Lewis Flavius Porterfield (1836 - 1920)

Born 2 Jun 1836 in Giles County, Virginia, United States

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Died 14 May 1920 at age 83 in Newport, Giles County Virginia, United States

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Biography

Lewis was born in 1840. He was the son of William Porterfield and Mary Albert. He married Mary Catherine Price in 1865.

In the Civil War he served in Company F, 24th Virginia Regiment of Infantry; later with the company of Captain Frank Ballard of West Virginia Troops, a Union outfit. After the war, he became the owner of a large bluegrass farm; was the founder of the Sherry Memorial Christian Church. He made his home in Newport, Virginia. ^[1]

Lewis died in 1920 and was interred at the Porterfield Cemetery in Giles County, Porterfield, USA. ^[2]

Each of Lewis' male children had a Northern general's name for a middle name. Lewis was also called Lewt or Lute.

Sources

1. ↑ Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (1947), 241; scanned image, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=12275).
2. ↑ FindAGrave.com, Lewis Flavius Porterfield, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26931987

See also:

• "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M41W-2Z8 : accessed 14 January 2015), Lewis Porterfield in household of William Porterfield, [Blank], Giles, Virginia, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; citing p. 62, household ID 392, NARA microfilm publication M653, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 805,345.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC5Q-L46 : 15 July 2017), Lewis F Porterfield, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 31, sheet 8D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1367; FHL microfilm 1,255,367.