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Surnames: Porter , Freeman , Larue Thompson and Luton
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yi.2ADE/477
Message Board Post:
I am looking for anyone that knows this Porter Family.
George PORTER B-around 1823 to 1828
(wife) Caroline?? PORTER B-around 1828 NC OR OHIO
(son) William Frank PORTER B-1849 NC
(son) Albert ? PORTER B-1851 NC
(daughter ) Sarah? PORTER B- around 1854 NC
(daughter) Eugine ? PORTER B- around 1858 NC
By 1870 Caroline was in the House hold with another
Child named Jefferson Davis
Also Albert B-1851 Was Married to A Susan Before 1879
They had the following Children
Daniel B-1879 NC
Henry B-1881 NC
Aron B-1883 NC
IDA B-1885 NC
Emma B-1890 NC
Mary B-1892 NC
Lula B-1895 NC
Joseph AND J DOSS
And there could have been more.
Im sure with all these kids some are still alive and i would like to hear from you
Please e-mail me at,,, gjt72938(a)valuelinx.net
Continuation of Chesterton Tribune, August 20, 1885
Indiana hopes to harvest 100,000,000 bushels of corn with good weather,
this year. This will be the largest yield for ten years. The state has
4,000,000 acres planted which is nearly 320,000 more than 70 per cent of
an average.
Dr. Loring, of Valparaiso, visited Hageman and Chesterton, last
Wednesday to look after the sanitary condition of the towns. It is our
opinion that Dr. Loring thinks he has been put to a great deal of
needless trouble in this matter and heartily wishes he were out of it.
The radiance of the Star surprises the world. It is admired and envied
by all competitors. People leave their "Homes" and forsake their
"Households" for the Star that leads them all, - "THE LIGHT RUNNING
DOMESTIC". For sale by A. L. Harper, Chesterton, Ind.
Dr. Marr, the sensation-loving physician of Chesterton, is very proud of
the fact that the public know that he subscribed for a medical journal.
To use the highly polished language of the doctor, he says: "it's a h-l
of a doctor that don't take a medical journal." According to his
statement we must recognize the fact that Dr. Delos D. has been a h-l of
a doctor for sometime past and was only saved from being one still by
the timely visit of Dr. Eggleston.
While at Hageman Wednesday, attending the trial of the noted Dr. Gray,
our attention was called to a singular freak of nature on board a train
en route for Chicago. It was nothing more than a cow with four living
calves and one dead one, all of one litter. The cow was formerly owned
by a gentleman of Sparta, Wis., the man in charge was on his way from
Detroit to Chicago where he intends to place them in the museum. He
stated that the cow was the mother of ten living calves the result of
three different calvings.
Last Monday evening the elegant residence of Martin Young was thrown
open to a number of invited guests, and during the three hours which
followed the arrival of guests, the scene was one of feasting and quiet,
refined gaiety. The hostess, Mrs. Young, presided, and by her winning
manner and sparkling wit, added much to the pleasures of the evening.
The following ladies and gentlemen were present: Mr. and Mrs. Purlinton,
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Harper, Misses Nellie and Eva
Corson, Messrs. Edwin Green, C. Williams, and Frank Johnson.
The Cincinnati Evening Telegram finds its way to our exchange table. It
is a neat 6-column folio, printed on tinted paper and brim full of news.
Everything in it is short, spicy, and to the point. The paper is worth
the subscription price asked, $3 per year, but in addition to that the
publishers make its list of subscribers a great family and watch over
them. If any member of the Telegram's family become injured, he or she
is given Ten dollars a week for five weeks, and in case of death the
heirs are given $200. The publishers hope to gain a heavy list, and the
paper if continued in its present course, will be to Cincinnati what the
Daily News is to Chicago.
Joe Decker, the accomplished commercial traveler who is now in the
employ of a wholesale liquor house, visited Chesterton Wednesday. Our
saloon-keepers are all complaining of being very tired today, and some
of them have fled to their beds. Whether this state of affairs is
caused by the exceedingly excruciating powers of Mr. Decker's eloquence
or whether from the quality of liquor he sells, we are in doubt. As Dr.
Loring would say, "having investigated the matter I find that it is
probably due to one, probably due to the other, and very likely to
both". At any rate, Mr. Decker will greatly oblige this community by
sending a postal card beforehand the next time he comes, so we can have
time to be absent.
The Duel County Advocate, of Clear Lake, Dakota, pays the following neat
compliment to our fellow-townsman, Mr. Chas Hylander: "Chas. Meliene,
of Goodwin, accompanied by his friend, Chas. Hylander, of Chesterton,
Ind., were pleasant callers at the Advocate office on Tuesday of last
week. Mr. Hylander seems possessed with the gift of prophecy to some
extent. Five years ago he was visiting friends in Duel county. During
his visit he took a drive over this portion of the county. As he looked
at our Clear Lake from the beautiful plot of ground where now is located
our enterprising town of Clear Lake, he remarked: "here is the place to
locate as town as soon as some enterprising railroad company traverse
this part of the county. When they do it, a good town will spring into
existence that will surely become the county seat of Duel county." The
first prophecy has come to pass, and the latter is simply a question of
time.
