David Fries Porter

David married Andrea Renner in Private. Andrea was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fred P. Porter, 76, of Church Street, Hyndman, died Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1989, at the University Hospital of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey. He was born April 26, 1913, in Altoona, a son of the late James V. and Kathryn (Raley) Porter. He is survived by his wife, Genevieve (Fries) Porter. His death ends a marriage of 48 years. Also surviving are one son, David F. Porter of Titusville, Fla.; a daughter, Mrs. Anne P. Little of LaVale, Md.; two granddaughters; one brother, Robert L. Porter of Annaheim, Calif.; and a half-sister, Janet W. Phillips of Ellerslie, Md. Mr. Porter was a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, served with the U.S. Army in the Aleution Islands in World War II, and retired with 27 years of service with Hyndman High School as a geography and drivers education teacher. He was a member of the Hyndman First United Methodist Church, the Hyndman VFW Oscar Jordan Post 7375, a 35-year member and past president of the Hyndman-Londonderry Lions Club, and a member of United Commercial Travelers and the Pennsylvania State Education Society. Funeral services: Saturday, Dec. 23, at 11 a.m. in the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home, Hyndman, with the Rev. Joseph R. Stains officiating. Burial at Porter Cemetery near Ellerslie. Memorials may be sent to the Hyndman First United Methodist Church. The Bedford Gazette, December 21, 1989

Frederick married Genevieve Virginia Fries on 15 Aug 1941. Genevieve (daughter of Franklin Fries and Elva Cook) was born on 26 Apr 1914 in Ellerslie, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 7 May 2004 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Cumberland - Genevieve F. Porter, 89, of Cumberland, formerly of Hyndman, Pa., died May 7, 2004, in Cumberland. She was born Aug. 26, 1914 in Ellerslie, the daughter of Franklin and Elva (Cook) Fries. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Fred P. Porter, who died in 1989; and her brothers, Franklin and Jack Fries. She is survived by children, Anne and husband James Little of LaVale and David and wife Andrea (Renner) Porter of Satellite Beach, Fla.; grandchildren, Tara and Tracey Little. She is also survived by a sister, Emma Lea Currie of St. Petersburg, Fla. and a brother, Daniel Fries and wife Judy of St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Porter was an elementary teacher for 35 years. At the time of her retirement in 1976, she was the principal at Hyndman Elementary School. She was a member of First Avenue Methodist Church, Hyndman, the Order of the Eastern Star, Delta Kappa Gamma Honor Society, the WMHS Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, the AARP and the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees. She did volunteer work at the Hyndman Londonderry Public Library of which she was a founder. She was a 1931 graduate of Allegany High School, and a 1943 graduate of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. Friends will be received at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home, 169 Clarence St., Hyndman, on Wednesday from 2 p.m. until the time of service at 4 p.m. with the Rev. David Klink officiating. Interment will be at Porter Cemetery, Hyndman. In lieu of flowers, family suggests memorial contributions to the Hyndman Londonderry Public Library in memory of Mrs. Porter. May 9, 2004, Cumberland Times-News

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He died on 16 Jun 1966 at the age of 82 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland.

James V. Porter, Ellerslie, Md., died June 16, 1966, at Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md. He was born March 27, 1884. He was the son of Norman Porter and Sara (Staier) Porter. He was married first to Kathryn Raley and second to Grace Hosselroth, both deceased. He is survived by the following: Mr. James N. Porter, Greensburg; Fred P. Porter, Hyndman; Robert L. Porter, Anaheim, Calif., and a daughter, Janet R. Williams, Ellerslie, Md. Also surviving are 13 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Ellerslie, the POS of A and Lodge 440, Brotherhood of RR Trainmen. The Bedford Inquirer, June 23, 1966

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

James, Grace and Kathryn all share a single grave marker.

James + Kathryn (Minnie) Raley. Kathryn (daughter of Albert Raley and Annie Elizabeth Shuckhart) was born on 6 Jun 1888 in Ellerslie, Allegany County, Maryland.; died in Apr 1938 in Ellerslie, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Franklin + Elva Cook. Elva died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

Albert + Annie Elizabeth Shuckhart. Annie died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]