Francis (Hiram) Porter and Ruth [Unk]

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Husband Francis (Hiram) Porter ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Ruth [Unk] ¹

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Porter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1803
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           Died: Aft 1885
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2 F Isabella Porter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1805
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           Died: Aft 1885
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         Spouse: Alexander Mellon (      -      ) 1

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3 M William Porter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1807
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           Died: Aft 1885
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4 F Rachel Porter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1809
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           Died: Aft 1885
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5 M Charles Wray Porter ³

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           Born: 1810 - Crawford Co, PA 4
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           Died: 18 Apr 1893
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         Spouse: Patty Eliza Powers (      -      ) 4

         Spouse: Mary Beck (      -1899) 3

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6 M James Porter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1812
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           Died: Aft 1885
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7 F Mary Porter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1817
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           Died: Aft 1885
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General Notes: Husband - Francis (Hiram) Porter

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This family comes from a stanch old Scotch-Irish background. He, his wife, with one child emigrating from the motherland at an early day and settling in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. There they passed the remaining years of their lives-he dying at the age of ninety-one, and she at eighty.

He and his wife settled in Crawford County about 1803, where they had seven children, all of whom were living still living in 1885.

1 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 870.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 975, 986.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 975.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 976.