Sara
Jane
"Sallie"
Porterfield
formerly Williams
Born in Hoges Chapel, Giles County, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of John M. Williams
and Sarah Louise (Lumpkin) Williams
Sister of
Floyd Stafford Williams, Louisa A. (Williams) Stafford, Mary Elizabeth Williams, William Elbert Staford Williams, Margaret Lucida (Williams) Eckols, Nancy Belinda (Williams) Porterfield, Louvenia Bicy Williams, Martha C. Williams, Robert Stewart Williams and John Beauregard Williams
Wife of
Benjamin Franklin Porterfield
— married
about 1860 in Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Isaac Earl Porterfield, Helen M Porterfield, Sarah Porterfield, John William Porterfield, Alberta Jane (Porterfield) Echols and Nancy M Porterfield
Died
at age 43
in Newport District, Giles, Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Sep 2014
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Biography
Sara Williams was born about 1841 in Giles, Virginia.
Sara Williams married to Benjamin Porterfield around 1860.>[1]
She passed away in 1887.[2]
Research Notes
The Porterfields and Find a Grave memorial with no headstone indicate the date of death is 1887.[3][1] This is presumed incorrect based on other death records.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (Roanoke, Virginia: Multiprint Inc, 1947), p. 235, digital images, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066246737;view=1up;seq=243. Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://babel.hathitrust.org: accessed 23 March 2024).
- ↑ "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZRQ-ML57 : Sun Mar 10 23:30:29 UTC 2024), Entry for Sarah J Porterfield and Sarah Williams, 29 Nov 1884.
- ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 7 October 2017), memorial page for Sarah Jane Williams Porterfield, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=147927325. Includes headstone picture.
See also:
- "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MFGM-9LK : accessed 28 Sep 2014), Sallie J Porterfield in household of Ben Porterfield, Virginia, United States; citing p. 1, family 2, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000553147.
- "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC5Q-FX3 : accessed 28 Sep 2014), Sarah J Porterfield, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia, United States; citing sheet 6D, NARA microfilm publication T9.
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