CARSONs per PORTER, Capt. John M.(CSA) 1872 (part 2) Virginia USA
-Harold Helm 2306 Westgate, Houston TEXAS 77019 USA (713) 529-2333
Porter, Carson, Helm, Owen From:jfabian@aol.com>with credit to JTL
"History of our family connection"
by Captain John M. Porter, C.S.A. in 1872
from a copy made by Porter McKay in 1893.
Comments in italics/spacing those of JT Lamkin multimodal(a)juno.com,
from the work of John A. Porter and others. [P*] indicates image
available.
quoted for critical review, and sources, documentation:
[See Memoirs of [A85312] Margaret Porter Russell Cross
[A854][P*] Capt. John Moses [Morrison?] PORTER C.S.A., b. 14
Sept 1839; d.
26 June 1884; m. 1866. In the year 1866 I married Miss Mary
Bell BURCH, b.
ca. 1844; d. 11 July 1868, of Hart County, Kentucky, who died
July 11th. A.D.
1868, at Sugar Grove , leaving a daughter, [A8541] Minnie
Bell, b. 11 July 1868;
d. 13 Aug 1945; m. Harry JEFFERSON, who is the light of my
life, and in
features very much like her dear mother. Issue: [A85411]
Elizabeth, b. 11 July
1888; d. 18 Dec 1971; m. 2 June 1910 Gradison VAUGHAN and
[A85412] John
Porter JEFFERSON, b. 17 May 1891; d. 13 May 1928; unmarried.
[A856][P*] Sister Nancy Virginia, Jennie, b. 5 Feb 1843 or 6
Feb 1844; d. 5 Dec
1886 Auburn KY; married in the year 1862, 11 Dec, to
Elden HughSLOSS, b. 25 June 1833; d. 8 June 1875; m. 1st ?; m. 2nd, of
Logan
County, where she and her family live at this time. When
they were
married I was absent in the army of the Confederate
States, and of course
not at home. The war was then waging hotly.
Issue:
[A8561][P*] Mary, b. 6 Nov 1863; d. 23 Aug 1904; m.
2nd 16
Apr/Dec 1889 to Herschel Porter McCORMICK, b 28
Oct
1864; d. 10 Feb 1927
[A85611][P*] Virginia, b. 18 Oct 1890/1; d. 10
Feb 1988
[A85612][P*] Ruth, b. 29 Nov 1894; d. 28 Feb
1990; m.
12 May 1927 Claude Draper POTTINGER b. 22
June 1888; d.
[A85613][P*] James Irvine McCORMICK, b. 15 Sept
1896; d 1 Sept 1922; unmarried
[A85614] Eldon Sloss McCORMICK, b. 17 April
1900; d.
14 Jan 1989; m. 6 June 1934 Aileen Cecil
Rapley,
b. 29 Oct 1909; d. 23 Sept 1984
[A856141] Aileen M. McCormick, b. 20 June
1936
[A856142] James Rapley McCormick, b. 12
Aug
1939, d. 3 Nov 1990; m. 29 Apr 1961 Joy
Levene
McKeehan, b. 21 Jul 1938
[A8562][P*] Anna, b. 10 Aug 1865; d. 10 Jul 1940;
m. 1 Jan
1889 Frank Hutt PARKER, b. 20 Aug 1860; d. 30
Sep 1939
[A85621] Elizabeth Sydnor, b. 24 March1892; d.
