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James
Monroe Porter (10 Sept 1881 – 13 Jan 1944)
County Pioneer Is Dead; Rites in
Hylton Saturday
Monroe Porter, a resident
stock-farmer of the Champion community since 1933, died
at the Sweetwater hospital at 5:45 p. m. Thursday
following at 29 day illness of pneumonia.
Moving to Nolan county with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Porter, in 1882 he lived in
the Hylton community for many years. He was reared on a
farm in that area where he lived from the time he was 18
months old until in recent years.
He was a student of the first
school built in the county and helped harvest the first
bale of cotton ginned in the first Nolan county gin. He
was active in many of the county’s first incidents. His
late mother was the daughter of J.J. Hylton for whom the
community was named. The pioneer was among the first to
be buried in the old Hylton cemetery.
Monroe Porter was married to Edna
Armstrong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Armstrong,
April 10, 1904. She also was a member of a pioneer
family. Five children were born to the union, one
preceding their father in death. Others are Mrs. Fred
Burfeind of Maryneal; Ilan Poter, employed at the
International Harvester Co., Mrs. Charles Kasinger and
Mrs. Robert Rasco of Roscoe. All were at his bedside
when death came.
There are four grandchildren, two
step grandchildren, four sisters and a brother. He was
a member of the Hylton WOW lodge and the Universalist
church for 40 years.
Funeral services will be held at
the graveside in Hylton at 2 p.m. Saturday with Johnston
Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
James Monroe Porter (10 Sept 1881
– 13 Jan 1944)
Mary Edna Armstrong Porter (9 Feb
1884 – 7 July 1973)
Submitted by Bart
Gripenstraw
Bart_Gripenstraw@yahoo.com 3 Oct 2007 |
