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Arthur Porter 50th Anniversary Wedding Article

My Porter Ancestors Crossed The Plains In the Charles C Rich Company

 
Were they with your ancestors?

The Company left Winter Quarters 21 June 1847 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 2 October 1847.



 Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868


(The number shown in parentheses next to each name is the age of the pioneer at the time of the journey.)
Charles C. Rich Company (1847) 
 Adair, Emaline Rebecca (infant)
 Adair, George Washington (27)
 Adair, Joseph (41)
 Adair, Lucinda Jane (6)
 Adair, Miriam Jane Billingsly (20)
 Adair, Rebecca Mangum (32)
 Baird, Hannah Everhart (30)
 Baird, John (6)
 Benson, Adeline Brooks Andrus (34)
 Benson, George Taft (1)
 Cherry, Aaron Benjamin (46)
 Cherry, Amelia Mariah (9)
 Cherry, Benjamin Aaron (4)
 Cherry, Caroline (1)
 Cherry, Ebenezer Griffin (33)
 Cherry, Ebenezer Griffin, Jr. (2)
 Cherry, Edward Rittenhouse (8)
 Cherry, Jesse Yelton (7)
 Cherry, John James (13)
 Cherry, Joseph Smith (infant)
 Cherry, Mary Margaret (11)
 Cherry, Mary Margaret Yelton (35)
 Cherry, Mary Rebecca (10)
 Cherry, Nancy Ann (6)
 Cherry, Rebecca Ann (17)
 Cherry, Sarah Jane (15)
 Cherry, Susannah Everton (33)
 Cherry, Thomas Rittenhouse (4)
 Cherry, William Walter (infant)
 Clarke, Harvey (17)
 Conover, Aaron Houghton (19)
 Cox, Adelia Belinda (5)
 Cox, Almer Bingley (3)
 Cox, Elvira Pamelia Mills (27)
 Cox, Orville Sutherland (32)
 Deuel, Amos C. (50)
 Deuel, Eliza Avery Whiting (28)
 Deuel, Mary Whiting (40)
 Deuel, Mercy Ann (2)
 Deuel, Minerva Adaline (4)
 Deuel, Osmyn Merrit (45)
 Deuel, William Henry (35)
 Dickens, James (25)
 Earl, Nancy Minerva (6)
 Grover, Adeline (12)
 Grover, Caroline Whiting (10)
 Grover, Eliza Ann (8)
 Grover, Hannah (infant)
 Grover, Hannah Tupper (24)
 Grover, Loduska Tupper (19)
 Grover, Mary Elizabeth (14)
 Grover, Thomas (2)
 Hansen, Jens (43)
 Harker, William (Unknown)
 Herron, Orlando Fisher (11)
 Hofheins, Mary Ann Elizabeth Stevenson (38)
 Holman, James Sawyer (42)
 Jackman, Ammi Rumsey (22)
 Jacobs, Christopher (27)
 Jacques, Vienna (60)
 Johnson, Abiah (12)
 Judson, Mary Jane (4)
 Judson, Timothy (10)
 Mangum, Eliza Jane Clark (19)
 Mangum, James Mitchell (27)
 Mansfield, Mary Ann Harris (41)
 Mansfield, Matthew (36)
 Miles, Ira Simonds (38)
 Miles, Mary Kilburn Bent (38)
 Miles, Thomas (17)
 Noble, Eliza (Unknown)
 Ockey, Charles Richard (3)
 Ockey, Edward (31)
 Ockey, Heber Brewer (1)
 Ockey, John Edward (5)
 Perry, Elizabeth Melissa (10)
 Perry, Grace Ann Williams (47)
 Perry, John (47)
 Porter, John President (29)
 Porter, John President (infant)
 Porter, Joseph Rich (3)
 Porter, Lyman Wight (14)
 Porter, Nancy Rich (26)
 Porter, Nancy Warriner (57)
 Porter, Nathan Tanner (27)
 Porter, Sanford (57)
 Porter, Sanford Coulson (2)
 Rich, Charles Coulson (37)
 Rich, Charles Coulson, Jr. (2)
 Rich, Eliza Ann Graves (36)
 Rich, Emeline Grover (16)
 Rich, Harriet Sergeant (14)
 Rich, Hyrum Smith (1)
 Rich, John Thomas (1)
 Rich, Joseph (62)
 Rich, Joseph Coulson (6)
 Rich, Mary Ann Phelps (17)
 Rich, Mary Bratton (1)
 Rich, Nancy O'Neal (66)
 Rich, Sarah De Armon Pea (32)
 Rich, Sarah Jane (8)
 Rich, Sarah Jane Peck (21)
 Robison, Charles Edward (2)
 Robison, Clarissa Minerva Duzette (24)
 Robison, Lewis (31)
 Robison, Solon Wells (4)
 Sherwood, Jane McManagle (43)
 Shoemaker, Alexander Morain (33)
 Shoemaker, Ezra (4)
 Shoemaker, Jeptha (8)
 Shoemaker, Jerusha Lois (6)
 Shoemaker, Jezreel (50)
 Shoemaker, Lucinda Jane (6)
 Shoemaker, Margaret Eliza Taylor (28)
 Shoemaker, Marion (11)
 Shoemaker, Nancy Golden (39)
 Shoemaker, Sarah (16)
 Shoemaker, Theophilus (14)
 Sidwell, Joseph (48)
 Stevenson, Edward (26)
 Stevenson, Nancy Areta Porter (22)
 Stevenson, Nephi Porter (infant)
 Stoddard, Albert Leonard (15)
 Stoddard, Arvin Mitchell (23)
 Wilson, Lucinda Jane (Unknown)
 Winget, Alphonzo (1)
 Winget, Catherine Hulet (27)
 Winget, Cyrus (32)
 Winget, Malvina (4)
 Winget, Zenos (5)
 Workman, Cornelius (19)
 Young, James R. (19)