20 Apr
1958
[A85622] Nancy Virginia, b. 5 June 1897; d. 22
Oct 1984;
m. 23 June 1917 Lewis John WEBER, b. 6
Sept
1888; d. 10 May 1978
[A856221] Nancy Eyre b 3 Jan 1920; d 26
March
1998
[A856222] John Thompson WEBER, b 24 Oct
1921
[A85623] Frances Hutt, b. 10 July 1901; d. 15
June 1956;
m. 11 April 1925 in Los Angles Chester
Leland
STODDARD b. 9 Aug 1904; d. Dec 1968
[A85624] Richard Porter PARKER, b. 27 Oct 1905;
d. 10
Jan 1938; m. 1st 3 Oct 1925 Nellie
BRAMBLETT,
b. 28 May 1906; d. 27 Nov 1974; m. 2nd
1935
Myrabelle
BROWN
[A8563][P*] Zue Porter, b. 5 Nov 1867; d. 27 Apr
1933
[A8564][P*] Mortimer Porter SLOSS, b. 29 Nov 1869;
d. 20 Sept
1898 or 89
[A8565][P*] Jane Porter, b. 16 Nov 1872; d. 18 Sept
1966
[A8565] Eldon Hugh SLOSS, b. 18 July 1875; d. 19
April 1922 in
Denver CO; bur. in Auburn KY
See Memoirs of [A85312] Margaret Porter Russell Cross
[A858][P*] Sister Cullie Martha, b. 1848; d. 5 June 1906 ; m.
1872, was married
in 1872 to Felix Griser McKAY, and they at this time live in
Sugar Grove. When
I left home in 1861 for the army she was a little girl, when I
came back in 1865,
she was grown. Issue: [A8581] & [A8582]
[A859][P*] Sister Elizabeth Alice, Lizzie, b. 1851; d. 13 Feb
1896; unmarried,
is at this time living at Sugar Grove. She too was small when
I entered the army,
and I came home to find her full grown. How great are the
changes brought about
in four years!
[A850][P*] Brother Nathaniel, Nat, b. 1853; d. 1910;
unmarried, is now about
19 and is attending school. He was an amateur soldier boy.
Soldier at home,
during the war, about 6 to 10 years of age, and amused himself
in dawning belt
and buckle, and going through evolutions, as soldiers---
About the year 1844. Pa began mechanizing at his residence, Sugar
. This is about as far
back as I can remember. He caused to be built in his yard, a store
house, which still stands and
for a long time, till 1865 sold goods in it, and was successful at the
business. In 1865 [A855?]
and 1856 he built a new dwelling at Sugar Grove, and about the same time
he in connection with
brother Frank and Uncle Owen Helm, built the new store house, at a cost
of about $1800. They
did business together for some years, until the war came on. After the
war had begun, they were
unable, on account of being southern in their sentiments to obtain goods
by purchase, in as much
as most merchants before being allowed to buy goods were required to
make proof of loyalty and
obtain permits to do so. After the war was over, goods were sold at
Sugar Grove either by Pa.
alone or by a firm of which he was a member, up to his death.
His ministry began as I have said in the year 1820, and continued
to the close of his life
in 1871, for more than fifty years. The first years of his ministry
were devoted to a good extent
of riding, what was called a "Circuit". This work embraced several
counties, such as Ohio,
Daviess, Breckenridge, Grayson, Hancock, and others bordering on the
Ohio river. He also
preached extensively in the counties of upper Green River. He was for a
long time the stated
preacher at Little Muddy, Old Union in Warren County, Concord, Harmony,
Red River Logan
Co., Mt. Olivet, Morgantown, Point Pleasant, and perhaps other churches
at different times, and
we have reason to believe, and know that his labors resulted in great
good to the honor and glory
of God. His preaching contained the purity of the Gospel delivered in
its simplicity such a
gospel as reached the wants of the people. Some "diaries" kept by him
during the early years of
his ministry are very interesting, containing the text from which he
preached, and in some
instances an epitom of his sermons.
My father was punctual in attending the Judications of the Church,
such as Presbyteries,
Synods, and upon several occasions the General Assembly.--- Sometimes as
a delegate from
Logan Presbytery, and sometimes as a mere visitor. He loved the Church
meetings.
He attended the meeting of Logan Presbytery at Pleasant Hill Warren
County, Kentucky
in August 1871, and went home unwell. He was soon after seriously sick,
and died on Monday
Morning October 9th. 1871, about 10 o'clock. He died of inflamation of
the stomach and
bowels. He suffered a great deal in his sickness, yet bore it with
Christian fortitude, and died in
possession of his faculties unimpaired, almost Seventy-five years old.
