PORTER

SUSAN A. PORTER died about 1879/80, in Livingston, Alabama, and is buried in the New Prospect Cemetery, near Livingston, Alabama. She married, first, Newton Jasper Hamill (see Hamill) who was a Professor at the Livingston Male Academy and later a dentist and plantation owner.

They were parents of: Frederick; Anna, married Jasper Swan; Mary Newton, born April 1868, died 20 November 1905 and married Richard F. Moore; and Robert Greer. (1)

She married, second, about 1871, C. T. Roan.(1) They were the parents of John Lawhorn; Forrest; Susan; James Scarborough; and C. T. Roan, Jr.(1) Susan was the daughter of

FREDERICK PORTER was born on 13 November 1803 and died on 12 October 1857.(4) He is buried at New Prospect Cemetery out from Livingston, Alabama. He married Amelia Talbot (1-2) (see Talbot). Frederick was a planter and first settled in Henry County, Alabama, working with his father-in-law. They later moved to Livingston, Alabama, where he was the owner of a plantation near Epes.(1)

They were the parents of two daughters: Susan (see above) married, first, Newton Jasper Harnill, and, second, C. T. Roan; and Anna Hasseltine married John Lawhorn.

Ref:

1. History of the Talbot Family in the United States.

2. Genealogical Sketch of Mathew Talbot, Gent., by Robert Howe Fletcher, Jr., 1956, Leesburg, Virginia.

3. Spratt's History of Livingston, Alabama.

4. New Prospect Cemetery, Livingston, Alabama.