Name: The Porters of Greene County

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Thomas G. Porter: Birth: ABT 1837 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: BEF 1900

  2. Ann Eliza Porter: Birth: FEB 1842 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: BEF 2 NOV 1907

  3. William E. Porter: Birth: MAY 1844 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: 20 JAN 1917 in home, Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania

  4. Mary E. Porter: Birth: ABT 1847 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: BEF 1900

  5. Joshua Vernon Porter: Birth: MAY 1847 in Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: 24 NOV 1907 in brotherÕs home, East Millsboro, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

  6. Isabel J. Porter: Birth: 19 NOV 1852 in West Bend, Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: 17 AUG 1924

  7. Elisha Fletcher Porter: Birth: 12 MAY 1855 in Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Death: 5 APR 1902 in home, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania


Sources
1. Text:   Given name/Surname
Author:   Henry Elliot Shepherd
Publication:   Uniontown, Pa.: S. B. Nelson, Publisher
2. Title:   1850 Federal Census
Text:   Given name/Surname
3. Title:   Obituary of Dr. Joshua V. Porter
Text:   Given name/Surname
4. Title:   Re: Porter Grandparents!
Text:   Given name/Surname
Author:   Ruth Sprowls
5. Title:   1850 Federal Census
Text:   Date [Estimated]/Location [County/State]
6. Text:   Date/Location [County]
Author:   Henry Elliot Shepherd
Publication:   Uniontown, Pa.: S. B. Nelson, Publisher
7. Text:   Date [Year]
Author:   Henry Elliot Shepherd
Publication:   Uniontown, Pa.: S. B. Nelson, Publisher

Notes
a. Note:   N6236 Given name (Armstrong) and surname (Porter) from an e-mail, Re: Porter Grandparents!, Ruth Sprowls, December 19, 2002
  Given name (Armstrong) and surname (Porter) from the obituary of Dr. Joshua V. Porter - ÒDaily News StandardÓ newspaper, Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Monday, November 25, 1907, pages 1 and 5
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 1850 (September 11) census data from the census images for Luzern Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Page 359 - image 22 - line 22) on HeritageQuest. The census indicates that he was a 37 year old farmer. The value of real estate owned was $1,000. He was living with his wife, 3 sons and 2 daughters. He is listed as having been born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. His given name is listed as "Armstrong" in this census.
  1860 (August 25) census data from the census images for the Luzerne Township (Post Office-Millsboro), Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Page 334 - Image 34 - line 9) on HeritageQuest. The census indicates that he was a 47 year old farmer. He was living with his wife, 4 sons and 3 daughters. The value of his real estate was $1,250 and the value of his personal estate was $514. He is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. His given name is listed as "Armstrong" in this census.
  1870 (June 17) census data from the census images for Luzerne Township (Post Office-Millsborough), Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Page 17 - Image 17 - line 13) on HeritageQuest. The census indicates that he was a 57 year old farmer and living with his wife, 3 sons and 1 daughter. The value of his real estate was $2,500 and the value of his personal estate was $830. He is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. His father and his mother were of foreign birth. His given name is listed as "Armstrong" in this census.
  1880 (June 10) census data from the census images for Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Enumeration District 44 - page 20 - image 20 - line 4) on HeritageQuest. The census indicates that he was a 65 year old farmer. He was married and living with his wife and 1 son. He is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania as were his father and mother. His given name is listed as "Armstrong" in this census.
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 ÒArmstrong Porter, father of Elisha F., removed from Allegheny county to Fayette county when but a child, and then learned the trade of shoemaking, which he pursued until near middle life, when he turned his attention to farming for the remainder of his days. He died January 11, 1892, at the age of seventy-nine years, almost upon the spot where he landed sixty-five years before. In 1837 Armstrong Porter married Ellen Gibbons, sister of the late Joshua V. Gibbons, first county superintendent of Fayette county, and who also served two subsequent terms. Mr. and Mrs. Porter had seven children: Thomas G. and Mary E., deceased; Anna E. (Mrs. Hiller); William E., farmer; J. V., physician; Belle J. (Mrs. Horner), and Elisha F. Armstrong and Ellen Porter were charter members of the old Hopewell C. P. church, though their children all became members of the Methodist Episcopal church.Ó
  Source - ÒNelsonÕs Biographical Dictionary And Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, PennsylvaniaÓ, Volume 3 (Part 6, Book A), 1900, Henry Elliot Shepherd, pages 859-860, Uniontown, Pa.: S. B. Nelson, Publisher

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