There never was a better
father. Nor better man and Christian. He was medium stature, about 5
feet 10 inches high. And
weighed 130 pounds when in health. He was kind to his servants, to the
poor and suffering, and
to all. He was successful in business, and but for his liberality would
have been in possession of
a handsome estate. He left what is far better than worldly wealth,
namely a good name. He
owned a large body of land embracing near 1200 acres at and around Sugar
Grove, the name
given by himself to his homestead many years before his death.
My mother was the second daughter, and fourth child of Moses and
Nancy HELM, as I
have said on page . She survived my father only a few months, when she
too was called to join
the angels above. She died of Congestion at Sugar Grove on Wednesday
June 6th. 1872 at about
4 o'clock in the evening, after only twentyfour hours sickness. She was
not thought to be
dangerous till a short time before her death, None of the children were
at home except Lizzie,
and Nat, and Nat was at work on the farm and did not get to her bed side
till after her death.
Sister Mary arrived just in time to see her die. I was in Bowling Green
and did not hear of her
death till about 11 O'clock that night. Cullie was in Hart County, but
was sent for, and got home
in time for the funeral. Sister Jennie was also at her home, and did
not hear of the sickness till
told of her death. It was a sad meeting when all of us got home, and
found no mother living.
Her funeral was preached by Rev. R. A. Read, and she was laid away by
the side of our dear
father in the Little Muddy burying ground. My mother was a good woman,
an intelligent
mother, and a true Christian. She and Pa had a great interest in the
happiness and welfare of
their children. I can never know, nor can anyone else ever know the
anxiety and trouble she
experienced for safety during the time I was absent in the army in
1861--2--3--4--& --5. I
sometimes think it is owing to her prayers for me that I survived the
dangers and hardships and
came back home. It is my desire and prayer that I may be ready to meet
her and my father when
the hour of departure draws nigh together with my dear Belle, who went a
short time before to
the glory land. Peace be to the graves wherein they rest.
My brother [A851] Frank married Miss Mary A. ALEXANDER December
2nd. 1858, and
lives now in 1872 on the farm settled by my grand father Francis
PORTER.
[HELMS and CARSONS]
Moses HELM, b 8 Oct 1777; d 184?; m 1802; my mother's father was
born, I think, in
Campbell County Va. In the year 1777 and moved to Kentucky in the year
1805 and settled
about 1 mile from my grand father PORTER's on the farm Uncle Owen now
lives on. He
married Nancy OWEN, b. 1777; d.1863/4; d/o James OWEN of Peaks of Otter,
Bedford Co VA,
d 1827; m Elizabeth, my grand mother on the maternal side in the year
18--, and their family
consisted as follows:-
James M. HELM, my mother's oldest brother, who married Mary
Elizabeth JAMES, and
raised a family of whom Thomas M. HELM is the oldest now living. Uncle
Jimmie lived a
number of years in Morgantown and carried on the tanning business. He
then moved to a farm
on Green River in the Big Bend, and died during the war in the year
186-.
The next was my aunt [P*] Mary Ann who married Thomas N. BERRYMAN,
and who
died in 1865 leaving one son. [P*] Thomas Helm BERRYMAN, who is now in
Missouri with
his father who is married again.
The next is my [P*] Uncle John B. HELM who married [A372] Nancy
Porter Carson, a
daughter of [A43] William, and [A37] Anna CARSON. He lives near Little
Muddy Church, his
wife, Aunt Nancy died in 1861.
[A85] My mother was the next and fourth child.
Thomas HELM was the next, who died when he was about 15 years old.
Aunt Martha Janes was the next. She married in 184- William A.
MOODY of Logan
County, where they now live. They have of six boys , and one girl.
William D. HELM, was the next who died when about 22 or 23 years
old. I remember
him well, though I was small, when he died.
Frank HELM another son died young.
David Owen HELM [4th], another uncle married Miss Lydia A. BOADLEY
who died in
1870, leaving three sons and one daughter. He lives at the place my
grand father lived on.
Robert Jordan HELM was the youngest son and died in 1868 aged about
31 years. He
never married, and for some years previous to his death was engaged in
the mercantile business.
He was about 2 * years older than myself.
