORRELL, born in Texas, 1857, William Buchanan WORRELL, ( my own GGGrandfather  and Martha's twin ) born in Texas, 1857,and Stephen Wade WORRELL, born in Texas, 1859. 

The 1850 census, for Smith County, Texas, list Kinchen and Eliza with four of their children.  We find them on the1860, Henderson County, Texas, census with all ten of their children .   Eliza and Kinchen saw two of their sons, Thomas Jefferson WORRELL and John Brown WORRELL, leave home from Henderson County, to fight for the C.S.A.
 
By 1870, they are in McLennan County, near Waco, where they stay through 1880. In McLennan County, 1882, my GGreat Grandfather, William B. WORRELL  married Susan Luhamey MOORE.  He was still leaving at home with Eliza and Kinchen at the time. 

 The turn of the Century finds Eliza and Kinchen in Hamilton County, Texas.   Kinchen was a farmer and wheel wright by trade. He and Eliza were never afraid of hard work. They were married for sixty years before death parted them.   Both were well thought of in their community and church.

 On Nov. 10, 1900, Eliza Elizabeth ( Chancellor) WORRELL passed away.  She was 79 years old.  Two years later, on March 2, 1902. Kinchen also died.  They are buried side by side, in Live Oak Cemetery, Hamilton County, Texas.  Her stone reads, "Eliza E. Worrell, Wife of K.T. Worrell, born Feb. 02, 1821, died Nov. 10, 1900.  She was a kind and affectionate wife, fond mother and a friend to all."  His reads, "K. T. Worrell, born Sept. 20, 1822, died mar. 2, 1902, He died as he lived, a Christian."  K. T. Worrell was a Mason. His headstone bears a Masonic symbol.   A number of Kinchen and Eliza's children are also buried in Live Oak Cemetery.

We have followed Eliza Elizabeth CHANCELLOR from her birth in Alabama, to Texas, as a young bride, through many years of bearing the children of the man she loved, into war, as she watches and prays for her two oldest sons return, to the beginning of a new century.  This is where we leave her.  Having lived a good and Godly life on earth, she puts it all aside, to meet her Lord and Savior on the banks of the Jordan.  God bless you grandmother.  May we meet again.