Benjamin R. Yard and Margaret Porter

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Husband Benjamin R. Yard ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 19 Dec 1802 - Mercer Co, NJ 1 2 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Apr 1892 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Pleasantview M. E. Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

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         Father: John Yard (Abt 1767/1777-1858) 2 7
         Mother: Harriet Benson (Abt 1767/1777-1856) 2

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       Marriage: Aft 1858 2

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   Other Spouse: Catharine Hovis (1803-1856) 1 3 5 8 - 1825 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 1

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Wife Margaret Porter ^{1 4 5 9}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1904
         Buried: 

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         Father: Alexander Porter (1765-1847) 9 10 11
         Mother: Margaret Bredin (1769-1859) 12

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin R. Yard

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He came to Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1813.

He learned the cabinet-making and carpenter's trades, which he followed for several years, and finally relinquished to go into farming. He was a member of Pleasant View Methodist church and the church at Mechanicsville for nearly forty years. [HVC 1890, 959] [CAB, 638]

He had six sons and four daughters by 1879.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married in 1850. [HVC 1879, 601]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 601.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 959.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 638, 643.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1311.

5 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 35.

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 108.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 638.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 959, 992.

9 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 959, 990.

10 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 424.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1310.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 492.