My grand father Moses HELM died in 1847 leaving an estate of land
and slaves. My
grand mother died in 1863, during the war. I remember going to her home
one night, in March
1863 on one of the "scouts" into Kentucky, during her sickness and
cautiously going to the door
and knocking, and when it opened found my mother, Sister Mary and others
there. I could not
stay long, but had to leave after getting something to eat and some
fire. I mention this on page
104 of the typed version in my account of the war in another book which
I have written.
Moses HELM's father was John, b. 14 Aug 1741 VA; d. 20 April 1825;
John's brother,
Capt Thomas HELM was killed at the battle of Cowpens where [A1] William
Porter was
wounded.
Uncle Jordan OWEN of Hart County, m Ruth TINSLEY, is my grand
mother's only living
brother. The OWEN family were Welsh in their origin. They came to
Virginia early, and my
great grand father OWEN was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, on the
side of the Colonies,
and took part in many of the battles of that war. He was at Yorktown at
Cornwallis' surrender.
He married a lady of the name of WALKER who was my grand mother's
mother. Other siblings
of Jordan and Nancy OWEN: Sallie m Samuel HENSLEY; issue Margaret m 1st
HATCHER; m
2nd GATEWOOD; Elizabeth m JAMES in VA; Patsy m WALDRON; David OWEN, d
1841
unmarried.
The families of Helm, Porter and Carson have been for a long time
identified by
marriage and relationship. My paternal great grand mother was Mary HELM
who married in
17 James CARSON, d. 1814. They were the parents of my grand mother
PORTER Pa's
mother. The names of the children of James and Mary CARSON were Sarah,
b. 20 Nov 1766who married my grand father [A8] Francis PORTER. See
Descendants of Henry Hines, Sr p. 27
- 29
Thomas CARSON, b. 2 Feb 1769; d. 7 Nov 1825; m.1st 22 Aug 1793; m.
2nd 6 June
1814, known as "Saddler Tommie" who was father to James D. CARSON now
living in
Woodbury; William CARSON, Thomas D. CARSON; and Mary, wife of [A14] Dr.
Francis
PORTER.
Peggy, b. 5 July 1775, who married Miller LEE, and whose
descendants live perhaps in
Mississippi, William who lived and died in Trigg County Ky.
[A21] Betsy who married William PORTER son of the William who
settled in Butler
County.
Moses CARSON, b. 3 April 1783, who remained in Virginia where he
was raised, and
Polly who married DINWIDDIE, and who now lives in West Tennessee,
near McKenzie
Station.
To speak of each of the above named children of James and Mary CARSON
will now for a few
pages occupy us. The first of whom is Sarah, who was my grand mother
she having married
Francis, Frank, PORTER in the year 17--. My recollection of my grand
mother PORTER is
very distinct. I was a good sized boy some 12 or 14 years when her
death occurred. She was at
my earliest recollection of her very old and extremely nervous or
affected with palsy. I can call
to my mind her form and figure as it was then sitting in her accustomed
seat in the corner with
her pipe in hand engaged in smoking of which she was fond. On an arm of
her chair was her
tobacco bag of checked cotton home made cloth, and near by her cane
which she used as a
means of support when she arose to walk. She frequently walked about
her yard and garden, and
upon a few occasions I remember she walked to Pa's house 1/4 of a mile
from her house. She
was a small woman, and scrupulously nice in her manners, and business
habits were in perfect
accord with system, and order. She was the true type of Virginia women,
and had always much
to tell of her young days, and her recollection of the war of the
Revolution. She died aged about
Eighty six years.
James CARSON and Polly [Mary] had a son named Thomas CARSON, known
as
"Saddler Tommie" his trade being that of a saddler. He married a lady
of the name Dinwiddie in
Virginia, and emigrated to Kentucky, and settled on Little Muddy Creek
about four miles below
where the four PORTER brothers settled. The farm now in 1872, being
owned by James D.
[Dinwidde?] CARSON his son.
James D. CARSON married first Miss TYLER of Morgantown, who was the
mother of
Thomas Woodville CARSON at one time clerk of the Butler Court, but who
died in early life
some years ago at Morgantown, and James T. CARSON, now living in
Louisville, Ky., and Mary
Ann CARSON, Cousin "Pop" more generally called, who died in Woodbury in
1871.
