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Porter Family Homepage

Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Portage County

by

Virginia Porter

     Peter Porter II married Sarah Ruth Howard  (1650-1681)  in Howard County, Maryland.  He settled on Porter's Hill, in Howard County Maryland and became a farmer.

    Peter Porter III married Lois Shipley in 1702 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and had seven children.  He also was a farmer.

     Peter Porter IV married an unknown Shipley and they had five children.  It wasn't known what he did for a living.

     Adam Porter married Delilah Ann Trivis on 1766 in Bath County, Virginia.  He was a farmer in the foot hills of Bath County, Virginia. They Had Seven Children.

     Peter Porter was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on July 20, 1778.  He married Matilda Armstrong and lived in a small farming community in the hills of Middle Tennessee on the Cumberland River  called Carthage. Matilda died on September 7, 1826, a year after James Stephens was born.  He then married Louisa Ward and had a second family.    

The last named is the subject of this sketch.  On September 29, 1844,  James Stephens Porter  was born on August 16, 1825 in Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee  and died December 26, 1917 and is buried Blackwater  Chaptel Cemetery in Pettis County, Missouri, he married Mary Powell Tuck, a daughter of Powell and Edney Tuck in Smith County, Tennessee.   Mary Powell Tuck was born August 27, 1824 in Bedfort County, Tennessee and  died on November 27, 1862  and is buried in the Blackwater  Chaptel  Cemetery in Pettis County, Missouri  on November 17, 1862.  James then married Ruth Bigham, his second wife on March 5, 1865.  She died in Rich Hill, Missouri, May 5, 1908 and is buried in the Blackwater Chaptel Cemetery in Pettis County, Missouri.

In 1848, Mr. Porter, wife and first two children  and Mary's Parents moved from Smith County, Tennessee to  Sugar Grove, Bulter County, Kentucky, and then to Missouri in 1859.  He has been a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church for  nearly 60 years. 

Children from James Stephens and Mary Powell  (Tuck) Porter:

(under the 1850 Census: dwelling #354)

1.  Erastus Alexander Porter: born 1846 in Smith County, Tennessee

2.  Edna Matilda Porter: born 1847 in Smith County, Tennessee

3.  Louisa Porter: born 1848 in Butler County, Kentucky

4.  Silas D. Porter: born 1850 in Butler County, Kentucky

5.  Nathaniel Lee Porter: born February 11, 1852 in Butler County, Kentucky

6.  Powell M. Porter:  born February 5, 1854 in Butler County, Kentucky

7.  Simon Peter Porter: born December 7, 1856 in Butler County, Kentucky

Children from James Stephens  and Ruth (Bigham) Porter:

1.  John Edwin Porter

2. James Benjamin Porter

Etta Roberts Porter was born on November 30, 1856 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and resided before in Monroe Center, Adams County, Wisconsin.  Powell M. Porter died on November 8, 1888 and is buried in Staley Mound Cemetery in Cass County, Missouri.  She and James moved back to Wisconsin and she married Edward (Ned) Williamson who owned a grocery store in Stevens Point.  Etta  Roberts Porter-Williamson is buried in Forest Cemetery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. 

Thomas James Porter married Elizabeth Ault, (who was born on March 11, 1885 in Jordan Green County, Wisconsin), on November 22, 1902  in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Monroe Center, Adams County, Wisconsin. He became a farmer in the town of Linwood, outside of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.  Their son Anton Edward Porter was born on January 10, 1907. They took over the store when Ted Williamson died and remodeled it and called it Porter's Market. 

 

Children of Thomas James and Elizabeth  (Ault) Porter: 1. Anton Edward Porter( January 10, 1907- January 13, 1989)

Thomas James Porter died on April 4, 1947, and Elizabeth Ault Porter died in December, 1949.  They are both buried in the Forest Cemetery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Anton Edward  (Tony) Porter married Mildred Ruth Barnum on August 27, 1936.  She was born in March 22, 1907 in Barnum, Wisconsin and died on November 27, 1999.  Anton was born on January 10, 1907 and died on January 13, 1989.  They are both Buried in the Boscobel Cemetery in Boscobel, Wisconsin. Tony as a child went to grade school at the university, where practice teachers taught to get their teacher certificates on young children.  He also played in the City Band at the age of Fourteen years old, he played the trumpet. He and his wife both were UW-Stevens Point Graduates, he took over his Parents store after attending Marquette University in Milwaukee for two years majoring in Dentistry, while she was a teacher at the Mid-State Technical College in Stevens Point.

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