In and About Chesterton
Two vacant store rooms in town.
Get Swan Nilson to do your painting.
Go to Ed Ways for a good clean shave.
Jno. T. Taylor was in Chicago last Tuesday.
For a first class quality of Calcimine go to Dr. Green's.
Subscribe to The Tribune. Get your friends to subscribe.
Can't you add one name to The Tribune subscription list?
Zorn's new building at Hageman is rapidly nearing completion.
Mr. James Brown, of Chicago, was in town last Sunday and Monday.
Wheat comes in slowly to this market. The ruling price is 80 cents.
Miss Emily Bowser, of Valparaiso, is visiting her brothers, at this
place.
Go to McLellans, at Valparaiso, for photographs. He is the best in
town.
Ed Bowser and B. C. Smith was in Chicago, visiting friends.
Mr. W. A. Smith, the carpenter, contemplates moving away from
Chesterton.
Ladies, get your tube paints, oils, and brushes for artistic painting at
Green's and Harper's.
Miss Mable Taylor is visiting friends in South Bend. She has been away
for the past three weeks.
Mr. Fred Miller shipped a car load of horses, purchased in this vicinity
to Chicago last Tuesday.
H. Tilottson spent last Saturday in Chesterton. Homer is doing a
prosperous business in Valparaiso.
Do you smoke? Well, drop into Ed Way's and get a good cigar. He keeps
nothing but the best.
"Stolen Kisses" and "Lilly of the Valley" are the finest perfumes on the
market. At Green & Harper's.
Justice Blanks, Deed, Mortgages, Notes, etc., for sale at this office.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Cream, cream, Ice-cold cream,
For a dish of that cream I scream.
Lemonade too, I(s)cold for a glass
And get it when Johnson's hotel I pass.
Not selfish am I, for with my lassie
So pert, bright, pretty and sassy
We all stop in and leave our tin
For refreshments at Mrs. Johnson's.
Messrs. John Redington and Ira Tillotson, of Valparaiso, make this
office a very pleasant call last Wednesday. Come again, boys.
Mr. Wm. Chatham returned from Niagara Falls last Wednesday, and speaks
very highly of the management of the excursion on which he went.
M. L. Phares returned to this place last Sunday, but remained just long
enough to say hello. He is spending his vacation visiting friends
throughout the county.
The Michigan Central railway company are hauling considerable gravel to
Hageman, and filling up the low places on their grounds. This company
is enterprising.
They do say that Dave McHenry has a colt which promises to be a
racehorse of no mean record. David is now training the animal, and
expects a record of 2:20 before winter.
A putrified squirrel taken from the heart of a tree near Knowlton,
Wisconsin, a few weeks ago, has been presented to President Cleveland,
and by him placed in the public museum at Washington.
We are under obligations to Mr. George Brown, the Miller, for a sack of
excellent flour. That is, we suppose it is to him, for a sack of
Liberty Mills flour was left at our door last week. Thanks.
In Saline County, Neb., two weeks ago, a woman closed her husband's eyes
on Monday, buried him on Wednesday, and married his successor on Friday.
Truly, she went through the trying ordeal a sailin'.
Dr. Miller is fitting up the storeroom formerly occupied by Wm. Diddle,
in Mrs. Johnson's building for an office. When completed, the doctor
will have the neatest and best located office in town. Dr. Miller is
enterprising.
Mrs. L. P. Williams and daughters, Lizzie and Mamie, of Washington City,
have been spending the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Williams. They
will remain in this locality visiting their many relatives and friends
for the coming four or five weeks.
Mr. S. Nelson left Tuesday for Englewood, where he has the job of doing
the inside work in the Masonic Hall, and Mr. James Moroney's house at
that place. Mr. Nilson's fame as an artistic painter, is spreading far
and wide. He will also do the inside work on Mr. George Brown's elegant
mansion.
The Walkerton Leader has been resurrected and is now under the
management of R. W. H. Burroughs. He sends out a newsy little sheet but
makes one mistake which may prove fatal to the enterprise, the
subscription rate is $1.00 a rate too low entirely. If a paper isn't
worth $1.50 it isn't worth a cent.
Our exchanges will be pleased to learn that Dr. Gray, the notorious
tooth extracter, paid Chesterton a visit last Tuesday. The people here
were so overjoyed to see the doctor, that Squire Gondring at once
deputized Edward Harrigan to act as master of ceremonies and escort him
to the court room, where a public welcome could be given him. For
further particulars of this affair, see another column.
At this stage of affairs, we will not be at all surprised to hear that
Dr. Marr has laid the excuse of the epidemic at Hageman, at the door of
the Democratic administration. When he started out, he claimed that
Fred Stick, the butcher, was the originator and instigator of the
disease, but later on, he discovered that Martin Young and T. Grady had
an interest in it. Now we read in the city dailies "special telegrams"
from Dr. Marr, laying the blame on bologna, sausage, potatoes and
"cheese" sold by Messrs. H. Dabbert and Pilman Bros. Oh,"Rats"