Uncle Saddler Tommie had an older son Thomas D. CARSON who now
lives in
Louisville, with his daughter Bina CARTER, wife of John A. CARTER. His
other children by ?
BARNETT are Ida, married MILLER and Barnet, died unmarried.
William CARSON is another son of Uncle Tommie who now lives, and
for years has
lived in West Tennessee with his children I am not familiar enough to
give names.
A daughter of the same married [A44] Thomas E. CARSON. Her name
was Jane or
"Ginsey" and they are parents of Frank P. CARSON in Louisville.
Another daughter, Polly [Mary], see page --, married [A14] Francis
D. PORTER and
raised a family all being daughters except one son, [A14_?] Thomas who
married [A422_?] Ann
CHAPMAN daughter of Thos. C. CHAPMAN, and grand daughter of Rev. A.
CHAPMAN, and
they now live in Elm, Johnson Co, Missouri. Their daughters also live
in Missouri. One of
whom, [A14??] Betsy Jane married Thompson LEWIS. [A14??] Octavia
married a man named
------, one is unmarried I think, named [A14??] Carrie. A Paulina
CHAPMAN, b 20 Sept 1835;
d. 6 June 1902 NE; d/o Philip CHAPMAN, Sumner Co TN and Mary Barnet
BENNETT; m. 4
Dec 1856 MO Ebenezer B. LUNDY, b 14 Dec 1831 Grayson Co VA; d 2 Jan 1909
Shubert,
Richardson Co NE. Apparently the KY CHAPMANS came to MO with the TN
cousins. See
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7447.
Sarah, another daughter of Saddler Tommie married Warren W. HINES
and they have
raised a family of sons and daughters, and now live in Bowling Green.
Their oldest daughter
married James K. CLARKE. Mary B. HINES married Dr. Henry O. JONES.
Agnes and Francis
are unmarried.
The sons of Sarah and Warren HINES are Thomas H. HINES, James M.
HINES and
Eddie HINES.
Another daughter of Uncle Saddle, Cousin Agnes married Mr. Thos. L.
S. PROCTER,
and lived at Procter's Mill on Gasper River in Logan County, Ky. Their
children are Charles,
Monroe, Clay and Taylor, twins, Delia who married NICKOLS and Ben.
By referring to page it will be seen that James and Mary CARSON
raised a daughter
named Peggy, who married a man named Miller LEE who after emigrating
from Virginia to Ky.
And remaining a time removed perhaps to Mississippi, as to their
descendants I am in possession
of no information.
William CARSON, see page was a son also of James and Mary CARSON,
he married
---------, and lived after comming to Trigg County near Cadiz. I was
once at his house, and saw
him when he was an old man. I was a small boy at the time but I
remember he was a tall old
man, feeble with age, yet in possession of clear facilities. His hair
was white, and his
appearance betoken that he would soon pass away. He died a few years
afterwards leaving
children, and grand children descendants. A suit arose after his death
in regard to his estate
which was litigated in the Court of Appeals in Ky, and which is reported
in one of the books I
believe in one of Metcalfe's Reports on the decisions of that court. I
can not now call to mind
which volume of the four.
By referring to page it will be seen that another of James and
Mary CARSON's
children was named Betsey, who married [A11] William PORTER son of [A1]
William
PORTER who was uncle to my father. They moved to Missouri and I am in
possession of no
further information about their family and descendants.
Moses CARSON [b. 3 April 1783], see page --, was another child of
James and Mary
CARSON. He did not move to Kentucky, but remained in Virginia and lived
perhaps on the old
homestead. He died, if dead at this time, recently. His family I am
ignorant of.
Polly, another one, married a DINWIDDIE and now lives in 1872 in
Tennessee near
McKenzie Station. Her children and grand children live in the same
section, and all are as I am
informed in good circumstances.
