Emma Idella Nelson

Notes:

She was buried in Eckhart Mines Cemetery, Allegany Co., Maryland.

Emma married William Nathan Engle on 25 Dec 1921 in Eckhart, Allgany County, Maryland. William (son of Vincent Engle and Harriett (Hattie) Porter) was born on 19 Jan 1891 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 15 Apr 1979 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William N. Jr. (Bill) Engle was born on 21 Oct 1924 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 17 Apr 2014 in Martinsburg, Berkley County, West Virginia.
2. Eleanor Rose Engle was born on 1 Feb 1928 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 5 Oct 2018 in Boonsboro, Washington County, Maryland.

Notes:

JOHN A. NELSON, an old-established general merchant at Eckhart Mines, Allegany county, is one of the honorable, substantial citizens of that place, where all of his useful life has been passed. Mr. Nelson was born at Eckhart August 17, 1862, and the family is well and favorably known there, his father, Andrew Nelson, having been a miner and merchant there to the end of his days. He was a native of Scotland. To his marriage with Jane Porter, now also deceased, were born five children: George and James are both miners; John A. is mentioned below; Ellen is the wife of Isaac Porter; Catherine is married to Thomas Philips, of Eckhart.

John A. Nelson was reared at Eckhart Mines, and for a few years attended public school. His opportunities for an education soon came to an end, however, for he was only a young boy when he commenced to dig coal at the Eckhart Mines, following that occupation for several years. In 1891 he entered the mercantile business, in which he has since continued on his own account, and though he had little or no capital to start with, he has made good and built up a steady patronage, gaining and holding customers by carrying reliable merchandise and giving accommodating service. He has the confidence and respect of all of his fellow citizens at Eckhart, among whom he has always lived and worked. In politics a Democrat, Mr. Nelson has been a dependable party worker in his locality for over thirty years. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.
In 1883 Mr. Nelson was married to Miss Rose B. Crowe, of Eckhart Mines, Maryland, a daughter of Nelson (sic) Crowe of that place, and they have fifteen living children, namely: Effie, who is the wife of William Wheling, and they have three children, Idelia, Jean and William; Raymond, who resides at Barton, married Christina Wagner, and they have two children, Lucile and Beatrice; Daisy B., who is unmarried, is postmistress at Eckhart, Maryland; James who is a resident of Mount Savage, Maryland, married Martha Wills, but they have no children; Andrew, who resides at Eckert; Ada, who is the wife of John Wagner, of Grahamtown, Allegany county, has five children, Margaret, Marion, Helen, Marvin and John; John G., who is a resident of Barton, married Miss Maitland James, but they have no children; Harvey E., who is a resident of Frostburg, married Miss Emma Shuckhart, and they have one child, Emma I., who is the wife of William Engle, of Eckhart; Roger, who married Miss Ethel Lewis, has a son, Roger; Herbert, who is unmarried; and Ruth, who is also unmarried; Marian, Olin and Estella. Mr. Nelson has reared his large family well, and they are a credit to their home training and to the community. Excerpted from History of Allegany County by Williams and Thomas (1923)

He died on 20 Aug 1932 at the age of 70 in Eckhart Mines, Allegany Co., Maryland.

He was buried in Eckhart Mines Cemetery, Allegany Co., Maryland.

John married Rose B. (Rosie) Crowe in 1883. Rose (daughter of Nelson Crowe and Mary Ann Winebrenner) was born on 16 Feb 1866 in Allegany County, Maryland; died on 29 Jun 1942 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Eckhart - June 29 - Mrs. Rose (Crowe) Nelson, 76, widow of John A. Nelson, died this morning after an illness of several years. She was a lifelong resident and an active member of the Methodist Church. She was the mother of 16 children, 14 of whom survive: John Nelson, Philadelphia, Pa.; Raymond, Harvey, Herbert, Mrs. John Wagner, and Mrs. Lester Folk, Barberton, O.; James, Cumberland; Roger, Olin, Mrs. William Engle, and Miss Marion Nelson, Eckhart; and Andrew, Mrs. Charles Krauss and Mrs. John J. Rodda, Frostburg. She also leaves 30 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs. Nannie Weimer, Kingfisher, Okla.; Mrs. Mollie Hawkins, Akron, O.; and Mrs. Louise Layman and Mrs. Rella DeVore, Frostburg. The Cumberland Evening Times, June 29, 1942

