Thomas Porter and Hannah Pomroy

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Husband Thomas Porter ¹

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           Born: 1790 or 1791 - County Down, Ireland 1
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           Died: 5 Apr 1886 - Lackawannock Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth "Betsey" Waugh (      -1838) 2 - 1826 3

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Wife Hannah Pomroy ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 18 Dec 1877 - Lackawannock Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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Children

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1 M John W. Porter ^{1 4}

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           Born: Feb 1846 1
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           Died: 1892 4
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         Spouse: Caroline Zahniser (1844-      ) 4
           Marr: 4 Jul 1867 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Porter

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Wilmington Twp, Mercer Co, PA

He was born in County Down, Ireland. [HMC 1888, 887] In County Donegal. [HMC 1888, 902]
At the age of twenty-six he immigrated to America, and worked for four years on a farm for Squire Abrams, near Philadelphia, PA. He then visited Mercer County and purchased a farm of sixty acres of Mr. McConnell. He soon after returned to Philadelphia, where he was employed by Stephen Girard, as overseer of his farm hands, where he remained two years. He then returned to Mercer County. He was married and they located on a farm, where they lived about ten years, when they sold it to Joseph Douglass, and bought 100 acres of Dr. Smith, near Wilmington. In 1856 he purchased a farm of 100 acres in Lackawannock Township, on which they went to live. He was a Democrat. They were members of the Presbyterian Church.
He died April 5. [HMC 1888, 887] He died April 15. [HMC 1888, 802]

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General Notes: Wife - Hannah Pomroy

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from Lawrence Co, PA

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 887.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 879, 887.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 902.

4 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 100.