FATHER: Armstrong Porter Jr
  (23 Aug 1782 - 17 Dec 1879)
MOTHER: Nancy Davis
  (abt 1791 - abt 1862)
SPOUSE: Sarah Ann Hurford   (20 Sep 1818 - 17 Apr 1891)
AKA Porter,Theodore ADDRESS Martinsburg, Keokuk co,IA -Theodore Porter sold part of his property in Fayette co,PA for $550 in gold to his brother Hezekiah Porter in 1864; he rode West into Iowa and Missouri looking for land prospects, carrying the gold in a money belt around his waist; he decided that Missouri was still too wild and decided to buy land in Iowa; shortly after the end of the Civil War, he brought his family to Keokuk County,IA -Theodore Porter and Sarah Hurford were separated about 1884 and presumed divorced; in 1898 he traded his farm for the hotel in Martinsburg and later traded again for the Odd Fellows Hall where he lived in an apart- ment; he forbade his family to ever mention her name in his presence again; after the separation Sarah bought a house in Hedrick, Keokuk co,IA -Census of 1850, Luzerne twp, Fayette co,PA; #1281 (Laborer,33)
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