I have now given all the facts in my possession concerning the
names and families of our
connection and regret that I can not go further back than I have done in
these pages. If what is
here put down shall prove of any benefit to any of our family ore be
interesting even to them to
look over and read, all desired will have been attained. A record ought
to be kept and the want
of it has been felt by me in preparing these pages up to the time of
course in which we all now
live. And I desire to add that it will be profitable for some one say
20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years
from this time to continue the record and note the events and changes,
and trace the descendants
so as not to lose sight of them entirely. For instance take our family,
my own brothers and
sisters, and what a number of branches there may be a half a century
from now. Then I say it is
well, and Itrust will be thought proper by some one to carry out the
record.
There may be and there may not be any great achievements to record,
but there will
always be something worth writing, if it is only to write down the names
of the descendants.
I hope what I have written will not be unproductive of good, and
that it will stimulate
some who come after me to have a care to preserve the names and memory
of their ancestors.
Bowling Green, Ky. John M. Porter
December 19 A.D. 1872.
[shortly after the death of his mother]
NOTES
I. Among the papers of JAP passed to JTL is an unsigned, undated
document entitled,
THOMAS CARSONS FAMILY RECORD
This is the record of Thomas Carsons sisters & brothers in Campbell
County Virginia.
Elizabeth Carson born March 13th 1743
Ezekial Carson " December 25 1744
Isbel Carson " January 16 1746
John Washburn Carson born Nov 8 1748
Mary Carson " Feb 8 1750
Ann Carson " March 13 1753
Susanah Carson " Oct 9 1755
Sarah Carson " Dec 26 1757
Thomas Carson " February 18 1760
Thomas Carson and Ann Porter were married Dec 23 1782
John P. Carson was born Nov 28 1783
Ann D Carson (married Rev A Chapman) June 6 1785
William Carson " " May 14 1787
Thomas E Carson " " Dec 27 1789
----- 0 -----
Of the first group:
Susanah married [A1] William Porter
Thomas married [A4] Ann Porter
Of the second generation:
[A41] John P. Carson married [A81] Polly or Mary Porter
[A43] William Carson married [A37] Nancy Ann Porter
In a biographical sketch of [A372] Oliver C. Carson in Kentucky: A
History of the State,
Battle. Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren County - the
following information about the
Carsons is found. Grandfather Thomas came to Baltimore MD from Ireland
about 1765, where
he [they?] remained a short time and then moved to Virginia. He was a
soldier in the
Revolutionary War. Thomas and family moved to Kentucky in 1805, and
settled in what was
then Logan County.
In a letter by JMP dated 15 April 1875, he states that [A372]
Oliver C. Carson believed
the Irish father of the above family was lost at sea during the
crossing. However, the LDS files
have a John Carson, b. abt 1717 Sumner Co TN; d. <25 May 1762; m. abt
1742 Ann DIXON, b.
abt 1721 Bedford Co VA. In that John Carson's will he made bequests of
land in Buckingham
Co VA to his sons, Ezekiel, John and Thomas Carson. These are the only
males on the above
list. One of the witnesses was James Carson. The will was exhibited in
Bedford Co VA court
by Anne Carson on 25 May 1762.
In a letter by O.S. Porter of the [A6] Oliver Porter Georgia line
dated 5 Feb 1896, he
states that Polly Porter died in Virginia and [A] John married a Mrs.
___ Carson.
John Porter's will dated 1 Jan 1781 includes a bequest to his
beloved wife Ann, not Polly
or Mary, and a daughter Ann. There is a daughter [A4] Anna by Polly,
but there is an Ann
Carson as well.
II. There is new evidence that David Beard, b. 1745 in VA; d. 11
January 1815 in Sumner
Co TN. married Isabel [Isabella] Carson, above. They were the parents
of Thomas Carson
Beard, b. 31 Aug 1784 in Bedford Co VA; d. 27 July 1850 in Sumner Co TN,
who married
Nancy Hall, b. 4 July 1792; d. 7 June 1845; m 21 March 1816 in
Rutherford Co TN. This
couple's sixth child, William Porter Beard, b. 29 Feb 1828; d. 15 Aug
1903 in Smiths Grove,
Warren Co KY, married [A853] Mary Thomas Porter. If correct, three of
the Carson siblings
listed play a role in Porter genealogy.
