The following information was taken from The Worley Family Record, 1603-1975 by Elaine Worley Sury. This family genealogy can be found in the Local History Files of the Lowell Public Library (LH--Family Records--Worley) . From page 4:
Nathan Worley, the eighth born of Caleb (II) and Rebecca Allen Worley and (our John L. Worley's grandfather), was married to Rachel Greer, daughter of Stephen and Ruth Greer. Rachel Greer was born on February 10, 1772. She and Nathan Worley were married on March 2, 1791, in Fayette County, Kentucky, and moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1804. Rachel died on May 18, 1835, and Nathan died on April 29, 1847. Their children were: 1. Caleb (IV); 2. John (John L. Worley's father); 3. Rebecca; 4. Ruth; 5. Anna; 6. Elizabeth; 7. Stephen; 8 Joshua; also 9. Margaret; and 10. William.
Additional information on page 6 continues:
The first Worleys in America were Quakers. In fact, Ann Stone Worley Pusey, Francis' mother, served as a preacher in the Quaker Church. This is a recorded fact. When Caleb Worley, grandson of Mary Brassey and Francis Worley, entered the French-Indian War with a group he had organized, he was expelled from the Quaker Church. During that time he was married a second time (his first wife had died) to Rebecca Allen, the 18 year old daughter of Malcolm Allen. They were believed to have been married in 1758. The date being based on the date of the birth of their first child, Mary, who was born on May 25, 1759. They had 13 children in all. Their eigth child, Nathan, who was the grandfather of our John L. Worley, was born on January 7, 1773, in Bottetort County, Virginia. By this time, Caleb Worley, John L. Worley's great-grandfather, was a Presbyterian.
Nathan Worley, John L. Worley's grandfather, was the first Worley to become a minister in the Christian Church. He died in Dayton, Ohio, with a beautiful record of service to his fellow man. His wife, John L. Worley's grandmother, was Rachel Greer, daughter of Stephen and Ruth Anderson Greer.
Additional information from page 9:
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS WRITTEN IN 1875 BY Stephen Greer Worley. STEPHEN GREER WORLEY WAS AN UNCLE TO OUR JOHN L. WORLEY. JOHN L.'S FATHER AND STEPHEN WERE BROTHERS. THIS INFORMATION WAS SUBMITTED BY HELEN DAVIS OF LANSING, ILLINOIS. SHE IS A DESCENDANT OF HENRY WORLEY, A SON OF JOHN L. WORLEY.
My father's name was Nathan Worley (John L. Worley's grandfather). He was born in Bottetort County, Virginia, on January 7, 1773. He moved, with his father's family, to Fayette County, Kentucky, in the year 1787. He was married on the second day of March of 1791, to Rachel Greer, the oldest daughter of Stephen and Ruth Anderson Greer, also of Fayette Co. The families were both members of the Presbyterian Church. Father and mother professed religion about the beginning of the present century and joined the Presbyterian Church, but ceded with Stone Purviance and others after the Caneridge Revival. My father was ordained to the ministry in 1815, and continued faithful and influential till death, which occurred on April 29, 1847. My mother died in May of 1835. They had 10 children. They moved from Kentucky in the Fall of 1804, to Ohio. They both died in Montgomery County, Ohio.