Robert Porter and Elizabeth Penrose Alcock
Husband Robert Porter 1 2
Born: 28 Apr 1773 - near Gettysburg, York (later Adams) Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 5 Jul 1859 4 Buried:
Father: William Porter (1739-1824) 5 Mother: Martha Ross (1750-1790) 6
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Keziah Richey ( - ) 4
Wife Elizabeth Penrose Alcock 3
Born: 4 Jan 1765 4 Christened: Died: 17 Jun 1839 4 Buried: - Hood's Church, West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
Father: John Alcock ( - ) 3 Mother: Ann Penrose (1740-1802) 3
Children
1 F Martha Ross Porter 1 4
Born: 7 Apr 1795 - York Co, PA 1 4 Christened: Died: 28 Apr 1862 7 Buried:Spouse: Charles Watson Clendenning (1788-1889) 7 Marr: 30 Dec 1822 1 7
2 F Nancy Porter 4
Born: 31 Jul or 20 Nov 1796 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 8 Christened: Died: 20 Nov 1881 9 Buried:Spouse: Nathan Conley (1793-1865) 9 10
3 F Jane Porter 11 12
Born: 7 Sep 1798 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 12 Jan 1888 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 11 13 Buried:Spouse: John Taggart (1799-1890) 11 14 Marr: 14 Mar 1828 11
4 F Mary Ann Porter 4
Born: 1800 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Robert Cunningham, Jr. ( -1863) 15
5 M William Porter 4
Born: 2 Apr 1802 - West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 22 May 1875 - Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA 16 Buried:Spouse: Mary Wallace Crawford ( - ) 16 Marr: 29 Jan 1829 16Spouse: Catherine Boyd ( -1858) 16
6 M James Ross Porter 4
Born: 1803 - West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 1881 - Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA 17 Buried: - Prospect CemeterySpouse: Ruth John ( - ) 18
7 M John Alcock Porter 4
Born: 12 Jul 1805 - West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 17 Christened: Died: 14 Nov 1837 17 Buried:Spouse: Grazella Holmes (1800- ) 17 Marr: 15 Sep 1828 17
8 M Ross Porter 4
Born: 15 Mar 1807 - West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 19 Christened: Died: 20 Mar 1863 - West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 19 Buried:Spouse: Nancy Crawford (Abt 1815-1871) 19
General Notes: Husband - Robert Porter
He was brought at an early age by his parents to a place later known as Porter's School, near Dillsburg, Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania. In 1796 he removed with his wife and children to Shippensburg, Cumberland County. In 1800 he purchased and settled on a tract of land on the Kittanning Road, Allegheny County. This tract, which contained two hundred acres, was known as Porter's Falls, taking its name from a stream of water that, coursing through his land, tumbled over rocky ledges into a woody ravine about one hundred yards from his house.
Robert Porter was one of the founders of Deer Creek United Presbyterian Church in 1802, then the Associate Reformed Church, at which time an open-air pulpit was erected and "hither up the old forest trail on horseback rode the pioneers of the surrounding townships to worship." He was an officer of the church from its inception. He also served as precentor, and his chanting of the Psalms was long held in delight by those who heard him.
He was appointed justice of the peace and served as treasurer and township commissioner. Mr. Porter was gifted in the knowledge and use of native herbs and it is said that he served his community, at a time when physicians were few, as a dispenser of drugs almost as effectively as a dispenser of justice.
1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 417.
2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 77.
3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 78.
4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80.
5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50.
6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50, 77.
7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 82.
8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80, 84.
9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 84.
10 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1051, 1339.
11 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 289.
12 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80, 156.
13 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 176.
14 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88, 156.
15 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88.
16 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 89.
17 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 100.
18 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 99.
19
Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 106.
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