Notes:

News was received here Saturday of the death of Mr. Andrew Nelson from asthma at the the home of his niece Mrs. Walter Miller, in Cumberland. The deceased was born in Scotland, August 21 1835, coming to this country when about ten years old, where he has spent the remainder of his life. He was engaged in mining for many years residing at Eckhart. Later he engaged in merchandising business at the same place which was his home at the time of his death. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Nelson and the following brothers and sisters; Mrs. Thomas Morris and William Nelson of Eckhart, Mrs. Sarah Murphy of Johnstown, Pa., Mrs. Jennet O'Hara and Mrs. Mary Keri??? of Cumberland. He is also survived by the following children; Misses Katherine and Ella and Messrs. George, James J., John A. and William A. all of Eckhart; also thirty-five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The deceased left his home in Eckhart to go to Cumberland to be treated by a specialist. Funeral will take place Tuesday morning from St. Michael's Catholic church at 10 o'clock. Burial at St Michaels. Cumberland Evening Times, February 27,1905

Andrew married Mary Jane Porter on 24 Feb 1858. Mary (daughter of Josiah M. Porter and Sarah Porter) was born on 10 Jul 1839 in Eckhart Mines, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 25 Aug 1903 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nelson 25 Aug 1903 Mrs Andrew Nelson died this morning at 6:00 after a lingering illness of several weeks. She was 60 years old and well loved and is survived by her husband and several children. She will be buried on Thursday. Her maiden name was Jane Porter and she was a sister of Josiah Porter of South Cumberland.

(transcription by Charles Often)

26 Aug 1903 (Cumberland newspaper obituary courtesy of Phyllis Rosley) - Mrs. Jane Nelson died at her home in Eckhart yesterday morning about 6:00 after a lingering illness. She was 60 years of age, being born in Porter's Settlement in 1839. She enjoyed good health until a few years ago when she was afflicted with lung and heart problems which caused her death. Survivors include 6 children; Mesdammes Kathleen Phillips and Ellen Porter; and Messers George, J.J., John A. and William Porter of Eckhart, and 4 sisters and 2 brothers; Mrs James V. Carter; Mrs George Carter, Mrs. W. Rephorn of Eckhart; Mrs. Elizabeth Tibbets of Alabama; Messers. MMT Porter of Eckhart and JM Porter of Cumberland. Funeral services are tomorrow at the Methodist Church with interment in the Porter Cemetery.

from "A Genealogy of the Porter Family" by Samuel Doak Porter, sent by Phyllis Rosley in October 2012:

Buried in Porter's Cemetery, Eckhary, Md.

Notes:

He was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Frostburg, Allegany Co., Maryland

Nelson married Mary Ann Winebrenner on 7 Nov 1853. Mary (daughter of Isaac Sr. Winebrenner and Nancy Barnard) was born in 1836 in Allegany County, Maryland; died in 1891 in Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Frostburg, Allegany Co., Maryland.

Notes:

From Cumberland Times transcription:

PORTER 15 Nov 1880 Josiah Porter died 07 Nov 1880 at his home in Eckhart. He was born 01 Oct. 1799, and was 81 years, one month and 6 days of age. He was born and died at the "Porter Settlement". From 1830-1840, he was disburser of appointments for the National Road. He was also a pioneer in the shipping of coal to the East via the Potomac flatboat system.

The following excerpt is from John Marshall Porter's "Sketches of Maryland Porters", circa 1976. Scott Carter Williams brought it to the attenetion of Michael A. McKenzie in 2018.

Josiah Porter... "Grandpap Si'

As anyone who has Samuel D. Porter's genealogy can note, Grandpap Si was the son of Gabriel Porter and Rebecca Frost. Gabriel was a brother of the Samuel, who was father of John, who was the father of the Michigan Porters. So we learn that John and Grandpap Si were first cousins.

All that I am writing about these early Porter ancestors comes form what Frank Porter wrote, and what I learned from my father. Gabriel had other sons and daughters, but I know of no account of their descendants such as was kept of Grandpap Si. Squire Mike and Grandpap Si were first cousins, and we shall learn that intermarriage of close relationship took place between some of their descendants.

