Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Death of Grandmother Porter. [ARTICLE]

Death of Grandmother Porter.

.. Lucinda (plover was born March 7th, 1812, iff Shelby county, Kentucky, moved with her parents to Orange county Indiana, in 1814, while it was yet a territory. She was married to Asa O. Porter, September 25th, 1828. To this union were born 13 children, 8 boys and 5 girls, of whom 8 are still living, two boys dying in their young days, and three in the army,,. Those remaining are W. G. Porter of Ross* ville, Ind.; Sarah Watson, of Pleasant Ridge, Ind.; Mrs. Eliza Johnson, Wilsonville, Nebraska; Mrs. Jennie Wishard, I. J. Porter and Mrs. Ella Kresler, of Rensselaer, Mrs. Mary Mayhew, of Red Bluff, California, and R. B. Porter, of Pleasant Ridge. All were present at the funeral but Mrs. Mayhew. In 1848 she with her husband and children moved to Jasper county and lived two years on the Alfred Thompson farm, one mile east of Pleasant Ridge and 1850 moved to the old homestead miles south of Plesant Ridge, where she has resided ever since. She was an honored member of th“ Baptist church for 60 years and a consistent member of the Ist. Baptist church of Rensselaer. Shi was grandmother of 28 children and great-grandmother of 25. Her husband, Asa Potter died Jan. 16, 1875. Since which time she has lived with her youngest son R. B. Porter. On April 15 she was stricken down with paralysis and heart failure and for 7 weeks was unable- to move herself or take any nourishment only in a liquid form; and on the morning of June 4th. she passed away at the ripe age 84 J yrs. 2mo. 28 days, The funeral was held June sth. at the residence conducted by her old pastor Rev. D. J. Huston, assisted by Rev. Voliva. A very large concourse of friends followed her remains to their last resting place in the Crockett Cemmetry.