Dennis Holler

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Charles E. (Buddy) Holler, 66, died October 27, 1983 at Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Md. He was born in Cumberland, April 10, 1917, and was a son of the late Charles E. Holler Sr. and Margaret (Kreigline) Holler. He was a retired employee of the Queen City Dairy in Cumberland, Maryland; was a Navy veteran of World War II and was a member of Fairhope Community Church and Oscar Jordan Post 7375, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Loie (Porter) Holler; a son, R. Dennis Holler, Los Gatos, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Loie Annette Quesada, Silver City, N.M.; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Harbell, Hagerstown, Md.; Mrs. Doris Bowers, Cumberland; and four grandchildren. Friends were received at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home where services were conducted with the Rev. Leroy Logsdon and the Rev. Timothy L. Stamper officiating. Interment will be in Hyndman Cemetery. Pallbearers were members of Oscar Jordan VFW Post. Find a Grave

Charles + Martha Lois Porter. Martha (daughter of John Ross Porter and Nellie Sophia Waltman) was born on 1 Jul 1911; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles + Margaret Kreigline. Margaret died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He died on 11 Nov 1965 at the age of 83 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland.

John Ross Porter, 82, of Ellerslie, died today in Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland. Born in Londonderry Township, Pa., he was a son of the late Norman and Sarah (Stair) Porter. He was a member of the Ellerslie Methodist Church and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Nellie (Waltman) Porter; three daughters, Mrs. Alma Thompson, Hyattsville; Mrs. Alverna M. Carpenter and Mrs. Martha Loy Holler, both of Hyndman, Pa.; two sons, Harlan E. Porter, Buffalo Mills, Pa.; and Richard E. Porter, Ellwood City, Pa.; one brother, James Porter, Ellerslie; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. The body is at the Zeigler Funeral Home in Hyndman where friends will be received today from 7 to 9 p.m. and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Services will be conducted at the funeral home at 2 p.m. Saturday by Rev. J. Howard Smith, pastor of the Ellerslie EUB church. Burial will be in Porter Cemetery, Hyndman. The Cumberland Evening Times, November 11, 1965

John Ross PORTER and Nellie Sophia WALTMAN were married on 9 Jun 1906.

John married Nellie Sophia Waltman on 9 Jun 1906. Nellie was born on 9 Jul 1883 in Colerain Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania; died on 26 Aug 1966 in Snake Spring Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She died on 26 Aug 1966 at the age of 83 in Snake Spring Township, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania.

Nellie Sophia Porter, 83, Ellerslie, Md., died at the Penn Wood Nursing Home on Friday, August 26, 1966. She was born July 9, 1883, in Colerain Township, Bedford County, a daughter of the late Harlan and Martha (Ressler) Waltman. Her husband, John Porter, died in 1965. She is survived by these five children: Mrs. H. M. Carpenter, and Mrs. Charles Holler, both of Hyndman; Mrs. Charles Thompson, Hyattsville, Md.; Harlen E. Porter, Buffalo Mills, and Richard E. Porter, Ellwood City, Pa. Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Zimmers, Toledo, Ohio; 12 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Ellerslie Evangelical United Brethren Church. Funeral services: Monday, August 29, at 2 p.m. in the Zeigler Funeral Home, Hyndman, with the Rev. Clewell E. Miller officiating. Interment in the Porter Cemetery. The Bedford Gazette, August 29, 1966

She was buried in Porter Cemetery, Hyndman, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania.

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Notes sent by Phyllis Rosley from Gary Porter on January 10, 2015

Norman was orphaned in 1855 at age 4 and, with his three sisters, raised by relatives.

About 1870, he married Anna Stair (1850 - 1875), the daughter of Augustus Stair (originally spelled Stohr, immigrants from Hesse, Germany) and produced sons Oscar Howard and William Augustus and two daughters who apparently died at or near birth. Anna herself died prematurely of pneumonia in 1875 and two years later Norman asked Anna's sister, Sarah Stair, to marry him. She is reported to have said "not until you get a headstone for my
sister," which apparently was speedily done. Norman's marriage (on December 18, 1877) to "Sarah E. Stoer" (sic) is recorded in records of the Wellersburg Reformed Church, Somerset County, Pa. A fee of $3.00 was paid. Earlier that year (August 28) Norman's Uncle Thomas Jackson Porter and Aunt Rebecca Porter had left him 39 acres of land in Londonderry Township, Pa., including all the buildings and improvements. Later in 1877 he sold some of this land to his sister Sarah (Porter) Clites. He sold additional land to Daniel Clites (Sarah's husband) in 1890 and to Shannon Brant in 1891. Norman and Sarah produced sons Harry Robert (1878), John Ross (1882) and James Vernon (1884) and a daughter, Anna M. Porter who died in 1882 at age 2. When Sarah also died (in 1890) Norman is said to have farmed out the boys to various families, taking son John Ross to live on the Cook farm in Ellerslie, Md. Norman worked as a hosteler on the Pennsylvania Railroad and when each of his boys turned 15 he also got them jobs on the railroad. Norman served as president of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America Lodge located in Ellerslie. He lived in a house just below the present Porter Cemetery near Stringtown, Pa. and donated the land used for the cemetery. In August 1917, Norman was living with son John Ross at John's farm in Ridgeley, West Virginia, when he fell from a peach crate onto a stake. Although treated at the Western Maryland Hospital, peritonitis set in from a lacerated bowel and a hernia, causing his death at age 66 years, 6 months, 9 days. Louis Stein was his undertaker. Norman's will, which had been signed April 11, 1907, named James Vernon as Executor and divided Norman's estate into fifth's, a fifth for each of his four living sons (Oscar, Harry, John and James), and a fifth to be divided by Clara (Lowery) Porter, (by then the widow of William Augustus) and their daughter Mildred Viola Porter.

Norman married Sarah Stair on 18 Dec 1877 in Wellersburg, Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Sarah was born in 1855; died in 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]