Grandpap Si married first, Mary Margaret Combs, who became mother of his first nine children. His second wife, Sarah was a daughter of his first cousin, Souire Mike. Sarah, whom he married in 1836 bore him twelve children over the next twenty five.years...three of whom died in infancy. In total, Grandpap Si was father of 21 children.

Grandpap Si lived on a farm adjoining Rose Meadows which he rented from a mining company. It did not come into ownership of Porters until more than a century later when around 1930 three of his grandsons purchased it from the coal company that was selling their holdings in that area. Since then, Marshall Robert bought the shares of his brothers, and is now sole owner. He is nearly 80, and is still living there and farming the land.

Grandpap Si and his sons mined coal from under the farm, paying a royalty to the coal company who owned the land. Much of that coal was hauled to Cumberland in wagons. There it was loaded on rafts that were built on the
low tides of the Potomac River. The rafts were made from slim tree trunks, bound together with cables and ropes to make a flat platform about 30 x 30 feet. The coal was hauled to the river over the old National Pike by horse and ox teams, in wagons during summer, and sleds in winter. There it was loaded on the rafts whiFsei held around 50 tons. When the snow melted and spring rains came, the river arose to near flood stage, and the raft was ready to be unleashed from its moorings. Then four to six young, strong, fearless men loaded provisions of food and clothing and bedding, climbed aboard vrith only long poles to guide the cargo down the swift, treacherous waters of the Potomac to Washington. If they delivered the raft and coal intact to the destination, they received the money for it. Then they walked back to the farm near Frostburg, a distance of 150 miles. But it wasn't always that easy.

I have heard my father say, and he knew only what he had heard from Grandpap Si and others, that many times those rafts would flounder on rocks in the middle of the river when the water current would recede. The raftsmen would have to abandon their cargo, and wade ashore and walk home in wet clothing with no money for the coal. Also, there were many raft loads of coal that would be washed ashore on a gravel bar that could not be moved back into the current, and had to be abandoned by the raftsmen. Then there were the rafts loaded with coal that would be torn apart by unseen rocks in the river. The coal would be lost, and the raftsmen barely escaping with their lives...and not all of them escaped with their lives. Some of these raftsmen drowned in the swift current. Others died of exposure when they were forced into the icy water. If they reached the shore, they didn't have a dry match to start a fire and they perished in their wet clothing.

Rafting could be done only under treacherous conditions, when the water was deep enough to carry the rafts above the rocky river bed.

The C&O canal, that ran from Cumberland, Md. to Georgetown, near Washington was completed and ready for transportation in 1850. That ended the rafting on the Potomac. After that coal was hauled to Cumberland and loaded on canal boats.

Grandpap Si was a devoutly religious man, from all I have heard of him. Frank Porter spoke of him as "One of the few Saints of earth I have known." My father said he would not let one of his men nor horses work on Sunday nor Christmas. But that on New Years day, unless it fell on Sunday, he wanted every man and team to be working... a sort of omen or superstition that, if he began the New Year making some money it would be a prosperous year for him.

It seems apparent that Grandpap Si's children, 15 of whom were girls married one by one until most of them were scattered and gone from the farm when his younger son M.M.T. (Doc.) Porter began taking over the management of the farm that had been home of the large family. Grandpap Si died in 1880. He is buried in the Porter graveyard, just up on the hill above the farm he spent his life on.

I can find no dates of the deaths of either of his wives, Mary Ellen Combs and Sarah Porter.

He died on 7 Nov 1880 at the age of 81 in Eckhart, Allegany Co., Maryland. Phyllis Rosley, in a note dated May 16, 2012, offers this information:

Josiah Porter, "Grandpap Si" was the s/o Gabriel McKenzie Porter and
Rebecca Frost was born Oct. 1, 1799 and died Nov. 7, 1882 (sic: 1880).
He married first, Aug. 1, 1822, Mary Margaret Combs. She is the d/o John
Combs and Mary Margaret Trimble and was born May 3, 1803. They had 9
children. Josiah married, second, Oct. 4, 1836/37, Sarah Porter. She is the d/o Michael Porter and Elizabeth Devore, and was born Aug. 1, 1816. They had 12 children.