Found on Genforum about Sanford Porter and Nancy Warriner

In Reply to: Sanford Porter & Nancy Warriner by Gayle Dickson  of 9972 

My mother was a PORTER.
Sanford PORTER, 3rd child of Nathan PORTER and Susannah WEST, was my gg grandfather.
b. 7 Mar 1790 Brimfield, Hampshire,Mass. d. 9 Feb 1873 Porterville, Morgan, Utah. Buried 11 Feb in old Porterville Cemetery beside his wife Nancy WARRINER. They were married 1 Jan 1812 in Vershire, Orange, Vt.
Soon after war was declared he was drafted out of his militia company to serve at Black Rock, 4 Mi. from Buffalo City on Lake Erie.
Nancy Areta PORTER was 8th child of Sanford, Sr. and Nancy Warriner b. 8 Aug 1825 in Vienna, Liberty, Ohio. d. 13 Nov 1888.
Her youngest brother, Lyman Wight PORTER, 13th child of Sanford and Nancy, was my great grandfather. "In 1856 Lyman was one of the heroic party sent to rescue the belated and suffering Hand Cart Companies (of Mormon Pioneers)." During the winter of 1857-58, Lyman was one of fifteen scouts under Porter Rockwell and Lot Smith who non-violently "entertained" Johnston's Army in Echo Canyon. While doing so, Lyman's brother Sanford Jr. discovered a little valley 5 mi. from Morgan City, Utah where Sanford Sr., Lyman and three brothers settled and built a sawmill.

John President Porter

Inside the Morgan County Public Library is a section, a local historical library. There you will find some family history stories and books. The article referred to here was found in a book in that library.

President Porter, son of Sanford and Nancy Warriner Porter, was born July 28, 1818 in Plymouth, Oneida County, New York. His father had become interested in the teachings of Joseph Smith, and in July 1830 became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was converted and baptized by Lyman Wight. His entire family soon followed him.

On October 5, 1843, John President Porter married Nancy Rich at the home of her brother, Charles C Rich,

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There is also a local LDS Family History Center on the property East of the library.