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Ancestral trace for Porter and Thames families

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

William Bowen Campbell, governor of Tennessee

We visited his plantation, which is staffed with guides in period costumes demonstrating life in the 1800s. He related to the Porters through his aunt who just happens to be our G7-grandmother, Mary Bowen Porter.

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1045 A little bit of the Porter Trace Aboard the USS North Carolina Ancestry of the Thames Bartolomew Taliaferro--the Merchant of Venice Dr. Reese Bowen Porter governor of Tennessee Leaving April 11 to join the Porter Boys and Bonnie for our ancestral trek. Mary Bowen Robert Percival Porter Rose BERRYMAN--our GGGGGGgrandmother USNavy USVI vacation William Bowen Campbell

Porter Cabin

This is the colonial log home built by Wm Porter I near Lexington, VA. circa 1740. It was purchased, disassembled, moved by rail and reassembled on a ranch outside of San Antonio, TX. It is now inside SA buffering the barrio and a country club area. The overhanging front porch was on the original structure.

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Ravings of a Retired Government Writer: I am retired from IRS. I was at different times throughout my career a writer, editor, public affairs officer, communications analyst, speechwriter, course writer, teacher, resident grammarian and punctuation princess. In 2005, my husband, Gary, and I moved to Colorado to build a log cabin on his family land. (He's the great-great-grandson of German immigrants who homesteaded a beautiful valley in the foothills of the Rockies. We have two hounds: a male Schnoodle named Jake. No children. We're members of the Evergreen Lutheran church, a wonderful, loving community of Christians. www.EvergreenLutheran.org I knit prayer shawls and chemo caps at the church and am learning to make quilts with a group called Piecemakers.

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Trekking across the field to the grove of trees where the Porter Cemetery was

Double-Thumb Jim Porter

Back row: James W. "Double-Thumb Jim" PORTER, Samuel PORTER (?) Front row (l-r): Jesse V. BROOKS, Nancy Jane (PORTER) BROOKS, Benjamin Franklin PORTER