Gabriel Ellis Porter

1830 - 1889  (59 years)

• Name	Gabriel Ellis Porter
  Birth	9 Jul 1830	Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Dec 1889	Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland
  Notes	Buried Frostburg Memorial Park, Lot 33, Section 9. See the reference to him below in his mother's obituary. Scottdale, April 1 - Mrs. Amy Porter, the oldest resident of this section, died at 8 o'clock last night at her home at 314 Chestnut street, aged 94 years, 7 months and 19 days. She was the widow of the late Moses Porter, a prominent farmer, who died in 1880, near here. In many respects, she was a wonderful woman and had a large friendship throughout the county. She was of a rarely uncomplaining and philosophical disposition and although bedfast for months, only during the last few days did she suffer. Her mental faculties and her memory were keen and clear to the last, and she knew all those whom she saw. Of an indomitable spirit, uncomplaining and unostentatious, she was as brave as any soldier, and cheerful and thoughtful of all, even on her death bed. She had fought the battle of life and felt she was going to a peaceful reward, and many who read this will sorrow that the end has come, and has left in bereavement especially her daughter Miss Lydia, who had been her constant companion 10 years. The funeral services will take place at the First Methodist Episcopal Church at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Porter was the daughter of Henry and Rachel Wade of near Cumberland, Md., and was born there August 12, 1809. Her father lived to be 96 years old, but her mother died at the age of 46. Mrs. Porter's grandmother, Mrs. Augustine Wade, was 96 (?) years old when she died. Emily or Amy Wade and Moses Porter were married at Wellersburg, Allegheny county, MD., (sic: Wellersburg is in Somerset Co., PA) April 17, 1828. There were 15 children born to them. Of these there still remain James Dennis Porter of Summit Mines; Geo. W. and Ellsha C., farmers of near Scottdale; Dr. L. Lindley Porter, a physician practicing in Roslyn, Washington, and Miss Lydia Porter of 314 Chestnut street, Scottdale, with whom her mother lived. For the last year Mrs. Porter's only living sister out of eight children, Mrs. Ellen Arnold, of Frostburg, Md., who was 82 years old, November 3, 1903, had been living with her. Mrs. Arnold received a severe shock during the past few days by the news from Frostburg, that her oldest daughter, Mrs. Sarah Ellen Walsh, was dead there. Moses McKenzie, grandfather of Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Arnold, came from Scotland and served for seven years in the American Revolution, as did two uncles of the women. Mrs. Porter's second son, the late G. Ellis Porter, of Lonaconing, Md., on April 19, 1861, upon the arrival of the news that the Massachusetts troops going through Baltimore had been fired upon, made the first public speech in Maryland in favor of the Union, and formed a company of which he became a captain. He afterwards became a major. He was a descendant in the fifth generation of John Porter of Gloucestershire, England, who was driven out of the country for singing a song of his own composition that was not complimentary to the reigning monarch, George the First. The Connellsville Courier, April 1, 1904
  Person ID	I11792	McKenzie Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Moses Porter,   b. 10 Jan 1804, Allegany County, Maryland d. 10 Jun 1880, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Emily Amy Wade,   b. 12 Aug 1809, Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland d. 30 Mar 1904, Scottsdale, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Age 94 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	17 Apr 1828	Wellersburg, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F00424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alcinda Esther Gibson,   b. 20 Feb 1830   d. 23 Apr 1912 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1853
  Children	1. John St. Pierre Porter   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Lindley Porter   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Robert Bruce Porter   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Muscoe Shakleford Porter,   b. Abt 1855   d. 17 Jun 1871, Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland (Age ~ 16 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Francis Gibson Porter,   b. 1856   d. 1942 (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Emily E. Porter,   b. 1859   d. 2 Nov 1889 (Age 30 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Elizabeth Pendleton Porter,   b. 20 Jun 1861   d. 5 Mar 1935 (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Minor Gibson Porter,   b. 11 Oct 1865   d. 25 Oct 1947, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Alexander Shaw Porter,   b. 15 Feb 1868, Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland d. 6 Jan 1901, Redlands, San Bernardino County, California (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F05784	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021