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128. Rosamond Bedwell103 was born about 1808 in Grayson
County, Virginia.170
From Teresa Quist:
Am eager to learn more about the antecedants of my GGG-grandmother, Rosamond
BEDWELL who married George H. Porter in Grayson, CO, VA on 29 July 1828. They
are listed in the 1850 Russell CO, VA, census, along w/ their children: Fielding
L.(20),Cynthia (17),James J.(15), Catharine (14), William (13), Dow B. (11),
Martin V.(8), Caroline C. (4) and Margaret A. (2).William Roscoe Porter was my
GG-grandfather who eventually went to Greenup CO,KY [it later became Boyd CO,
KY] and ultimately Scranton, Osage CO, KS, where he and other Porters are buried
in Scranton City Cemetery. I would be grateful to learn anything about generations
prior to Rosamond. (Note: This census lists George Porter's wife as Rozen Porter.
It also shows a child named Susan E. Porter, age 1. All children, including
Susan, are listed as born in Grayson County, Virginia; did they recently move?))
1870 Census for Carter County, Kentucky, shows George Porter, 63, a farmer,
living with: Ransimond Porter, 61; Caroline Porter, 23; Margret Porter, 21; and
George Porter, 19. (Perhaps Rosamond was born in 1807, not 1797? That would
make more sense, considering the rate at which she was having children during
the 1840s.)
1880 Census for Carter County, Kentucky, shows George Porter, 75, a farmer,
and Rosa Porter, 74, living with: daughter Margret Porter, 29; grandson Merret
Porter, 8/12; and Alec T. Atkins, 4, who was "left by mother". They
are living next door to Martin Porter and his family. Oddly, George, Rosa, and
Margret are all listed as born in Kentucky with parents born in Virginia, but
Martin is listed as born in Virginia.
The Porters apparently traveled to Carter County, Kentucky, with family from
Grayson County. The 1880 Census for Carter County shows a Levi Porter, 59, born
in Virginia, and his family. Living next door to him are two younger men, Alexander
Porter and Andrew Porter, who were also born in Virginia and are probably his
sons. The 1850 Census for Grayson County, Virginia, shows the same Levi Porter
and his much younger family living next door to Samuel and Elizabeth Bedwell
Brewer (daughter or Rosamond Bedwell Brewer's uncle Elisha Bedwell, younger brother
of her father James Bedwell) and to Elisha and Delila Pool Brewer (Elisha was
also a cousin of Rosamond). Of course, there was another connection between
the Bedwells and Porters: Rosamond's sister, Margaret Elizabeth Bedwell, married
a William Porter in Grayson County, Virginia, and raised a large family there.
(Also, Rosamond's sister Rebecca married a Benjamin F. Duncan and may have had
a son named Christian France Duncan; this may be a connection because the family
living next to George and Rosa Porter in Carter County, Kentucky, is named France
and is also from Virginia.) Rosamond Bedwell and George Porter were married
on 29 Jul 1828 in Grayson County, Virginia.6,171 George
Porter was born about 1806 in Grayson County, Virginia.170 In 1850 he was a laborer. In 1870 he was
a farmer. Rosamond Bedwell and George Porter had the following children:
415 | i. | Rebecca Porter was born on 19 Jul 1830
in Independence, Grayson County, Virginia. | 416 | ii. | Fielding L. Porter103 was born about 1830.
An F.L. Porter, age 53, is found living in Carter County, Kentucky in the 1880
Census with a wife, Rebecca, two stepchildren, a servant, and a boarder. Unknown
if this is Fielding L. Porter. | 417 | iii. | Cynthia
Porter103 was born about
1833. | 418 | iv. | James
J. Porter103 was born
about 1835. | 419 | v. | Catharine
Porter103 was born about
1836. | +420 | vi. | William Roscoe Porter. | 421 | vii. | Dow B. Porter103 was born about 1839. | +422 | viii. | Martin V. Porter. | 423 | ix. | Caroline C. Porter103 was born about 1846. | 424 | x. | Margaret A. Porter103 was born about 1848. | 425 | xi. | Susan E. Porter103 was born about 1849. | +426 | xii. | George
Porter. |
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