http://www.nps.gov/guco/
http://www.tngenweb.org/revwar/kingsmountain.html
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Porter Trace Itinerary (tentative)
Mt. Pleasant cemetery Porter gravesites
Memphis, TN Graceland and Sun Studios
Town Creek, AL (25 miles W of Decatur, 100 S of Nashville) Homestead of Dr. Reese Porter, son of Reese Porter, bro of Benj. Porter
Fayetteville, TN (30 miles N of Huntsville, 70 S of Nashville) Porter/Sandifer Cemetery, Mary Bowen Porter and sons gravesites.
Lynchburg, TN Visit Jack Daniels' distillery
Gastonia, NC (20 west of Charlotte) Visit the site of the Battle of King's Mtn, the last pivotal battle of the Rev. War. Porters and Taliaferros were involved. Mary Bowen Porter received a pension for her support in knitting socks for the soldiers.
Greenville, SC See Warner Bouzek
Wilmington, NC (on the coast) Battleship USS North Carolina and museum (daddy was on this ship when it was commissioned during WWII; it participated in more battles than any other ship)
http://www.battleshipnc.com/index.html
Charlottesville, VA (approximately 70 miles northwest of Richmond and 100 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. ) Monticello Home of Thos Jefferson
Wash DC See Larry. Visit historic sites in DC
Lexington, VA (32 miles NW of Lynchburg, 145 miles N of Raleigh) Natural Bridge, Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church (Wm Porter Elder), birthplace of Reese Porter
Colonial Williamsburg, VA (20 miles NW of Newport News, 47 miles NW of Virginia Beach) Visit architectural sites Richard Taliaferro designed (he taught T. Jefferson architecture)
Louisville, KY Visit Eloise, pick up Liz
Gallatin, TN (24 miles NE of Nashville ) Visit Bowen-Campbell Natural Historic Register of Homes (Governor of Tennessee) Cousin Tom Darnall
Nashville, TN Country Music Hall of Fame
Branson, MO Condo and maybe a show or two
Wetumka, OK (61 miles SW of Broken Arrow, 64 S of Tulsa) Gravesites of Double Thumb Jim (Great-grandfather and a Sooner from Texas) and family
Back to Rockwall
Dr. John Taliaferro's grandad, Benjamin Berryman
He was born here. Probably our earliest progenitor in the New World. His father was probably in the first wave after Jamestown to come into Virginia. He was from Devon, England. This was not the Scot-Irish line but pure England. The English immigrants settled on the east coast of Virginia whilst the Scot-Irish came up the Delaware River into what is now south Pennsylvania and then down into the Shenandoah Valley. The two factions of immigrants didn't much like one another. The English Anglicans really looked down their noses as their more poverty stricken Scot-Irish Presbyterian neighbors. Folks rarely crossed over the Blue Ridge Mountains in those days. A rare exception was a young George Washington, a surveyor who spent time at the Natural Bridge and carved his initials (which we'll see) in the limestone under the bridge.
xoxo
Bro (Richard Porter)
P.S. Aside: interesting to note he married a Newton. I just noticed this and have not made an attempt to connect this with Ma's family (our paternal grandmother). Just like our ancestors to be cousins. We should have been from Arkansas.
Benj. Berryman
Rose Berryman
Dr. John Taliaferro
Charles Taliaferro
Elizabeth Taliaferro marries into the Porter clan (Reese Porter)
Benjamin Porter (born in TN)
Double Thumb Jim Porter
Hugh Porter (our paternal grandfather) Born in Spanish Fort, Bend, Texas
650. Capt. Benjamin BERRYMAN33
Benjamin Berryman died before 27 Aug 1729 in Westmoreland Co., VA.33
He married Elizabeth NEWTON about 1707 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co., VA.33
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