Brief Life History of Henrietta
When Henrietta Porter was born on 12 July 1861, in Shunk, Fox Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Harvey Y Porter, was 25 and her mother, Deborah Brown, was 15. She married Samuel Elmer Parrish about 1879, in Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Fox Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Elkland Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died in 1892, in Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in West Hills, East Franklin Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States.
Photos and Memories (0)
Do you know Henrietta? Do you have a story about her that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account
Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Henrietta Porter in household of Harvey Porter, "United States Census, 1870"
- Henriett Parish in household of Samuel Parish, "United States Census, 1880"
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
Siblings (7)
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names
Discover Even More
As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.