Elisha Worthington was an American planter and large slaveholder in the Antebellum South.
[1][2] In 1862, in the midst of the American Civil War, Worthington moved his slaves and livestock to Texas.
[2] In 1866, Worthington sold his Sunnyside plantation to Robert P. Pepper of Kentucky.
[2] With the proceeds of the sale, he paid back loans he had taken from Wade Hampton and Abraham Van Buren.
Worthington sent both James and Martha to Oberlin College preparatory school in Ohio.