 1851 - 1917 (66 years)
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| Name |
Norman Porter |
| Birth |
15 Feb 1851 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
24 Aug 1917 |
Ridgeley, Mineral County, West Virginia.  |
| Notes |
- 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.
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| Person ID |
I44500 |
McKenzie Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
| Father |
William Nelson Porter, b. 15 Jul 1829, Pennsylvania d. 20 Jan 1855, Londonderry Township, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. (Age 25 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Mary Ann Harden, b. 4 Jul 1829 d. 10 Feb 1860, Londonderry Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (Age 30 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1847 |
| Family ID |
F16704 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Anna Stair, b. 1850 d. 1875 (Age 25 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1870 |
| Children |
| | 1. Oscar Howard Porter d. UNKNOWN [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. William Augustus Porter, b. Abt 1873 d. 15 Dec 1901, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 28 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F16732 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
| Family 2 |
Sarah Stair, b. 1855 d. 1890 (Age 35 years) |
| Marriage |
18 Dec 1877 |
Wellersburg, Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania |
| Children |
| | 1. Harry Robert Porter, b. 15 Oct 1878, Cooks Mills, Londonderry Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania d. 22 Oct 1951, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. John Ross Porter, b. 10 Jan 1882, Londonderry Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania d. 11 Nov 1965, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 83 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. James Vernon Porter, b. 27 Mar 1884 d. 16 Jun 1966, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F16733 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
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