Josiah Porter, "Grandpa Si", was the son of Gabriel McKenzie Porter and
Rebecca Frost. He was twice married and was the father of 21 childre
was first married to Mary Margaret Combs, b 1803. His second wife was Sarah Porter, born 1816 and daughter Michael R. Porter, "Squire Mike", and
Elizabeth Devore b Aug. 19, 1816 d. Dec. 8, 1870. Buried Porter Cem., Eckhart Mines, Md. It is through Josiah's offspring, with his second wife, that the Carter family began marrying into the Porter family and two families soon became inter-twined. Children of the first marriage to Mary Margaret Combs are: John Wesley, b 1823 d. 1883; Rebecca b 1824; Sophia b 1825; Margaret Emily, b 1827; Gabriel, b 1830; Elisha, b 1832; Eleanor, b 1834; Helen; and Nancy Porter.

He was buried in Porter Cemetery, Eckhart, Allegany Co., Maryland.

Josiah married Sarah Porter on 10 Oct 1837 in Allegany County, Maryland. Sarah (daughter of Michael Porter and Elizabeth Devore, daughter of Michael G. (Squire Mike) Porter and Elizabeth Devore) was born on 19 Aug 1816 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 8 Dec 1870 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

First Account of Henry Crow and George W. Blocher, Administrators of Jacob Crow, late of Allegany County, Deceased.
These Accountants charge themselves with the following amounts, to wit:
With amount of Sales of personal property as per return of Said Administrators to the Orphans Court of Said County, March 29,1870. $885.20
With cash on hand at death of deceased, 300.
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$1185.20

And Paid Out as follows:
1. Paid Aug. Eichhorn, for coffin 60.00
2. " Lowndes & Clary, funeral Expenses 21.88
3. " John C. Chaney, Appraiser 5.00
4. " W. F. Garlitz " 7.00
5. " Elijah Fuller, Reg'r 5.00
6. " Geo. L. Layman, Crying?? Sale 15.00
7. " W. E. Weber, printers bill 7.00
8. " State & County taxes 1869 14.30
9. " Elijah Fuller, Reg'r 24.50
10. Administrators 8 per cent com's on $1185.20 94.81 $254.49

________
$930.71
Retained by Administrators to pay debts $100.

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$830.70
Distribution to Heirs:
To Margaret Crow, widow 276.90
" Hannah Crow, daughter 50.34 6/11
" Henry Crow, Son 50.34 6/11
" John Crow " 50.34 6/11
" Anna Blocher, daughter 50.34 6/11
" Isaac Crow, Son 50.34 6/11
" George Crow, " 50.34 6/11
" Jacob Crow, " 50.34 6/11
" Nelson Crow, " 50.34 6/11
" Abraham Crow, " 50.34 6/11
" Margaret Winebrenner, daughter 50.34 6/11
" Lydia Winebrenner, " 50.34 6/11 $830.70


Second Account of
Henry Crow and George W. Blocher, Administrators of Jacob Crow, late of Allegany County, Deceased.
These Accountants charge themselves with the following amounts, to wit:
With Amount retained by Administrators upon settlement of their Just account in the Orphans Cout of said County February 28th 1871 $100.00
With money received of George Crow, acct. in full 150.00
" " " " Nelson Crow, " " " 10.00
" Silver coin on hand at death of Deceased 9.20
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$269.20
And Paid out as follows:
1. Paid Brooks & Michael Acct. in full $30.71
2. " George Crow " " " 66.05
3. " State & County Taxes 1870 13.32
4. " Elijah Fuller, Register 16.77
Administrators 8 per cent com. on $103.15 8.25 $135.10
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$134.10
Distribution to Heirs
To Margaret Crow, widow $44.70
" Hannah Crow, daughter 8.12 8/11
" Henry Crow, Son 8.12 8/11
" John Crow " 8.12 8/11
" Anna Blocher, daughter 8.12 8/11
" Isaac Crow, Son 8.12 8/11
" George Crow, " 8.12 8/11
" Jacob Crow, " 8.12 8/11
" Nelson Crow, " 8.12 8/11
" Abraham Crow, " 8.12 8/11
" Margaret Winebrenner, daughter 8.12 8/11
" Lydia Winebrenner, 8.12 8/11 $134.10

~Genie
Posted June 2, 2012

Jacob CROWE and Margaret WINEBRENNER were married on 12 Sep 1811 in Maryland.

Jacob + Margaret Winebrenner. Margaret was born about 1796 in Maryland; died in 1880 in Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Nancy Barnard about 1824. Nancy was born about 1804; died about 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]