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BAXTER C. PORTER is a son of the Rev. Thomas Porter, an early Presbyterian
minister of Hopkins and Todd Counties, who was born in Virginia, May 12,
1788. Thomas Porter came in childhood to Logan County, Ky., where he
attained his manhood, and where in June, 1808, he married Nancy Lawrence,
who before her death in December, 1831, bore him three children, none of
whom are residents of Todd County. In February, 1833, he married Jane H.
Lawrence, a sister of his deceased wife. This union resulted in the birth
of three children, B. C. Porter being the youngest. He was born in
Hopkins County, Ky., on the third day of December, 1838, and in the early
part of 1839 his parents removed to Todd County, settling on the farm now
owned and occupied by F. M. Byars. There the father died in 1839, and
soon after his widow purchased 125 acres of land, where B. C. Porter is
now living. To this place she removed, superintending the cultivation
of her land until her son was of sufficient age to assume its control.
She died on this homestead June 12, 1871. Baxter C. was therefore reared
to the pursuits of the farm, to which he has adhered. He received the
advantages of a common school education, and on the 25th of January, 1866,
in Todd County, was married to Miss Henrietta, daughter of John L. and
Gillie (Edwards) Atkins. She was born on the 4th of September, 1843, in
Arkansas, and came with her parents to his county in childhood. Her mother
died in this county, in 1845, and her father is still a resident of the
county. Mr. Porter now owns a beautiful farm consisting of 375 acres,
mostly under cultivation, on which he produces tobacco, wheat and corn,
and is giving some attention to stock raising. Their family consists of
six children, viz.: Carrie Bell, born November 9, 1866; Herschel G., born
July 22, 1870; John T., born August 1, 1872; Bessie, born August 27, 1875;
Virgil, born January 3, 1879; and Thusa G. Porter, born September 16, 1880.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Porter are worthy members of the Mount Hermon
Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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