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Jemima is included because she was married in the area and because she is the right age to have been one of the girls listed in the 1810 Census in the household of Wiley Worley. She married James Tacket on 8 Aug 1814, Knox County, KY

It appears that they lived near Wiley Worley, as show by the following Whitley County Court records:

Ordered by the Court That James Tac[ket?] be appointed as Surveyer of the road from the mouth of Saunders Creek to the onion patch including the hands all the hands from the mouth of sd Creek to the mouth of Red Bird on the North side of Cumberland river including W. Worley & A. Lasley. [December Term, 1819, p. 78]

The following Deed demonstrates a possible relationship to the Meadors family:

Deed dated 7 Aug 1827 and recorded 18 Aug 1827, Whitley Co., KY by Pleasant Meadors and wife Sara, regarding the sale of 100 acres on the south side of the Cumberland river to James Tacket. (The deed states that Pleasant and wife Sarah were residents of Wayne Co., KY.)

The Tacketts also moved to Wayne County around 1830 and, in 1834, James and Jemima Tackett sold 50 acres on Young Creek near Duncan line, in Whitley County, to Daniel Cane. They are supposed to have moved to Perry County, IL. In the 1840 Census for Perry County, IL, a James Tacket is listed with a female, aged 30-40. In the 1850 Census, he is listed with a wife Nancy, age 47, b. SC. So Gemima must have died sometime before 1840. Upon further review, it appears that James Tacket of Perry County had a daughter named Dorcas, which strongly suggests that this is the right family and that Jemima Worley was the daughter of Wiley and Dorcas Worley.

Jemima may have been named after Jemima Melton, wife of John Meadors, Jr., who died around the time Jemima Worley was born.