Louisa Jane Porter

24 September 1841–18 May 1917 (Age 75)
Pennsylvania, United States

The Life Summary of Louisa Jane

When Louisa Jane Porter was born on 24 September 1841, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Brown Porter, was 29 and her mother, Evaline Blachly, was 30. She married William Shearer Carter in 1862, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 18 May 1917, in Richhill Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Richhill Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Shearer Carter
1836–1923
Louisa Jane Porter
1841–1917
Marriage: 1862
William Porter Carter
1864–1908
Mary Evelyn Carter
1867–1965
John Sherwood Carter
1868–1947
James Melvin Carter
1870–1950
Charles Shearer Carter
1875–1954

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1862Pennsylvania, United States
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (3)

    World Events (7)

    1846
    Age 5
    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
    1863
    Age 22
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
    Age 22
    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.

    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

    Porterfield
    Sluiter
    Port
    Fortner
    Portmann
    Portier

    Sources (21)

    • Louisa Carter in household of William S Carter, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Louisa J. Carter in entry for William Porter Carter and Ella Jane Sayers, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
    • Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852-1965

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