James Porterfield (1798 - 1889)

Born 1798 in Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (McClatchey) Porterfield — married 1819 in Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 1889 at about age 91 in Illinois, United States

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Biography

James Porterfield was born in 1798 in Armstrong County. He was the son of James Porterfield and Nancy Guthrie.^[1]

He married Jane McClatchey.^[2] They were the parents of:^[1]

1. Elizabeth C
2. James Colmery
3. Charles Wallace
4. Robert
5. John Guthrie
6. Samuel
7. Nancy
8. Jeremiah

He passed away in 1889. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (Roanoke, Virginia: Multiprint Inc, 1947), p. 185, digital images, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066246737;view=1up;seq=193. Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://babel.hathitrust.org: accessed 3 November 2017).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M44X-9F2 : 12 April 2016), James Porterfield, Sugar Creek, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 178, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

See also:

• Lu Ann Kennedy Cherry, The Beatty book : the descendants of Samuel Beatty of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, including the families of Guthrie, Sedwick and Sutton (1995), p. 29,52; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=780200&disp=The+Beatty+book).
• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGQ-5PY : accessed 13 March 2017), James Porterfield, Sugarcreek, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 316, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 97; FHL microfilm 181,403.