Alexander James Porter
Birth 1771
Death Apr 1833 (aged 61–62)
Dresden, Weakley County, Tennessee, USA
Burial: Nashville City Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Nashville Union Obituary 24 April 1833:
At Dresden, Alexander Porter esq. of this town, one of our most respectable and valued citizens. Mr. Porter was on a visit to the Western District and had not been long absent, when he set out in the steamboat Tobacco Plant on his way homewards. The existence of the cholera on board induced him to land at Mills' Point on the Mississippi, and he had proceeded thence as far as Dresden on the road to Nashville, when he was attacked by the disease and soon fell victim to its fatal influence. The news of his death has overwhelmed with affliction a large and interesting family and has spread gloom over the community, in the midst of which he spent a life of usefulness and honor.
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The Nashville American, Sun 22 Sept 1895:
When I Came to Nashville, by Miss Jane Thomas:
Alexander Porter lived on Cherry street, just a little below Church street He married a Miss Massingill. His oldest son, James, married a lady from Louisiana, by who he had one son, Alexander. After her death, he married Amanda McNairy. She had no children. Alexander Porter’s next child, Jane, married James Campbell. Penelope married James Woods. Matilda married Richard Greene. His youngest son, Robert, married Miss Williams. She died and he married the widow Felicia Grundy Porter.
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