Husband Alexander Porter 1 2 3
Born: 26 Feb 1765 - Lancaster Co, PA
Christened:
Died: 26 Sep 1847 - Venango Co, PA 4 5
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Father: Samuel Porter ( - ) 2
Mother:
Marriage: - Washington Co, PA
Wife Margaret Bredin 7
AKA: Margaret Braden 1 4 5
Born: 10 Aug 1769
Christened:
Died: 25 May 1859 4 5
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Children
1 M Joseph Porter 4 8 9
Born: 1792 - Washington Co, PA 8 9
Christened:
Died: 25 Feb 1886 - ? Butler Co, PA 9
Buried:
Spouse: Martha Van Dyke ( - ) 1 9
Marr: 1817 1 10
2 F Mary Porter 4 5
Born:
Christened:
Died: while young
Buried:
3 F Elizabeth Porter 5
Born: 25 Mar 1796
Christened:
Died: 29 Apr 1813
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Isabel Porter 4 5
Born:
Christened:
Died: Bef 1883
Buried:
Spouse: William Coulter ( - ) 4 5
5 F Nancy Porter 4 5
Born: 22 Jun 1800
Christened:
Died: 18 Apr 1844
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Spouse: William Osburn (Abt 1791-1838)
6 M James Porter 4 11
Born: 21 Dec 1801 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4 5
Christened:
Died: 18 Jun 1887 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Spouse: Sybella Coulter (Abt 1809-1832) 4 12
Marr: 1828 13
Spouse: Harriet Vincent (cal 1828-1863) 4 11
7 F Annabel Porter 4 5
AKA: Ann Porter 1
Born: 3 Feb 1804
Christened:
Died: Aft 1890
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Spouse: James Kerr ( - ) 4
8 M Samuel Porter 4 5
Born: 17 Jan 1807
Christened:
Died: 13 Feb 1846
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
9 M John Porter 5 14 15 16
Born: 7 Dec 1809 - Venango Co, PA
Christened:
Died: 1 Sep 1852 - Venango Co, PA
Buried:
Spouse: Julia Ann Black ( - ) 16 17 18
Spouse: Rachel Barr ( - ) 5 14 19
10 F Margaret Porter 3 5 20 21
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1904
Buried:
Spouse: Benjamin R. Yard (1802-1892) 5 20 21 22 23
Marr: Aft 1858 22
11 F Lucy Porter 4 5
Born: 23 Dec 1814
Christened:
Died: 10 May 1816
Buried: - Porter Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Spouse: Did Not Marry
12 M Alexander Porter, Jr. 4 5
Born: 1818 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
Christened:
Died: Aft 1890
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret McKinley (cal 1829-1858) 5
Spouse: Levina Mitchell ( - ) 5
13 F Elizabeth Porter 24
Born: 1824 - Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 1893
Buried: - Barkeyville Cemetery, Barkeyville, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 25
Spouse: James McMurdy (1818-1900) 26
Marr: 1843 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 26
General Notes: Husband - Alexander Porter
He was born in Washington Co, PA. [HVC 1890, 990]
He was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about 1761. [HBC 1895, 1310]
Born in western Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish parents who were early settlers in that section, he lived in Westmoreland County prior to his removal to Venango County, which took place about 1795-98, when he made a settlement in what is now Clinton Township, two miles south of Clintonville, on a tract of four hundred acres, his old homestead being later in the possession of his grandsons, Samuel and Thomas V. Porter. The region was very sparsely settled when he arrived here, and he was its first blacksmith. It is said that he pursued his trade under a variety of difficulties. An iron wedge driven into a stump was made to do service as an anvil, a piece of an old axe was used as a hammer, and the bark of trees utilized as fuel. Iron was brought from the furnaces of Huntingdon County on packhorses. He started improving his land and farmed as much as possible, and had considerable clearing done at the time of his death. He is buried on the farm, in the family cemetery. [CAB, 979]
He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was one of the first settlers of Washington County. In 1798, he removed with his family from Washington to Venango County, locating in what later became Clinton Township. The family con-sisted of the father, mother and thirteen children, eleven of whom became men and women. He died in Venango County at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife at-tained to about the same number of years before her death. [HBC 1883, 424]
He had five brothers who were soldiers in the Revolution, three of whom never returned. He settled in Clinton township, Venango County, in 1794, and was the first blacksmith in that locality, carrying on his trade under great difficulties. It is related that an iron wedge driven into a stump did service as an anvil, a piece of an old axe was used as a hammer, and the bark of trees utilized for fuel. Iron was brought from the furnaces in Huntingdon county, on pack-horses, through the trackless forests. He settled on 400 acres of land, where his grandsons, Samuel and Thomas V. Porter, would later reside.
General Notes: Wife - Margaret Bredin
According to the cemetery book, she died in 1859.