If the Mrs. Carson that John Porter may have married was the mother of
the above siblings, and
Isabella became Isabella Carson Porter it would explain the appearance
of the Porter in William
Beard's name.
III. In a communication from Sarah Shaw Tatounova in March 1998, she
writes that James
Carson, father of Saddler Tommie, was John Carson's brother.
IV. Graves at the Porter family grave yard in Butler Co for which there
are not corresponding
names in the above include: Milley P. Porter, b. 9 Feb 1799; d. 3 Aug
1864 and Anthony Porter,
b. 1780; d. 4 Nov 1834.
V. In a letter dated 26 April 1894 [A8513] John Alexander Porter [JAP]
stated his intention to
update the Porter history begun by JMP. In a genealogical form dated 9
April 1926 he stated
that he had compiled 168 genealogical tables on the Porters and allied
families. He added that
the record was going to press in 60 days, but if it did no copies have
been located.
He and his two sisters of [A851] Francis died unmarried. It appears
that the editor may be
in possession of many of JAP's documents through Margaret Porter Russell
Cross. Among the
papers is correspondence with Oliver S. Porter of Covington, GA and
Katie Porter Barnett of
Madison GA regarding the proposed book.
VI. Kentucy: A History of the State lists two sons of Benjamin Porter in
Butler County. JMP
states that [A33] Benjamin went to Texas, leaving one son, [A331] Clark,
on Green River. So
there must have been two Porter families in P.E.CoVA that came to Butler
Co. This may
account for the two unknowns in the family graveyard.
VII. In 19 Olive Swann Porter, wife of [A6--] ---- wrote a monograph
entitled, "A
Genealogical Record of the Porter Family of England and America" about
the [A6] Oliver
Porters. There is much material in this four page document regarding
the Porter family history
in England and Ireland, but little documentation.
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(it should be paste or plain text -not a forward or attachments)
This may include connections, spouses, collaterals, source, origins
CHANGE a Subject line to reply per above format if prior post failed
:) P.S.
Please always try to place the SURNAME of that SURNAME group
or the variant spelling of that SURNAME so that it is always the
FIRST WORD in the SUBJECT line of any post (country the last) Thanks
For CARSON posting first word of Subject line should be CARSON
For KARSON posting first word of Subject line should be KARSON
For CORSON posting first word of Subject line should be CORSON
If posting URLs please excerpt on topic data with proper credits :)
Many subscribers dont have web access & will appreciate actual data.
Sources needed, please - can you help? Thanks for your cooperation.
Cheers! please read detail in Welcome message or ask Harold.
Special topics: genetics, books, places mailto:sundance@neosoft.com
Please do not cross post CC: multiple lists. No attachments, please.
Please limit signature line to two lines; detail any items on topic.
Do not replay long posts - do not have word digest in Subject line.
Send address changes, lost person, unsub problems only to listowner.
Reminder to all subscribers: we're VERY much an INTERNATIONAL group
with ancestors, and cousins very much worldwide -maybe that MISSING
link went to CANADA AUSTRALIA South AFRICA NEW ZEALAND INDIA MEXICO
South AMERICA ISRAEL GERMANY CHINA FRANCE RUSSIA ARABIA etc we need
data with SOURCES credits per fair use for critical review or help;
Please post any commentary or problems privately to listowner only.
Please print and save these tips and please post ON topic to list:)
Please REMEMBER this is an INTERNATIONAL list - Many subscribers
pay money to download posts -we lose subscribers who give up after
paying for downloads not specifying SUBJECT line per list protocol:
SURNAME, first name TIME PERIOD & place & COUNTRY <fill in data:)
** Keep SMILING *** happy to help:)
We need researchers who'll help us internationally with data please!
If my posts sound school teacher-ish, remember both my parents were!
We need your help, cooperation per FOCUS of ACTUAL data per SURNAME
connections explicitly stated in each post made to this list please.
(BOOKs, OBITs, BIBLEs, WILLs, DEEDs, old LETTERs = per SURNAME data)