Ida Jones Porter

8 February 1856–9 December 1940 (Age 84)
La Moille, Bureau, Illinois, United States

The Life Summary of Ida Jones

When Ida Jones Porter was born on 8 February 1856, in La Moille, Bureau, Illinois, United States, her father, Albert G Porter, was 41 and her mother, Caroline P Howard, was 37. She married John Stephen Hetzler on 22 February 1877, in Clarion Township, Bureau, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Montpelier, Muscatine, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Bloomington, Des Moines, Wisconsin, United States for about 20 years. She died on 9 December 1940, in Muscatine, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bloomington, Des Moines, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Stephen Hetzler
1855–1929
Ida Jones Porter
1856–1940
Marriage: 22 February 1877
Harriet May Hetzler
1879–1952
Howard Albert Hetzler
1880–1940
Eugene Alonzo Hetzler
1882–1961
Lucy Erepta Hetzler
1884–1969
John Peter Hetzler
1886–1976
Elmer Lewis Hetzler
1888–1960
Arthur Keith Hetzler
1890–1986
George Hetzler
1892–1893
Walter Bruce Hetzler
1895–1970
Ida Caroline Hetzler
1897–1983

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 February 1877Clarion Township, Bureau, Illinois, United States
    • Children

    (10)

    +5 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (13)

    +8 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1862
    Age 6
    Historical Boundaries: 1862: Bureau, Illinois, United States
    1863
    Age 7
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
    Age 25
    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    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 (44)

    • Ida Porter in household of A G Porter, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Ida J Hetzler, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
    • Ida J Hetzler, "United States Census, 1930"

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